Microsoft posted Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, a group of more than 50 security fixes for the five-year-old operating system that enters the extended support phase next week. Microsoft reiterated that there will be no Service Pack 5 for Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/29/2005
Advanced Micro Devices sued Intel Corp. over antitrust issues on Monday, bringing the companies’ often contentious competition to a boil in federal district court in Delaware.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2005
In overwhelmingly positive votes, the shareholders of both Symantec and Veritas have confirmed the merger of the anti-virus giant with the utility computing dynamo. The deal is expected to close by the end of the week, according to a statement by the two firms.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2005
Tenrox says it will add next month document management capabilities to its modular project and workforce management software for mid-sized to large organizations.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2005
Intel announced this week that, with the latest Celeron D processors, its entire CPU line from servers to desktops now support its 64-bit addressing technology.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2005
If information posted on a testing provider's Web site is correct, Microsoft Partner competency exams will feature Office exams.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/27/2005
From the business wires this week: a Cisco VPN client for mobile devices, Windows-to-Mac porting software and a USB authentication token.
HP unveiled an 64-bit laptop based on a new mobile CPU from AMD that it hopes will strike a chord with small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) due to the system's price and performance.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/24/2005
An analyst with Gartner warned customers that a recent spike in scanning activity on TCP Port 445 may mean attackers are gearing up to exploit a flaw patched last week by Microsoft in the widely used SMB protocol.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/23/2005
Cisco announced the first products to support its Application Oriented Networking or AON initiative this week at the company’s Networkers 2005 conference in Las Vegas. Due out the chute later this year are AON modules – blades – to fit into data center switches and branch office routers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/23/2005
OEMs and retailers are citing a lack of customer interest for their decisions not to load onto new computers or stock the version of Windows XP without the Windows Media Player that the European Commission ordered Microsoft to offer, according to a media report.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/23/2005
Windows 2000, Microsoft's five year-old operating system for servers and business desktops, will switch into the "extended support" phase of the product lifecycle after June 30.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/22/2005
After evaluating a publicly reported phishing method that affects Internet Explorer among other browsers, Microsoft published a security advisory this week to let users know that it will not issue a security update to close off the attack vector.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/22/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday posted a blocker tool to help organizations prevent Automatic Updates from automatically downloading and installing Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 on their systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2005
Microsoft completed the acquisition of Sybari Software on Tuesday and announced product plans, which include discontinuing new sales of the secure messaging company's products for Linux and Unix platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2005
Microsoft named its top European executive, Jean-Philippe Courtois, to a newly created position of Microsoft International president, in which he will lead international sales, marketing and services.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2005
Microsoft is taking the Web-enablement concept that produced Outlook Web Access and extending it to its new real-time communication client, Microsoft Office Communicator.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2005
From the business wires this week: a centralized console for deploying security patches, solutions that notify users of vulnerabilities in need of patching, and automated inventory software.
Microsoft to delay simulations for 70-293, 70-294 to work on smoother rollout for international language versions.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/16/2005
As part of its monthly patch release this week, Microsoft re-released three older security bulletins to fix various problems with them.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/15/2005