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  • News

    Business Objects Reaches Out to Office

    At Microsoft’s TechEd user conference this week, Business Objects SA unveiled an add-on for its Crystal Enterprise reporting environment which boasts tighter integration with the Office productivity suite. 05/26/2004

  • In-Depth

    Beyond the Firewall

    Network security is more important than ever. But network protection must move beyond the firewall. What new tools are on the horizon to help you with your combat strategy? 05/25/2004

  • Diagnosing Exchange Symptoms

    KerbTray helped this reader figure out what was making his Exchange server sick. 05/25/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Moves to 10-Year Lifecycle for Product Support

    Decision extends support of business software by at least three years. 05/25/2004

  • News

    Dell, EMC, HP Ship Windows-based NAS Devices

    Microsoft is using its TechEd 2004 conference this week to trumpet releases of network-attached storage (NAS) devices from tier-one hardware vendors featuring its OEM-only Windows Storage Server 2003 with a new Exchange Server 2003 feature pack. 05/25/2004

  • News

    Ballmer Unveils Visual Studio 2005 Team System

    SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft will deliver products around Visual Studio next year designed to tie the roles of developers and IT administrators more closely together to make the writing, deploying and maintaining of applications a more efficient and secure process. 05/24/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Licensing Expanded for Disaster Recovery, Online Services

    Microsoft previewed two benefits coming next month to its volume licensing programs. 05/20/2004

  • News

    AMD Expands Opteron Processor Family

    AMD broadened its family of Opteron processors this week with the addition of three models, including one version for four-processor systems. 05/20/2004

  • News

    Microsoft MCP Private Web Site Newly Designed

    Revamped secure area of Web site contains updated benefits. 05/20/2004

  • News

    Office 2004 for Mac Hits the Street

    Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. 05/19/2004

  • News

    Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Vendor

    Security giant Symantec Corp. on Wednesday said it will buy Brightmail, a six-year-old anti-spam company, for $370 million in a cash deal expected to close by early July. 05/19/2004

  • News

    Quest Reveals Which Products Survive Aelita Acquisition

    Quest Software this week unveiled the inevitable aftermath of its acquisition of Aelita Software -- which products from the two companies' similar portfolios of Windows software have a future and which didn't make the cut. 05/19/2004

  • News

    Free Online Security Clinics

    Get online training for secure networking and application development; limited time availability. 05/19/2004

  • Virtual Computing Rules

    It's hip, it's cool, it's virtual computing. Well, it's cool for geeks, anyways. 05/19/2004

  • News

    Commerce Server Rises From the Ashes of Jupiter

    Despite Internet rumors that Microsoft Commerce Server was dead, and despite the crash and burn of the "Jupiter" mega-server project that would have included Commerce Server, Microsoft affirmed this week that Commerce Server has a future. 05/18/2004

  • News

    TryIIS.com Campaign Launched to Bolster IIS 6.0 Adoption

    More than a year after launching Windows Server 2003, Microsoft is starting a marketing campaign to single out the Internet Information Services 6.0 Web server component as a strong reason to upgrade to the server OS. 05/18/2004

  • News

    NetIQ Integrates Security Offerings

    NetIQ took a step toward integrating its security products so they can be used more seamlessly to address a broader swath of security issues facing the enterprise. 05/18/2004

  • Exchange Migration Walk-Thru

    Reader has Exchange upgrade problems; plus, update on Exchange memory optimization problem. 05/18/2004

  • News

    Windows Longhorn Server Set for 2007

    While Jim Allchin said this month that the Windows Longhorn client and server projects are back in synch from a development perspective, another senior Microsoft officials clarified this week that the server version won't be ready as soon as the client version. 05/13/2004

  • News

    SAP Aims for Tighter Integration with Microsoft Technologies

    Enterprise application giant SAP is working to hook its wares more tightly with Microsoft's ubiquitous Office desktop productivity software and Microsoft's widely used Visual Studio development platform. 05/13/2004

  • News

    Remote Code Execution Flaw Fixed in Windows

    After burdening IT with patches for 20 vulnerabilities in its April Patch Tuesday, Microsoft offered a fix for just one vulnerability in this month's patch event. 05/12/2004

  • News

    Sasser Enters Round 6 as Patch Tuesday Arrives

    Just as IT brushes itself off from the Sasser worm, it's that time again. Today is Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, that day once a month when Microsoft puts out all the security patches it's been working on. 05/11/2004

  • News

    SMS 2003 SP1 Beta Available

    Beta testing is underway for the first service pack for Systems Management Server 2003, Microsoft's enterprise product for change and configuration management. 05/11/2004

  • News

    Why do Spammers Spam?

