Microsoft posted a second beta of its "Monad" shell, the interactive command-line and task-based scripting technology that appears to be on a separate timetable from the Windows Vista release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/14/2005
Microsoft's on-again, off-again Windows Sidebar feature, a prominent new interface element that could make it into the Windows Vista desktop, is definitely on again.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/14/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday posted version 2 of the Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 less than three months after originally releasing the security-focused update. The new version addresses four serious problems with the original Update Rollup but does not fix several issues with prominent third-party software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/14/2005
Microsoft is distributing a Community Technology Preview of Windows Vista to attendees at its Professional Developers Conference 2005 in Los Angeles this week. The September Vista CTP, loaded with new features, comes fast on the heels of Windows Vista Beta 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2005
Sun Microsystems introduced three new AMD Opteron x64-based servers this week – servers it says begin a new generation of 64-bit x86, multi-core systems. To round out the offering, the company announced four new storage products as well.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/13/2005
Microsoft showed off Office 12 publicly for the first time on Tuesday, featuring user interface changes that the company describes as the "biggest, most visible change to the way the core Office applications work since the introduction of the toolbar in 1997."
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2005
Due to quality concerns, Microsoft cancelled the release of a critical security bulletin for Windows that was supposed to be posted on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2005
Whenever Microsoft talked about WinFS in the past, the emphasis was on the technology's usefulness for search and file navigation.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2005
When it comes to storage, Microsoft has several important enhancements in its product lineup. One is the Windows Server 2003 R2 release, which will bring a number of new storage features to the server OS. The other is a brand new product for backup and restore that launches at the end of this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2005
After acknowledging the need for a server-side piece of WinFS a year ago, Microsoft is quiet about it for now.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2005
Microsoft's WinFS, or Windows Future Storage, is the descendent of several abandoned projects dating back to Cairo to overhaul the way Windows handles storage. With the delivery of a beta release of WinFS last month, Microsoft brought chairman Bill Gates' long-standing dream of unified storage one large step closer to reality.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2005
Secure e-mail vendor CipherTrust released one new model and one significantly upgraded model in its line of reputation-based secure e-mail appliances.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/08/2005
At a time when security threats are multiplying for corporate instant messaging users, IMlogic says it has a solution. The Waltham, Mass. company just shipped its Real-Time Threat Protection System – and if that just doesn’t roll right off the tongue, call it RTTPS for short.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/08/2005
From the business wires this week: a business security suite for Windows Server, a VSAM-to-SQL Server conversion tool and a small-business dual-core server.
Readers report a significant increase in salary over last year's survey results.
IBM Lotus officials announced on Wednesday that the company is shipping version 7 of its Notes and Domino collaboration platform.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/08/2005
Microsoft today added to its small-business arsenal by announcing
the general availability and promotional pricing for Microsoft Office
Small Business Accounting 2006 and Office Small Business Management
Edition 2006.
- By Paul Desmond
- 09/07/2005
The realignment of the Microsoft Business Solutions product set previously referred to as "Project Green" got its official name Wednesday -- Microsoft Dynamics.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/07/2005
Microsoft on Wednesday laid out a roadmap extending the recent Windows Server System Midsize Business promotion to 2007 and beyond with a Windows "Longhorn" Server version of the package code-named "Centro." "This is really the equivalent of Small Business Server for the midmarket," said a Windows Server senior director.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/07/2005