Microsoft alerted partners on Monday to an upcoming deal on Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2000, the company's enterprise software firewall that is scheduled to be replaced later this year by ISA 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/09/2004
Although Microsoft enjoyed early success in fending off the distributed denial of service attack programmed into the fast-spreading MyDoom.B, the mass-mailing worm is inflicting an increasing amount of damage against the software giant's servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/09/2004
It was an outbreak of viruses and worms in the summer of 2001 that prompted the Trustworthy Computing initiative at Microsoft, as the software giant realized that security was no longer something it could downplay. Another round of costly worms and viruses, Blaster, Sobig and MyDoom, has hit Microsoft's bottom line and made the company realize again that its security countermeasures aren't working fast enough.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/09/2004
The process of keeping systems updated shouldn't be treated as the mindless that we mistake it for; no strategy is an invitation to disaster.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 02/09/2004
Although Microsoft launched its own enterprise reporting tool last week, the software giant will continue packaging the competitive Business Objects Crystal Reports tool inside the Microsoft Visual Studio developer suite for now and into the next Visual Studio release, code-named "Whidbey."
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/05/2004
Microsoft IIS slightly edges out the open-source Apache Web server in the percentage of the 1,000 highest-traffic sites that run each Web server, a new survey finds.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/05/2004
Next week, Microsoft will launch its first advertising campaign around the Windows Server System, an indication that Microsoft is committed to its latest branding of the back-end server products that run on top of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/05/2004
Testers laud ability to create more seamless applications and its deeper level of report creation and management.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/04/2004
Letters from the security front.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 02/04/2004
Exam for testing help desk support skills now available; MCDST also now officially live.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/03/2004
Oracle announced lower prices for the entry-level version of its new Oracle Database 10g, which is shipping now for Unix and Linux and will be available for Windows later.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/03/2004
Slated for later this year, updates don't affect MCP candidate plans.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/03/2004
Microsoft on Monday released the much-anticipated fix for a flaw that is already being exploited in Internet Explorer that allowed the widespread "phishing" attacks through e-mail.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/02/2004
Enlist everyone, even your relatives, in the fight against the spread of malware.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 02/02/2004
This author figured that mirroring his e-mail drive was solid insurance against data loss. That theory was tested to the max when a drive failed.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 02/01/2004
Roger Jennings answers a reader who asserts that using the SQLXML interface to provide HTTP access to SQL Server is not appropriate for high-performance, enterprise solutions.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 02/01/2004
Longhorn includes significant changes that will affect developers, from how it handles graphics to how it stores data. Learn how to create a simple Longhorn app.
- By Brent Rector
- 02/01/2004
Indigo is the core for communication in the next generation of Windows, code-named Longhorn. This model of its architecture gives you a good sense of what to expect from it.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2004
Is it time to set your own code of ethics?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/01/2004
Use the Lists Web service and CAML to update Windows SharePoint Services' MSDE database.
- By Roger Jennings
- 02/01/2004