The Department of Justice won't appeal the U.S. Court of Appeals decision in the Microsoft antitrust case. Instead prosecutors want the case fast tracked in the District Court. Meanwhile, New Mexico settles with Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/17/2001
Over the weekend, Web sites running Microsoft Corp.’s IIS Web server platform became the targets of widespread Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/17/2001
In order to improve its network security, Microsoft turned to Lumeta Corp., a security startup headed by Bill Cheswick, former Bell Labs security researcher. Lumeta had created a process for comprehensive mapping of an intranet.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/16/2001
Redmond examining exam matrices for new tracks, which candidates may attain as early as first quarter 2002.
Windows XP/.NET Server exams outlined at Microsoft Fusion.
Microsoft's Certification and Skills Assessment group plans to announce new tracks for systems administrators and developers.
Unisys Corp. used its ES7000 platform to notch yet another benchmark record today, registering the world’s best results in the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s (TPC) TPC-W benchmark.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/12/2001
Microsoft Corp. today changed its Windows XP licensing agreements to give OEM manufacturers the freedom to remove some icons and other shortcuts from Windows XP’s desktop and “Start” menu.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/12/2001
The Magistr-A virus is still hitting the enterprise hard. Sophos recently released its top 10 virus list for June, based on customer reports to its antivirus center.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/11/2001
EMC entered a global alliance this week with Avanade, the joint venture consulting organization between Microsoft and Accenture.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/11/2001
A Gartner survey finds 42 percent of users check business e-mail on vacation.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/11/2001
Anyone who has been responsible for purchasing enterprise software doesn't need to be told that salespeople understate the costs for installing and customizing that software. Analyst firm Meta Group has come up with a rule-of-thumb multiplier for those claims.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/11/2001
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) yesterday released a public working draft of version 1.2 of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Although it features several new enhancements to the SOAP 1.1 draft that preceded it, SOAP 1.2 is for the most part a maintenance release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/10/2001
In the wake of the U.S. Appeals Court decision in the Microsoft antitrust case, users should expect business as usual from Redmond, according to a recent analysis from Meta Group.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/09/2001
Cautious about the hype but hopeful for the model, ENT readers indicate a growing support for XML-based Web services.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/09/2001
Industry observers disagree about whether the Web services model needs to succeed for .NET to have an impact.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/09/2001
Microsoft Corp. plans to market a pre-release version of its forthcoming Windows .NET Advanced Server - dubbed, appropriately enough, Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition - as part of an overall effort to ratchet-up Advanced Server adoption rates among its customers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/09/2001
Microsoft's roadmap for .NET calls for much .NET integration to be done by early 2002. Redmond, and others, expect the technology to really take off in terms of widespread adoption around 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/09/2001
DEC veteran Greg Scott draws parallels from the OpenVMS-Unix days to the current Windows-Linux wars.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/09/2001
Problem allows user-level access, giving spammers a chance to use other organizations' systems for bulk mailings. Microsoft issued a patch.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/06/2001