As hearings begin on Microsoft's antitrust class action settlement, an industry trade association urges the judge to reject the agreement involving an education giveaway as meaningless to Microsoft and compoundly anticompetitive.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/27/2001
A month before the year is over, corporate anti-virus vendor Sophos declares Nimda the most problematic virus of 2001.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/27/2001
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Compaq, HP and Avanade all develop knowledge worker-focused intranet offerings based on Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint and Office XP.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/27/2001
The market for large SMP servers based on Intel processors will gain a second competitor in early December when IBM Corp. begins shipping its "Summit" systems in limited quantities.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/27/2001
Once an MCSE on Windows NT 4.0, always an MCSE on Windows NT 4.0.
As reported in last month’s issue, Microsoft has announced a new certification that fits snugly between the MCP and MCSE credentials.
A critical vulnerability in Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows Media Player could allow attackers to run the code of their choice on users' machines. A patch is available.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/21/2001
Gartner Inc. recommends that organizations start looking at alternatives to IIS; not everyone agrees with that assessment, however.
The first Microsoft network operating system to gain wide acceptance in the IT industry, Windows NT 4.0, has been officially sent riding off into the sunset.
Microsoft formally released the Beta 3 version of Windows .NET Server on Friday, a few days after unveiling the next-generation operating system's feature set.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/20/2001
Analyst firm Cahners In-Stat/MDR predicts Intel will need a few more years to catch up to the capabilities of enterprise server processors produced by IBM and Sun. The market research house also predicts that Intel will keep some of its non-Xeon 32-bit server processors alive for awhile.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/20/2001
Microsoft settlement agreement would give up to $1 billion to the nation's poorest school districts. Red Hat weighs in to offer its Linux OS to allow Microsoft's money to extend to more hardware purchases.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/20/2001
The dual-processor PowerEdge 1500c, intended for e-mail, Web serving and file sharing, ships with Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/20/2001
Microsoft updated its IIS lockdown tool this month by adding templates, support for unattended installations and the ability to remove services.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/19/2001
Fujitsu is wading into the U.S. application server market with the 4.0 release of an appserver its been selling in Japan for several years. The J2EE application server is generally available now for Windows in the United States. Fujitsu will bring over a Sun Solaris version later this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/15/2001
Despite the anti-IIS hype and the recent worm exploits, many customers tell ENT they aren't considering replacing IIS. Analysts say a widespread move away from IIS is unlikely.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/15/2001
As Microsoft systems are repeatedly impacted by malicious worms, the importance of keeping up to date on hotfixes and service packs has been hammered home for IT. Fortunately, several tools are available to help with the job, and the toolsets are maturing.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/15/2001
IBM used Comdex to share its plans with customers for the greater-than-eight-processor Intel architecture servers it will release next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/15/2001
Symantec updated its Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) and Intruder Alert (ITA) security assessment tools. Symantec acquired both products when it purchased Axent Technologies Inc. in July 2000.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/15/2001
Microsoft has extended the Dec. 31, 2001 deadline for MCTs to achieve a premium certification to May 1, 2002, based on requests from MCTs and
Microsoft CTECs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/14/2001