The 2.0 version of Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), the free tool for scanning the security of networks at small and medium organizations and recommending improvements, is available on the Web this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/06/2005
Some Citrix users are running into problems after installing Microsoft's Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/06/2005
Microsoft has agreed to pay IBM $775 million and to extend $75 million in software deployment credits in order to settle outstanding antitrust claims regarding the Redmond software giant’s competitive practices in desktop software markets during the 1990s.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/05/2005
Gateway is shipping three new lines of 64-bit business desktops built around Intel’s BTX cooling technology, two of which can be ordered with Pentium D dual-core CPUs.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/05/2005
Benchmark published for SQL Server 2005; scalability story is mixed.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/01/2005
From the business wires this week: an authentication software that restricts access to a computer's apps, a logon script processor, and a developer's ActiveX component for .PDF files.
- By Paul Desmond
- 07/01/2005
Technologies coming this fall should make configuring, administering and securing exchange e-mail via mobile phones an order of magnitude easier.
- By Paul Desmond
- 07/01/2005
Former Novell VAR aims to put Boca Raton on Windows map -- again.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/01/2005
Microsoft to announce pricing, availability for Systems Center Data Protection Manager at Partner confab in early July.
- By Paul Desmond
- 07/01/2005
Free assessments, e-learning packages for developers to understand their abilities with new Microsoft software to be released in November.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/30/2005
Microsoft this week launched the seventh localized version of its low-cost, reduced-feature Windows XP Starter Edition designed for first-time PC buyers -- this one for Mexico.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/29/2005
Microsoft posted Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, a group of more than 50 security fixes for the five-year-old operating system that enters the extended support phase next week. Microsoft reiterated that there will be no Service Pack 5 for Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/29/2005
Intel announced this week that, with the latest Celeron D processors, its entire CPU line from servers to desktops now support its 64-bit addressing technology.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2005