Microsoft Corp. took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. Outside researchers commend the retooled approach -- yet they also say the changes won't make online life much safer than it is now.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2006
As businesses start to kick the tires on Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007, and consumers get ready to gear up for Vista in particular, Microsoft understandably is preparing for the inevitable onslaught of support calls.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/07/2006
Dell and Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that the PC maker is shipping a unified, networked storage system based on the software giant's Unified Data Storage Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/06/2006
Two-steps to sanity ... er ... a cleaner server.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/06/2006
Novell Inc. announced this week that its edition of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite will offer support for Microsoft's Office Open XML format by the time the consumer release of Office 2007 ships at the end of January.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/06/2006
Here’s a script that enumerates all shared folders on all computers in your domain.
A Romanian national was indicted on charges of hacking into more than 150 U.S. government computers, causing disruptions that cost NASA, the Energy Department and the Navy nearly $1.5 million.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/03/2006
This strong, rules-based system will keep a close watch over your network's population.
- By Rick A. Butler
- 12/01/2006
The virtualization locomotive just keeps on coming, and Microsoft has laid new tracks for its licensing.
- By Greg Shields and Steve Kaplan
- 12/01/2006
According to Virtutech, today's technology only scratches the surface of what system virtualization offers IT professionals.
- By Peter Varhol
- 12/01/2006
The Specops Gpupdate tool eases the task of remotely shutting down and restarting whole groups of machines.
Calling it the biggest launch in the company's history, Microsoft on Thursday formally launched the business versions of its long-awaited Vista operating system and Office 2007 desktop applications suite at the Nasdaq market site in New York.
While Microsoft is busy celebrating the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, a posse of partners also lined up to announce support for the new products. Unfortunately, many of those third-party announcements are long on promises and short on details, including specifics as to when those new and updated products will actually reach market.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/30/2006
For those who have been frequently frustrated in the past when new versions of Windows did not support their hardware, the times, they are a-changing.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/21/2006
Guidance Software Inc. said Thursday it's settled Federal Trade Commission charges stemming from a 2005 security failure that allowed hackers to access the credit card information of thousands of customers.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/17/2006