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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Peter Neupert, onetime director of operating systems responsible for OS/2, rejoined Microsoft last week to fill the position of corporate vice president for health strategy.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2005
Computer Lab International (CLI) is shipping two new additions to its “Next Generation” line of thin clients that support Microsoft and Citrix protocols.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/06/2005
The distribution media for Exchange 12 will be exclusively DVD, Microsoft announced in a blog posting.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2005
Technology Lighthouse is shipping PromptPal, an add-on user interface for the Microsoft command prompt that converts the popular administrators’ command line tool into a Windows program.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/06/2005
The role of the Itanium processor for Windows servers will be tightly defined in the "Longhorn" generation of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2005
From the business wires: a firewall that IDs hackers, a GUI command line console and more.