During Intel's launch of the "Truland" computing platform this week, a Microsoft executive laid out a roadmap of products that will be x64 and multi-core enabled this year and next.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 30, 2005
Microsoft on Wednesday night released to manufacturing the long-awaited Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. The company also released to manufacturing the x64 editions of Windows Server and Windows XP.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 30, 2005
A day after publicly accepting the European Commission's suggestion for naming the European version of Windows XP without Windows Media Player, Microsoft announced some further measures to comply with commission requirements.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 30, 2005
Intel on Tuesday launched its "Truland" platform, which represents the first time the chip giant has offered x86-based 64-bit extensions for the Intel Xeon processor MP chips designed for four-way and larger servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 29, 2005
Microsoft is working on a technology for Windows Longhorn called "Info-cards" that is designed to return control of personal data, such as credit cards and Social Security numbers, to users, according to a report published this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 29, 2005
Over the weekend, Microsoft posted the "Indigo" and "Avalon" community technology previews for free to anyone with the bandwidth to download them.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 28, 2005
Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 were both found to
be vulnerable to a very old form of Denial of Service attack known as a
"Land" attack. The attack involves sending a packet to a machine with
the source host/port the same as the destination host/port. This
results in the system attempting to reply to itself, causing it to lock
up.
- By Russ Cooper
- March 28, 2005
Microsoft and the European Commission settled on names for the version of Windows XP stripped of the Windows Media Player-- Windows XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional Edition N.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 28, 2005
Market research house IDC lowered its PC growth forecast this week for 2005 from the low double digits to the high single digits.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 24, 2005
Microsoft on Wednesday added retired J.P. Morgan Chase chief financial officer Dina Dublon to its board of directors and announced a quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 24, 2005
Microsoft is talking up a number of goodies for server infrastructure customers this month. They include a new version of the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer Tool, new customer guidance on isolating servers and domains for security and a new version of the iSCSI Software Initiator.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 24, 2005
A small Redmond, Wash.-based startup is shipping a new twist on outsourcing and turnkey solutions – a cluster of Exchange 2003 servers in a single box, replete with subscription-based third-party management, monitoring and maintenance. And, no, that’s not a cutesy turn of phrase referring to Microsoft.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 23, 2005
Dell Wednesday rolled out two new high-performance, four-processor servers targeted at database processing and other enterprise-level data center uses. The company also announced the Data Center Environment Assessment, a service aimed at helping customers analyze their current data centers in order to appropriately design for air flow and power requirements of more demanding server environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 23, 2005
IBM and VMware announced Wednesday that the computer giant will ship six-month trial versions of VMware’s virtualization products with its blade servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 23, 2005
Microsoft this week unveiled pricing for its Visual Studio 2005 family of integrated development environment products.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 22, 2005
Microsoft created new packaging for its MapPoint application and location Web service tailored to organizations managing fleets of vehicles.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 22, 2005
In this week's SecurityWatch column, Russ Cooper tackles physical security issues surrounding Bank of America's "loss" of computer backup tapes, the hacking vulnerability inherent in leftover FTP servers and issues raised by a recent Bagle variant.
- By Russ Cooper
- March 22, 2005
Microsoft renamed and put out a release candidate for Windows Update Services on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 22, 2005
Users encountered problems after applying a Feb. 8 patch.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 17, 2005
IBM announced this week it is buying data integration software firm Ascential for approximately $1.1 billion in cash.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 17, 2005