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
Microsoft execs aren't exactly shouting, "Head 'em up, move 'em out," as Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Yates character did in the '60s TV series, "Rawhide," but their long drive to bring Windows Server "Longhorn" to market continues.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/16/2006
Microsoft made several milestone announcements regarding its database products Wednesday at its SQL PASS conference in Seattle.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/15/2006
A problem-by-problem breakdown of why one company's three-year Unix to Windows migration went so horribly, horribly wrong.
- By Emmett Dulaney
- 11/15/2006
Microsoft launched the beta test of its new Forefront Client Security product that aims to help protect business desktops, laptops and server operating systems from viruses, spyware and other threats at its IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain on Tuesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/14/2006
Eighty-six percent of IT decision makers say they plan to adopt Windows Vista, and 20 percent say they will move to the new operating system within the next year, according to a new tracking poll sponsored by CDW Corp.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/14/2006
Microsoft announced it released Windows Vista to manufacturing on Wednesday, putting it on schedule to ship to volume customers by November 30, and confirmed that Vista will go to consumers on January 30, 2007.
- By Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
- 11/08/2006
The virtualization marketplace heated up this week with announcements from both Microsoft and chief competitor VMware. Both announcements came at VMware's VMworld conference in Los Angeles.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/07/2006
Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has wrapped up work on its delayed Office 2007 suite and released the code to manufacturing.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006