Microsoft outlined some of its objections to the European Commission's ruling and penalties in the antitrust case with a seven-page paper that attempts to argue the Commission's actions represent a broader threat to other companies and industries.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/22/2004
HP on Wednesday began shipping its first four-way server based on the AMD Opteron processor, AMD's 64-bit server processor that uses the x86 instruction set.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/21/2004
Public exploits, which are often the precursors to widespread worm attacks, have appeared in the last week for several of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft unveiled and patched last week in its blockbuster security bulletin release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/21/2004
The release on Wednesday of the latest version of the Siebel CRM application suite highlights the ongoing coopetition between Siebel and Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/21/2004
Microsoft is moving to settle a class-action antitrust lawsuit with consumers in Minnesota, one of a handful of remaining states where Microsoft has not yet settled lawsuits alleging the company abused its desktop OS monopoly to overcharge for software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/20/2004
Dell recaptured the lead from HP for total worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter of 2004, a period when the overall PC market saw double-digit growth on strong U.S. and European demand, according to IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/20/2004
Who gave this reader the silly idea that Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 can't live within the same domain?
- By Bill Boswell
- 04/20/2004
OneNote 2003, Microsoft's six-month-old note-taking addition to the Office family, will get a series of new features in a service pack that Microsoft previewed Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/20/2004
It takes two to make the security world go round.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/19/2004
Linux desktop provider Lindows, entangled in a long-running legal dispute with Microsoft over the similarity to the Windows trademark, is changing its product name to Linspire.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/15/2004
Microsoft has taken the unusual step of patching release candidate testing software by issuing three critical patches for Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC1.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/15/2004
A newly disclosed remote execution flaw involving Secure Sockets Layer encryption puts tens of thousands of Web-facing servers at risk of being taken over by attackers, according to Internet researchers at Netcraft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/15/2004
Business Objects SA unveiled a new version of its Data Integrator data warehousing tool this month. Company officials say Data Integrator 6.5 boasts a bevy of goodies, including new change-capture features for Oracle databases and optional data quality capabilities via an agreement with Firstlogic.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/14/2004
Microsoft updated a free software add-on this week that allows the Microsoft Outlook client to connect to IBM's Lotus Domino messaging and collaboration servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/14/2004
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/14/2004
Intel took a step toward its goal of bringing pricing of 64-bit Itanium 2 processor-based systems in line with its 32-bit Xeon processor-based systems on Tuesday with the unveiling of two new Itanium 2 processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/13/2004
Microsoft on Tuesday had its biggest patch release day since instituting its monthly patching cycle in October, addressing 20 security vulnerabilities in several versions of Windows. Eight of the flaws represented critical security problems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/13/2004
Reader has trouble with DCs looking within when doing DNS lookups.
- By Bill Boswell
- 04/13/2004
Specifics help build security.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/12/2004
- By Joe McKendrick
- 04/12/2004