The IDC research contradicts an earlier report published by Gartner Dataquest that put the new HP out front.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/30/2002
AMD converted its highest-end multiprocessing server and workstation chip to 0.13-micron technology. The AMD Athlon MP processor 2200+ can run in dual-processor servers and workstations.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/30/2002
Microsoft alerted users to a critical vulnerability involving an ActiveX control that ships in all supported Windows clients. A patch is available.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/29/2002
Microsoft changed the name of the family of server operating systems it plans to release next year to Windows .NET Server 2003, company representatives said late Thursday.
The new name is the fourth for the family of server operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/29/2002
Worldwide usage of the AOL-Netscape Navigator browser hit a record low, according to outsourced Web analytics provider WebSideStory Inc.
"The browser war is in fact a massacre," WebSideStory StatMarket's vice president of marketing Geoff Johnston said in a statement. "Unless AOL makes a move soon, Netscape may find itself battling Opera for the last 1 [percent] to 2 percent of the market."
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/29/2002
The first service pack for Windows XP will be distributed within 10 days, the financial news agency Bloomberg reported. Microsoft discussed its plans with financial reporters in the context of its antitrust agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2002
The new HP saw revenues sink and weathered a large loss in its first financial quarter operating as the product of the controversial merger between computer giants Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2002
Summer break? What summer break? Microsoft's security teams demonstrated that they're not sleeping during the dog days of summer this year when they issued patches for eight newly discovered security problems last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/26/2002
Intel rolled out new versions of its premier desktop processors this week. The latest Pentium 4 desktop chips are closing in on the 3-GHz clockspeed threshold. Intel released Pentium 4s in speeds of 2.8 GHz, 2.66 GHz, 2.60 GHz and 2.50 GHz.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/26/2002
Microsoft released a downloadable service built on its flagship SQL Server 2000 database for generating personalized notification messages for different client devices.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/26/2002
It's all about timing. Microsoft formally synchronized the release of the next version of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework with Windows .NET Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/22/2002
IBM Corp. will introduce an entry level version of its new modular, Intel-based servers.
On Aug. 30, IBM will begin offering two-way versions of the eServer x440 servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/22/2002
Rational Software is delivering a .NET Edition of its visual design and development environment. The Rational XDE Professional: .NET Edition earns the Microsoft .NET part of its name by supporting Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/21/2002
The market shares of the major Web servers surge and ebb with the fortunes of the largest Web hosters. When major ISPs go out of business or shift to Apache or to Internet Information Services, market shares for the platforms, as tracked by researchers at U.K.-based Netcraft, rise or fall.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/21/2002
Iomega Corp., best known for its handy Zip personal storage drives, is getting into the game of "Windows Powered" Network-Attached Storage by releasing devices running Windows 2000 technology.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/21/2002
Microsoft makes available two more core exams for the MCAD.NET and MCSD.NET tracks.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/20/2002
Microsoft created a new cumulative patch for SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000. A fix for a new flaw involving extended stored procedures in SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 prompted Microsoft to roll up all the recent SQL Server patches.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/20/2002
Microsoft warned users of an important new flaw in Windows 2000. A hacker could use an elaborate process to elevate his or her privileges through a security problem in the Network Connection Manager (NCM) within Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/20/2002
Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and Windows XP SP 1 share a key element—changes to comply with Microsoft’s antitrust settlement with the Department of Justice.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/16/2002
A security company released information this week about what it calls an "extremely high risk" vulnerability involving the Apache open source Web server running on non-Unix platforms, such as Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/15/2002