Microsoft is more likely than not to ship an interim client operating system before the release of Longhorn, a Gartner analyst predicted.
- By Linda Briggs
- 03/31/2004
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sent an e-mail to make the case to customers and partners that the company is showing progress on security.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/31/2004
Windows Small Business Server 2003 is being adopted at a much faster rate than the Windows 2000-based version of the product, Microsoft officials say.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/31/2004
Exam 70-285 now available for MCSE: Messaging on Windows 2003 candidates.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/30/2004
In a far-ranging question-and-answer session, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates discussed his company’s R&D spending, last week’s mammoth European Commission fine, outsourcing at Microsoft -- and how he views his philanthropic spending.
- By Linda Briggs
- 03/30/2004
Microsoft consolidated its leadership position in the OLAP marketplace in 2003, but the software giant does not hold a dominant position and may slip slightly in 2004 due to continuing delays of "Yukon" and Microsoft's weak OLAP client technology, according to the OLAP Report.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/30/2004
Move could significantly build momentum for the open-source operating system; IBM also announced that SuSE Linux will be a pre-loaded option across all of its eServer systems.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/30/2004
Gartner's ITXpo features Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in keynote interview on Windows research spending, the EU Commission fine, and the company's outsourcing philosophy.
- By Linda Briggs
- 03/29/2004
Simple IIS backup techniques
Microsoft made a lot of changes to Windows XP Service Pack 2 between the beta stage in December and the Release Candidate 1 version that became widely available for download last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/25/2004
Microsoft demonstrated software to help in-house enterprise developers use Microsoft's Watson technology to improve ongoing quality and maintenance of in-house applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/25/2004
Anti-virus firms are warning users about a dangerous new variant of the NetSky mass-mailing worm that is flooding inboxes worldwide.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/25/2004
Code might be viewable, but intellectual property laws prevent its use by legitimate software companies, says expert.
- By Kristen Kazarian
- 03/25/2004
Security expert fired over controversial report that accused Microsoft of contributing to global insecurity now at Verdasys.
Possible Windows XP Reloaded to follow mid-year release of XP SP2.
A sampling of commentary from participants and observers on the European Commission's ruling Wednesday on Microsoft. Includes commentary from Sun Microsystems, the Software & Information Industry Association, RealNetworks, the Cato Institute and others.
The European Commission on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to pay a record $613 million fine, offer a version of Windows that does not include the Windows Media Player and disclose to competitors the interfaces required to communicate with Windows. Microsoft will appeal.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/24/2004
Better methods for managing user profiles en masse. Plus, an SBS problem.
- By Bill Boswell
- 03/23/2004
Technology similar to the gizmos featured in the high-tech thriller "Enemy of the State" entered the everyday business application world this week when Microsoft released a new server for building location-based services into applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/23/2004
More than half of enterprise software vendors are likely to change their licensing models in the next year, according to a new study by IT researchers at IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/23/2004