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News
The clock is ticking for California businesses and consumers to make claims in the largest of the class-action lawsuit settlement agreements resulting from the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against Microsoft.
01/05/2005
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In-Depth
Ensuring maximum asset availability requires multiple layers of security working in concert to protect against intrusions, enforce usage policies, and allow machines to remain resilient to attacks - even when patching is not an option.
01/01/2005
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Doug Barney contemplates Microsoft's domination of PC design, its Passport technology and the new Acoona.com search engine.
01/01/2005
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News
Microsoft once again extends custom support contract provisions for large NT 4.0 Server users and throws an unintended bone to smaller shops.
01/01/2005
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Build scripts that work more like applications so you can monitor progress and display results in a formatted manner.
01/01/2005
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Security Advisor
Available now, DomainKeys is one promising entry into the fight against spam.
01/01/2005
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News
Rapid-fire releases to include SP1, x64, R2 and the Longhorn Beta.
01/01/2005
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Windows Insider
Follow these steps and have your users logging on at their Linux/Unix desktops with their Windows accounts.
01/01/2005
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With Windows 2003, you can use the Encryption File Systems to give multiple users access to the same encrypted files.
01/01/2005
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In-Depth
Just because something "appears" to be from a legitimate sender doesn't make it so.
01/01/2005
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In-Depth
SQL Server Reporting Services earns solid if not stellar marks from early adopters—and you can't beat the price.
01/01/2005
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A little humor for the holiday season.
01/01/2005
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MSH offers a powerful new approach to Windows command-line scripting.
01/01/2005
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In-Depth
2005 Redmond Magazine Readers' Choice Survey: Find out how your favorite tool fared as nearly 2,200 readers pick their favorites in more than 40 product categories.
01/01/2005
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The newest version of MOM not only tracks all sorts of performance data, but also helps you put it in perspective.
01/01/2005
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In-Depth
We test three software-based intrusion detection systems that can help alert you when you've got barbarians at the gate.
01/01/2005
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In-Depth
Fighting spam requires authenticating e-mail addresses on the fly. Despite igniting a battle of its own, the Microsoft-backed Sender ID spec
is shaping up as the best option.
01/01/2005
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News
Intel and HP announced this month that the chip manufacturer will take over all further development of the two companies’ Itantium family of processors. Though most terms of the deal were not disclosed, Intel will hire HP’s Itanium chip design team, which is located in Fort Collins, Colo.
12/23/2004
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News
Microsoft has scrapped plans for a 2005 delivery of Exchange Edge Services, a set of technologies for e-mail protection and spam management that builds on Exchange Server 2003.
12/22/2004
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News
Citrix Systems and Microsoft announced this week a new technology cross-licensing deal meant to assure the continued enhancement of Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite for Microsoft Windows Terminal Services.
12/22/2004
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News
Microsoft's effort to delay European antitrust measures until the end of the appeals process failed with the release of an order Wednesday by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.
12/22/2004
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News
Microsoft released six new security patches in December, but only five official
Security Bulletins. For some strange reason a patch released on the
same day as the normal monthly patches -- for Windows XP SP2 only --
didn't rate a full Security Bulletin.
12/21/2004
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News
Developers for Microsoft Office are getting their first dedicated conference from Microsoft early next year.
12/21/2004
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News
From the business wires this week: anti-spyware solutions, Power over Ethernet media converters, and updated virtual machine software.
12/17/2004
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News
Oracle and VMware announced this week that they will work together to market solutions that combine the two companies’ products. Under the agreement, Oracle will develop, test and support its 10g database and applications products to run on VMware’s operating environment virtualization products.
12/16/2004
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News
In a Q&A on the Microsoft Web site, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates tackled a handful of questions that Microsoft says are the ones he is most commonly asked.
12/16/2004
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News
For its "Patch Tuesday" this month, Microsoft delivered five security bulletins for what it called "important" security flaws, including one publicly known flaw in the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS).
