Microsoft hopes to get the software to PC OEMs in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States by early 2005.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/27/2004
About a year after releasing Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft rolled out a free, automated best practice tool to help IT get the most out of the e-mail server and its two predecessors -- Exchange 2000 and Exchange 5.5.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2004
From the business wires this week: manage years of e-mail in one networked storage space; security services to stop malware; more.
Microsoft made some minor changes to its volume licensing programs this week as it launched a new centralized Web site for licensing information.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/23/2004
Dell and Oracle this week began jointly promoting a packaged offering of Oracle's low-end Standard Edition One version of its 10g database on Dell hardware and running Windows Server 2003. Previously Dell and Oracle only offered the packaged deal on the Red Hat Linux operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/23/2004
Users who travel expect 24/7 support on the road too.
The seriousness of an already critical flaw in the way a Microsoft component processes JPEG files got ratcheted up a notch this week as exploit code began circulating.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/23/2004
William G. Reed Jr. will retire from the Microsoft board of directors after 17 years.
The board has decided not to replace Reed, reducing the size of the Microsoft board from 10 members to nine.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/22/2004
Microsoft has issued a formal fix for a problem in Windows XP Service Pack 2 that resulted in error messages for programs that attempt to use loopback addresses other than 127.0.0.1.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/22/2004
It’s never taken Microsoft longer than three years (give or take a few months) to deliver a new version of its business-class operating system. And when Redmond ships its Longhorn operating environment sometime in 2006, more or less than three years will have elapsed since the software giant delivered Windows Server 2003.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/22/2004
Microsoft this month continued the shuffle of its Visual Studio developer suite packages prior to their planned release next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/21/2004
Security giant Symantec is buying digital security company @stake for an undisclosed sum in a deal that is expected to close in October.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/21/2004
Microsoft expanded its controversial Government Security Program to allow governments that Microsoft trusts to review the source code of Microsoft Office.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/21/2004
Microsoft on Monday unveiled backup and recovery software for Windows file servers that will provide continuous backup of incremental changes to files and rapid recovery from disk-based storage.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/20/2004
From the business wires this week: an IT information and community portal opens, and an enterprise recovery manager and SSL VPN appliance for remote access to Citrix apps are released.
The Microsoft Board of Directors on Wednesday declared a regular quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share that will be payable Dec. 2.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/16/2004
Microsoft and Sendo reached a settlement in the lawsuit and countersuit that arose after the companies' mobile phone partnership fell apart in late 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/16/2004
Microsoft joins two other certification groups in collaborating efforts to promote desktop technician and tech support certifications.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/16/2004
Microsoft planned to release a kit on Wednesday to help systems integrators build hooks from SAP implementations into Microsoft's Office Project Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/15/2004
Microsoft posted the first service pack for Systems Management Server 2003. While the company characterizes the service pack as a "relatively small update" to SMS 2003, which came out in November, SP1 is important to Microsoft's larger management roadmap.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/15/2004