Microsoft on Tuesday had its biggest patch release day since instituting its monthly patching cycle in October, addressing 20 security vulnerabilities in several versions of Windows. Eight of the flaws represented critical security problems.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 13, 2004
- By Joe McKendrick
- April 12, 2004
Broadening its commitment to the use of its platform for increasingly sophisticated storage scenarios, Microsoft this week unveiled several new Windows Server 2003 add-ons.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 07, 2004
NEW YORK -- Microsoft kicked off its 20-city, two-month security tour this week with back-to-back summits here.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 07, 2004
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac will be released to manufacturing on April 14, Microsoft said this week. General availability is planned for the third week in May.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 07, 2004
Gartner's lead analyst on Windows server operating systems weighed in at the market research house's major IT conference last week on what form an updated release of Windows Server 2003 might take.
- By Linda Briggs
- April 06, 2004
As commercial versions of Linux climb the enterprise ladder, cost will become more of an issue with the open source operating system, according to a Gartner analyst.
- By Linda Briggs
- April 06, 2004
Microsoft will make part of its new enterprise reporting technology available as a Visual Studio control that can be embedded in applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 01, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- Although Bill Gates pointedly avoided confirming it here, Microsoft is more likely than not to ship an interim client operating system before the release of Longhorn, a Gartner analyst predicted.
- By Linda Briggs
- April 01, 2004
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sent an e-mail to make the case to customers and partners that the company is showing progress on security.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 31, 2004
Windows Small Business Server 2003 is being adopted at a much faster rate than the Windows 2000-based version of the product, Microsoft officials say.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 31, 2004
Move could significantly build momentum for the open-source operating system; IBM also announced that SuSE Linux will be a pre-loaded option across all of its eServer systems.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 30, 2004
In a far-ranging question-and-answer session, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates discussed his company’s R&D spending, last week’s mammoth European Commission fine, outsourcing at Microsoft -- and how he views his philanthropic spending.
- By Linda Briggs
- March 30, 2004
Microsoft consolidated its leadership position in the OLAP marketplace in 2003, but the software giant does not hold a dominant position and may slip slightly in 2004 due to continuing delays of "Yukon" and Microsoft's weak OLAP client technology, according to the OLAP Report.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 30, 2004
Security expert fired over controversial report that accused Microsoft of contributing to global insecurity now at Verdasys.
- By Keith Ward
- March 25, 2004
Anti-virus firms are warning users about a dangerous new variant of the NetSky mass-mailing worm that is flooding inboxes worldwide.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 25, 2004
Microsoft made a lot of changes to Windows XP Service Pack 2 between the beta stage in December and the Release Candidate 1 version that became widely available for download last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 25, 2004
Microsoft demonstrated software to help in-house enterprise developers use Microsoft's Watson technology to improve ongoing quality and maintenance of in-house applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 25, 2004
A sampling of commentary from participants and observers on the European Commission's ruling Wednesday on Microsoft. Includes commentary from Sun Microsystems, the Software & Information Industry Association, RealNetworks, the Cato Institute and others.
The European Commission on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to pay a record $613 million fine, offer a version of Windows that does not include the Windows Media Player and disclose to competitors the interfaces required to communicate with Windows. Microsoft will appeal.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 24, 2004