The battle with Linux gives both companies a vested interest, aside from benefits to customers, in better interoperability. Meanwhile, Sun's recent acquisition of Citrix competitor Tarantella goes a long way toward boosting Sun-Microsoft interoperability efforts.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/19/2005
As details trickle out on Microsoft's "Eiger" operating system for less powerful PCs, analysts at Gartner are offering usage recommendations for the enterprise.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/19/2005
NetIQ will ship this month a bundle of existing management tools that aims to help small and medium-sized businesses meet regulatory compliance requirements for recent laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA acts.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/18/2005
Internet Explorer 7.0 will include the tabbed browsing feature already present in several rival browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Netscape, Microsoft developers confirmed this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/17/2005
The Windows Server Roadmap, a handy document on Microsoft's Web site with rough delivery date guidance, got an update this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/17/2005
A social engineering attack resulted in secure e-mail service provider
Hushmail having its Website redirected to a defaced site. According
to reports, Network Solutions, the Domain Name Service provider
behemoth, gave out information through a customer support line
sufficient to allow an attacker to alter DNS record information for
Hushmail.com.
It's not easy to turn years of animosity between two massive corporations into a working technical collaboration.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/16/2005
As it launched a consumer search toolbar with desktop search capabilities on Monday, Microsoft revealed that it is working on a corporate version of desktop search.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/16/2005
A U.S.-based carrier is onboard with Microsoft's MapPoint Location Server, providing a major boost to Microsoft's fledgling server software for real-time tracking and management of vehicle fleets and highly mobile employees.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/16/2005
From the business wires this week: data recovery software for Windows File Systems, a .NET tool for creating application skins, and a near-indestructible tablet PC.
Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.
PGP Corp. is shipping updates to both its desktop and server encryption products aimed at centralizing policy management and expanding enterprise management features.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/12/2005
A free download available from Microsoft on Thursday brings support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) to Windows XP Service Pack 2.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/12/2005
In an effort to reduce the pain users face in combing through Licensing 6.0 documentation, Microsoft this week previewed a change coming in July to its massive Product Use Rights document.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/12/2005
RSA Security announced Wednesday that it will ship in June a tool to help IT organizations that are already using the company’s event-logging software to comply with new rules required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA and other regulations.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/12/2005
Dell Inc. chairman and founder Michael Dell is investing $100 million in Red Hat, the Linux distributor that often stands in as a symbol for the open-source movement's challenge to Microsoft's OS dominance.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/11/2005
Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.
Microsoft unveiled "Maestro" this week and released a private beta of the server-based business performance management scorecard application.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/11/2005
IBM is readying two upcoming releases of its IBM Director systems management tool for Intel platforms, as well as a toolkit to enable third-parties to integrate their own tools with Director.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/11/2005
A year after publicly declaring an end to their longstanding feud, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft plan a news conference on Friday to discuss progress in their relationship.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/11/2005