As the dual-core duel heats up, IBM announced Thursday that it is about to ship a workstation based on AMD’s dual-core chips.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/21/2005
Borland is shipping a major release of its modeling suite for Visual Studio. Among key new features, Together 2005 for Visual Studio.Net adds support for Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0 and introduces a role-based work model.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/21/2005
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- By Michael Domingo
- 04/21/2005
Microsoft on Wednesday released a beta version of the first service pack for Virtual Server 2005. The service pack delivers support for Windows Server 2003 x64 editions and performance improvements.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/20/2005
Softricity will ship this quarter its ZeroTouch software aimed at enabling end users to self-provision applications over the network – and in a protected “virtualized” environment.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/20/2005
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 causes problems with 14 high-profile server applications, including Exchange Server 2003, according to a Knowledge Base article published by the software vendor this month. Most of the problems, including the Exchange issue, are minor or obscure.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/20/2005
Dell this week began offering Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Workgroup Edition on its PowerEdge servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/20/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday announced two new systems management products it will ship later this year under the System Center family name.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/19/2005
Microsoft this week posted new test versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. Visual Studio and .NET came out in Beta 2 versions. Tightly coupled with those public betas is a feature-complete SQL Server Community Technology Preview (CTP).
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/19/2005
From the business wires this week: a recovery solution to roll back systems to pre-SP2, e-mail server software and more.
Microsoft posts demo of performance-based questions on Web site.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/14/2005
Brazil is the sixth country in line for a Windows XP Starter Edition, Microsoft's nationality-specific versions of stripped-down Windows offered at lower cost to appeal to first-time PC buyers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/14/2005
IBM is shipping versions of its xSeries and BladeCenter servers bundled with Microsoft’s Windows Storage Server 2003 in a move aimed at the market for less-expensive, Windows-based network-attached storage (NAS) file servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/14/2005
Next week at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, Microsoft will reposition System Center as a naming umbrella to cover its family of management products rather than the specific management suite that would have included Microsoft Operations Manager and Systems Management Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/14/2005
Security researchers this week reported a flaw in the memory handling of the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that powers the Microsoft Office Access database.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/14/2005
Microsoft on Wednesday released a public beta of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, a new disk-based backup and recovery server for Windows file servers that was previously called Data Protection Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/13/2005
Virtualization software publisher VMware is shipping version 5 of its Workstation product, which adds new simulation and testing features as well as support for several 64-bit operating systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/13/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday released a special Enterprise Update Scan Tool to help organizations find computers vulnerable to an MSN Messenger flaw that the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) would miss.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/12/2005
Microsoft and Gateway settled differences resulting from the U.S. v. Microsoft antitrust case with the announcement of a $150 payment from Microsoft that Gateway will use in part to develop and sell systems running Windows and Office.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/12/2005
Microsoft completed the $120 million acquisition of Groove Networks last week, after quickly overcoming a shareholder challenge from a dissatisfied former Groove executive.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/12/2005