Microsoft is jumping into the online book search world with a new initiative called MSN Book Search.
Clearing the way for the formal Nov. 7 launch, Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/27/2005
Microsoft on Thursday reported growth in earnings of 24 percent and a revenue increase of 6 percent in its fiscal first quarter on strong demand for PCs.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/27/2005
From the business wires this week: a change auditing solution for Active Directory, an embedded SQL database engine and a simple file sharing program.
MCTS exams 70-431, 70-431 and MCPD exam 70-441 to head to beta in November-December time frame, with live release in 1Q 2006.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/27/2005
Microsoft gave a minor status update to its “universal distributed storage” vision at this week’s Storage Networking World conference in Orlando, Fla.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/26/2005
German utility developer 1-abc.net is shipping a new tool designed to simplify management of Windows startup folder options for end users.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/26/2005
Microsoft's will ship the first version of its server-based business scorecarding application on Nov. 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/26/2005
On Tuesday, Microsoft officially released a detailed roadmap for its Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Certifications.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/25/2005
Microsoft says new-gen program's aim is to simplify the cert process and reduce costs and training time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/25/2005
Nemx is shipping version 2.0 of its secure e-mail and content protection product for corporate Exchange environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/25/2005
A venture capital firm stocked with ex-Microsofties is funding a new Windows/Linux interoperability company.
IntraLearn Software partners with WestNet Learning to provide a centralized hosted system to deliver e-learning courses via a managed portal.
VMware is beta testing a free “player” that lets users run virtual machines and evaluate software without having to first purchase the company’s full-scale virtualization platform.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/24/2005
From the business wires this week: grid computing software, NAC solutions, SATA RAID storage systems and a Windows XP Media Center.
Shipments of new PCs rose at a healthy rate during the third quarter of 2005, according to two leading analyst firms. Both Gartner and IDC put unit shipment growth at 17 percent compared to the year-ago quarter.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/20/2005
Microsoft this week posted the second release candidate of Windows Server 2003 Release 2 for download.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/20/2005
A new Microsoft Office Communicator client for Windows mobile devices entered beta testing on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/20/2005
At its customer conference in Boston this week, Siebel Systems announced the availability of a new line of custom application development tools, including one especially designed to take advantage of Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released Visual Studio 2005.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/20/2005
Microsoft posted Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 to the Web on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/19/2005