Microsoft Wednesday officially unveiled a new version of its Office productivity suite that it says is designed to run on Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh OS X operating system.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/19/2001
Security experts Tuesday confirmed the existence of a new attack worm that affects all Win32-based platforms and which has the potential to spread rapidly from one vulnerable system to the next.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/18/2001
Analysts at Gartner this week urged enterprise customers to carefully review their Microsoft licenses -- enterprises may be able to save a lot of money by renewing contracts before Microsoft's new licensing structure goes into effect Oct. 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/18/2001
EMC and HP upgrade their biggest disk arrays with 181-GB drives to greatly increase the capacity of the big cabinets. Meanwhile, network-attached storage vendors roll out NAS devices with capacities challenging the previous generation of data-center cabinets.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/17/2001
Compared to the death and suffering caused by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the associated loss of business data pales in importance. But there can be little doubt the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington raised the profile of the need for disaster recovery plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/17/2001
Although Fall Networld+Interop (N+I) 2001 ground to an effective halt on account of the terrorist attacks last week, several major vendors nonetheless managed to announce new products at the networking-oriented tradeshow.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/17/2001
Gartner research on disaster recovery, made free as a public service in the wake of terrorist attacks, lays out disaster recovery options for Windows environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/17/2001
Several software and hardware vendors in recent weeks unveiled storage solutions targeted at helping administrators with certain tasks in Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server and general Windows server environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/17/2001
ENTmag.com reports that Microsoft Corp. and the user group for SQL Server postponed their annual SQL Server conference scheduled for next week due to the terrorist attacks of Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/14/2001
A volunteer at the NYC-branch of the Red Cross told MCPMag.com/CertCities today that the office has been "flooded" with offers of both computer equipment and technical assistance.
Microsoft and the user group for SQL Server on Thursday postponed their annual SQL Server conference scheduled for next week due to the terrorist attacks of Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2001
Users who buy Microsoft's newly unveiled Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition operating system will be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows .NET Datacenter Server, which will ship at the same time as the rest of the Windows .NET Server products, a Microsoft official says.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2001
Microsoft directed users of its Web server software to a year-old patch for protection against the recently discovered Code Blue vulnerability -- a worm with a limited presence in the wild.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2001
Microsoft this week gave Web server administrators a tool that lets them act as a border guard -- stopping suspicious requests before they damage IIS boxes.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2001
Microsoft this week announced a special, scale-up version of Windows Datacenter Server. Officially called Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition, the 32-bit operating system built on the Whistler code base is specifically tuned for systems with more than 16 processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2001
Unisys this week published a TPC-C benchmark, the industry standard measure of OLTP scalability, for a 32-processor system running Windows Datacenter Server. The result puts a Microsoft-Intel system in the performance neighborhood of Unix/RISC systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2001
ENT columnist and DEC veteran Greg Scott considers the momentous summer that saw Compaq dump Alpha, HP offer to buy Compaq, and Microsoft's apparent dodge of a break-up.
The IT security watchdog group at the CERT Coordination Center reported Wednesday that all appeared quiet on the cyberfront in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2001
Microsoft this week patched a hole in Windows NT 4.0’s RPC service that leaves NT systems vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/12/2001
Security, Exchange, security and Windows 2000
migration fill the last two days of the conference
schedule for MCPmag.com reader Rick Johnson.
- By Rick Johnson
- 09/08/2001