    Are spammers mostly misunderstood individuals who are providing a valuable service? 05/11/2004

  • News

    Mono Brings .NET to Open Systems

    Thanks to Mono 1.0, .NET is for Linux, Unix and even MacOS. 05/11/2004

  • News

    The New Microsoft Management Roadmap

    Update from Microsoft Management Summit in March. 05/10/2004

  • Virtualize This

    Test networks on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 beta. 05/10/2004

  • News

    Sun, Microsoft Kiss and Make Up

    Microsoft agrees to pay out $2 billion to Sun in landmark agreement. 05/10/2004

  • News

    Out with SUS, in with WUS

    Dramatic update to software updating services 05/10/2004

  • Power Brakes for IIS

    Prevent Internet Information Server from being installed automatically. 05/07/2004

  • News

    Beta Unveiled of Live Communications Server 2005

    Microsoft this week opened a beta program for the second-generation version of its instant messaging server. 05/06/2004

  • News

    IBM Offers Open Beta of 'Stinger' DB2

    IBM is entering the open beta stage for "Stinger," the code-name for the next-generation release of DB2, which is slated for availability later this year. The next release of DB2 will make it easier for DBAs to deploy, configure, maintain and optimize DB2 databases. 05/06/2004

  • News

    Free Re-Take of MCP Exams

    Pearson VUE is offering a free re-take on select MCP exams to anyone who fails an exam between April 30 and June 30. 05/06/2004

  • News

    Windows Update Gets Big Investment

    Microsoft is throwing big money at Windows Update, the company's infrastructure and technologies for distributing patches to its ubiquitous Windows software. 05/05/2004

  • News

    Gates: Majority of Chips 64-Bit by End of 2005

    The 64-bit extensions to x86 instructions pioneered by AMD and adopted by Intel are leading to a "wonderful transition" to 64-bit computing, according to Bill Gates. 05/05/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Adds ActiveViews to Free SQL Reporting Services Add-On

    Microsoft may be setting its sights on business users with very little, if any, development expertise. 05/05/2004

  • News

    Opinion: Is Sun Losing its Spark?

    Great Scott, what's going on? Sun and Microsoft recently agreed to bury the hatchet and concentrate on integration, not instigation. Is this good news for customers? Yes and no. Yes because it's high time someone began making an effort to make systems more interoperable. No because when big vendors make nicey-nicey with each other, especially when lawyers are involved, it's often time to run the other way. 05/05/2004

  • News

    Longhorn Preview Gets Updated

    Microsoft readied another preview copy of "Longhorn," code-name for the next generation version of Windows, for attendees of its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle this week. 05/04/2004

  • News

    Allchin Updates Windows Server Roadmap at WinHEC

    Microsoft is now developing the Windows "Longhorn" server and Windows "Longhorn" client in lockstep, a change from the staggered development the company was previously pursuing for its next generation version of Windows. 05/04/2004

  • Enforcing Stronger Passwords

    Microsoft's password complexity filter: what's wrong with it and why you might need something better. 05/04/2004

  • News

    More Than 210 Million Copies of Windows XP Shipped

    Windows XP shipments topped 210 million between the October 2001 launch and March of this year, Microsoft said. 05/04/2004

  • News

    Windows XP for Extended Systems Now Slated for Q4

    Microsoft provided a finish line for its lengthy process of putting out a 64-bit edition of Windows XP that will support the AMD 64-bit processors. 05/04/2004

  • News

    Four Versions of Sasser Worm Spreading Chaos

    Four variants of Sasser, the first major worm to exploit flaws patched by Microsoft's huge security bug fixing patch last month, were wreaking havoc on computer networks. 05/04/2004

  • Digging Deep

    Build effective security moats with a defense-in-depth strategy. 05/03/2004

  • In-Depth

    Recalculate VS.NET Project Dependencies Automatically

    You can build a macro that recalculates and sets assembly dependencies upon request with the VS.NET automation model, even if your solution uses file references. 05/01/2004

  • In-Depth

    Windows Server 2003 Gains Traction

    The Windows Server 2003 rollout is rapid, according to a new survey. Key drivers are security, Active Directory and Exchange 2003. 05/01/2004

  • Share and SharePoint Alike

    Managing and sharing documents the Microsoft way. 05/01/2004

  • Trace Code With .NET

    Build a .NET Framework based class library that makes tracing a true asset to your development experience. 05/01/2004

  • Keep Data Consistent With Transactions

    Employ the manual and automatic transaction models supported by the .NET Framework to maintain consistent data in your applications. 05/01/2004

  • Welcome to Multiple Version Hell

    DLL Hell is largely a thing of the past with VS.NET and the .NET Framework. But having multiple versions of the same components can be trying in its own right. 05/01/2004

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