Meeting past promises, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will ship in September.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 07/11/2007
Feb. 27, 2008 promises to be one of the most important dates in Microsoft's 33-year history, as it will release a host of major new products, including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008.
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) plans to publish six security bulletins next Tuesday, according to Thursday's advance notification.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/05/2007
A new August offering by virtual lab maker Surgient will add support for two key enterprise virtualization products: VMware ESX Server 3 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
Two Microsoft partners closed deals to join Microsoft or to sell their intellectual property to the software giant.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/26/2007
For the past several weeks, there has been a rush among some Linux vendors to ink patent protection deals with Microsoft. But that may have spurred a backlash, as other Linux companies are asserting their independence by refusing to go along with what they see as knuckling under to Microsoft's legal threats.
Microsoft's first server aimed at the home market has reached the release candidate phase, and as such, is nearly ready to be pushed out the door.
The next "Patch Tuesday" will also be "Upgrade Tuesday" for admins, as Microsoft releases Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) through Automatic Updates.
Look Mom, take 2: No-script hard drive info, this time using WMIC.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/06/2007
Need a boost in PowerShell amps? Take Power Gadgets out for a spin.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/01/2007
Is it worth migrating servers in the next year?
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2007
Microsoft, Juniper work to integrate Network Access Protection and Unified Access Control
Microsoft announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week that the mid-cycle, R2 release of Windows Server 2008 will be 64-bit only. Some have extrapolated that to mean that Windows Vista will be the final 32-bit desktop OS from Microsoft. Not so, according to a company blog.
Windows Server 2008 general availability is still months away, but Microsoft already has plans for a Windows Server 2008 R2 release in 2009.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/17/2007
Microsoft's unified communications picture is making one more push before seeing the light of day this summer in the form of deployable products.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2007