Even as Microsoft unveiled the new, mandatory Genuine Advantage 1.0 last week, hackers were prepared to show anyone who wants to bypass the anti-counterfeit device exactly how to do so.
Bill Gates will kick off the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 with a keynote on Sept. 13, Microsoft announced over the weekend.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/02/2005
JNetDirect releases the latest version of its developer Java tool for Microsoft SQL and IBM Websphere; this week's newly certified partners.
Late last week in Seattle, Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez issued a temporary restraining order preventing Google from asking its intended head of China operations, former Microsoft employee Kai-Fu Lee, from doing anything that could be seen as competing with Microsoft.
The speech recognition technologies Microsoft is developing around Microsoft Speech Server will be integrated into a future version of Microsoft Exchange Server, the company announced Tuesday at a speech technology conference in New York.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/02/2005
New versions of products to include an Enterprise Edition of Windows Vista and a Premium version of Office. CEO Steve Ballmer also promises additional small acquisitions but no blockbuster deals.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/01/2005
Who says you have to wait for Longhorn to get those features?
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/01/2005
Microsoft is changing IE, the OS and RSS itself to change the way users interact with the Web.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/01/2005
From the business wires this week: tools for tracking Active Directory and domain controller activities and system log data; a portable wireless router; and a tool for comparing and syncing folders.
Shavlik Technologies is going public with a very high-end patch management offering for the most select of Windows customers -- those who have already shelled out a reputed $200,000 or more to Microsoft for a Custom Support Agreement for Windows NT 4.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/28/2005
Right on schedule, Microsoft released the first beta test version of the newly-renamed Windows Vista on Wednesday. Also sent Longhorn Server beta to separate group of testers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/28/2005
The percentage of the Windows XP installed base protected by the firewall, Automatic Updates, virus subscription warnings, rewritten code and other baseline security measures in Service Pack 2 keeps inching up.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/28/2005
Patch management vendor Shavlik Technologies is branching out into enterprise anti-spyware software as a first step toward a broader enterprise security product suite.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/27/2005
After staking out a firm position that processor cores should be counted and paid for as full processors under its software licensing, database and business applications giant Oracle Corp. has backed down slightly.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/27/2005
Microsoft has gone live with Windows Genuine Advantage 1.0, and has made it mandatory for all users wanting to use its popular "Update" sites.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/27/2005
EMC will begin shipping in September what it claims is the largest, fastest and most scalable high-end storage array in the world.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/26/2005
Bigger wafers and smaller line widths is what chip making has always been about, and today is no different. Intel announced this week it will build a new wafer fabrication facility – called a “fab” -- in Chandler, Arizona that will make 300mm silicon wafers covered with chips with line widths of just 45 nanometers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/26/2005
Junction Solutions joins Microsoft in delivering Axapta solutions.
If you’ve been searching for an effective way to get your foot in the door at client sites, Robert Williams thinks he may have just the ticket: regulatory compliance.
- By Paul Desmond
- 07/26/2005
From the business wires this week: performance-improving solutions for SQL Server and Windows Server environments, a tool for managing remote users and a program for customizing your Windows desktop.