“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 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 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
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
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
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.
Microsoft outsources its global training program to Certiport, based on its success with Microsoft Office Specialist.
From the business wires this week: a database development suite for Windows XP, an enterprise defragmentation solution, a Windows Server security appliance and more.
Even as a Microsoft advisory took an unnamed group of security researchers to task for releasing information about the flaw and exploit code publicly, Microsoft itself was scolded by incident handlers at the SANS Institute for providing an infrastructure with IE that allows such attacks in the first place.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/19/2005
The second coming of Microsoft's MCP exam retake promotion is coming to an end on August 31, 2005.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/18/2005
Microsoft plans to bolster the Software Assurance component of its volume licensing program next month with several additional benefits covering deployment services, enhanced support, training and exclusive software, according to a source familiar with Microsoft's plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/18/2005
According to a senior Microsoft executive, Microsoft is introducing
what he calls a "big change" to Visual Studio 2005 in the August
Community Technology Preview that is coming out shortly. Such a major change is unusual for a product this late in the development cycle.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/17/2005
Microsoft plans to release a Community Technology Preview of
Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 on Friday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/17/2005