Pricing for Intel's second generation of 64-bit processors will be fairly similar to the chipmaker's pricing for the first generation.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/08/2002
Intel on Monday formally launched the Itanium 2.
The much-anticipated processor is the second-generation of Intel's
64-bit processor technology and the one that many industry
participants have predicted would mark the entrance of Windows/Intel
servers to the 64-bit space that RISC and Unix have occupied for years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/08/2002
Looking to sell high-end system buyers on its version of the 64-bit architecture, Intel has been discussing an entire 64-bit roadmap in conjunction with its Itanium 2 launch to assure customers that it is committed to the high-end market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/08/2002
The launch of "McKinley" or Itanium 2 marks a major step for the Intel Architecture into the mainstream of 64-bit computing. While the first Itanium can be considered a proof-of-concept, Itanium 2 represents Intel's first real grab for this high-end market.
Included on list: 70-098, Windows 98 and exams for Exchange 5.0/5.5.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/08/2002
Microsoft officially entered the 64-bit computing fray when it introduced its Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition last year. Microsoft’s 64-bit story has gotten dramatically better in the last 12 months.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/08/2002
Microsoft reissued the security bulletin for a chunked encoding vulnerability in its IIS Web server this week to upgrade the severity rating of the problem to "critical."
The decision to rerelease the bulletin comes after a similar vulnerability was discovered in the Apache Web Server and worms have been developed to exploit the flaws.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/03/2002
Better get used to supporting those mobile workers. They're not going anywhere, or rather, they're not going to disappear. A study released this week by market research firm IDC predicts that the percentage of mobile workers will increase to 66 percent of the workforce by 2006.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/03/2002
Windows XP has more efficient tools for backup and recovery.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 07/01/2002
BIND unbound, the benefits of obtaining an MCSD, and where Auntie gets her crow pies.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 07/01/2002
Keep track of support requests with one of these packages.
- By Rodney Landrum
- 07/01/2002
This month, Chris shows you how to use an Excel spreadsheet to read and apply IP addresses and get your network connected.
- By Chris Brooke
- 07/01/2002
A best practices guide that'll turn you into a troubleshooting efficiency expert.
Is your shoestring caught in the tractor?
We solicited readers to provide us with their technical problems, and we were inundated with letters. Here are some of the more provocative problems that we put to you—the readers—to solve.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 07/01/2002
Security is a full-time job, but keeping an eye on your perimeter network can cut down the work.
- By Bill Heldman
- 07/01/2002
Just because you don't have a "C" at the beginning of your title doesn't mean you're not influential.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/01/2002
Microsoft delivered the last major language for its Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment on Monday, posting the gold code of the Visual J# .NET language to the Web some four months after releasing the rest of the developer kit.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/01/2002
Microsoft will support eight-node failover clusters in Windows .NET Enterprise Server. Microsoft made the post-Beta 3 change to support Exchange Server and multi-site, disaster tolerance scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/01/2002
What can you do to help your people roll with the inevitable?
- By Greg Neilson
- 07/01/2002