Macro code-executing vulnerabilities in Word and Excel prompted Microsoft to issue a cumulative patch for the ubiquitous Office applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/20/2002
This time its Intel's close partner on Itanium, HP, claiming the big performance boost from the second-generation Intel architecture 64-bit chip. HP ran a 64-bit Windows server on Itanium 2 at a technology conference for the securities industry.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/20/2002
Sun Microsystems took a page from Microsoft's book on Wednesday by making its application server middleware free.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/19/2002
Microsoft has decided to put its Java Virtual Machine, based on an aging version of Java, back in Windows XP via the first Windows XP Service Pack.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/19/2002
The district court judge in the federal antitrust case against Microsoft gave her first concrete indication that the consent decree hashed out between Microsoft and the federal government may be in trouble.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/19/2002
The third-party ecosystem around Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server grew on Tuesday when Sybari unveiled an anti-virus and content filtering solution for the document store in Microsoft's enterprise portal server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/18/2002
For those of you anxiously awaiting Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, the suspense should soon be over.
Microsoft reports that the service pack is in the Release Candidate 1 stage with availability scheduled for "this summer."
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/18/2002
Here Comes IBM Big Time in SMB!
- By Harry Brelsford
- 06/18/2002
Two more software vendors publicly announced their support for Web services recently. Novell Inc. and Data Junction Corp. both joined the likes of Microsoft, IBM, Sun and Information Builders as companies whose plans include support for the Web services protocols in their products.
Microsoft issued a raft of new security fixes Wednesday evening. The most serious was a problem arising from an unchecked buffer in Microsoft's Remote Access Service Phonebook leaves several Microsoft business-class operating systems open to a critical vulnerability.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/13/2002
Microsoft has redesigned several of its exam objectives guides and wants to get your feedback.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/12/2002
The next release of SMS, officially dubbed “SMS 2003,” will not merely extend AD—it will become one of a handful of Microsoft products to be directory-enabled; SMS 2003 will also offer significant arc
- By Mark Wingard
- 06/12/2002
Microsoft hastily issued a pre-patch workaround for a critical vulnerability involving the handling of the Gopher protocol in several of its products after parties went public with the information.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/12/2002
The company that trained Ed Garrett to be an MCSE stated that if it didn’t land him a job, it would pay him $5,000. Garrett’s got his certification, but no IT job and no $5,000.
The critical security vulnerability in some of Microsoft's instant message products that prompted an analyst at Gartner to warn IT managers away from permitting instant messaging in their enterprises has reared its head again.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/12/2002
In an effort to show the scalability of the streaming media software to be included in Windows .NET Server, Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its joint venture with NBC, the MSNBC news Web site, has been running the beta code for more than two months.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/12/2002
ASP.NET came of age this week when Microsoft posted a security patch for a vulnerability arising in some Web server farm environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/11/2002
Two years ago, Microsoft introduced .NET as the way the company would keep itself at the forefront of computing for the next decade. Since that time, Microsoft has defined and redefined what .NET is, what Web services are and how its business model would look in the new age of Web services. In this special report, ENT offers a report card on how Microsoft's .NET efforts are coming.
Microsoft took a big step toward delivering the first service pack for Windows XP this week by releasing a beta version of the patch for select test users.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/06/2002
The release date for the exams is "more an issue of semantics than hard deadlines"
says Microsoft; exam releases will be dictated by the software's ship date.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/06/2002