Microsoft issues its first hundred certifications for new developer certification.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/15/2002
IT professionals interested in the stand-alone version of Active Directory for applications that Microsoft started discussing last month can find out more about the technology in a new white paper on Microsoft's Web site.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/15/2002
Dell and EMC this week released the first new piece of storage hardware under their five-year partnership unveiled in October.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/14/2002
Economic downturns can be bright spots for certain industries. That appears to be partially the case with thin client computing.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/14/2002
How would you rather get your MCP: reading books and fiddling with a homemade network in your windowless basement or tooling around Jamaica and the Grand Caymans on a cruise ship?
HP, which was supposed to be plagued by merger-related malaise and confusion in the second quarter of the calendar year, instead roared through the quarter in terms of U.S. server sales, according to a study by Gartner's Dataquest market research arm.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/14/2002
Linux used to be about the little guy, independent developers working to perfect the grassroots operating system. But the loudest voices at this week’s LinuxWorld Expo are the giants of enterprise computing, IBM and Sun.
Microsoft revealed a critical flaw in its Microsoft Content Management Server. The most serious of three newly discovered vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a server in the Local System context.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/08/2002
Microsoft issued a second service pack for the six-month-old Microsoft .NET Framework this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/08/2002
Failover clustering is an upsell in Microsoft server operating systems. Users must buy Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server or Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition, to get it. Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced clustering software on Tuesday that works with plain-old Windows NT 4.0 Server of Windows 2000 Server. But there's a catch: It's only supported on HP's ProLiant servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/07/2002
Still, the open source operating system did better than every operating environment but Windows in 2001 and should realize a 28 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, according to analysts at market research firm IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/07/2002
Microsoft, Dell and Intel commit $60 million over four years to fund the expansion of an existing high-performance-computing cluster at the Cornell Theory Center. The agreement assures Microsoft of a continuing Windows presence in a large-scale research cluster, a field dominated in the price-performance end by Linux configurations.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/07/2002
During a news conference on steps Microsoft is taking to comply with the antitrust settlement, company officials said Windows XP Service Pack 1 will be available in the next two months.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/06/2002
Microsoft posted Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 late Thursday, two days after making SP3 available to Premier Customers. The oft-delayed bundle of regression-tested bug fixes is the first Windows 2000 service pack so far that Microsoft has recommended that users install.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/02/2002
Later this month, Microsoft will begin implementing .NET Passport login for its MCP Secured and MCT Secured sites.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/01/2002
Over the last several years, Microsoft has greatly expanded its list of technologies that fit under the umbrella term "clustering." Here's an overview of some of the most prominent Microsoft clustering technologies.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/01/2002
ENT contributing editor Stephen Swoyer drills into the specifics of the 1.2 release of Microsoft's Windows 2000 Advanced Server Limited Edition 1.2. ASLE 1.2 is the version of Microsoft's 64-bit operating system tuned for Intel's new Itanium 2 processor.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/01/2002
A moderate vulnerability in the Microsoft Data Access Components could compromise security on SQL Server systems. The security bulletin issued by Microsoft about the issue late Wednesday is the third involving SQL Server in the last two weeks.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/01/2002
Microsoft and a host of hardware and services vendors want to help you get your Internet Data Center, based on Microsoft software, up and running quickly. To that end, more than a dozen vendors are working on prescriptive architecture guides (PAG) under a full-featured program called the Microsoft Systems Architecture (MSA) program.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/31/2002
Microsoft is set to release Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 on Thursday, company officials said.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/31/2002