Ozzie Offers Vision for Software Plus Services at TechEd

Kicking off its TechEd 2006 conference in Boston, Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie said the IT industry is verging on yet another era of technology disruption, this time centering around Web-based services. 06/11/2006

DOE Computers Hacked; Info on 1,500 Taken

A hacker stole a file containing the names and Social Security numbers of 1,500 people working for the Energy Department's nuclear weapons agency.

06/11/2006

Microsoft Ships Compute Cluster Server 2003

Microsoft has released its high-performance computing (HPC) platform -- dubbed Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 -- to manufacturing, meaning it will be available to customers in August, the company said Friday. However, evaluation copies will be distributed at Microsoft's TechEd 2006 developers conference in Boston the week of June 11. 06/09/2006

IT Weekly Roundup, June 9

From the business wires this week: database backup tools, a virtualization suite and Windows Vista beta. 06/09/2006

Intel Moves Up Server Chip Shipment Date

Intel Corp. is moving up the planned shipment date of a computer chip that will compete against one from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. 06/09/2006

VMware To Ship Infrastructure 3

Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware is rolling out this month a new suite of its virtualization tools that bundles both existing and new products into a package meant to more closely reflect what customers say they need as their deployments become more complex. High on that list, say company officials, is the ability to manage a lot of virtual machines from one centralized view. 06/08/2006

Cisco's CEO to Take on Chairman Duties

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. said Chief Executive John T. Chambers will become chairman of the company when current Chairman John P. Morgridge steps aside on Nov. 15. 06/08/2006

Microsoft Plans Better Disclosure of Piracy Check Tool

Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users when its piracy monitoring tool is reporting to Microsoft. 06/08/2006

Windows Vista Public Preview Finally Begins

Finally. Wednesday night, Microsoft released the broad public beta, also called the Customer Preview Program (CPP), opening up testing floodgates for the long-awaited replacement for Windows XP to literally millions of consumers. 06/08/2006

AOL Releasing Free Security Monitor

AOL is releasing free software to automatically check whether you have the latest security protection on your Windows computer. 06/07/2006

Microsoft Clarifies 'BI' Roadmap

Microsoft clarified the roadmap for its business intelligence products Tuesday, and also announced that it is working on a new business intelligence tool aimed at performance management. 06/07/2006

CompTIA Unveils New A+ Cert with Electives

After months of speculation, the Computing Technology Industry Association unveiled a new structure for its flagship A+ hardware technician certification. 06/07/2006

Hewlett-Packard Revises 2Q Profit Upward

Hewlett-Packard Co., a maker of computers and printers, raised its second-quarter profit by $443 million Tuesday and boosted its income forecast for the remainder of the year to reflect a tax settlement with the U.S. government. 06/07/2006

Dell To Supply Google-Branded Servers

Dell Inc. said Tuesday it had reached a deal to supply Google Inc. with customized computer servers the search engine company will sell to corporate customers. 06/07/2006

Microsoft's Live OneCare To Be in Qwest Offering

Microsoft Corp. said Monday that its Internet security software will be included with Qwest's high-speed Internet service. 06/06/2006

BizTalk Server 2006 'R2' Feature Set Divulged

Microsoft this week disclosed new features coming in BizTalk Server 2006 Release 2 (R2), including integrated support for radio frequency identification (RFID) devices. 06/06/2006

'Net Neutrality Battle Heats Up

A major wrestling match in Congress over control of the Internet features some strange tag teams -- rockers and evangelists vs. phone companies and the Bells' usually biggest adversary, cable TV companies. 06/06/2006

Microsoft To Ship First Branded Antigen Products

Microsoft will ship the first branded versions of its Antigen products beginning July 1, the company announced on Tuesday. 06/06/2006

Google Co-Founder Admits China Compromise

Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course. 06/06/2006

Google To Unveil Spreadsheet Program

Google Inc. will introduce a spreadsheet program Tuesday, continuing the Internet search leader's expansion into territory long dominated by Microsoft Corp. 06/06/2006

Swedish File Sharers Protest Police Shutdown of Pirate Bay Web Site

Hundreds of people waving picket signs and skull-and-crossbones pirate flags demonstrated in Stockholm on Saturday against a police crackdown on a popular file-sharing Web site that had millions of users worldwide. 06/05/2006

Spam King Settles With Texas, Microsoft

One of the world's most notorious spammers has settled lawsuits with the state of Texas and Microsoft Corp. that cost him at least $1 million, took away most of his assets and forced him to stop sending the nuisance e-mails. 06/05/2006

