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Microsoft Patch Day Brings 3 New Security Fixes

Tuesday was Microsoft's monthly patch day, and the company marked the date with three new security bulletins, including one critical new bulletin for Windows. In all Microsoft bundled four security bulletins, including one it issued for Internet Explorer last week outside its normal patch cycle.

Juniper Takes on Cisco with NetScreen Acquisition

If nothing else, Juniper Networks' $4 billion acquisition of NetScreen Technologies Monday is a strong indication that the networking market segment is poised for a recovery in 2004.

ISA Server 2000 Getting Price Cut

Microsoft alerted partners on Monday to an upcoming deal on Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2000, the company's enterprise software firewall that is scheduled to be replaced later this year by ISA 2004.

MyDoom.B Causes Microsoft Problems

Although Microsoft enjoyed early success in fending off the distributed denial of service attack programmed into the fast-spreading MyDoom.B, the mass-mailing worm is inflicting an increasing amount of damage against the software giant's servers.

Crystal Reports to Stay in Visual Studio

Although Microsoft launched its own enterprise reporting tool last week, the software giant will continue packaging the competitive Business Objects Crystal Reports tool inside the Microsoft Visual Studio developer suite for now and into the next Visual Studio release, code-named "Whidbey."

Web Server Survey Finds IIS Powers More High-Traffic Sites Than Apache

Microsoft IIS slightly edges out the open-source Apache Web server in the percentage of the 1,000 highest-traffic sites that run each Web server, a new survey finds.

Microsoft Launching Windows Server System Campaign

Next week, Microsoft will launch its first advertising campaign around the Windows Server System, an indication that Microsoft is committed to its latest branding of the back-end server products that run on top of Windows.

Users Cheer Microsoft’s New Reporting Services

Testers laud ability to create more seamless applications and its deeper level of report creation and management.

Desktop Apps Exam Now Live

Exam for testing help desk support skills now available; MCDST also now officially live.

Oracle Slashes Prices of Entry-Level Database

Oracle announced lower prices for the entry-level version of its new Oracle Database 10g, which is shipping now for Unix and Linux and will be available for Windows later.

CompTIA Updating Server+

Slated for later this year, updates don't affect MCP candidate plans.

IE Phishing Vulnerability Patched

Microsoft on Monday released the much-anticipated fix for a flaw that is already being exploited in Internet Explorer that allowed the widespread "phishing" attacks through e-mail.

BusinessWeek: SCO Supplants Microsoft as Most Hated Company in IT

BusinessWeek Magazine, in its Feb. 2 editions, is declaring that SCO Group with its Linux lawsuits has replaced Microsoft as the most hated company in IT.

Microsoft Beefs up Online Security Offerings

Perhaps no company in the industry is working harder than Microsoft at making sure the public knows what steps to take to secure its products.

Microsoft Puts Bounty on MyDoom.B Writer

Following in the footsteps of the SCO Group Inc., Microsoft on Thursday put up a $250,000 bounty for the perpetrators of MyDoom.B.

Q&A: Windows Storage Server

Microsoft's Zane Adams recently discussed the growing potential for Windows Storage Server with Senior Editor Keith Ward.

Update: Quest Buys Aelita

Quest Software Inc. will buy privately-held Aelita Software for $115 million in a deal announced by the companies late Wednesday. The deal, a combination of two of the companies with the deepest sets of Active Directory and Windows-specific migration and management technologies, is expected to close this quarter.

MyDoom Gets Worse

The already fast-spreading MyDoom or Novarg mass-mailing virus got a boost from an effective variant that hit about two days after the original virus was discovered.

Longhorn Developer Details Released

Microsoft is now releasing more details on how to build Longhorn desktop applications—and pushing developers to crack open the early SDK.

ISA Server 2004 Enters Broad Beta

Microsoft posted a public beta of Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004, the second-generation version of Microsoft's enterprise firewall and Web caching product.

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