Chris Liddell, the chief financial officer at International Paper, will assume the same job at Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/26/2005
SEATTLE -- Windows XP Media Center Edition sales topped 1 million in the six months since the launch of the most recent edition, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/26/2005
How to work around a VPN connection that's keeping remote users hanging for a while longer than this admin likes.
- By Bill Boswell
- 04/26/2005
SEATTLE -- Dell and HP took advantage of this week’s delivery of Microsoft’s Windows x64 editions to announce that they will soon begin shipping computers that run the 64-bit operating systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/26/2005
Disclosure of security vulnerabilities in software may now invite legal action.
Microsoft plans to post a public beta of Windows Server 2003 "R2" this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/25/2005
SEATTLE -- Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates on Monday launched the x64 editions of Windows and gave a public preview of the much-anticipated Windows "Longhorn" user interface at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC).
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/25/2005
From the business wires this week: Group Policy solutions for managing desktop policies and software deployments; security tools for IE, e-mail and TCP/IP; and mobile tokens.
AMD began delivering its first dual-core Opteron 64-bit CPUs in quantity this week, and HP announced its first servers based on the technology.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/22/2005
Borland is shipping a major release of its modeling suite for Visual Studio. Among key new features, Together 2005 for Visual Studio.Net adds support for Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0 and introduces a role-based work model.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/21/2005
Subscribe to TechNet Plus and Microsoft will throw in four free e-learning courses.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/21/2005
As the dual-core duel heats up, IBM announced Thursday that it is about to ship a workstation based on AMD’s dual-core chips.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/21/2005
Microsoft on Wednesday released a beta version of the first service pack for Virtual Server 2005. The service pack delivers support for Windows Server 2003 x64 editions and performance improvements.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/20/2005
Control exactly what you want installed with the new IIS.
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 causes problems with 14 high-profile server applications, including Exchange Server 2003, according to a Knowledge Base article published by the software vendor this month. Most of the problems, including the Exchange issue, are minor or obscure.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/20/2005
Softricity will ship this quarter its ZeroTouch software aimed at enabling end users to self-provision applications over the network – and in a protected “virtualized” environment.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/20/2005
Dell this week began offering Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Workgroup Edition on its PowerEdge servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/20/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday announced two new systems management products it will ship later this year under the System Center family name.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/19/2005
Microsoft this week posted new test versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. Visual Studio and .NET came out in Beta 2 versions. Tightly coupled with those public betas is a feature-complete SQL Server Community Technology Preview (CTP).
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/19/2005
The latest tactic used by phishers makes it hard to even know if you're being scammed.