All the good boys and girls on Russ' list get tech toys this Christmas.
Intel and HP announced this month that the chip manufacturer will take over all further development of the two companies’ Itantium family of processors. Though most terms of the deal were not disclosed, Intel will hire HP’s Itanium chip design team, which is located in Fort Collins, Colo.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/23/2004
Citrix Systems and Microsoft announced this week a new technology cross-licensing deal meant to assure the continued enhancement of Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite for Microsoft Windows Terminal Services.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2004
Microsoft's effort to delay European antitrust measures until the end of the appeals process failed with the release of an order Wednesday by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/22/2004
Minimize the laborious task of searching for specific events with Event Comb.
Microsoft has scrapped plans for a 2005 delivery of Exchange Edge Services, a set of technologies for e-mail protection and spam management that builds on Exchange Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/22/2004
Auditors think this admin should turn DCs into file and application servers. Is this a good idea?
- By Bill Boswell
- 12/21/2004
Microsoft released six new security patches in December, but only five official
Security Bulletins. For some strange reason a patch released on the
same day as the normal monthly patches -- for Windows XP SP2 only --
didn't rate a full Security Bulletin.
Developers for Microsoft Office are getting their first dedicated conference from Microsoft early next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/21/2004
Who ever heard of knocking before entering?
Command-line script for checking out service pack deployments.
From the business wires this week: anti-spyware solutions, Power over Ethernet media converters, and updated virtual machine software.
In a Q&A on the Microsoft Web site, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates tackled a handful of questions that Microsoft says are the ones he is most commonly asked.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/16/2004
Oracle and VMware announced this week that they will work together to market solutions that combine the two companies’ products. Under the agreement, Oracle will develop, test and support its 10g database and applications products to run on VMware’s operating environment virtualization products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/16/2004
Configure Windows Firewall to accept incoming traffic.
For its "Patch Tuesday" this month, Microsoft delivered five security bulletins for what it called "important" security flaws, including one publicly known flaw in the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS).
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/15/2004
Vintela just shipped version 1.0 of its Vintela Management Extensions in August, but the Lindon, Utah company is on a roll – it shipped version 1.1 this week. The new release expands on version 1.0’s ability to enable Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to manage non-Windows environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/15/2004
Despite the long-standing animosity between Oracle and Microsoft, the database giant clearly demonstrated its understanding of the need to more strongly support Windows at last week’s Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/15/2004
UltraBac Software said this week that it will in ship version 8.0 of its UltraBac backup and disaster recovery software in mid-January. Back in this release after a hiatus is UltraCopy, the Bellevue, Wash.-based company’s file copying utility for creating duplicate backups for storage offsite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/15/2004
Microsoft has released several exams aimed not at making MCPs; rather, these ones measure competencies of Microsoft Certified Partner members.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/14/2004