IBM and VeriSign to join Microsoft in developing specifications.
Microsoft issued a cumulative patch this week for its Internet Information Services Web server that fixes four critical new vulnerabilities and six other newly discovered bugs.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/11/2002
Betas for Web-based versions of Visual Basic, Visual C# core exams set for summer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/11/2002
Microsoft's ongoing efforts to improve the security of its products got a boost this week when Redmond made its promised Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) available for free download.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/10/2002
NEW ORLEANS -- Beta versions of a SQL Server-based notification service and a new Windows CE edition of the database made their first public appearances at Microsoft TechEd 2002 on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/10/2002
NEW ORLEANS -- Microsoft Corp. released the latest of its .NET Enterprise Server line, Commerce Server 2002, on Wednesday at TechEd. The interim release brings tight integration with Visual Studio .NET, enhances the product's global commerce capabilities and improves upon security.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/10/2002
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/10/2002
NEW ORLEANS -- NEC Solutions Inc., which sells fault-tolerant Intel-based servers built on technology licensed from Stratus Technologies, introduced its second generation of systems this week at Microsoft TechEd.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/10/2002
While complete reversal unlikely, company says it's considering releasing more info to those who fail.
NEW ORLEANS -- Developers at Microsoft's 10th annual TechEd conference received a toolkit to help them turn the features and data in Exchange Server into XML Web services.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/10/2002
NEW ORLEANS -- Aelita Corp. this week released a new version of its administration tool for Windows 2000 Active Directory and Exchange.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/10/2002
A group of vendors, including Microsoft, working on making data analysis tools available as Web services expanded their work to include data mining.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/09/2002
NetIQ, the company that licensed to Microsoft the base technology for its Microsoft Operations Manager, on Tuesday announced a suite of software that builds security functionality into the management toolset.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/09/2002
Microsoft has been trying to prove it deserves a place in the enterprise data center for years. These days, Microsoft has solid technology, programs and partnerships that earn Microsoft at least a foot in the door in the glass house. From its Windows Datacenter Server operating system and Windows Datacenter Program, to scalability improvements in SQL Server, to partnerships with fault-tolerant hardware vendors, to 64-bit systems, the Windows approach is gaining credibility. But the word Microsoft still raises the hackles on many a data-center manager's neck. In this series of stories we'll look at
whether Microsoft is ready for this space.
Simplified password admin and storage resource management tools, plus networked classrooms among offerings being showcased.
Special Report from TechMentor: Web services and .NET has many IT managers and systems administrators wondering how Web services will affect their jobs and responsibilities.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/04/2002
Dell started talking the talk of bricks, blades and InfiniBand.
The computer giant made a series of announcements at an enterprise-focused event in New York City on Wednesday that included plans for a 3U blade chassis that holds up to six, two-processor servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/04/2002
Microsoft's IIS Web server gained almost 2 million sites in March, taking market share from the open-source Apache and the iPlanet Web servers, according to Netcraft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/04/2002
In February, Microsoft began offering Accelerated MCSE Certification Bootcamp through Infinity+1, a Microsoft Service Provider Partner, in effect, sanctioning this method of training.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/04/2002
In announcing a new utility-style offering for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Compaq Global Services gave some hard evidence for how much Exchange 2000 is penetrating the Exchange user base.
Compaq's figures show that about 12 percent of the Exchange seats it has deployed or has under contract are on Exchange 2000 as opposed to Exchange 5.5 and earlier versions of the e-mail server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/04/2002