12/15/2004
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News
Despite the long-standing animosity between Oracle and Microsoft, the database giant clearly demonstrated its understanding of the need to more strongly support Windows at last week’s Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
12/15/2004
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News
Vintela just shipped version 1.0 of its Vintela Management Extensions in August, but the Lindon, Utah company is on a roll – it shipped version 1.1 this week. The new release expands on version 1.0’s ability to enable Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to manage non-Windows environments.
12/15/2004
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News
UltraBac Software said this week that it will in ship version 8.0 of its UltraBac backup and disaster recovery software in mid-January. Back in this release after a hiatus is UltraCopy, the Bellevue, Wash.-based company’s file copying utility for creating duplicate backups for storage offsite.
12/15/2004
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News
Microsoft has released several exams aimed not at making MCPs; rather, these ones measure competencies of Microsoft Certified Partner members.
12/14/2004
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A perspective on the recent accomplishment of a certain baseball team from Boston.
12/14/2004
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News
Microsoft's Security Response Center is working on five non-critical security bulletins for release next Tuesday, the company said late Thursday as part of its newly public Security Bulletin Advance Notification program.
12/10/2004
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News
From the business wires this week: a firewall for education networks, a USB fingerprint reader for printing, and a man skates across the U.S. to meet Bill Gates.
12/10/2004
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News
Windows Server 2003 "R2" formally entered the private beta testing stage this week, Microsoft senior vice president for the Windows Server Division Bob Muglia said on Friday.
12/10/2004
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News
Microsoft this week announced that it would hold a 2005 Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in September. PDC 2003, also in Los Angeles, was a major event where Microsoft publicly introduced the Windows "Longhorn" operating system and laid out the fundamental components, called pillars, of that next-generation operating system.
12/10/2004
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News
In a press tour on Friday, Microsoft senior vice president for Windows Server Bob Muglia updated the Windows Server release schedule for next year.
12/10/2004
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News
AutoProf is set to release this month Policy Maker Professional 2.0, a significant update of the company’s suite of user management extensions that plug in to Microsoft’s Group Policy Object Editor in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.
12/09/2004
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News
Data center automation startup Cassatt says it will ship Version 3.0 of its Collage management product in the first quarter of 2005. The upcoming release will enable Collage to manage multiple tiered applications and will add support for Windows servers.
12/09/2004
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News
Microsoft offering many Windows 2003 and Exchange e-learning courses at discount for limited time.
12/09/2004
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News
IBM, the company that transformed personal computers from a hobby to an industry with the introduction of its PC line in 1981, will bow out of the increasingly low-margin market through a partnership with the Chinese firm, Lenovo Group Limited.
12/08/2004
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News
Microsoft posted the release candidate version of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 to its Download Center on Monday.
12/07/2004
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News
HP will ship this month a new addition to the company’s lineup of OpenView Server Change and Management products.
12/07/2004
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News
Microsoft shipped a lot of management tools in 2004. A few minor pieces are on the calendar for delivery in 2005, but most of Microsoft's development work these days when it comes to administration and management is focused on the plumbing that connects Microsoft products.
12/06/2004
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News
The new release of MessageLabs’ anti-spam service provides corporate users with an added layer of protection from spurious e-mails by incorporating Symantec’s Brightmail technology as well as by bulking up MessageLabs’ own spam filtering technology.
12/03/2004
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News
Microsoft released its second SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview on Friday, giving customers another taste of the long-awaited "Yukon" version of SQL Server now planned for a mid-2005 release.
12/03/2004
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News
Less than a month from Windows NT 4.0 Server's official end of life, Microsoft on Friday announced that it will offer custom support contracts for large customers running the aging operating system through the end of 2006.
12/03/2004
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News
From the business wires this week: a Wi-Fi firewall, Web content management solution and more Intel Xeon servers.
12/03/2004
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News
Executive Software is shipping a patch management module for automating installation of Microsoft security patches that can be used either by itself or as part of the company’s Sitekeeper systems management suite.
12/02/2004
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News
For a limited time, Microsoft is making its online exam preparation
clinic for the MCDST exams free for a limited time.
12/02/2004