Gartner Bullish on NUMA in Windows .NET Server

NUMA has appeared on Microsoft roadmaps for technologies it would include in high-end versions of its Whistler server release for several years. The topic picked up steam a few weeks ago at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) when Microsoft specified that it would support NUMA technologies in Windows .NET Server, the official name for the Whistler server family. 04/25/2002

McKinley Becomes Itanium 2

Intel on Thursday formally named its second-generation 64-bit processor the Itanium 2. The processor had formerly gone by the codename "McKinley." 04/25/2002

Gates on the Stand

Bill Gates was back on the witness stand Wednesday after keeping calm for two days of testimony, in which he portrayed a gloomy scenario if non-settling states' proposed remedies were to go into effect. 04/24/2002

Microsoft Creates Desktop Deployment Portal

Microsoft launched a portal Wednesday that is a mix of technical and business resources and marketing material for organizations considering or executing a deployment of Windows XP or Office XP. 04/24/2002

Intel Speeds Up Xeon DPs

Intel this week shipped a faster version of its new Intel Xeon processors for dual-processor servers and workstations. Hewlett-Packard immediately announced new systems based on the faster 2.4 GHz chip. 04/24/2002

Microsoft to Support AMD's 64-bit Processors

Microsoft ended the debate over whether it would support Intel rival AMD's 64-bit processors in addition to Intel's 64-bit Itanium family. In a statement Wednesday, AMD announced that Microsoft will support its 64-bit processors in Windows. 04/24/2002

Microsoft Releases SP2 for BizTalk Server

Microsoft released a minor service pack for BizTalk Server 2000 that adds support for Visio 2002 and includes a handful of bug fixes. 04/23/2002

Compaq Claims 2 Million Exchange 2000 Seats

Compaq's services arm says about a quarter of the Exchange seats it has deployed or managed since the Exchange 2000 launch a year and a half ago have been with the new version of the e-mail server. 04/23/2002

Critical Flaws in Mac Versions of IE, Office Patched

Enterprises using Mac clients with Microsoft desktop software got a major new patch tossed their way this week. Microsoft released a cumulative patch for its Apple products that also fixes two critical new security vulnerabilities. 04/18/2002

Microsoft Keeps Raking in Profits

Microsoft released its third quarter earnings at the close of business Thursday, showing profits of $2.72 billion on revenues of $7.25 billion for the quarter that ended March 31. Strong Windows XP Professional sales were a key driver, according to CFO John Connors. 04/18/2002

Microsoft Patches SQL Server Vulnerability

A flaw in the way SQL Server handles extended stored procedures makes the database vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. Microsoft provided a patch for the problem. 04/18/2002

Exams That Test Your XML Expertise

Microsoft slates two more MCAD/MCSD core exams for beta testing in July. 04/18/2002

MCSA Certification Track Off to Strong Start

In little more than a month, more than 4,000 people had already attained Microsoft’s newest certification, the Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA). 04/18/2002

Update: Gold Medal for Olympics IT Team

The final gold medal awarded at the Salt Lake City Olympics goes to the SchlumbergerSema staff that handled the IT infrastructure. And, unlike figure skating, there’s no controversy. 04/18/2002

Poll: Three-Quarters Have Windows 2000 on Network

Results show that three-quarters of respondents have at least one server running Win2K. 04/18/2002

Beta Available for Mobile .NET Pieces

Microsoft stepped along the path to its goal of providing the infrastructure for making data available "anytime, anywhere on any device" on Wednesday by posting beta versions of its Microsoft .NET Compact Framework and the Visual Studio .NET Smart Device Extensions. 04/17/2002

Windows .NET Server Delays Complicate Longhorn Schedule

Jim Allchin, Microsoft group vice president for the platforms group, confirmed at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle this week that the "Longhorn" release will come later than originally planned. 04/17/2002

HP: Merger Vote Stands After Independent Preliminary Tally

HP officials say a preliminary tally of the March 19 shareholder vote on HP's merger with Compaq supports HP's initial claim that the controversial proposal was approved. The preliminary tally by independent inspectors of election puts shareowners in favor ahead of those against by 45 million shares -- giving HP a margin of victory under 3 percent. 04/17/2002

Microsoft Distributes Post-Beta 3 Version of Windows .NET Server

NEW ORLEANS -- Microsoft passed out an interim build of Windows .NET Standard Server beta code to attendees of its Microsoft TechEd 2002 conference last week. 04/16/2002

Even with Xeon MP, Intel Keeps PIII Xeon Prices High

Intel formally refreshed its processor pricing list this week for the first time since releasing the Intel Xeon MP chips for SMP servers. Although Intel brings much greater speed and functionality to its 32-bit SMP lineup with the Intel Xeon MPs, the chipmaker will not be dropping the price of its multi-processing Pentium III Xeons for now. 04/16/2002

Sun Rebrands Software Products

Sun Microsystems is rebranding its major software products under the Sun Open Net Environment or Sun ONE name. 04/16/2002

More MCAD/MCSD.NET Exams Near Beta Testing

Betas for Web-based versions of Visual Basic, Visual C# core exams set for summer. 04/11/2002

