Microsoft chairman Bill Gates used the company's first Office System Developer Conference to pitch Office as the obvious smart client for applications being built by the 800 partner developers in the audience.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday delivered its promised heavy load of security bulletins, including two patches for critical flaws already in the public domain.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/08/2005
Microsoft's latest attempt to curb piracy restricts security patches to only owners of genuine copies of Windows.
From the business wires this week: AD tools; antispam solutions; tape appliances that compress, encrypt and sign data; and more.
Microsoft on Wednesday posted a free security tool in the Microsoft Download Center to help administrators root out unauthorized network sniffers running on Windows computers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/03/2005
Microsoft kicked off its first ever Office System Developer Conference here Wednesday, emphasizing the increasing programmability of the Office suite and its improving integration with other products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/03/2005
IT departments worldwide should have an exceptionally busy Tuesday next week, evaluating and deploying a flood of patches from Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/03/2005
ScriptLogic is shipping Cloak, a tool that lets systems managers show individual users only those files and directories that they are allowed to access. Like the fabled stealth capability of Klingon warships, files and directories that users are not authorized to access become invisible to them.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/03/2005
Microsoft's most recent quarterly financial report showed a stumble in the lucrative Office suite's otherwise steady march toward ever-larger revenues. Revenues for the Information Worker unit fell 3 percent compared to the year-ago quarter. On the other hand, profits from the unit shot up 11 percent.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/02/2005
High-performance computing is becoming more common and less expensive, according to analysts at IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/02/2005
Streamline your Software Update Services with a second server.
Microsoft's long-awaited direct challenge to Google's Internet search dominance arrived Tuesday with the formal launch of MSN Search.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/01/2005
Microsoft's Learning Group to introduce simulations to MCP exams; new question type already available in Windows Server 2003 core exams.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/01/2005
Configuring Exchange 2003 automated replies to internal and external e-mail accounts.
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/01/2005
Server consolidation conjures up dreams of easier management for admins, but scaling the barriers to achieve it can bring you back to reality. Here's how to tackle the challenge head-on.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 02/01/2005
The back-and-forth between Microsoft and government regulators about whether Windows "Longhorn" will violate the U.S. antitrust agreement will escalate this month to a face-to-face meeting. Windows XP Service Pack 2 also emerged as a topic for antitrust-related discussion.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/01/2005
Prepare! Prepare! Prepare! But first, be sure to check out these rules to guarantee a smooth deployment of software across your enterprise.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 02/01/2005
A funny thing's been happening on the security mailing lists lately,
and it's got me shaking my head.
How to get Internet Explorer to do your bidding.
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