MCDBA, MCSA make list of CertCities.com's top 10 list of “Hottest Certifications for 2003.”
IBM this week disclosed significant changes to its eServer iSeries line of mid-range servers. Once known as the AS/400 line, the servers primarily run IBM's OS/400, but they can be outfitted with Windows and Linux, as well. New to the iSeries are the addition of a new
sub-$10,000 system and the introduction of support for On/Off Capacity
Upgrade on Demand (CUD).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/22/2003
Microsoft announces that it's dropping ".NET" from name of upcoming network operating system family of products as release date looms.
Microsoft made its highly anticipated move into the customer relationship management market on Tuesday with the North American launch of Microsoft CRM.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/22/2003
The past year saw the introduction of two new Microsoft certifications, and one grew by leaps and bounds in its first 12 months.
In an effort to standardize naming conventions for its technical articles, Microsoft has eliminated the letters at the beginning of the article identifiers.
It was the dream of many a Windows NT 4.0 Web site administrator applying the daily or twice-daily reboot. A Windows 2000 system that would just stay up. This month in its monthly report on Web sites around the world, Netcraft found a Windows 2000 site that hasn't needed a reboot in more than two years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/21/2003
U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to include a Java Runtime Environment provided by Sun Microsystems in new copies of Windows XP and Internet Explorer within 120 days.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/21/2003
Microsoft updated its enterprise database, SQL Server 2000, this week with a service pack that includes bug fixes and some new and enhanced functionality.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/21/2003
The final numbers aren’t in, but analysts and security firms are anxious to put a disappointing 2002 behind them even as they look forward to what they say will be a more successful 2003. Over the coming year, Industry watchers expect that IT security spending will increase as firms implement postponed projects and allocate new funding for deferred purchases of security products and services.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/16/2003
Microsoft put up another quarter of record revenues, in part based on strong growth in its server segment. At the same time, Microsoft announced its first stock dividend, a step investors have pushed for in recent years as the days of the stock's meteoric growth have ended.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/16/2003
Long-time Microsoft security-watcher Russ Cooper says that the software giant must do more to enhance the security of its products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/15/2003
Microsoft is offering limited rights to review source code to a third of the world's governments in what is widely viewed as an attempt to blunt open source momentum among security conscious national agencies. Early participants in the program announced this week are NATO and a Russian agency.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/15/2003
Microsoft will unveil the roadmap for the next version of Microsoft Operations Manager in March at the Microsoft Management Summit, the company said this week. In the meantime, the company is refreshing its aging management solution with a raft of incremental pieces.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/14/2003
Microsoft on Wednesday will release Exam 70-214, Implementing Security. The exam is an elective for the the MCSE on Windows 2000 and MCSA on Windows 2000 tracks.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/13/2003
Microsoft will launch Windows Server 2003 and the next version of Visual Studio .NET on April 24 in San Francisco.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/10/2003
Windows network tools specialist Aelita Software Corp. is taking the plunge and supporting pre-release Windows Server 2003 code for its customers, the company said Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/09/2003
Microsoft on Thursday formally changed the name of its next server operating system, which is due to ship in April, from Windows .NET Server 2003 to Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/09/2003
An ambitious new study attempts to attach a price tag to spam. Junk e-mail will cost U.S. corporations more than $10 billion in 2003, according to the report released this week by Ferris Research, a consulting firm specializing in messaging and collaboration research.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/09/2003
Microsoft has decided not to support Exchange 2000 Server on Windows .NET Server 2003. The software giant says the overhaul required to make the two-year-old messaging server compatible with the security changes made to the underlying server operating system is more than customers would accept in a service pack. Instead, Microsoft is working to make sure that Exchange 2000, running on Windows 2000, leverages enhancements in Windows .NET Server 2003-based Active Directory infrastructures.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/08/2003