Microsoft released three security bulletins for Windows on Tuesday, its monthly date for patching security problems. Two of the security bulletins involve critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a user's system over the Internet. The patches are especially important because both critical vulnerabilities had already been publicly disclosed.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 11, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday provided the first version of the malicious software removal tool that it first promised last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 11, 2005
Microsoft offered a widespread beta of a new anti-spyware tool for Windows users on Thursday. The availability of the software marked an extremely quick rebranding and rerelease of the anti-spyware technology Microsoft purchased last month from Giant Company Software.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 06, 2005
Microsoft will post three security bulletins for flaws in Windows next Tuesday. At least one of the bulletins will cover a critical flaw.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 06, 2005
ThinPrint is shipping its .print Remote Desktop Printing Engine for Microsoft Terminal Services 2003. The product is the newest in its line of printing solutions for Windows terminal services users.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 06, 2005
It's always interesting to look back and see which stories attracted the most attention from you over the last year in terms of clicks.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 05, 2005
Over the holidays, VMware began beta testing Workstation 5, the latest update to the company’s five-year-old desktop virtualization platform.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 05, 2005
Microsoft will no longer support Intel's high-end Itanium 2 processor in workstation and low-end server operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 05, 2005
The clock is ticking for California businesses and consumers to make claims in the largest of the class-action lawsuit settlement agreements resulting from the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 05, 2005
Intel and HP announced this month that the chip manufacturer will take over all further development of the two companies’ Itantium family of processors. Though most terms of the deal were not disclosed, Intel will hire HP’s Itanium chip design team, which is located in Fort Collins, Colo.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 23, 2004
Microsoft has scrapped plans for a 2005 delivery of Exchange Edge Services, a set of technologies for e-mail protection and spam management that builds on Exchange Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 22, 2004
Microsoft's effort to delay European antitrust measures until the end of the appeals process failed with the release of an order Wednesday by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 22, 2004
Citrix Systems and Microsoft announced this week a new technology cross-licensing deal meant to assure the continued enhancement of Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite for Microsoft Windows Terminal Services.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 22, 2004
Microsoft released six new security patches in December, but only five official
Security Bulletins. For some strange reason a patch released on the
same day as the normal monthly patches -- for Windows XP SP2 only --
didn't rate a full Security Bulletin.
- By Russ Cooper
- December 21, 2004
Developers for Microsoft Office are getting their first dedicated conference from Microsoft early next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 21, 2004
Oracle and VMware announced this week that they will work together to market solutions that combine the two companies’ products. Under the agreement, Oracle will develop, test and support its 10g database and applications products to run on VMware’s operating environment virtualization products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 16, 2004
In a Q&A on the Microsoft Web site, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates tackled a handful of questions that Microsoft says are the ones he is most commonly asked.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 16, 2004
Despite the long-standing animosity between Oracle and Microsoft, the database giant clearly demonstrated its understanding of the need to more strongly support Windows at last week’s Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 15, 2004
For its "Patch Tuesday" this month, Microsoft delivered five security bulletins for what it called "important" security flaws, including one publicly known flaw in the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS).
- By Scott Bekker
- December 15, 2004
Vintela just shipped version 1.0 of its Vintela Management Extensions in August, but the Lindon, Utah company is on a roll – it shipped version 1.1 this week. The new release expands on version 1.0’s ability to enable Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to manage non-Windows environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 15, 2004