Company to offer consultants up to $500 back for purchasing, implementing SBS for clients; rebate good until Jan. 31, 2002.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/31/2002
An ISV who relies on Microsoft's proprietary API for Exchange got nervous about its future when Microsoft started talking about its forthcoming "Titanium" and "Kodiak" releases. Microsoft says MAPI is alive and well.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/30/2002
Leveraging Windows .NET Datacenter Server beta code and Intel's new Xeon MP chips, IBM used the Transaction Processing Performance Council's OLTP benchmark to demonstrate impressive performance on its funky new eight-processor servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/30/2002
Microsoft on Tuesday made available an interim release of its Windows CE .NET operating system for mobile and small-footprint devices that adds IPv6 support, new file viewers and a Speech API.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/30/2002
Showing appreciation to systems administrators worldwide on July 26 for their relentless, hard work year-round.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/26/2002
Covalent Technologies this week released extensions to their Apache Web server product to allow integration with Microsoft's ASP.NET.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/25/2002
Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates spent his day Thursday trying to help the financial community understand the themes behind Microsoft's dozens of planned product releases over the next few years. The "wave" model he came up with may be equally helpful for IT decision makers trying to make sense of how Microsoft's roadmaps fit with their own organizations' plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/25/2002
Microsoft issued five security bulletins on Wednesday night, including one bulletin and patch addressing three critical vulnerabilities in SQL Server 2000.
Two of the bulletins dealt with SQL Server 2000, one dealt with Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, another involved Microsoft Metadirectory Services 2.2 and a fifth bulletin was a reissue of an earlier patch for Windows Media Player.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/25/2002
Do you have a problem with your network design? If so, let Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine's experts come to your aid.
Microsoft on Wednesday posted the third Service Pack for Exchange 2000 that includes fixes from an eight-week Trustworthy Computing-related code review.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/24/2002
Beta testing for new MCSA/MCSE elective expected in November; plus, certification program unlikely to include lab element in the near future.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/24/2002
Release Candidate 1 of Windows .NET Server is finished and Microsoft will distribute the code to anyone who wants to test it, the company said Wednesday. Shipping RC1, which is feature complete, is a major milestone in Microsoft's process for delivering a finished operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/24/2002
The latest beta of IBM Corp.’s relational database server, DB2, has hit the Web, revealing what will come in the next release. When version 8 is released later this year, it will include new management features and Web services functionality.
Microsoft on Tuesday made one of its occasional noises about integration with a competitor when it trumpeted a new tool for wiring Oracle databases to applications developed in the .NET Framework.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/23/2002
Market research firm IDC released its annual report on messaging and collaboration Tuesday, concluding that the market is growing in number of seats but shrinking in revenues.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/23/2002
Groups independent of Microsoft have put out a new free tool for securely configuring Windows 2000 desktops.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/18/2002
Simultaneous with the Itanium 2 processor launch last week, Microsoft began taking nominations for the SQL Server 2000 64-bit beta program.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/18/2002
Microsoft is scheduled to discuss its earnings this evening for the fourth quarter of the 2002 fiscal year and for the entire year, which ended June 30.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/18/2002
Hewlett-Packard racked up some records on standard business benchmarks using its new servers built on the Itanium 2 processor, the Limited Edition of Windows Advanced Server and beta code of 64-bit SQL Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/17/2002
A survey from the Information Technology Association of America says that the number of employees in the U.S. IT workforce fell by almost 5 percent in 2001.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/17/2002