Microsoft completed the acquisition of managed e-mail services provider FrontBridge Technologies and is beginning the process of integrating FrontBridge into the Exchange Server Group, the company said Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/31/2005
Adomo Inc. releases a voice-messaging platform for Exchange and Active Directory.
A year after pulling the "WinFS" storage subsystem from the Windows "Longhorn" (now Vista) client OS, Microsoft posted a surprise beta of the technology for developers on MSDN on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/30/2005
IBM says it will ship next month a new four-processor Xeon server based on the company’s new X3 computing architecture as well as a new workstation built around Intel’s dual-core Pentium D.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/30/2005
From the business wires this week: management systems for Group Policy-based patching and user access control, a backup and recovery program for Novell NetWare servers, and more.
Almost everything about the Zobot worm has played out like a regular computer security crisis on fast forward. From the emergence of a series of worms within days of a Microsoft patch to Microsoft's release of workarounds and a removal tool to, now, the arrest of suspects.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/26/2005
“User-aware” computing is coming. That was part of the message at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The twice-yearly event is a springboard for the chip giant to launch new ideas and strategies – both near and long-term.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/25/2005
The age of the traditional private branch exchange (PBX) is ending, according to analysts at In-Stat.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/25/2005
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled tools to make it easier to include Instant Message-style presence information from Live Communications Server 2005 in business processes and line-of-business applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/25/2005
Microsoft posted the Community Technology Preview of Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 last week, bringing the final version of SP2, a bundle of bug fixes and substantial new functionality for the messaging server, one step closer to its expected delivery later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/25/2005
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 SP1 becomes Virtual Server 2005 R2. A post-R2 version of Virtual Server is added to the roadmap for 2006 delivery. The company reconfirms its commitment to eventually pulling virtualization technology into Longhorn Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/25/2005
Microsoft posted a security advisory to warn customers using "Simple File and Print Sharing" on systems running Windows XP Service Pack 1 that they are at increased risk for the flaw patched two weeks ago in bulletin MS05-039.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/24/2005
As expected, Intel told attendees at this week’s Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco that the next generation of its processors will follow a low-power path to reduce heat leakage while still providing higher performance than ever.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/24/2005
- By Paul Desmond
- 08/24/2005
Microsoft Software Update Services got a six-month support extension to Dec. 6, 2006, the company said Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/24/2005
Winternals Software is shipping version 4 of its Defrag Manager utility for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/23/2005
AssetMetrix has added software license management to the list of services it provides through its subscription-based asset management service for IT.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/23/2005
Epicor Software says it will ship in the fourth quarter a major update to its enterprise portal solution that uses Microsoft’s SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Portal Server as its underlying infrastructure.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/23/2005
Aderant announces the upcoming release of its .NET-based Back Office financial management solution.
This year’s winners in Microsoft Excel and Word Specialist exams hail from Switzerland and England.