A key indicator of Windows 2000’s popularity in the enterprise, Active Directory adoption, is showing dramatic growth, according to a Web survey by ENTmag.com.
Most editions of Windows Server 2003 will cost the same as their Windows 2000 counterparts, while the new Web Edition, which is designed to compete with Linux, will cost less than half as much as the Standard Edition, Microsoft revealed Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/04/2003
Microsoft will make collaboration services available for Windows Server 2003 customers sometime this year after the April ship of the base operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/04/2003
Microsoft is claiming a groundswell of user interest in the note-taking application it is planning to add to the Microsoft Office family later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/04/2003
Quick test: Have you ever used a "braindump" for exam preparation? The answer to that question may not be as simple as a "yes" or "no."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/01/2003
.NET track changes trigger waves of response; how paper MCSEs are a benefit to IT; and more reasons to like Microsoft.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 03/01/2003
Microsoft issued a critical security patch for the Windows Me on Wednesday. The flaw in the Windows Me Help and Support Center could enable code execution.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/26/2003
From the trough between client operating system releases, Microsoft this week made public a comprehensive set of free enterprise desktop evaluation and deployment tools for Windows XP Professional and Office XP.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/26/2003
Microsoft is adding digital rights management services to Windows Server 2003. The technology will be available as an add-on sometime after Windows Server 2003 is released in April.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/26/2003
Huge growth in the number of application developers in China and India will lead the Asia/Pacific past North America by 2005 as the region with the most developers, according to recently published research from analyst firm IDC. Meanwhile, Microsoft's C languages still dominate among North American developers, but Java has momentum.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/25/2003
Intel cut prices on some models of Xeon and Pentium 4 processors between 6 percent and 21 percent this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/25/2003
A new variant of the LoveGate worm is posing a multi-layered threat to corporate networks this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/25/2003
Microsoft is finally beating Oracle and competing with Unix in the scale-up benchmarking game.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/25/2003
Forget .NET. Sayonara, Web services. What Microsoft really wants you to know about its products these days is that you can trust them.
Microsoft has decided not to extinguish all support for Windows NT 4.0 for another year.
MCP Magazine interviewed Microsoft's Dan Truax regarding the "braindump" case's impact on other alleged braindump testing sites.
Security researchers at CERT/CC underscored the importance of a group of newly patched vulnerabilities in Oracle Corp.'s enterprise software, including versions that run on Windows servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/20/2003
Microsoft rumbled into the virtual machine market on Wednesday with the purchase of desktop and server virtualization product assets from privately held Connectix Corp. The move is certain to make virtualization a more mainstream technology among Windows users, but it fogs the outlook for current market leader, VMWare.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/20/2003
VMWare has created a market for itself by providing software that slices and dices individual processors within Intel-based servers and workstations down to smaller partitions used by multiple instances of operating systems. Now VMWare is moving upmarket a bit, unveiling a product that will allow server administrators to create partitions out of groups of processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/19/2003
The company has modified the requirements of its certification programs for the MCSE and MCSA on Windows Server 2003 and provided an upgrade path for people certified on Windows 2000.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/19/2003