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Unisys strengthened its position as the vendor with the single most scalable server for Windows and Intel products during a demonstration at the Intel Developer Forum.
08/30/2001
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An antivirus vendor Thursday warned of a worm that spreads itself by masquerading as a technical support e-mail from Microsoft.
08/30/2001
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The European Commission filed a new antitrust complaint against Microsoft on Thursday at the end of a year-long investigation into Windows 2000 client-server integration. The European Commission also added concerns about the integration of the Windows Media Player into its antitrust action.
08/30/2001
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IBM this week released a pair of rack-dense servers targeted for telecommunications customers. The 1U servers run Windows 2000 or Linux.
08/29/2001
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Toshiba will rebrand Stratus' fault-tolerant two-processor servers running Windows 2000 Advanced Server for sale in Japan. Toshiba joins NEC in making a deal to sell systems based on Stratus' technology.
08/29/2001
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Microsoft posted its latest browser upgrade, Internet Explorer 6.0, to the Web this week ahead of the company's previously disclosed plans to hold off availability of IE 6 until Windows XP became available.
08/28/2001
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Microsoft's interim version of 64-bit Windows server went into general availability Tuesday. Customers will only be able to buy the OS through hardware vendors selling complete 64-bit systems.
08/28/2001
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Intel goosed its processor clock speeds to a new psychological level this week with the introduction of the 2 GHz Pentium 4. The processor marks one half of what Intel and Microsoft hope will be a PC industry-reviving duo of fast Pentium 4 processors and Windows XP.
08/28/2001
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Microsoft has a new tool designed to help administrators secure and harden Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 systems running the software giant's IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0 Web servers.
08/27/2001
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Contributing editor Stephen Swoyer argues against accusing IT managers of negligence for failing to install the well-publicized IIS patch before the Code Red worm hit. In fact, Swoyer says the incident is reason to renew customer calls for Microsoft to improve its hotfix and service pack quality assurance.
08/27/2001
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Newsletter lists numbers and titles for upcoming MCSD exams.
08/25/2001
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As expected, Microsoft Corp. Friday morning announced that its embattled Windows XP operating system is released to manufacturing.
08/24/2001
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The movies Wall Street and Other People’s Money never had sequels, but if the producers are looking for new plotlines, all they have to do is watch the high-stakes corporate drama now playing out between Computer Associates and an insurgent group of investors led by Texas moneyman Sam Wyly.
08/23/2001
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Unix vendors will have a harder time justifying their servers to customers as industry-standard servers with built-in fault tolerance reach the market, according to the market analysis firm IDC.
08/23/2001
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The obvious but time-consuming process of certifying the .NET Enterprise Servers on the Windows 2000 Server platforms that they were written for is slowly but surely getting completed.
08/23/2001
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Seven thousand MCPs with NT 3.51 titles no longer certified as of June.
08/23/2001
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Office XP/Windows XP product activation feature can be thwarted, German company finds.
08/23/2001
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A Microsoft perennial is about to be decommissioned, as Redmond consigns BackOffice to the software scrap-heap at the end of September.
08/23/2001
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Microsoft not expected to release next version of Windows until 2003.
08/22/2001
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Analyst firm Gartner took a look at corporate buying of application servers. The conclusion? Corporate America is throwing away money. Microsoft, which bundles application server technology free with other products, was quick to highlight the study.
08/22/2001
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IBM on Wednesday unveiled a user migration program for NCR Teradata users.
08/22/2001
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Microsoft patched a limited vulnerability involving infrared devices used with Windows 2000 that opens the door for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
08/22/2001
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Market research firm and consultancy Gartner warned recently that the version of Windows that Microsoft plans to ship after Windows .NET Server – code-named “Blackcomb” – would probably be delayed through 2003.
08/21/2001
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said Windows XP will be released to manufacturing (RTM) this Friday, according to the Reuters news agency.
08/21/2001
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If you’re not an engineer, you want to be an expert. That’s what the results of a recent MCP Magazine survey say.
