A slide presentation obtained by ENTmag.com suggests that Microsoft may not offer the Web Edition of Windows .NET Server 2003 through retail channels.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/08/2003
Microsoft posted a downloadable Feature Pack 1 for ISA Server 2000 on Tuesday that pushes Microsoft's enterprise software firewall further up the security food chain into the role of application-layer filtering.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/07/2003
Microsoft formally named the next version of its Exchange messaging server "Exchange Server 2003" and released a Beta 2 version for broad public testing.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/06/2003
Microsoft delivered its first connector for using its Outlook e-mail clients with the Lotus Domino servers sold by messaging rival IBM.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/02/2003
Two major anti-virus vendors upgraded the threat level on a variant of the Yaha virus as the mass-mailing worm spilled outside of its original range in the Middle East and Europe into the United States.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/02/2003
Microsoft must include Sun Microsystems' Java with Windows XP and Internet Explorer, according to a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz in Baltimore.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/02/2003
The general release of Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 has been pushed back until at least April and could easily slip past that timeframe.
Mainstream support for Windows NT 4.0 Server ends on Dec. 31, a deadline Microsoft formally set a year ago and reaffirmed with a new support retirement policy in October. Support for several other more minor server products will also expire at the end of this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2002
Storage software giant Veritas is buying application performance management vendor Precise in a $537 million deal.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2002
Microsoft alerted users Wednesday night to a critical flaw arising from an unchecked buffer in the Windows XP Shell that could be used to run code of an attacker's choice. The flaw occurs when opening or even hovering over malicious audio files.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2002
Analyst firm Aberdeen Group predicts an increase in worldwide IT spending in 2003 and beyond but researchers say they don't expect to see the kind of IT spending growth of the late '90s to happen again.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2002
IBM is shipping 16-processor Xeon MP-based servers in volume. The servers, which are five months behind schedule, broaden the options for customers who are looking to run powerful Windows-based systems with more than eight processors for server consolidation or large database projects.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/18/2002
You'd think the existence of ASP.NET on a Web site would make it a safe bet that it's a Windows server, right? Not so fast. Internet researchers at U.K.-based consultancy Netcraft find that about 1 percent of ASP.NET Internet sites on the Web are running Linux.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/18/2002
Microsoft issued a roadmap on its Web site this week of the software and technologies it plans to deliver for the enterprise in 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/17/2002
Microsoft Press is offering VUE testing discounts in selected MCSA/MCSE certification titles. Discount vouchers can be used until Dec. 31, 2003.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/16/2002
Microsoft this week announced the newest edition to its Microsoft Systems Architecture configurations, Microsoft Systems Architecture for the Enterprise Data Center.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/12/2002
The influx of “paper MCSEs” has led many to call for some type of hands-on testing component. The Field Certified Professional Association tries to address that.
Unisys this week touted a new set of benchmarks that it says demonstrates the scalability and the price/performance of its flagship ES7000 Intel servers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/12/2002
IBM last week agreed to acquire development tools vendor Rational Software Corp. for $2.1 billion. The deal is the second largest software acquisition in Big Blue's history and brings up interesting issues surrounding Rational's support for .NET.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/11/2002
Microsoft issued new security bulletins warning users of moderate threats due to vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2002