Exam 70-271 also to continue beta testing to Nov. 20.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/13/2003
Having pre-announced the official announcement of Systems Management Server 2003 last month, and having discussed the features to death in the years of delivery delays, there wasn't much left for Microsoft to do at the official SMS 2003 launch other than talk about customer momentum.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/12/2003
Microsoft shareholders approved the addition of two outsiders to the corporate board of directors and a reduction in the number of committees each board member serves on.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/12/2003
Three critical security patches are included in Microsoft's bundle of security bulletins for November. The critical problems affect Internet Explorer, Windows and the Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/12/2003
Microsoft this week completed its first conversion of virtual machine technology acquired from Connectix Corp. into a product.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/11/2003
IBM joined the mid-range Intel Itanium 2 scalability party this week with the rollout of an IBM eServer xSeries 455 that scales up to 16 processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/11/2003
HP this week pushed out a raft of new Intel-based servers, including a pair of Itanium servers that fill a gap in HP's 64-bit server line.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/06/2003
HP, Intel and Oracle crossed a psychological performance threshold this week when their Itanium/HP-UX/Oracle10g system achieved more than 1 million transactions per minute on the industry-standard OLTP scalability benchmark, the TPC-C.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/06/2003
Microsoft’s Internet Information Service continues its slide in market share. According to Netcraft, a U.K.-based consultancy that scans the Web each month for the most-used Web servers, Apache made major gains at Microsoft’s expense in the November survey.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/06/2003
Stung by brutal virus attack after brutal virus attack on its core products, Microsoft is fighting back with a $5 million reward fund for those that turn in virus authors.
Business intelligence and analytics used to be a closed process in which a small room of analysts loaded sales figures into proprietary software or onto spreadsheets to generate reports for corporate decision makers. Now, three trends are sweeping away this process, but threaten to make the IT director’s job untenable.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 11/05/2003
Microsoft raised the stakes for virus and worm authors on Wednesday by putting $5 million into a reward fund for information leading to the arrest of malware writers. Specific bounties of $250,000 each are in place for the authors of the MSBlastA worm and the Sobig virus.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/05/2003
New exam for Exchange specialist titles debuts November 10.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/04/2003
The security configuration lockdown wizard for Windows Server 2003 that was supposed to be delivered shortly after the operating system shipped has now apparently been pushed into the first service pack.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/04/2003
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Microsoft released the final version of its Windows Rights Management Services add-on for Windows Server 2003 on Tuesday. RMS can be installed for free on licensed copies of Windows Server 2003, but organizations that plan to use the technology must pay for a special CAL that is layered on top of normal CALs.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/04/2003
Microsoft’s Software Update Services has added a critical piece of functionality that promises to make it much more useful in the enterprise—the ability to install service packs.
A drill-down into the themes and technologies on the drawing board for the next version of Microsoft Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/30/2003
Software developers are in the crosshairs of Microsoft’s “Watson” initiative, now that the company is claiming success with the automated customer feedback program in improving the quality of its own software and third-party hardware drivers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/30/2003
Bill Gates kicked off the "Longhorn" generation of products in his Los Angeles keynote speech at the Professional Developers Conference, one of the most hotly anticipated Microsoft conferences in years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/28/2003