Microsoft added a security specialty Thursday to the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Program it set up earlier this year. Microsoft also positions the program as fitting into its recent initiatives to bolster security in Microsoft environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/20/2001
An analyst at Gartner this week says the ECMA approval as standards of Microsoft's C# programming language and the Common Language Infrastructure that C# runs on will have little effect on Java.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/20/2001
Microsoft principals also reveal possible release date for 70-218, Managing a Windows 2000 Network Exam, during MCSA chat on Wednesday.
- By Kristen McCarthy
- 12/19/2001
Two more vendors endured Veritest's battery of tests to earn the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server application certification in recent weeks.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2001
A destructive worm that began circulating in Europe and the United States early Wednesday hides behind a holiday cheer message, then distributes itself to an Outlook contacts list and delivers a destructive payload.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2001
An industry tracking group reports that retail sales of Windows XP in its first two months of availability lag behind sales of Windows 98 in that product's first two months of availability, according to The Wall Street Journal. Microsoft counters that Windows XP's heavy system requirements mean that most Windows XP sales are coming with new systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2001
Heroix updated its flagship Windows 2000 and Windows NT monitoring product this week with support for WebLogic, DB2, Sybase and NetWare.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/18/2001
A vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer earned a "critical" label on Microsoft's new security rating system. A cumulative patch fixes three new issues and all previous issues affecting IE versions 5.5 and 6.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/18/2001
Microsoft expanded its Server Appliance Kit with an enhancement specifically aimed at the needs of IT managers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/18/2001
Microsoft took the wraps off of Service Pack 1 for Office XP, a new update for its flagship office productivity suite.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/17/2001
The origination of a rumor regarding the potential deadline extension of the 70-240 Accelerated exam is unknown, but Microsoft continues to state emphatically that it won't do so.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/13/2001
Several U.S. Senators criticized the proposed settlement between Microsoft and the federal government that would end the Department of Justice antitrust action against Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/13/2001
In an attempt to move the standard high-volume price model into a new sector, Intel this week rolled out building blocks for creating carrier-grade servers running Windows or Linux.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/13/2001
Microsoft plans to release the final version 2.0 of its Active Directory Migration Tool before it ships the next full version of Windows .NET Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/12/2001
Acknowledging a shortcoming in documentation, Microsoft is working to make more best practices documents available to help customers move their Windows networks to the Active Directory.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/12/2001
Microsoft redesigns MCP logos for brand consistency among other certification programs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/12/2001
Microsoft signalled an important shift in its attitude toward single-forest versus multi-forest Active Directory deployments this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/12/2001
Microsoft has said that it plans to officially support Windows NT 4.0 through July 1, 2003 –- at which point the operating system will no longer be available from VARs or channel resellers. But the software giant recently stepped up its efforts to distance itself from its aging operating system platform.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/10/2001
Microsoft moved to patch a new vulnerability in Exchange 5.5’s Outlook Web Access (OWA) component that could enable an attacker to gain access to – and take action against – a user’s e-mail.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/07/2001
Seagate this week unveiled a new line of SCSI disk drives designed for
inexpensive workstations and servers and expected to be distributed
primarily through channel resellers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/06/2001