Microsoft announced this week it has begun beta testing Systems Management Server 2003 Release 2.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/21/2006
As if to reinforce its message that it is now an application lifecycle firm, Borland Software announced this week it is shipping a new IT governance solution.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/16/2006
Alero Technology announced this week it is shipping Release 2 of its Alero 2006 enterprise information management package.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/16/2006
It's official. Microsoft announced overnight on Wednesday that Office "12" will be officially known as -- ta da! -- Office 2007. At the same time, the Redmond software maker announced a dizzying array of packaging and licensing options.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/16/2006
Popular "second-shot" promotion keeps coming back; this time, it's worldwide.
Microsoft's Office Live online services for small companies officially entered beta mid-week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/15/2006
Microsoft releases two more exams, aimed at MCITP for SQL Server DBA candidates.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/15/2006
Declaring that it has fulfilled both the letter and the spirit of the law, Microsoft Wednesday denied it is still in violation of European Community fair trade laws and attacked the EC's Commission for Competition.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/15/2006
Microsoft said Tuesday that it is making additions and changes to Windows Server "Longhorn" and to Internet Explorer 7 to add capabilities to better support security and identity protection.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/14/2006
Microsoft released seven security bulletins, including two bulletins that addressed critical flaws affecting Windows. The other five bulletins included patches for flaws with a maximum severity rating of "important" in Windows and Office.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/14/2006
Microsoft came late to desktop search; it doesn’t intend to make the same mistake with mobile search. The company announced Monday that it has bought MotionBridge, a French maker of "mobile search" technology.
From the business wires this week: an application control manager for Windows servers, backup and recovery software and an authentication appliance.
Microsoft’s recent moves to release portions of its Windows server source code to competitors has struck a chord with the U.S. Department of Justice and the states who participated in its landmark antitrust trial.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/09/2006
Borland Software announced Wednesday that it is getting out of the integrated development environment (IDE) business and plans to sell off its legendary programming tools.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/09/2006
Microsoft is shipping the first beta of Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2006, as well as early select customer betas of its Microsoft Client Protection and Microsoft Antigen for Exchange products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/09/2006
Microsoft to beta test four upgrade exams beginning next week for MCAD and MCSD holders who want quick route to new-gen MCP certs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/08/2006
SWsoft is shipping a minor update to its Virtuozzo server virtualization product for Windows that adds a graphical "physical-to-virtual" migration tool to help administrators automate the process of moving from a dedicated physical server to a virtual server environment.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2006
Users of Universe Software’s pdf-Formserver package can now save .PDF forms together with user data.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2006
Symantec says it will ship next month an update to its BindView Policy Manager, the first major update since it acquired BindView earlier this year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2006
In a move the company says aims to improve how it responds to users' needs, Microsoft announced a recent restructuring of its Customer Service organization that merges it with the venerable Product Support Services unit.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/07/2006