Amid all the industry-shaking security moves Microsoft unveiled last week, the company also updated its progress on distributing Windows XP Service Pack 2 -- its most far-reaching effort to date to improve the security of the average computer on the Internet.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/24/2005
IBM will ship the first of its X3 32/64-bit, dual-core capable servers within 30 days, the company said this week. The eServer xSeries 366 (x366) is the first in a planned IBM family of dual-core-capable Intel-based server offerings.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/23/2005
Intel is shipping five 64-bit Pentium 4 processors for use in desktop computers. The release comes on the heels of the company’s shipment earlier this month of early production versions of its dual-core CPUs.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/23/2005
Some of Windows NT's oldest subsystem and protocol friends will be left behind when the codebase moves to x64.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/23/2005
More competency exams available for Microsoft software licensing experts.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/23/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the purchase of a third-party wizard for implementing Microsoft Axapta.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/22/2005
Microsoft this month started a blog dedicated to its Windows Server family. The Windows Server product team appears poised to use the blog as an information clearinghouse for minor product milestones, such as release candidates and other betas, to float trial balloons for potential features, and as a place to gather user input.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/22/2005
Columnist Russ Cooper would have liked a few more specifics out of Bill Gates' much-anticipated keynote address at the RSA conference last week.
From the business wires this week: compliance and auditing tools, a security and antitheft tracking solution, and more.
Intel announced this week it is shipping upgraded versions of its 64-bit Xeon processors, and also said it will ship new multi-processor Xeons within three months.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/17/2005
Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 Enterprise Edition will be generally available in March, eight months after the Standard Edition of the firewall, VPN and Web caching server hit the market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/17/2005
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD announced this week that it will ship two new Opteron processors within the next month, and also announced that Cambridge, England-based startup XenSource will port the Xen open-source system virtualization platform to run on Opteron-based systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/17/2005
Fresh on the heels of a security-related update of Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft is promising a second security-focused overhaul of the browser for Windows XP SP2 systems called Internet Explorer 7.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/16/2005
Lucid8 is shipping version 3.1 of its GOexchange automated Exchange maintenance product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/16/2005
In a recent bout of stupidity, the U.S. Department of Energy apparently
accidentally published confidential Homeland Security Department
documents marked "For Official Use Only", and the documents remain
visible via Google's Web cache.
Microsoft is doubling the size of the group conducting private tests of the Windows Server 2003 "R2" release, but the test group remains tiny compared to the scope of Microsoft's public betas for operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/15/2005
Gates made the IE announcement during a wide-ranging keynote about Microsoft's security plans at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Gates also said Microsoft will develop its own anti-virus engine, its anti-spyware software will be free for consumer users of Windows, and Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 is released to manufacturing.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/15/2005
Windows "Longhorn" Beta 1 is on track for availability in the first half of this year, a Microsoft official said last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/15/2005
Two can take Microsoft's Exam 70-270 for the price of single exam; available for limited time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/15/2005
From the business wires this week: an Oracle plug-in for .NET, a VPN client, a LAN management solution and more.