Seeking a higher salary? The company you keep can make a bit of difference.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/20/2003
Microsoft posted its plans for the first bundle of security fixes and bug patches for Windows Server 2003 on a new Web page in the last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/20/2003
Microsoft released a cumulative security patch for Internet Explorer on Wednesday that addresses four flaws, including two that Microsoft considers critical risks. The flaws affect all currently supported versions of Internet Explorer, although all the problems are reduced to a "moderate" severity rating on Windows Server 2003, which locks down Internet Explorer 6.0 by default.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/20/2003
In what appears to be a misguided attempt to do good, someone released a worm that exploits the same DCOM RPC vulnerability that enabled the Blaster worm but that attempts to automatically download the Microsoft patch and remove the Blaster worm if it's present.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/19/2003
General retail availability of the upgrade to the worker productivity suite is formally set for Oct. 21.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/19/2003
Sobig enjoyed a resurgence as messages generated by a new variant of the mass-mailing worm flooded e-mail servers and user Inboxes on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/19/2003
Market research house IDC reports that Intel piled on a few more points of share in the second quarter to its dominant position in the worldwide x86 PC processor market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/19/2003
Stepping up to its role at the center of the Blaster worm epidemic, Microsoft on Thursday updated its main Blaster information page and peppered links to Blaster warnings and information throughout its Web site.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/14/2003
Microsoft will change the default firewall settings for new shipments of Windows XP in response to the wide spread of the Blaster worm, according to published reports.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/14/2003
Microsoft to release key core exams for MCSA/MCSE on Windows Server 2003 track on Thursday.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/13/2003
Microsoft on Wednesday replaced a faulty patch for the file system flaw in Windows NT 4.0 Server that could open the operating system to denial of service attacks.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/13/2003
Based on customer feedback, Microsoft will provide graphical reports to examinees.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/13/2003
Microsoft Project 2003 will be released to manufacturing on Aug. 18, the company said Wednesday in an announcement that included the pricing for the component of the Office 2003 family.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/13/2003
Testing centers will begin accepting registrations Wednesday for 70-292: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/12/2003
Things get murky as you start to price out systems costs, and that's why we have analyst firms to tell us the bad news. Things are never as cheap as the vendors tell us. But what are the analysts telling us?
- By Joe McKendrick
- 08/11/2003
While no one argues with the fact that the initial price of Linux is far lower than Windows server software, the comparison is trickier when looking at long-term costs over a three to five-year period.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 08/11/2003
The first worm, which exploits the juicy RPC DCOM vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft released a patch for last month, went into the wild on Monday, crashing vulnerable computers, slowing down local subnets and sending scanning traffic on port 135 through the roof.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/11/2003
Many Linux purists would like to see Linux eat into Microsoft's market share. Many Microsoft employees would prefer to see Windows work its way into the highest reaches of Unix deployments. Neither side is getting its way.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/11/2003
The documentation of Linux security took a step forward last week. IBM helped push SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 through the Common Criteria process to earn Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ certification, also known as EAL2+.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/11/2003
Microsoft has posted the bits for its stand-alone Active Directory, an out-of-band component of Windows Server 2003 that greatly expands the flexibility of Microsoft's directory services.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/07/2003