A recent survey, billed as one of the first polls of end users of managed services, found the customers were much more responsive to managed service providers they encountered at trade shows and to referrals than to cold sales calls.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/15/2006
Microsoft releases two more exams, aimed at MCITP for SQL Server DBA candidates.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/15/2006
Declaring that it has fulfilled both the letter and the spirit of the law, Microsoft Wednesday denied it is still in violation of European Community fair trade laws and attacked the EC's Commission for Competition.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/15/2006
Popular "second-shot" promotion keeps coming back; this time, it's worldwide.
Microsoft's Office Live online services for small companies officially entered beta mid-week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/15/2006
German utility firm 1-abc.net announced it is shipping a new product aimed at making sure that files you delete stay deleted.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/15/2006
Microsoft released seven security bulletins, including two bulletins that addressed critical flaws affecting Windows. The other five bulletins included patches for flaws with a maximum severity rating of "important" in Windows and Office.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/14/2006
Microsoft said Tuesday that it is making additions and changes to Windows Server "Longhorn" and to Internet Explorer 7 to add capabilities to better support security and identity protection.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/14/2006
Security specialists Websense and Network Engines team up with Microsoft to offer integrated solutions.
Microsoft came late to desktop search; it doesn’t intend to make the same mistake with mobile search. The company announced Monday that it has bought MotionBridge, a French maker of "mobile search" technology.
From the business wires this week: an application control manager for Windows servers, backup and recovery software and an authentication appliance.
Borland Software announced Wednesday that it is getting out of the integrated development environment (IDE) business and plans to sell off its legendary programming tools.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/09/2006
Microsoft’s recent moves to release portions of its Windows server source code to competitors has struck a chord with the U.S. Department of Justice and the states who participated in its landmark antitrust trial.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/09/2006
Microsoft is shipping the first beta of Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2006, as well as early select customer betas of its Microsoft Client Protection and Microsoft Antigen for Exchange products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/09/2006
Symantec says it will ship next month an update to its BindView Policy Manager, the first major update since it acquired BindView earlier this year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2006
Users of Universe Software’s pdf-Formserver package can now save .PDF forms together with user data.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2006
Microsoft to beta test four upgrade exams beginning next week for MCAD and MCSD holders who want quick route to new-gen MCP certs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/08/2006
SWsoft is shipping a minor update to its Virtuozzo server virtualization product for Windows that adds a graphical "physical-to-virtual" migration tool to help administrators automate the process of moving from a dedicated physical server to a virtual server environment.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2006
EMC's VMware unit has released a beta of its new VMware Server, a free, entry-level hosted virtualization environment for Windows and Linux servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/07/2006
In a move the company says aims to improve how it responds to users' needs, Microsoft announced a recent restructuring of its Customer Service organization that merges it with the venerable Product Support Services unit.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/07/2006