Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is helping a new cyberforensics organization get off the ground with the contribution of a full-time analyst and $46,000 worth of software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/21/2004
Abridean advanced its user management and provisioning software this week with a new release that introduces centralized management of policies governing the granting and removing of user access to systems, data and resources.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/21/2004
Fujitsu's U.S. subsidiary this week rolled out the second server in its line of Itanium 2 processor-based systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/21/2004
Microsoft agreed to pay $20 million to Lindows to get the San Diego-based desktop Linux OS vendor to stop using a name that Microsoft contends infringes upon its Windows trademark.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/20/2004
Company executives also announced plans to issue a special one-time dividend of $3 per share and change Microsoft's regular dividend payments from 16 cents per share per year to 8 cents per share per quarter.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/20/2004
From the business wires this week: three new tools for ISA Server 2004, monitoring tools get updated, a freeware untombstoning tool and more.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/16/2004
Citing the need to incorporate user feedback and the higher priority of Windows XP Service Pack 2-related work, Microsoft pushed back its shipment target for Windows Update Services from the end of this year to the first half of next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/14/2004
Microsoft to release beta version of 70-291 exam with questions relating to upcoming Windows XP SP2, say sources.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/13/2004
Microsoft patched two critical flaws in its software in a batch of seven security bulletins released today as part of the company's monthly "Patch Tuesday." Each of the two critical flaws could allow an attacker to take complete control of a Windows computer over the Internet.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/13/2004
Microsoft unveiled details, a name and partner support for the quarantining technology it plans to add to Windows Server 2003 next year in the update release, code-named "R2."
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/13/2004
Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 is generally available, a Microsoft executive told partners at a conference Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/13/2004
Bagle is back and security industry insiders say new developments with the mass-mailing worm will probably cause headaches for Windows administrators all summer.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/12/2004
Windows XP Service Pack 2, arguably Microsoft's biggest service pack yet and the company's most important security project since the Trustworthy Computing initiative, will be released in August.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/12/2004
New, updated software and hardware announcements of interest to MCPs, from the business wires.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/09/2004
E-mail security and management provider Postini declared this week that its method of blocking spam e-mails based on IP addresses is proving an effective complement to content filtering.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/08/2004
Pirated software accounted for more than a third of the software installed on computers worldwide in 2003, representing a loss of $29 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by a software industry group.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/07/2004
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's massive 4,900-word internal memo to Microsoft employees is a major event in Redmond and for Wall Street, but it affects IT shops only marginally. $1 billion in cuts planned by July 2005. Product schedules do not appear to be affected.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/07/2004
Microsoft released an emergency configuration update over the July Fourth U.S. holiday that for the first time gives Internet Explorer users protection against the specific vulnerabilities exploited by the Download.Ject attack.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/05/2004
New, updated software and hardware, compiled from the business wire this week.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/02/2004
HP disclosed that flawed memory modules in 14 models of HP and Compaq laptops could produce blue screens, intermittent lock-ups or memory corruption. The computermaker announced a replacement program for the third-party memory modules that runs through Dec. 31.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/30/2004