From the business wires this week: a .NET framework that supports ASP.NET; products and services that reduce your spam intake; and an online service that can help you recover Microsoft Access files.
Microsoft has a $12 upgrade program to encourage customers running 32-bit Windows XP Professional on machines with x64 processors to make the jump to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The software giant warns, however, that customers need to proceed carefully with respect to their hardware.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2005
Microsoft will put some of the fruits of its $5-billion-per-year R&D operation on the auction block, offering to license the technologies to entrepreneurs for a fee and a cut of the profits.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2005
May will be a light month for security bulletins from Microsoft. The software giant plans to release only one bulletin during its monthly Patch Tuesday next week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2005
Mixed signals in the United States and slower growth in Western Europe and Japan to slow IT spending growth through 2005, analyst firm says.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2005
Stumped about how to prepare for 64-bit Windows now and in Longhorn? A Gartner analyst recently laid out a roadmap for organizations to follow in evaluating x64 versions of Microsoft Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/04/2005
IBM announced late Wednesday a restructuring that will result in layoffs of as many as 13,000 workers, primarily in Europe, and a pre-tax charge of up to $1.7 billion.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/04/2005
IBM has released three new XML development tools for its Emerging Technologies Toolkit, a collection of free tools aimed at familiarizing developers with areas that the company sees as strategic to its vision of computing going forward.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/03/2005
Microsoft released eight security bulletins in April. According to our analysis,
one is critical, one important and another noteworthy. The rest can be applied
with the next service pack or major version upgrade.
The security organization says the rate at which threats are emerging requires more regular updates to its closely watched list. New to the SANS Institute list are seven Microsoft vulnerabilities and problems with products from Computer Associates, Oracle, antivirus companies and media player companies.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/03/2005
Cisco Systems on Tuesday launched a key component of its Self Defending Network initiative when it delivered the first of its Adaptive Server Appliance 5500 Series family of multi-function network security appliances.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/03/2005
Beefed-up four-ways and "Truland" take center stage.
- By Scott Bekker and Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/01/2005
A look at Microsoft's current collaboration technologies and how Groove Networks' Vritual Office fits in.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/01/2005
Latest attempt to bring data mining to the masses with SQL Server 2005 hinges on new features, ease-of-use and low cost.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/01/2005
From the business wires this week: hosted solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and SharePoint, a one-touch backup and recovery external hard drive, and a 2.5TB NDAS storage unit.
ScriptLogic is shipping version 6.5 of its Desktop Authority PC administration package. The upgrade makes improvements in file and registry security operations, Windows firewall control and inactivity timers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/27/2005
Sun Microsystems plans to ship versions of its Sun Fire V40z server in May that will be available with up to four of AMD’s new dual-core, 64-bit Opteron processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/27/2005
The Computing Technology Industry Association has an inventory of discount vouchers for A+ exams that are on the verge of expiring.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/27/2005
SEATTLE -- Microsoft held a session at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference Wednesday on "Internet Explorer today and tomorrow," although the working title could have as easily been "Internet Explorer eight months ago."
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/27/2005
SEATTLE -- Attendees to Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week were treated to a kit of DVDs, including one eagerly awaited item -- another pre-beta version of the Windows Longhorn operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/26/2005