Microsoft will change the default firewall settings for new shipments of Windows XP in response to the wide spread of the Blaster worm, according to published reports.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/14/2003
Microsoft to release key core exams for MCSA/MCSE on Windows Server 2003 track on Thursday.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/13/2003
Microsoft on Wednesday replaced a faulty patch for the file system flaw in Windows NT 4.0 Server that could open the operating system to denial of service attacks.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/13/2003
Based on customer feedback, Microsoft will provide graphical reports to examinees.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/13/2003
Microsoft Project 2003 will be released to manufacturing on Aug. 18, the company said Wednesday in an announcement that included the pricing for the component of the Office 2003 family.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/13/2003
Windows 2000 continually updates offline file folders by design—Group Policy plays no part.
- By Bill Boswell
- 08/12/2003
Testing centers will begin accepting registrations Wednesday for 70-292: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/12/2003
Things get murky as you start to price out systems costs, and that's why we have analyst firms to tell us the bad news. Things are never as cheap as the vendors tell us. But what are the analysts telling us?
- By Joe McKendrick
- 08/11/2003
While no one argues with the fact that the initial price of Linux is far lower than Windows server software, the comparison is trickier when looking at long-term costs over a three to five-year period.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 08/11/2003
The first worm, which exploits the juicy RPC DCOM vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft released a patch for last month, went into the wild on Monday, crashing vulnerable computers, slowing down local subnets and sending scanning traffic on port 135 through the roof.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/11/2003
As they always do in IT, the rules are changing when it comes to which operating system belongs in which role in the enterprise.
Many Linux purists would like to see Linux eat into Microsoft's market share. Many Microsoft employees would prefer to see Windows work its way into the highest reaches of Unix deployments. Neither side is getting its way.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/11/2003
The documentation of Linux security took a step forward last week. IBM helped push SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 through the Common Criteria process to earn Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ certification, also known as EAL2+.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/11/2003
Microsoft has posted the bits for its stand-alone Active Directory, an out-of-band component of Windows Server 2003 that greatly expands the flexibility of Microsoft's directory services.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/07/2003
Stratus Technologies, maker of fault-tolerant Windows 2000 servers, is claiming its internal monitoring of more than 1,200 live customer units approached six nines of availability over the last six months.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/07/2003
The price difference between extremely high-end Windows-based systems and extremely high-end Unix-based systems isn't as close as a recent Transaction Processing Performance Council TPC-C benchmark implies.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/07/2003
Software Assurance customers got another bone when Microsoft disclosed an unexpected differentiation in the way it will distribute new features in Office 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/06/2003
The open-source Apache Web server hit a record high in market share in August, running away to 63.72 percent of all domains, according to Netcraft's latest monthly survey.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/06/2003
Citing new evidence, European regulators on Wednesday accused Microsoft of "ongoing" abuse of its "overwhelmingly dominant position from the PC" to leverage its position in low-end servers and multi-media software. The European Commission is giving Microsoft a last chance to defend itself in a process that will wrap up in "months not years."
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/06/2003
Data not published within this year's salary survey points to modest raises expected in the coming year and plans for new jobs.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/06/2003