AMD bumped up the performance of its Athlon XP line this week with the release of its 3200+ model.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/14/2003
Intel acknowledged a flaw this week in its Itanium 2 processors that have been shipping since July. The problem could cause systems to crash.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/14/2003
HP on Wednesday began shipping a new two-way ProLiant server that shows how far the Windows/Intel/industry-standard hardware bloc has come.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/14/2003
Mere weeks after its years-long drive up the TPC-C benchmark performance charts culminated in the top position, Microsoft lost out late last week to a Unix system from IBM. Microsoft, no doubt, will be back, but the result shows that the Unix camp has far from ceded the premiere OLTP scalability benchmark to the upstart Windows-Intel side of the market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/13/2003
A mass-mailing worm known as Fizzer broke out late last week and is
getting more attention from a prominent security vendor Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/13/2003
When .NET was first unleashed on the world two years ago, there was confusion about how Microsoft was positioning the new technology. Microsoft has since retrenched and removed the .NET designators from all products except its Visual Studio development toolkit.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 05/12/2003
Two key exams to be repopulated with new question types that are being developed for Windows Server 2003 exams, according to Microsoft.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/08/2003
Microsoft put a new emphasis on Digital Rights Management technologies, such as the service planned as an add-on for Windows Server 2003, on Wednesday night with an e-mail to customers from company CEO Steve Ballmer.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/08/2003
Officially, your users shouldn't be downloading Windows Media Player skins at work. Realistically, some of them probably are, and it's worthwhile to pay attention to a critical new security vulnerability patched by Microsoft Wednesday night.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/08/2003
NEW ORLEANS -- The next client version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," will appear in two beta versions during 2004 and come to market in 2005, a Microsoft official said Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/07/2003
NEW ORLEANS -- Just because Windows Server 2003 launched a few weeks ago doesn't mean Microsoft is finished with it. In a WinHEC keynote Wednesday about the future of Windows servers, Dave Thompson detailed dozens of major improvements to the server platform that will be released in the coming months and years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/07/2003
NEW ORLEANS -- Microsoft gave hardware developers a taste of the Windows operating systems it is working on for AMD's 64-bit processors this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/07/2003
Take solace from the annoyance of those pop-up Windows Error Reports in the knowledge that Microsoft is bugging its industry partners just as much to exploit the information surfaced by the reports.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/06/2003
NEW ORLEANS -- Microsoft and HP unveiled a slick new prototype PC at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference on Tuesday that is designed to improve worker productivity while reducing workspace wiring and clutter.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/06/2003
The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, better known by the code-name Palladium, will be a major feature of the next client version of Windows and is getting the spotlight in New Orleans at Microsoft's conference for hardware partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/06/2003
With Microsoft issuing a service pack for its new updating tool, here's what I've learned since writing my original article on implementing and troubleshooting Software Update Services.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- 05/01/2003
No matter your job (or platform), scripting makes life easier.
- By Chris Brooke
- 05/01/2003
In this second in a series, explore Wired Equivalent Privacy and Extensive Authentication Protocol.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/01/2003
There are special considerations when bringing up the first domain controller in the first domain of your new Windows 2003 forest.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 05/01/2003
Scripting help; will the "real" security expert, please stand up; and a whole lotta feedback on the "braindumper" case.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 05/01/2003