In a wide-ranging discussion with Gartner analysts, Microsoft's CEO
discussed the Windows "Longhorn" wave and WinFS, competition with Linux, 64-bit prospects and software piracy.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/21/2004
"Istanbul" is Microsoft's client component for moving its Live Communications Server-based presence platform forward with telephony.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/20/2004
The blizzard of Microsoft security patches last Tuesday serves as a harsh reminder to organizations still running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation that you're on your own.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/20/2004
It was an ambitious, self-imposed goal -- distribute 100 million copies of Windows XP Service Pack 2 within two months of the critical security update's release. On Wednesday, Microsoft declared success.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/20/2004
Hand-on lab provides online access to security skills lab available for limited time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/20/2004
During a series of recent media briefings, Microsoft began to give out nitty gritty details about specific timetables for the betas, SDKs and release candidates that will lead to the next round of Windows server operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/19/2004
With the expected arrival of dual-core processors from both Intel and AMD next year, Microsoft faced a licensing dilemma -- do right by customers by charging for only the physical processors or do right by investors by wringing maximum profit from each core on the processor.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/19/2004
Microsoft released a technical preview of its upcoming SQL Server 2005 database on Friday at the same time as the company adjusted its timetable for delivering the next major beta, and possibly, the long-delayed product itself.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/18/2004
New integrated approach will cause quarantining technology to be delayed from the Windows Server 2003 "R2" release to the Windows "Longhorn" Server release.
From the business wires this week: storage and backup solutions, e-mail security, network management, more.
Looking for experts for advice on how to get the security certification.
Quest Software this week released a new version of its usage reporting and analysis tool for Microsoft Exchange.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/13/2004
In a Q&A session this month, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect talked briefly about the next version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," and seemed to be describing the WinFS technologies that are supposed to have been cut.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/13/2004
For much of its existence Boise, Idaho-based ProClarity has built its analytic technology stack almost entirely on top of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 database. That changed late last month when ProClarity announced a new version 6.0 release of its ProClarity Analytics platform.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/13/2004
In one of its biggest monthly "Patch Tuesday" events yet, Microsoft posted 10 new security bulletins, seven of them for critical flaws that could allow attackers to remotely take control of a computer.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/12/2004
Some notable milestones in the Longhorn delivery schedule and Microsoft's dates for future deliverables.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/11/2004
Windows Longhorn is becoming less a code-name for an operating system than it is a code-name for a family of major technology projects that are becoming less and less coupled to the next version of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/11/2004
Windows "Longhorn" took a serious blow to its coolness quotient a month ago when it got a hard ship date and a serious loss of exclusive features. Suddenly, many of the big ideas in this operating system are either separated from the OS or will be available in older versions of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/11/2004
A collection of links to resources about Microsoft's Windows "Longhorn" project.
The roles of a handful of top executives in shaping the Windows "Longhorn" project so far have come to light.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/11/2004