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Microsoft Releases Beta 2 of Visual J# .NET

Microsoft launched the Beta 2 release of its Visual J# .NET tool this week, continuing its battle for developers with Sun Microsystems.

Active Directory Still Blocking Move to Windows 2000

Dragging your feet on a Windows 2000 server deployment? You’re not alone, according to a new study from market researchers at IDC.

Winternals Updates Administrator's Pack

Winternals Software released an updated version of its Administrator's Pak on Wednesday that includes new utilities and adds Windows XP support.

Two Visual Studio .NET Exams Head into Beta Testing

Microsoft close to releasing two core options for MCAD.NET and MCSD.NET tracks in May this year.

NEC Pushes Stratus FT Technology into Biometrics

Cue the Mission Impossible theme music. NEC Computers thinks it's identified a niche for its fault-tolerant Windows servers in government agencies looking for biometric security solutions.

HP-Compaq: What Happens Now?

As a result of the HP-Compaq merger, assuming good execution, enterprise customers can expect HP to beef up its services offerings, as well as its Windows-based server and workstation lines. There will be an added thrust in developing and marketing Itanium-based processors.

Precise Launches Heterogeneous SRM Tool

Precise Software Solutions is using its prominent position in Windows server storage to attempt a step up into the software sector that provides higher level views of a company's storage capacity.

Preliminary Estimate: Shareholders Approve HP-Compaq Merger

Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina announced that a preliminary examination of shareholder votes shows that HP shareholders approved the company's merger with Compaq Computer Corp.

Hyper-Threading Scalability Remains to be Proven

As is common with launches of new processor lines, the new Intel Xeon MPs do not deliver on their performance promises yet, even in benchmark situations.

TechEd Keynote Switched from Windows .NET Server to .NET

Microsoft changed the keynote topic for its 10th annual TechEd show in New Orleans in April from Windows .NET Server to just .NET.

SQL Server Betas Ramp Up

Redmond opened the nomination process late last month for users and organizations interested in beta testing the forthcoming 64-bit version of SQL Server, codenamed Liberty, and for a fourth service pack for SQL Server 7.0.

Analyst: Microsoft Shares OLAP Market Lead in 2001

In just two years since exploding onto the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) market with SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services, Microsoft already shares the No. 1 position in market share with Hyperion Solutions, according to an analyst report. The same report projects that Microsoft will easily overtake Hyperion for sole ownership of the No. 1 spot in 2002.

IBM Launches Expandable 8-Way Server

IBM took a major step toward broadening the choices for customers interested in greater-than-eight-processor Windows servers. IBM rolled out the eight-processor version in its Enterprise X-Architecture line. The next piece, set to come in July, will be a 16-way system.

Whistler Server Embedded Replaced With Server Appliance Kit

Microsoft shifted its focus in developing an embedded version of the Windows .NET Server operating system.

Technical Discussion of the Xeon MP Throttling

A Microsoft technical white paper, however, explains that Windows 2000 Server in many cases cannot properly exploit the Hyper-Threading technology in the Xeon MP.

Windows 2000 Artificially Throttles Intel’s New Xeon MPs

The way the operating system interacts with the BIOS means Windows counts the virtual processor created by Intel's new Hyper-Threading technology against the processor licensing limit. The glitch raises problems for users with more than half the physical processors their version of Windows 2000 is supposed to support.

Sun Sues Microsoft Over Java Again

Sun filed a private lawsuit against Microsoft seeking damages and penalties for what the company claims Microsoft did to its Java-based business by abusing monopoly power.

Intel Releases Next-Generation Xeon MP

Intel formally launched the 32-bit processor that will provide the foundation for multiprocessing on Windows servers for the next several years.

Unisys Rolls Out Second High-end Server

Unisys refreshed its high-end "Wintel mainframe" with a new model for the first time since launching the 32-processor server in 1999.

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