After evaluating a publicly reported phishing method that affects Internet Explorer among other browsers, Microsoft published a security advisory this week to let users know that it will not issue a security update to close off the attack vector.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/22/2005
Windows 2000, Microsoft's five year-old operating system for servers and business desktops, will switch into the "extended support" phase of the product lifecycle after June 30.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/22/2005
Microsoft is taking the Web-enablement concept that produced Outlook Web Access and extending it to its new real-time communication client, Microsoft Office Communicator.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday posted a blocker tool to help organizations prevent Automatic Updates from automatically downloading and installing Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 on their systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2005
Microsoft completed the acquisition of Sybari Software on Tuesday and announced product plans, which include discontinuing new sales of the secure messaging company's products for Linux and Unix platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2005
Microsoft named its top European executive, Jean-Philippe Courtois, to a newly created position of Microsoft International president, in which he will lead international sales, marketing and services.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2005
From the business wires this week: a centralized console for deploying security patches, solutions that notify users of vulnerabilities in need of patching, and automated inventory software.
Microsoft to delay simulations for 70-293, 70-294 to work on smoother rollout for international language versions.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/16/2005
As part of its monthly patch release this week, Microsoft re-released three older security bulletins to fix various problems with them.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/15/2005
Microsoft will deliver its Windows Server 2003, Compute Cluster Edition, for high-performance grid computing in two pieces to offer customers maximum flexibility in deployment, a senior Microsoft product manager says.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/15/2005
Tampa Bay, Fla.-based Sunbelt Software released version 1.5 of its CounterSpy Enterprise anti-spyware detection and removal tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/15/2005
San Diego-based St. Bernard Software announced it is shipping of SpyExpert, a standalone anti-spyware software solution for small-to-medium-sized businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/15/2005
Titus Labs began shipping MessageRights version 2.5, which adds features that make it easier to deploy and use Microsoft’s Windows Rights Management Services.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/15/2005
Quest Software is shipping the latest release of a tool designed to simplify migration from Novell NDS to Microsoft Active Directory.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/15/2005
New Boundary Technologies says it will ship next month a suite that bundles its existing software deployment and patch management products with a new tool for asset management.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/14/2005
Microsoft's monthly bundle of patches for June is one of the biggest since the company switched to a monthly patching cycle, and it brings fixes for 12 vulnerabilities, including three critical issues.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/14/2005
During a presentation at Microsoft TechEd 2005 this month, the Microsoft Security Response Center summarized all of the most important Microsoft security resources available to IT and consumers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/13/2005
From the business wires this week: a mail merge solution for Microsoft Outlook, a plug-in that can speed up file transfers, and network monitoring solutions.
Microsoft this week followed IBM and Oracle in publicly committing to delivering infrastructure software to support radio frequency identification (RFID) scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/09/2005
How would you like to pay for a four-processor server that really has eight chips inside? How about if you won't have to pay for those extra chips unless and until you use them? Talk to Unisys.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/09/2005