Microsoft is distributing a Community Technology Preview of Windows Vista to attendees at its Professional Developers Conference 2005 in Los Angeles this week. The September Vista CTP, loaded with new features, comes fast on the heels of Windows Vista Beta 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2005
Whenever Microsoft talked about WinFS in the past, the emphasis was on the technology's usefulness for search and file navigation.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2005
Readers report a significant increase in salary over last year's survey results.
At a time when security threats are multiplying for corporate instant messaging users, IMlogic says it has a solution. The Waltham, Mass. company just shipped its Real-Time Threat Protection System – and if that just doesn’t roll right off the tongue, call it RTTPS for short.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/08/2005
IBM Lotus officials announced on Wednesday that the company is shipping version 7 of its Notes and Domino collaboration platform.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/08/2005
From the business wires this week: a business security suite for Windows Server, a VSAM-to-SQL Server conversion tool and a small-business dual-core server.
Secure e-mail vendor CipherTrust released one new model and one significantly upgraded model in its line of reputation-based secure e-mail appliances.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/08/2005
Microsoft on Wednesday laid out a roadmap extending the recent Windows Server System Midsize Business promotion to 2007 and beyond with a Windows "Longhorn" Server version of the package code-named "Centro." "This is really the equivalent of Small Business Server for the midmarket," said a Windows Server senior director.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/07/2005
The realignment of the Microsoft Business Solutions product set previously referred to as "Project Green" got its official name Wednesday -- Microsoft Dynamics.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/07/2005
Peter Neupert, onetime director of operating systems responsible for OS/2, rejoined Microsoft last week to fill the position of corporate vice president for health strategy.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2005
Computer Lab International (CLI) is shipping two new additions to its “Next Generation” line of thin clients that support Microsoft and Citrix protocols.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/06/2005
Technology Lighthouse is shipping PromptPal, an add-on user interface for the Microsoft command prompt that converts the popular administrators’ command line tool into a Windows program.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/06/2005
The distribution media for Exchange 12 will be exclusively DVD, Microsoft announced in a blog posting.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2005
The role of the Itanium processor for Windows servers will be tightly defined in the "Longhorn" generation of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2005
From the business wires: a firewall that IDs hackers, a GUI command line console and more.
DataMirror is shipping version 3 of its DB/XML Transform tool for providing
data exchange between XML, text, database and EDI file formats.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/01/2005
Microsoft's top two executives will lay out a roadmap for customers in midsize businesses next Wednesday at the first Microsoft Business Summit.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/01/2005
Symantec Corp. is shipping its Gateway Security 5600 Series of multi-function network security appliances designed to proactively protect against blended computer virus and worm threats.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/01/2005
Schaumburg, Illinois-based Enteo Software is shipping the latest release of its flagship NetInstall software distribution and life-cycle management system.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/01/2005