From the business wires this week: a database development suite for Windows XP, an enterprise defragmentation solution, a Windows Server security appliance and more.
Even as a Microsoft advisory took an unnamed group of security researchers to task for releasing information about the flaw and exploit code publicly, Microsoft itself was scolded by incident handlers at the SANS Institute for providing an infrastructure with IE that allows such attacks in the first place.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/19/2005
Microsoft outsources its global training program to Certiport, based on its success with Microsoft Office Specialist.
The second coming of Microsoft's MCP exam retake promotion is coming to an end on August 31, 2005.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/18/2005
Microsoft plans to bolster the Software Assurance component of its volume licensing program next month with several additional benefits covering deployment services, enhanced support, training and exclusive software, according to a source familiar with Microsoft's plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/18/2005
VMware announced this week it will price its products per CPU and not per core, assuring users that they will not be penalized for moving to emerging multi-core processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/17/2005
CNN, New York Times, Caterpillar and others reported serious problems
from worms stemming from the Plug and Play vulnerability in
Windows 2000. Microsoft continues to rate the worms a low threat.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/17/2005
Microsoft plans to release a Community Technology Preview of
Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 on Friday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/17/2005
According to a senior Microsoft executive, Microsoft is introducing
what he calls a "big change" to Visual Studio 2005 in the August
Community Technology Preview that is coming out shortly. Such a major change is unusual for a product this late in the development cycle.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/17/2005
Houston, Texas-based BindView Corp. says this quarter it will ship an update to its regulatory compliance tracking and reporting tool, that adds support for major databases and for Microsoft Exchange.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/17/2005
Confused by Microsoft's jumble of directory technologies for user-account management? ENT contributing editor Stuart Johnston sorts out the differences between Microsoft's existing Microsoft Identity Integration Server and its forthcoming Active Directory Federation Services, and explains where third-party tools from Quest/Vintela and Centrify fit into the puzzle.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/16/2005
Quest Software this week revealed its initial blueprint for the integration of Vintela technology with Quest tools. Quest bought Vintela in a $57 million deal that closed last month.
A Microsoft official said that a dangerous new worm dubbed Zotob is spreading slowly, but Microsoft is on high alert and the company recommends that customers apply a patch for the Windows Plug and Play vulnerability the worm exploits.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/16/2005
As the multi-core duel heats up, Intel moved to steal some thunder from AMD this week by announcing it will ship its first dual-core Xeon CPUs earlier than promised. Additionally, over the weekend, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company slashed prices on several of its Pentium 4 desktop processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/16/2005
From the business wires this week:
RightNow Technologies released RightNow CRM 7.5, the latest version of the company’s on demand CRM solution.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/11/2005
Systems Management Server 2003 exam being beta tested from Aug. 8 to Aug. 22. Will count toward MCSE and new Technology Specialist cert.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/11/2005
Houston, Texas-based data management tool vendor NuView says in the next month it will ship a new Active Directory security product aimed at providing administrators with a centralized view of all users and the resources they have access to on an enterprise-wide basis.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/11/2005
Mike Lynn is being hailed in some quarters as a hero, but I don't buy
it. I'm sure his heart was in the right place when he discussed a serious
vulnerability in Cisco routers at the recent Black Hat USA conference, and his
courage in quitting his job, rather than be censored by Cisco and his
own employer, is admirable.
A problem in Microsoft's process for posting patches to the Microsoft Download Center during the August patch day on Tuesday caused users attempting to pull down a critical cumulative patch for Internet Explorer to receive a corrupted file.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/10/2005