Windows Update Services, the follow-on to Microsoft's Software Update Services free patching tool, entered the public beta testing stage on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/16/2004
Microsoft on Monday formally opened a new software development campus in India that is Microsoft's largest campus after its Redmond, Wash. headquarters.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/16/2004
Just days after a $536 million settlement with Microsoft over its NetWare operating system, Novell filed a federal lawsuit in Utah seeking damages from Microsoft for alleged efforts to eliminate competition in the office productivity applications market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/15/2004
From the business wires this week: blade servers, a 1U autoloader and security appliances.
Adds role-based “solutions” for small and mid-sized businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/11/2004
Paul Otellini, the president and chief operating officer at Intel who led the introduction of the Pentium processor in 1993, was elected by Intel's board of directors as the next CEO, the chip giant announced Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/11/2004
Microsoft on Thursday officially unveiled the new beta version of its MSN Search site, the company's hotly anticipated attempt to take on Google for Web searching.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/11/2004
Thanks to a thriving market for its virtual systems software, VMware is drastically cutting the cost of one of its flagship products. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company says that with double-digit growth in sales in recent quarters, VMware can afford to lower prices.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/11/2004
With more than a dozen antitrust cases settled, or at least already accounted for in the case of the European Commission fine, Microsoft's lawyers are telling investors they're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/10/2004
Microsoft posted a patch for Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/10/2004
Microsoft this week reached legal and financial settlements with two of its most vocal antitrust critics -- Novell and the Computer & Communications Industry Association.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/10/2004
NEC Solutions began shipping blade servers based on the new Itanium 2 processors released by Intel this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/10/2004
Intel is shipping six new processors aimed at filling out its burgeoning Itanium 2 server CPU lineup. But, more than that, Intel hopes that the new CPUs will provide it with traction in server markets such as high-performance computing and large-scale databases that until only recently were strictly the domain of RISC processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/09/2004
IBM to release upgraded Enterprise X chipset next year to bring support for Xeon processors with EM64T.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/08/2004
Microsoft changed the name of its specialized edition of Windows Server 2003 for massively parallel computing from the HPC Edition to the Compute Cluster Edition.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/08/2004
From the business wires this week: a server load balancing solution, a network security system and more.
Microsoft officials said on Thursday that the controversial early notification program on security bulletins that has been available to certain customers for a year will be open to everyone starting immediately. The company posted its first advance notification on Thursday. Expect one bulletin next Tuesday addressing an important flaw in ISA Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/04/2004
NEC Solutions has teamed up to offer its fault-tolerant servers with Softricity’s SoftGrid application management system.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/04/2004
Veritas will ship this month version 4.0 of its OpForce Enterprise Edition distributed server provisioning software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/04/2004
Agency claims nine-year deal on up to 900,000 desktops will save British taxpayers more than 330 million pounds. Deal's overall worth reported at about 500 million pounds.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/04/2004