IIS Cumulative Patch Released

Microsoft issued a cumulative patch this week for its Internet Information Services Web server that fixes four critical new vulnerabilities and six other newly discovered bugs. 04/11/2002

Microsoft Releases Web Services Security Spec

IBM and VeriSign to join Microsoft in developing specifications. 04/11/2002

Notification, CE SQL Server Betas Unveiled

NEW ORLEANS -- Beta versions of a SQL Server-based notification service and a new Windows CE edition of the database made their first public appearances at Microsoft TechEd 2002 on Wednesday. 04/10/2002

Microsoft Ships Commerce Server

NEW ORLEANS -- Microsoft Corp. released the latest of its .NET Enterprise Server line, Commerce Server 2002, on Wednesday at TechEd. The interim release brings tight integration with Visual Studio .NET, enhances the product's global commerce capabilities and improves upon security. 04/10/2002

NEC Updates Fault-Tolerant Server Line

NEW ORLEANS -- NEC Solutions Inc., which sells fault-tolerant Intel-based servers built on technology licensed from Stratus Technologies, introduced its second generation of systems this week at Microsoft TechEd. 04/10/2002

Aelita Updates Windows-centric Directory Administration Tool

NEW ORLEANS -- Aelita Corp. this week released a new version of its administration tool for Windows 2000 Active Directory and Exchange. 04/10/2002

Free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer Available

Microsoft's ongoing efforts to improve the security of its products got a boost this week when Redmond made its promised Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) available for free download. 04/10/2002

App Performance Management Vendor Bets on .NET

Toolkit Turns Exchange Data, Features into Web Services

NEW ORLEANS -- Developers at Microsoft's 10th annual TechEd conference received a toolkit to help them turn the features and data in Exchange Server into XML Web services. 04/10/2002

Microsoft Considers Change on Pass/Fail Policy

While complete reversal unlikely, company says it's considering releasing more info to those who fail. 04/10/2002

NetIQ Expands MOM with Security Pack

NetIQ, the company that licensed to Microsoft the base technology for its Microsoft Operations Manager, on Tuesday announced a suite of software that builds security functionality into the management toolset. 04/09/2002

XML for Analysis Council Takes on Data Mining

A group of vendors, including Microsoft, working on making data analysis tools available as Web services expanded their work to include data mining. 04/09/2002

From MCP TechMentor: .NET Tools Up Close

Simplified password admin and storage resource management tools, plus networked classrooms among offerings being showcased. 04/05/2002

Dell Commits to Next-Generation Server Technologies

Dell started talking the talk of bricks, blades and InfiniBand. The computer giant made a series of announcements at an enterprise-focused event in New York City on Wednesday that included plans for a 3U blade chassis that holds up to six, two-processor servers. 04/04/2002

IIS Gains in Monthly Netcraft Survey

Microsoft's IIS Web server gained almost 2 million sites in March, taking market share from the open-source Apache and the iPlanet Web servers, according to Netcraft. 04/04/2002

Compaq Gives Indication of Exchange 2000 Market Penetration

In announcing a new utility-style offering for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Compaq Global Services gave some hard evidence for how much Exchange 2000 is penetrating the Exchange user base. Compaq's figures show that about 12 percent of the Exchange seats it has deployed or has under contract are on Exchange 2000 as opposed to Exchange 5.5 and earlier versions of the e-mail server. 04/04/2002

Microsoft Gets Into the Boot Camp Business

In February, Microsoft began offering Accelerated MCSE Certification Bootcamp through Infinity+1, a Microsoft Service Provider Partner, in effect, sanctioning this method of training. 04/04/2002

Plenty of Room for IT in Web Services

Special Report from TechMentor: Web services and .NET has many IT managers and systems administrators wondering how Web services will affect their jobs and responsibilities. 04/04/2002

AppDetective for SQL Server

Exposing holes in your SQL security 04/03/2002

Successful Projects with MindManager

Manuals for brainstorming. 04/03/2002

Anti-Unix Marketing Site Turns Users Away

The stumbles continued into Wednesday for the Unisys-Microsoft joint anti-Unix marketing campaign as the Web site for the program became unreachable. 04/03/2002

Microsoft to Combine Its Unix Products

Microsoft will combine its two Unix interoperability tools, Services for Unix and Microsoft Interix, into a single offering called Services for Unix 3.0 in the second quarter of this year, Microsoft officials say. 04/03/2002

MKS Code Integrity

Got coding issues? This will find them for you 04/03/2002

Whiteboard Photo

Translate projects from the whiteboard to computer without the expensive equipment 04/03/2002

Total Access Analyzer 2002

The standard for documenting Access databases 04/03/2002

eMill Enterprise

Create centralized messaging apps in a snap 04/03/2002

Codewright

New features for the best code editor ever 04/03/2002

Power Play at City Hall

Case study. When the City of Minneapolis, Minn. government decided to use the Internet to automate its business processes, it was obvious the information infrastructure would need updating, too. The city's Microsoft-based solution includes Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. 04/02/2002