Sales of servers continued at top acceleration in the third quarter, partly driven by customers' increasing deployments of virtualization technologies, while Linux and Windows servers further eroded Unix's high-end turf, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/29/2005
ADXStudio releases content management system for .NET Framework 2.0.
Alero Technology has announced Alero for SharePoint, a collaborative solution for mobile offices that integrates with Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2003 to provide repository, content, process and integration capabilities.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2005
Real Enterprise Solutions (RES) plans to ship this month an update to its PowerFuse unified management package for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2005
Information lifecycle management protection vendor Atempo is shipping an addition to its Time Navigator suite of tools aimed at providing security and compliance for data storage.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2005
In the midst of the acrimonious debate regarding whether Microsoft’s Office Open XML file format is really open or is instead proprietary, the company will submit its schemas to an important European international standards organization.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2005
Microsoft quietly announced this week that it has released Beta 2 of BizTalk Server 2006 for download and the product remains on schedule.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2005
Microsoft is warning customers that exploit code is in the public domain for an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer that can allow an attacker to take control of a user's computer over the Internet.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/22/2005
Intervoice releases voice/data solutions for Microsoft Speech Server.
From the business wires: a patch management system, remote management tools and software that prevents online fraud.
The catch: You must be enrolled in an IT Academy. Also, exam retakes to be revived for IT Academy students.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/17/2005
Several third-party vendors announced management packs and other products that support Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 at Microsoft’s IT Forum event this week in Barcelona, Spain.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/17/2005
Microsoft announced the long-awaited debut of the Office "12" technical beta, a limited release that will go out to 10,000 selected customers and partners globally.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/17/2005
Microsoft is shipping Dynamics GP 9.0, an update to its Great Plains accounting package and the first of its rebranded business solutions to appear under the Microsoft Dynamics logo.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/17/2005
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