Microsoft on Thursday officially posted the fourth service pack for Windows 2000.
SP4 comes about 11 months after Service Pack 3 and, like SP3, is a recommended update. The fix list includes more than 650 issues with an emphasis on security, application and hardware compatibility, Windows 2000 setup and operating system reliability.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 26, 2003
Microsoft will release Exchange Server 2003 to manufacturing on Monday, company officials said Thursday. The company plans to hold prices steady from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003 and will include more flexible licensing options for the messaging server, as well.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 26, 2003
Longhorn changes the rules of the NAS game, but performance and price still matter most when shopping for NAS devices.
- By Jon William Toigo
- June 26, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday released an updated version of a tool to help system integrators and other Microsoft partners build business intelligence applications atop SQL Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 25, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday put out a pair of security bulletins, including one alerting users to an important security flaw affecting the Windows 2000 servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 25, 2003
Dell officials on Wednesday said the company would ship two-way servers based on the upcoming Itanium 2 “Madison” 64-bit processor. The announcement marks the computermaker’s return to Itanium, after skipping the “McKinley” generation of the chip.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 25, 2003
Microsoft has gone outside the company to fill the position of chief privacy strategist. Peter Cullen, the corporate privacy officer for Royal Bank of Canada, will join Microsoft on July 14.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 24, 2003
A few weeks after introducing a blockbuster list of changes to Licensing 6.0, Microsoft gave the licensing program another significant tweak in allowing customers with standard edition server software to upgrade to the enterprise edition at a reasonable price.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 24, 2003
As top ERP vendors battle in court and in corporate boardrooms, newly published Gartner research shows that the Enterprise Resource Planning market was on the decline in 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 18, 2003
HP launched a business mobility push on Wednesday that involves new laptops, handhelds and a rebate program for trade-in PCs.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 18, 2003
Holding out of the Microsoft antitrust settlement paid off in a big way for West Virginia. The state, one of the poorest in the nation, settled on Monday with the software giant for $21 million in cash and vouchers.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 17, 2003
Microsoft opened a legal offensive against spammers on Tuesday through a flurry of lawsuits filed in Washington state and the United Kingdom.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 17, 2003
In response to the publication of the SQL Slammer source code in a major industry magazine, Microsoft officials are warning users to make sure they've taken advantage of the rash of SQL Slammer defenses on the Microsoft Web site.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 12, 2003
Corporate instant messaging will take off in the next four years, according to a new study by messaging researchers at The Radicati Group.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 12, 2003
About two years and 4,100 customers into a storage partnership, Dell and EMC have decided that the arrangement is working out well enough to extend it.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 11, 2003
Investing money in intrusion detection and prevention technologies is a mistake because the systems are failing to provide value and will be obsolete by 2005, according to research analysts at Gartner.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 11, 2003
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it has bought the intellectual property and technology assets of a small Romanian antivirus vendor, but Microsoft left its intentions very fuzzy for how extensively it intends to get involved in the antivirus market.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 10, 2003
A variant of the Bugbear mass-mailing worm started hitting corporate networks late last week, prompting the first worm alert since Microsoft launched its Virus Information Alliance.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 10, 2003
Underwhelmed by the feature set of Exchange Server 2003? There’s still a bogeyman that could push you, the entrenched Exchange 5.5 user, to make the move to the new version of Exchange: The probability that Microsoft will phase out support for the aging messaging system by the end of 2003.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 09, 2003
Many Exchange administrators cite Exchange 2003’s improved spam-filtering capabilities as another attractive feature of the new messaging platform.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 09, 2003