In a reprise of a now familiar scenario, Microsoft alerted Exchange 2000 administrators to the discovery of another vulnerability in Exchange’s Outlook Web Access (OWA) component that it says could be exploited by an attacker to perpetrate denial-of-service (DoS).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/27/2001
Microsoft will still launch Windows XP in New York City Oct. 25 despite the terrorist attacks that brought down the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/26/2001
In the wake of Code Red and Nimda, analyst firm Gartner recommends that enterprises running IIS take a hard look at switching to Apache or iPlanet.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/26/2001
SAP and Tivoli earn certification for their applications to run on Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. Baan, CA, Crystal Decisions and SAS among those in the process of getting certified, Microsoft says.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/26/2001
NEC Computers Inc. this week introduced its fault-tolerant server running Windows 2000 Advanced Server to the U.S. market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/26/2001
For the first time, Microsoft offers a Java data access driver for its SQL Server database. Microsoft still evaluating whether to provide the finished driver to SQL Server standard customers or SQL Server Enterprise Edition customers only.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/25/2001
Congressman Tom Davis behind legislation to swap public and private sector IT pros.
Intel introduced a 2 GHz Xeon processor for dual-processor workstations on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/25/2001
Are you a dot-com casualty? IT refugee? Newly minted MCSE entering the job market? If so, your employment outlook may not be quite as bleak as it was just a few months ago.
More than a year after Microsoft began releasing its first batch of Windows 2000 exams, the company has begun sharing details about the number of Win2K exams it has issued.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/25/2001
Security vendor VeriSign said Monday that it will buy carrier networking provider Illuminet for $1.2 billion.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/24/2001
The Cobalt Qube proposes to consolidate almost any conceivable network service – from DNS to DHCP to SNMP; from NAT to file sharing to firewalling; from POP to SMTP to HTTP – into a small cube-shaped box with a beguiling 25-square-inch footprint.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/24/2001
Nimda worm-related activity is tapering off, according to the computer security watchdog group CERT.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/24/2001
The firewall built into Windows XP may give some enterprises the base-level functionality required to support home office and limited remote office environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/24/2001
A Hewlett-Packard Co. benchmark published this week represents the first time in recent memory that any Unix system has outperformed a Windows system on price for comparable performance.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/20/2001
Microsoft will build Kerberos into its Passport authentication service in order to make the single sign-in technology interoperable with other services. Hailstorm, the superset of services that includes Passport, is renamed .NET My Services.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/20/2001
Aelita Software released new versions of two Windows 2000-based management tools: EventAdmin 6.0 for collection and analysis of performance data across an enterprise and Enterprise Directory Reporter 5.0 for collecting and reporting directory and configuration data.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/20/2001
Compaq gangs up 32 Windows servers to once again set the raw performance record for OLTP scalability.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/20/2001
Recent market research from IDC paints a picture of Microsoft marching inexorably to a much greater share of operating environment revenues -- both client and server -- over the next few years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/19/2001
Microsoft's OLAP product, bundled free in SQL Server, outperformed its more expensive competitors in some categories of a recent user survey done jointly by a longtime OLAP industry analyst and a business intelligence research firm.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/19/2001