A widespread crash of Windows desktop systems threw the United Kingdom's Department of Work and Pensions into disarray for several days last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/30/2004
It may not be time to retire the term "Wintel" yet.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/30/2004
Microsoft has killed its planned Windows 2000 Service Pack 5. Instead the company will release an Update Rollup for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 in the middle of next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/29/2004
Another version of Sober is getting attention from the major security companies.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/29/2004
Security experts are warning users to lock down unused ports after an exploit surfaced for an unpatched flaw in Microsoft WINS.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/29/2004
Microsoft earlier this month released a Community Technical Preview of "Avalon," the new presentation subsystem for Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/29/2004
Sonasoft has bundled its backup and recovery products for major Microsoft systems into a comprehensive suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/29/2004
Tidal Software is shipping an update to its performance and availability management software for SAP on Windows that takes advantage of just released Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/29/2004
From the business wires this week: a solution to ease deployment of network devices, software that helps detect security risks in code, and a backup and recovery system.
From the business wires this week: HTTP compression solutions that enable faster Web browsing, server and workstation management software, and patch management programs.
To coincide with the worldwide general availability of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 this week, Microsoft's IT department released a 32-page whitepaper detailing its internal deployment of the management software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/18/2004
Microsoft extends "try before you buy" offer to its XP SP2 clinics and hands-on labs for deploying or developing in a Windows XP SP2 enviroment.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/18/2004
NetIQ this month will begin shipping a “connector” tool to enable systems management and security information to be displayed on the same console.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/18/2004
Microsoft this week delivered two long-promised feature packs for Systems Management Server 2003 -- an Operating System Deployment Feature Pack and a Device Management Feature Pack.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/18/2004
Wise Solutions is shipping an update of its premier lifecycle management tool, Wise Package Studio. The latest release – version 5.5 – adds automated patch impact assessment and testing tools, as well as support for new features in Microsoft’s Windows Installer 3.0.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/18/2004
Maker of integration software for linking Unix and Linux systems with Microsoft infrastructures wins deepening commitment from Redmond.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/17/2004
Microsoft this week highlighted the first of its promised self-report cards on how well its 2005 generation of Windows Server System products are meeting the internally imposed Common Engineering Criteria.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/17/2004
Microsoft and Dell are pairing to develop free software for Dell server customers that will integrate Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 with Dell's OpenManage 4 Change Management tool.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/16/2004
Microsoft opened a new round Tuesday in its public spat with Novell with the launch of a migration program to move Novell NetWare customers to Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/16/2004
To mark the occasion of the debut of Sun Solaris 10 this week, Web researchers at Netcraft released the results of their latest survey of Fortune 100 Web sites. Their finding: Sun Solaris still leads with 43 sites.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/16/2004