DALLAS -- Microsoft senior vice president Paul Flessner used his TechEd keynote Monday to update Microsoft's roadmap for its enterprise products for the next four years or so. As part of a comprehensive roadmap, Flessner unveiled several milestones and new items, including Exchange Server 2003 RC1, the imminent RTM of Windows Storage Server 2003, a BizTalk Server 2004 Beta and a huge price drop in the SQL Server Developer Edition.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 02, 2003
Microsoft will pay AOL-Time Warner $750 million to settle the private antitrust lawsuit involving AOL's Netscape browser, the companies said Thursday afternoon.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 29, 2003
In a move to make its Office XP products more attractive to retail customers and small businesses, Microsoft cut prices for several suites and individual personal productivity applications on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 29, 2003
Microsoft this week rolled out changes to the controversial Software Assurance component of Licensing 6.0 in an attempt to make the program more attractive to customers. The changes don't make Software Assurance any cheaper, but Microsoft has thrown in additional services for the same price.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 28, 2003
The definition of the Microsoft Office System on Tuesday grew to include the forthcoming Microsoft Real-Time Communications Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 28, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday issued a cumulative patch for Internet Information Services that fixed four newly discovered flaws in the Web server. The most serious problem affects IIS 5.0 and 5.1 and is rated "important" by Microsoft. The Trustworthy Computing-scrubbed IIS 6.0, released as part of Windows Server 2003, is unaffected by any of the flaws.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 28, 2003
The SCO Group (SCO) last week shifted gears in what it describes as an effort to assert its intellectual property (IP) rights, which SCO claims have been illegally incorporated into the open source Linux operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2003
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