08/21/2001
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Mobile and wireless computing devices – such as personal digital assistants and Web phones – are pervasive. But are we expecting too much from them in an enterprise setting?
08/20/2001
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The laptop-tuned OS is gaining ground in new computer shipments, computer-makers and analysts say, but Windows 2000 Professional hasn't generated the expected groundswell of demand.
08/20/2001
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The wireless LAN equipment market will grow from $969 million in revenues in 2000 to $4.5 billion in 2006, according to new research from a market analysis firm.
08/20/2001
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Microsoft isn’t the only vendor that’s had to scramble lately to patch security vulnerabilities in its software. Last week, the CERT Coordination Center alerted administrators to a severe vulnerability that affects two flagship network management platforms from HP and Tivoli.
08/20/2001
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Microsoft Thursday night released a consolidated patch to fix three problems in its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 product. In a separate move, Microsoft released a fix to repair a vulnerability in Outlook 98, Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002 that it first acknowledged in early July.
08/17/2001
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The U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday denied Microsoft Corp.'s request to delay sending its case back to the District Court until the Supreme Court could consider Microsoft's request for an appeal there. The Supreme Court could still take up the case.
08/17/2001
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Microsoft this week posted a demo to the Web of an XML querying language called XQuery that the company plans to embed in the .NET Framework and in many of its enterprise server products.
08/16/2001
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The SANS Institute says no. Microsoft begs to differ.
08/16/2001
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Microsoft bundled five newly discovered IIS vulnerabilities into a cumulative patch, posted Wednesday, that rolls together all the fixes for the Web server.
08/16/2001
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Microsoft took the wraps off of two new utilities that it says are designed to help enterprise administrators and individual users make sure that their systems are updated with the latest Internet Explorer, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 patches.
08/16/2001
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Microsoft on Wednesday night updated a security warning involving its NNTP service to extend the list of affected servers to include Exchange 2000.
08/16/2001
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IBM's new Summit chipset gives Big Blue a way to build 16-processor systems with industry-standard Intel processors.
08/15/2001
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Microsoft Tuesday night scrambled to patch another new bug that makes Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server systems vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.
08/15/2001
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All indications are that Microsoft Corp. appears prepared to certify Windows XP’s Gold Code sooner than expected – perhaps within the next few days.
08/15/2001
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New tool simplifies identification of systems' applied hotfixes and patches.
08/15/2001
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Microsoft's broad beta 2 program for Talisker, the code name for the next generation of its Windows CE operating system, sports a few new features for the enterprise.
08/14/2001
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Microsoft is expected to reach a settlement with Kodak in a dispute that concerns the manner in which digital photographs are handled by the software giant’s forthcoming Windows XP operating system.
08/13/2001
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The Peachy virus, unveiled last week, may signal a new frontier for virus writers -- the previously untapped Adobe Acrobat file format.
08/13/2001
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The U.S. Department of Justice formally opposed Microsoft's effort to get the Supreme Court to hear the antitrust case before it returns to the District Court.
08/13/2001
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A new variant of Code Red – dubbed Code Red III – is damaging Windows servers in South Korea, and Code Red variants successfully compromised Web servers at Hotmail.com – which is operated by Microsoft Corp. – and Federal Express, among others.
08/10/2001
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This week, sources close to several major PC OEMs claimed that Microsoft Corp. had authorized their companies to ship computers pre-loaded with its Windows XP operating system (OS) at least one month prior to XP’s official debut in late October.
08/09/2001
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McAfee.com raised eyebrows this week with the announcement that it had received a U.S. patent for the technology behind its software as a service model.
08/09/2001
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NetManage has updated its venerable Rumba host access client to better meet the needs of its customers. Rumba 7.0 adds features such as interactive help, SSL support, native Windows features, and features to aid people with limited sight, hearing or motor abilities.
08/09/2001
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Unisys is building its next-generation Wintel mainframe to support up to 128 processors and 2 terabytes of RAM.
08/08/2001
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Oracle provided its developers Wednesday with a free new set of development tools for building J2EE applications. It's a public move into Web services for Oracle.
08/08/2001