A drill-down into the themes and technologies on the drawing board for the next version of Microsoft Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 30, 2003
Software developers are in the crosshairs of Microsoft’s “Watson” initiative, now that the company is claiming success with the automated customer feedback program in improving the quality of its own software and third-party hardware drivers.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 30, 2003
Bill Gates kicked off the "Longhorn" generation of products in his Los Angeles keynote speech at the Professional Developers Conference, one of the most hotly anticipated Microsoft conferences in years.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 28, 2003
Microsoft refined its roadmap for future versions of Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio this week at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 28, 2003
Attendees at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week got their hands on enough code to keep them busy until formal public betas hit next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 28, 2003
As Microsoft floated some of its first real details on "Longhorn," "Yukon" and "Whidbey," IBM moved to pop Microsoft's buzz balloon with a code-named project of its own called "Stinger."
- By Scott Bekker
- October 27, 2003
With the launch of Exchange Server 2003 this week, Microsoft is beginning to trot out early adopter customers to show that the new e-mail server allows for huge reductions in messaging server numbers -- and a reduction in costs that makes the server upgrade pay for itself.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 24, 2003
Microsoft updated all of the security bulletins that the company put out in its first monthly security patch release.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 24, 2003
It could be an expensive mistake in large organizations, if the experience of early adopter customers and Microsoft itself is a guide.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2003
Microsoft beat analyst expectations slightly on Thursday with its financial results for the first quarter, but the company reported a bigger-than-expected drop in unearned revenue from multi-year licensing agreements (read Licensing 6.0).
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2003
If code-names for future Microsoft products like "Avalon," "Indigo," "Whidbey" and "Springboard" occasionally draw a blank for you, you're in good company.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2003
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer effectively closed the door on any Microsoft involvement in open-source initiatives, saying that the commercial approach to software development and sales provides the best security and value to enterprise customers.
- By Joe McKendrick
- October 22, 2003
NEW YORK -- Microsoft launched its 2003 version of Microsoft Office in a worldwide series of events that emphasized the advantages of deploying the desktop productivity applications with related back-end servers and services for collaboration and business process integration.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2003
Microsoft is making the complete version of its new notetaking application, OneNote 2003, available as a free, 60-day evaluation edition in an effort to promote one of the newest members of the Office program family.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday released Systems Management Server 2003 to manufacturing, clearing the way for a formal launch of the product at an IT show in Europe next month. Microsoft also released pricing and made a 120-day evaluation edition available.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2003
Recently, Microsoft announced the first public beta of its long-awaited Reporting Services software. Although Reporting Services won’t be available until later this year, BI professionals anxious to take the new product for a test drive can now do so. What can they expect to find? One report administrator, who’s participated in Microsoft’s private beta, says that he “can’t wait to replace everything [he has] with it.”
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 21, 2003
Many IT systems are underutilized, and do not have the flexibility to keep up with rapid changes in the businesses they support. That's the conclusion of Gartner analysts who kicked off this week's Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2003 conference in Orlando, Florida.
- By Joe McKendrick
- October 20, 2003
Microsoft has a new code-named project for security called "Springboard" that's designed to harden products already on the market.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2003
The next major business intelligence freebie in Microsoft's SQL Server database took a step closer to reality recently when Microsoft posted the Beta 2 of its Reporting Services for SQL Server 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2003
Microsoft keeps delivering or promising new SKUs of Windows Server 2003. After the original six versions the company launched on April 24, Microsoft has delivered or announced an additional seven splits of the server operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2003