Windows Server 2003 "R2" formally entered the private beta testing stage this week, Microsoft senior vice president for the Windows Server Division Bob Muglia said on Friday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2004
From the business wires this week: a firewall for education networks, a USB fingerprint reader for printing, and a man skates across the U.S. to meet Bill Gates.
AutoProf is set to release this month Policy Maker Professional 2.0, a significant update of the company’s suite of user management extensions that plug in to Microsoft’s Group Policy Object Editor in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/09/2004
Microsoft offering many Windows 2003 and Exchange e-learning courses at discount for limited time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/09/2004
Data center automation startup Cassatt says it will ship Version 3.0 of its Collage management product in the first quarter of 2005. The upcoming release will enable Collage to manage multiple tiered applications and will add support for Windows servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/09/2004
IBM, the company that transformed personal computers from a hobby to an industry with the introduction of its PC line in 1981, will bow out of the increasingly low-margin market through a partnership with the Chinese firm, Lenovo Group Limited.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/08/2004
HP will ship this month a new addition to the company’s lineup of OpenView Server Change and Management products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/07/2004
Microsoft posted the release candidate version of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 to its Download Center on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/07/2004
Microsoft shipped a lot of management tools in 2004. A few minor pieces are on the calendar for delivery in 2005, but most of Microsoft's development work these days when it comes to administration and management is focused on the plumbing that connects Microsoft products.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/06/2004
From the business wires this week: a Wi-Fi firewall, Web content management solution and more Intel Xeon servers.
The new release of MessageLabs’ anti-spam service provides corporate users with an added layer of protection from spurious e-mails by incorporating Symantec’s Brightmail technology as well as by bulking up MessageLabs’ own spam filtering technology.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/03/2004
Less than a month from Windows NT 4.0 Server's official end of life, Microsoft on Friday announced that it will offer custom support contracts for large customers running the aging operating system through the end of 2006.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/03/2004
Microsoft released its second SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview on Friday, giving customers another taste of the long-awaited "Yukon" version of SQL Server now planned for a mid-2005 release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/03/2004
Executive Software is shipping a patch management module for automating installation of Microsoft security patches that can be used either by itself or as part of the company’s Sitekeeper systems management suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/02/2004
For a limited time, Microsoft is making its online exam preparation
clinic for the MCDST exams free for a limited time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/02/2004
Microsoft on Wednesday released a security patch for the critical Internet Explorer flaw that was being exploited through compromised Web banner servers. Microsoft considered the flaw, which has been public for about a month, important enough to release the patch ahead of its normal patching day, which falls on Dec. 14 this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/01/2004
Analysts at Gartner expect tough times ahead for the PC industry.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/01/2004
Attackers defaced the SCO Website at least twice in recent days -- in one case changing the company's logo to "We own all your code, pay us all your money," and in the other case claiming the company was preparing to sue Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/30/2004
Factory revenues for Windows servers and Unix servers were "essentially equal" in IDC's market share report for the third quarter, marking a potential turning point for the Windows server market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/30/2004
A Dutch Web analytics provider released statistics this month showing that market share for the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser fell below 90 percent for the first time in several years as Mozilla browsers surged to 7.35 percent.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/30/2004