Microsoft will add support for the RAW digital photo format in Windows. It will be provided as an add-on to Windows XP and natively in the Longhorn release of Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/02/2005
Microsoft on Wednesday released to manufacturing its Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, the real-time communications client formerly known by the code-name "Istanbul."
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/02/2005
Microsoft will make XML-based file formats the default for its forthcoming "Office 12" version of Office, which is scheduled for release late in 2006. While Microsoft supported XML file formats in Office 2003, the formats weren't the defaults and XML functionality was only available in certain high-end versions of the Office suite.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/02/2005
Microsoft extends "second-shot" exam promotion three more months.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/02/2005
AMD announced this week it is shipping the first dual-core 64-bit Athlon CPU for desktops right on schedule. The company had said in late April that it would ship them in June and beat that by a day.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/01/2005
Shavlik's Eric Schultze sounds off on WSUS, hackers and more.
From the fat bank account of a sworn enemy of Microsoft emerged a company that today is one of Redmond's best pals -- Vintela.
HP will ship by mid-June three new additions to its t5000 line of thin clients, finally answering customers’ questions as to what the company will do now that Transmeta is exiting the thin client processor business, and taking aim at low-priced competitors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/01/2005
Windows servers now support up to 1TB of memory -- more than you're likely to need.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/01/2005
A recent survey of security and law enforcement executives shows that
the fight against electronic crimes (e-crimes) continues to be an
uphill battle.
Windows management software heavyweight Quest Software will buy Vintela Inc., a newer firm specializing in integrating Unix and Linux systems into Active Directory, for
$56.5 million in cash, the companies announced this week. Quest expects the deal to close late in the second quarter or early in the third quarter, assuming regulators approve.
- By Scott Bekker and Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/01/2005
Factory revenues for Unix servers and Windows servers were equal for the first time ever in the first quarter of 2005, according to market researchers at IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/31/2005
AMD released the complete specification of its “Pacifica” chip-level virtualization technology for its 64-bit processors this week, joining Intel in the rush to build chip support for running multiple operating systems simultaneously.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/27/2005
From the business wires this week: a bevy of anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-spam solutions to keep your computer clean and you sane.
IBM is shipping two new toolkits that combine technologies from two of its middleware businesses – Rational and Tivoli – to help developers and operators diagnose problems in production code while it’s running.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/26/2005
FullArmor is shipping the latest release of its IntelliPolicy user policy-enforcement client for Windows desktops.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/25/2005
Windows surged again in 2004 as a platform for new relational database management system licenses, but Linux is growing at an extremely rapid pace as Unix loses popularity, according to new research from Gartner Inc.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/25/2005
Microsoft updated its server software platform for speech-enabled applications this week with an R2 version of Microsoft Speech Server 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/25/2005
Popular exam savings and retake offer extended through Microsoft Certfied Partners and Microsoft Business Solutions programs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/25/2005
Windows OneCare service provides one-stop solution against malware and mucked-up computers.