- By Michael Domingo
- 09/01/2001
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/01/2001
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 09/01/2001
Dell this month became the first OEM to publish an OLTP benchmark using Intel's newest 900 MHz Pentium III Xeon in a single eight-processor server running Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. The test earns Dell, Microsoft and Intel a spot in the Transaction Processing Council's top 10 non-clustered systems for raw performance.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/30/2001
Unisys strengthened its position as the vendor with the single most scalable server for Windows and Intel products during a demonstration at the Intel Developer Forum.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/30/2001
An antivirus vendor Thursday warned of a worm that spreads itself by masquerading as a technical support e-mail from Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/30/2001
The European Commission filed a new antitrust complaint against Microsoft on Thursday at the end of a year-long investigation into Windows 2000 client-server integration. The European Commission also added concerns about the integration of the Windows Media Player into its antitrust action.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/30/2001
Toshiba will rebrand Stratus' fault-tolerant two-processor servers running Windows 2000 Advanced Server for sale in Japan. Toshiba joins NEC in making a deal to sell systems based on Stratus' technology.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/29/2001
IBM this week released a pair of rack-dense servers targeted for telecommunications customers. The 1U servers run Windows 2000 or Linux.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/29/2001
Intel goosed its processor clock speeds to a new psychological level this week with the introduction of the 2 GHz Pentium 4. The processor marks one half of what Intel and Microsoft hope will be a PC industry-reviving duo of fast Pentium 4 processors and Windows XP.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2001
Microsoft posted its latest browser upgrade, Internet Explorer 6.0, to the Web this week ahead of the company's previously disclosed plans to hold off availability of IE 6 until Windows XP became available.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2001
Microsoft's interim version of 64-bit Windows server went into general availability Tuesday. Customers will only be able to buy the OS through hardware vendors selling complete 64-bit systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2001
Contributing editor Stephen Swoyer argues against accusing IT managers of negligence for failing to install the well-publicized IIS patch before the Code Red worm hit. In fact, Swoyer says the incident is reason to renew customer calls for Microsoft to improve its hotfix and service pack quality assurance.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/27/2001
Microsoft has a new tool designed to help administrators secure and harden Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 systems running the software giant's IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0 Web servers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/27/2001
Newsletter lists numbers and titles for upcoming MCSD exams.
As expected, Microsoft Corp. Friday morning announced that its embattled Windows XP operating system is released to manufacturing.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/24/2001
A Microsoft perennial is about to be decommissioned, as Redmond consigns BackOffice to the software scrap-heap at the end of September.