Storage Demands Fuel Hard Drive, Flash Memory Industries

The senior vice president of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. whipped out a tiny hard drive about the size of a Wheat Thin. The drive's label claimed a capacity of 1,000 gigabytes -- more than 100 times greater than today's models that can hold 8,000 photos or 2,000 songs. 06/05/2006

Microsoft To Offer Premium Exchange Server License

Microsoft Corp. will offer a premium license for the upcoming version of its Exchange e-mail server. 06/02/2006

Microsoft, Adobe Continue Spat Over Office Integration

Microsoft Corp. said it has canceled plans to include an automatic way to save documents in the popular PDF format in the next version of its Office software, amid an ongoing dispute with Adobe Systems Inc. 06/02/2006

AMD Unveils New Dual-Core Chips

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in the market for microprocessors that act as the brains of personal computers, unveiled plans for new products it said would deliver improved performance and efficiency. 06/02/2006

IT Weekly Roundup, June 2

From the business wires this week: a Windows auditing and reporting solution, a database development app for SQL and Microsoft highlights. 06/02/2006

Squall Line

Microsoft produced a cloudburst of product releases in 2006. Now a second shower is approaching. What's the forecast? 06/01/2006

Users Speak Out on IE 7

Long-awaited browser gets mixed reviews. 06/01/2006

I've Put My Finger on the Problem...

Powering down the wrong server makes for a sticky situation, plus another admin shares his virus horror story. 06/01/2006

NetIQ To Ship Analysis Center Update

Enterprise management software vendor NetIQ will ship its new Analysis Center 2.5 package on June 22, the company says. 06/01/2006

Speed Up Terminal Server

Streamline your Terminal Services for Windows 2003 with these Registry tweaks. 06/01/2006

Reach Out & Hack Someone

Provide your users with the right common knowledge so they can practice common sense. 06/01/2006

Plug Those Portable Holes

DeviceWall helps you control those portable storage devices on your network. 06/01/2006

New Version of Ubuntu Software Coming

A new version of the Ubuntu software package, a flavor of the freely distributed Linux operating system, is due out Thursday. 06/01/2006

The Barney Browser

Doug offers his suggestions for the perfect Web browser. 06/01/2006

Tour de SQL Part III: Performance Tuning

SQL Server 2005 gives you new tools to help your database performance stay ahead of the pack. 06/01/2006

Share and Share Alike

Microsoft's Shared Computer Toolkit can help ease the pain of configuring security for a shared computer. 06/01/2006

Storm Warning

How Jefferson Parish planned for and responded to the worst disaster in U.S. history, and the lessons IT professionals can learn from it. 06/01/2006

Cap on High-Tech Visas for 2007 Already Met

The government has already reached the limit on high-tech worker visas for 2007 even though the fiscal year doesn't start until Oct. 1, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Thursday. 06/01/2006

Hoarding Logs

Archive your security logs in one place with this command-line tool. 06/01/2006

Exchange Server 2003 -- Read All About It

See how these Exchange books stack up and decide which ones you should add to your library. 06/01/2006

SBS 2003: Room for Improvement

Small Business Server 2003 is stable and easy to maintain, but readers say it could use a few more tools and options. 06/01/2006

Microsoft Revamps Office Group

Microsoft said this week it will split the Office business unit in two to better reflect the suite's continuing evolution, and has appointed two veteran insiders to head the new groups. 06/01/2006

Office Dinosaurs Unite

Microsoft is calling workers everywhere to join its "digital work style" revolution. 06/01/2006

Analyst: AMD Considering Acquisition of Graphics Chip Maker ATI

Shares of ATI Technologies Inc. jumped more than 9.5 percent Wednesday after a Wall Street analyst said the graphics chip maker may be acquired by Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the PC microprocessor maker that's been taking market share from Intel Corp. 06/01/2006

Ballmer Defends Need to Invest, Innovate

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told investors Wednesday to be patient as the world's largest software company spends time and money developing new products and entering new markets. 05/31/2006

Microsoft Launches Live OneCare Security

Microsoft Corp. announces release of software that aims to better protect people who use Windows from Internet attacks. 05/31/2006

Microsoft To Release Visual Studio for Database Developers

Microsoft says it's hard at work on a Visual Studio edition product targeted specifically at database developers and that it plans to ship it by year's end. 05/31/2006

Free Microsoft Tool Tests Corporate Apps for Vista Compatibility

Microsoft has released a tool to help IT shops and developers determine if changes are needed to users’ applications in order to run under Windows Vista. 05/31/2006