When platform zealots attack, it can threaten everything from productivity to profits.
Microsoft executive shuffle has ramifications for customers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/01/2005
Redmond's resident critics pick their favorites in this year's Editors' Choice Awards.
Office Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky and his troops could learn a thing or two from the Windows team about building software that can be tweaked quickly.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 11/01/2005
Microsoft says new-gen program's aim is to simplify the cert process and reduce costs and training time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/25/2005
Plan calls for support for Linux guest OSes and, eventually, use of hypervisor to incorporate virtualization into the OS.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/01/2005
Readers reflect back to the days when naming their servers involved imagination and the ability to possess a sense of humor.
- By Paul Desmond
- 10/01/2005
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a concept touted by Microsoft and various Linux vendors as proof that their products are cheapest to run. But TCO claims aren't what they're cracked up to be, and most IT shops never use TCO, or just plain do it wrong.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/01/2005
Quest Software's Spotlight on Active Directory 6.0 is worth a close look for anyone tasked with AD performance tuning and troubleshooting.
As head of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid leads a team that remains largely anonymous, but whose work finds its way into nearly every product Redmond ships.
With the launch of SQL Server 2005 coming in November, Microsoft has formalized the implementation guidance and marketing support it will provide to its partners and customers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/29/2005
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/15/2005
When SQL Server 2005 is released to manufacturing in the next few months, Microsoft will take the exceptional step of designating one of its high-profile features as being intended for evaluation only.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/14/2005
Admins to get deployment, manageability and security improvements.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/01/2005
Partners to get new opportunities in delivering deployment services and training.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/01/2005