More than a year after launching Windows Server 2003, Microsoft is starting a marketing campaign to single out the Internet Information Services 6.0 Web server component as a strong reason to upgrade to the server OS.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/18/2004
While Jim Allchin said this month that the Windows Longhorn client and server projects are back in synch from a development perspective, another senior Microsoft officials clarified this week that the server version won't be ready as soon as the client version.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/13/2004
Enterprise application giant SAP is working to hook its wares more tightly with Microsoft's ubiquitous Office desktop productivity software and Microsoft's widely used Visual Studio development platform.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/13/2004
After burdening IT with patches for 20 vulnerabilities in its April Patch Tuesday, Microsoft offered a fix for just one vulnerability in this month's patch event.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/12/2004
Just as IT brushes itself off from the Sasser worm, it's that time again. Today is Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, that day once a month when Microsoft puts out all the security patches it's been working on.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/11/2004
Are spammers mostly misunderstood individuals who are providing a valuable service?
Thanks to Mono 1.0, .NET is for Linux, Unix and even MacOS.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/11/2004
Beta testing is underway for the first service pack for Systems Management Server 2003, Microsoft's enterprise product for change and configuration management.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/11/2004
Update from Microsoft Management Summit in March.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/10/2004
Microsoft agrees to pay out $2 billion to Sun in landmark agreement.
Dramatic update to software updating services
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/10/2004
Pearson VUE is offering a free re-take on select MCP exams to anyone who fails an exam between April 30 and June 30.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/06/2004
Microsoft this week opened a beta program for the second-generation version of its instant messaging server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/06/2004
IBM is entering the open beta stage for "Stinger," the code-name for the next-generation release of DB2, which is slated for availability later this year. The next release of DB2 will make it easier for DBAs to deploy, configure, maintain and optimize DB2 databases.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/06/2004
Microsoft is throwing big money at Windows Update, the company's infrastructure and technologies for distributing patches to its ubiquitous Windows software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2004
Great Scott, what's going on? Sun and Microsoft recently agreed to bury the hatchet and concentrate on integration, not instigation. Is this good news for customers? Yes and no.
Yes because it's high time someone began making an effort to make systems more interoperable.
No because when big vendors make nicey-nicey with each other, especially when lawyers are involved, it's often time to run the other way.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 05/05/2004
The 64-bit extensions to x86 instructions pioneered by AMD and adopted by Intel are leading to a "wonderful transition" to 64-bit computing, according to Bill Gates.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2004
Microsoft may be setting its sights on business users with very little, if any, development expertise.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/05/2004
Four variants of Sasser, the first major worm to exploit flaws patched by Microsoft's huge security bug fixing patch last month, were wreaking havoc on computer networks.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/04/2004
Microsoft is now developing the Windows "Longhorn" server and Windows "Longhorn" client in lockstep, a change from the staggered development the company was previously pursuing for its next generation version of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/04/2004