From the business wires this week: a recovery solution to roll back systems to pre-SP2, e-mail server software and more.
Brazil is the sixth country in line for a Windows XP Starter Edition, Microsoft's nationality-specific versions of stripped-down Windows offered at lower cost to appeal to first-time PC buyers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/14/2005
Microsoft posts demo of performance-based questions on Web site.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/14/2005
IBM is shipping versions of its xSeries and BladeCenter servers bundled with Microsoft’s Windows Storage Server 2003 in a move aimed at the market for less-expensive, Windows-based network-attached storage (NAS) file servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/14/2005
Next week at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, Microsoft will reposition System Center as a naming umbrella to cover its family of management products rather than the specific management suite that would have included Microsoft Operations Manager and Systems Management Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/14/2005
Security researchers this week reported a flaw in the memory handling of the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that powers the Microsoft Office Access database.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/14/2005
The new version of IIS thankfully ditches automatic install.
Microsoft on Wednesday released a public beta of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, a new disk-based backup and recovery server for Windows file servers that was previously called Data Protection Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/13/2005
Virtualization software publisher VMware is shipping version 5 of its Workstation product, which adds new simulation and testing features as well as support for several 64-bit operating systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/13/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday released a special Enterprise Update Scan Tool to help organizations find computers vulnerable to an MSN Messenger flaw that the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) would miss.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/12/2005
Microsoft and Gateway settled differences resulting from the U.S. v. Microsoft antitrust case with the announcement of a $150 payment from Microsoft that Gateway will use in part to develop and sell systems running Windows and Office.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/12/2005
Admin migrating to Windows 2003 wants to lock up all workstations </i>a la<i> NT.
- By Bill Boswell
- 04/12/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday released eight security bulletins as part of its monthly patching cycle. Five of the patches addressed critical security flaws, while three fixed important security bugs. Microsoft also released two non-security updates for Windows and re-released two security bulletins.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/12/2005
Microsoft completed the $120 million acquisition of Groove Networks last week, after quickly overcoming a shareholder challenge from a dissatisfied former Groove executive.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/12/2005
The Apple OS is relatively safe ... for now.
Getting past the dual security when you connect to WMI on remote computer.
Support and costs to reconfigure systems keep the open-source OS out in the cold.
From the business wires this week: an enterprise solution for simplifying secure user login, an alternative to Visual Basic, and a network appliance for Web conferencing.
A new edition of the Microsoft Office 2003 suite will try to attract small business users with an accounting program tailored to their needs. Microsoft Office Small Business Management Edition is slated for public availability in "early fall," Microsoft said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/07/2005
Microsoft debuted an expanded Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification service on Tuesday. In addition to warning administrators about new security bulletins, the service will now include non-security, high-priority Windows updates and information about updates to the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/07/2005