Based on the restored demand for enterprise servers that began late last year, researchers at IDC are predicting strong growth for server systems through 2008, especially for Linux- and Windows-based boxes.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 17, 2004
Veritas Software Corp. this week released an incremental update to its flagship, heterogeneous backup product that includes several key enhancements for Windows-based environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 17, 2004
A week after the controversial disclosure that Microsoft had been in merger talks with ERP giant SAP, Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled the roadmap for its own fledgling bundle of four ERP products.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 16, 2004
Microsoft is leaning toward offering a paid anti-virus subscription service.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 16, 2004
AMD completed design of its AMD64 dual-core processor and plans to deliver the chips to the x86 server market in the middle of next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 16, 2004
Microsoft posted the second release candidate for Windows XP Service Pack 2, but the software giant is refusing to say when it hopes to ship the final version of the service pack, which amounts to a minor new release of the Windows client.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2004
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, which hit the release candidate stage on Monday, will come in two editions when it ships.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2004
Users running fully patched versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable to a new exploit in the wild that has been used to load adware onto systems whose owners did nothing more than click on a malicious Web address, according to security researchers.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 10, 2004
Marathon Technologies is back -- out of bankruptcy and up to speed with support for Windows Server 2003 in its fault-tolerant software systems that use industry-standard hardware.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 10, 2004
Microsoft this week formally delivered the appeal the company promised in March when the European Commission ruled against Microsoft in its five-year-old antitrust investigation.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2004
Dell is taking a second crack at the four-way Itanium space.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2004
Big Blue expects a booming desktop replacement cycle, this year and next
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 09, 2004
A problem with Crystal Reports is one of two moderate vulnerabilities that Microsoft addressed in its monthly "Patch Tuesday" release.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 08, 2004
A pair of security researchers has tried to assess the worst case scenario for a worm attack on the United States targeting commonly used services in the ubiquitous Windows platform. The figure they came up with is $50 billion.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 07, 2004
Microsoft confirmed on Monday that the company initiated merger talks late last year with enterprise software vendor SAP AG.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 07, 2004
Microsoft late Tuesday posted its updated list of product support deadlines in the wake of the announcement of a new 10-year product support lifecycle. The list confirms that Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange Server 5.5 aren't grandfathered into the new program.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 02, 2004
Microsoft on Wednesday released two more of its loss-leader business intelligence accelerator toolsets.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 02, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft didn't manage to get Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 out the door in time for its TechEd conference here, but the company did go ahead and unveil pricing for its second-generation firewall, VPN and Web caching server.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 27, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft began taking sign ups for participation in the SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 program this week at its Microsoft TechEd show here as the long-awaited test version of the product gets close to availability.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 27, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft used its TechEd conference to lay out some of the features planned for the next version of Windows Server 2003, code-named "R2."
- By Scott Bekker
- May 27, 2004