Microsoft has seen the future and it is 64-bits. That’s the message coming out of the company’s European IT Forum 2005 this week in Barcelona, Spain.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/16/2005
The changes to the Microsoft Partner Program that the company originally outlined in July got a soft launch this week in preparation for the full rollout in January.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/16/2005
Microsoft this week released its Windows Desktop Search tool for enterprise users at its annual IT Forum event in Barcelona, Spain. Not surprisingly, in the face of competition for the search space with Google, it’s a free download.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/16/2005
SEATTLE – Not satisfied with a place in the data center, Microsoft is making a play for the laboratory, too. Chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates told a standing room only audience at the Supercomputing 2005 conference held here this week that it has released the second beta test version of its upcoming high-performance computing (HPC) edition of Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/16/2005
Network Instruments this month released Observer 11, the latest version of its network traffic analysis software.
A tool Microsoft posted on its Website this week to make licensing choices more transparent for IT end users should help partners engage with customers at a higher, more productive level, a senior Microsoft executive said.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/16/2005
SWsoft this week began shipping version 3.5 of its Virtuozzo server virtualization software for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/15/2005
Intel said this week that some PC manufacturers have started delivering desktop PCs based on the first CPUs that implement its Virtualization Technology (VT). The vendors identified by Intel include Acer and Lenovo.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/15/2005
Microsoft and content management vendor Open Text announced a strategic relationship this week that they say will foster closer cooperation between the two firms’ products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/15/2005
Winternals to present on dealing with malware at InnoTech conference.
From the business wires this week: hosting solutions and other tools for SQL Server 2005.
HP this week rolled out new and updated items in its print management portfolio aimed at simplifying life for IT administrators, including a universal printer driver and an updated Web-based administration tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/10/2005
Anti-virus firms have discovered the first known trojan horse program to hide inside the Sony digital rights management (DRM) software that critics say is downloaded without consent to users' PCs.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/10/2005
Microsoft and Cisco have announced they plan to support Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE), a method for delivering Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and streaming media through Network Address Translation (NAT) filters on firewalls.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/10/2005
Every five years or so, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates has an attack of paranoia that the company has just missed the boat on the latest technology trend, and subsequently issues a memo to rally the troops in the new direction.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/09/2005
Although formally launched on Monday, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 won't be generally available until Dec. 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/09/2005
Microsoft's beta antispyware program will be called Windows Defender in its final version and will include protection against rootkits and keystroke loggers, a company official said.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/09/2005
Lucid8 is shipping DigiVault, a new continuous data protection product for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/09/2005
ScriptLogic Corp. is shipping version 7.0 of its Desktop Authority system management package, adding desktop hardware and software inventory, role-based administration and power management capabilities.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/09/2005
Borland Software has named former Microsoft executive Tod Nielsen as the company’s new president and CEO, and has also appointed him a member of the Cupertino, Calif. company’s board. Nielsen replaces previous CEO Dale Fuller who left Borland in July.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/08/2005