Microsoft has assembled a bundle of third-party wireless products for a promotion next month to allow mid-market customers to administer Windows Server 2003 remotely from a handheld device.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2003
Only 20 days in, May 2003 had already broken the record for the most overt digital attacks in one month, according to digital risk assessment firm mi2g.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2003
Microsoft is stepping up to the plate a little more on virus response this week with the creation of the Virus Information Alliance, a partnership with Network Associates and Trend Micro.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 21, 2003
Microsoft released the first public beta this week of its Microsoft Office Visio 2003 business drawing and diagramming software.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 21, 2003
New research on the database market from Gartner on Wednesday quantifies in yet another area the case for arguing that 2002 was the worst year yet for IT. But the research also supports another trend -- no matter how bad things got, Microsoft kept growing and churning out profits.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 21, 2003
The new systems support Windows and Unix in mixed environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 20, 2003
HP hoisted its Superdome-Itanium-Windows combination to the top of the premier OLTP scalability benchmark on Tuesday, about a month after originally gaining the top spot and little more than a week after IBM displaced the combo with a system based on its own AIX/RISC/DB2 stack.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 20, 2003
A new mass mailing worm spoofs Microsoft's domain name to deliver a payload disguised as an attachment from Microsoft. The worm was discovered by anti-virus vendors over the weekend and it picked up momentum Monday as users fired up their mailboxes for the work week.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2003
Microsoft created a slush fund to heavily discount or even give away Windows in cases where the software giant was about to lose large international deals to Linux, according to published reports.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 15, 2003
Intel acknowledged a flaw this week in its Itanium 2 processors that have been shipping since July. The problem could cause systems to crash.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 14, 2003
HP on Wednesday began shipping a new two-way ProLiant server that shows how far the Windows/Intel/industry-standard hardware bloc has come.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 14, 2003
AMD bumped up the performance of its Athlon XP line this week with the release of its 3200+ model.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 14, 2003
Mere weeks after its years-long drive up the TPC-C benchmark performance charts culminated in the top position, Microsoft lost out late last week to a Unix system from IBM. Microsoft, no doubt, will be back, but the result shows that the Unix camp has far from ceded the premiere OLTP scalability benchmark to the upstart Windows-Intel side of the market.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 13, 2003
A mass-mailing worm known as Fizzer broke out late last week and is
getting more attention from a prominent security vendor Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 13, 2003
Officially, your users shouldn't be downloading Windows Media Player skins at work. Realistically, some of them probably are, and it's worthwhile to pay attention to a critical new security vulnerability patched by Microsoft Wednesday night.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 08, 2003
Microsoft put a new emphasis on Digital Rights Management technologies, such as the service planned as an add-on for Windows Server 2003, on Wednesday night with an e-mail to customers from company CEO Steve Ballmer.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 08, 2003
NEW ORLEANS -- The next client version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," will appear in two beta versions during 2004 and come to market in 2005, a Microsoft official said Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 07, 2003
NEW ORLEANS -- Microsoft gave hardware developers a taste of the Windows operating systems it is working on for AMD's 64-bit processors this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 07, 2003
NEW ORLEANS -- Just because Windows Server 2003 launched a few weeks ago doesn't mean Microsoft is finished with it. In a WinHEC keynote Wednesday about the future of Windows servers, Dave Thompson detailed dozens of major improvements to the server platform that will be released in the coming months and years.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 07, 2003
Take solace from the annoyance of those pop-up Windows Error Reports in the knowledge that Microsoft is bugging its industry partners just as much to exploit the information surfaced by the reports.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 06, 2003