Dell Computer Corp. reclaimed the price-performance lead on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark for OLTP systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/02/2002
April 2, 2002 marks one decade in the life of the Microsoft Certified Professional program.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/02/2002
A joint marketing campaign from Unisys Corp. and Microsoft Corp. to promote Windows on 32-processor Unisys ES7000 servers got off to a rocky start when its anti-Unix homepage was hosted on a Unix/Apache server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/02/2002
<i>Case study.</i> When the City of Minneapolis, Minn. government decided to use the Internet to automate its business processes, it was obvious the information infrastructure would need updating, too. The city's Microsoft-based solution includes Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
On its way to delivering 3-GHz Pentium 4 processors by year's end, Intel shipped a 2.4-GHz version of the processor.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/02/2002
Pass/Fail causes a storm; XML; Exchange and Active Directory; salary survey unrealistic?
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 04/01/2002
Microsoft issued a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer in late March. It was the fourth cumulative patch in five months for the Web browser. The most serious flaw this time is a critical vulnerability in the way IE handles cookies.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/01/2002
U.S. Dept. of Education's FAFSA application is like free money, but deadline is looming.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/28/2002
Under its Shared Source initiative, which Microsoft uses as a counter to open source and the GNU General Public License, Microsoft is giving out some .NET source code to academics. It can't be put to commercial use.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/28/2002
Microsoft has a well-earned reputation for acquiring and investing in firms and technologies by the boatload. Analyst firm Gartner this week issued a report detailing what it expects Microsoft will buy in the next few years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/28/2002
Microsoft produced a Security Operations Guide for Windows 2000 Server this month as part of its concentrated push to elevate the priority of security in its products.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/28/2002
Key enterprise vendors are endorsing Microsoft's Windows 2000 Datacenter Server by taking the trouble to get their well-known enterprise applications certified for Microsoft's upstart platform.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/27/2002
Intel and partners are developing hundreds of infrastructure "blueprints" to help customers implement Intel-based server infrastructures for a variety of common vertical and horizontal uses.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/27/2002
Oracle customers are calling IT analyst firms to complain that Oracle sales reps are trying to reinterpret their contracts to charge more for Oracle's database software. Both Meta Group, which first publicized the issue last week, and Gartner, which weighed in this week, urge customers to push back against the software giant.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/27/2002
Microsoft this week admitted to making a $1 billion mistake in recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings about its earnings.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/27/2002
One of the Windows server platform's key differentiators over Linux is disappearing as the open-source platform reaches eight-processor scalability.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/26/2002
In one of its fastest service pack releases, Microsoft this week issued an SP1 for the .NET Framework that was released to manufacturing in January and formally launched a month later.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/22/2002
Microsoft this week turned its recent patch for the Microsoft Virtual Machine into a cumulative patch. A second critical flaw was discovered in the Microsoft Virtual Machine that could allow a malicious user to create a Java applet that executes code on a user's machine outside the Java "sandbox."
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/22/2002
Intel this week revealed a low-power processor capable of being used in dual-processor blade servers for rack-dense server farms.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/22/2002
A new worm masquerading as a visual joke about Bill Clinton represents the latest social engineering attempt by virus writers to get users to commit an old mistake. Payload damage is potentially serious, but horrible spelling errors make it unlikely that any but the least sophisticated users will be affected, antivirus vendors say.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/22/2002