A ship sponsored by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, SpaceShipOne, won the $10 million Ansari X Prize on Monday as the first privately built craft to fly into suborbital space two times in two weeks.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/05/2004
Microsoft is ratcheting up its Windows XP Service Pack 2 distributions as the company seeks to meet an internal goal of getting the critical security update out to about 40 percent of its Windows XP installed base within two months of SP2's release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/05/2004
Microsoft's Data Protection Server backs up file changes instead of whole files.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 10/04/2004
From the business wires this week: a security appliance for SMBs, e-mail storage upgrades and a security data management tool.
Once clear of the administrative learning curve, users give SPS 2003 high marks for ease of use and integration features.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/01/2004
Microsoft and the European Commission faced off in open court on Thursday for the first time in their five-year legal battle over antitrust concerns.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/30/2004
Fast on the heels of its announcement that Russia would be the fourth of five countries in a pilot program of a low-cost, limited-functionality version of Windows XP, Microsoft named India as the fifth country.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/30/2004
Microsoft extended the usefulness of its SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services by making available three Report Packs, which are collections of report templates for specific Microsoft applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/29/2004
After having taken nearly every opportunity so far to push back the release schedule for SQL Server 2005, formerly known as "Yukon," Microsoft is allowing its SQL Server PASS Community Summit to pass without disclosing a new delay.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/29/2004
When Microsoft delivers the Beta 3 version of SQL Server 2005, formerly code-named "Yukon," it will carry a number of feature enhancements that weren't available in the more broadly distributed Beta 2 version.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/29/2004
On the road again, this time at TechMentor/San Jose, Bill takes time out to contemplate a solution to this admin's XP SP2 problem.
- By Bill Boswell
- 09/28/2004
Microsoft this week announced that it's expanding its Windows XP Starter Edition pilot program into Russia. The company said that it hopes to get the software to PC OEMs in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States by early 2005.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/28/2004
The Mainframe Migration Alliance, Microsoft's coalition of the willing for moving customers from mainframes to Windows servers, got some new members and an official Web site on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/28/2004
It's been a year since Microsoft refreshed its Exchange e-mail server line with Exchange Server 2003. We look at how many of your peers have installed it, and at some of the brand new tools and packages for managing Exchange environments.
Microsoft formally launched Exchange Server 2003 about a year ago. The company is holding off until next month to formally announce how much momentum the incremental upgrade to Exchange 2000 Server has built up in that time. Several analyst firms that track messaging closely, however, think they have a pretty good idea how migrations are going.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2004
Over the last few years, EMC has found itself controlling a number of the assets that medium-sized businesses might need to consolidate and manage their Microsoft Exchange-based storage.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2004
Microsoft hopes to get the software to PC OEMs in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States by early 2005.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/27/2004
Conquer your world of servers from home.
About a year after releasing Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft rolled out a free, automated best practice tool to help IT get the most out of the e-mail server and its two predecessors -- Exchange 2000 and Exchange 5.5.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2004
Smart cards and tokens add layers of authentication protection.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 09/27/2004