Critics frequently allege that new security fixes come out of Microsoft on a daily basis. Most days that's an exaggeration. Wednesday night, however, Microsoft made the hyperbole seem tame by posting four new security bulletins to its Web site. They involved critical vulnerabilities in SQL Server and the Windows Help Active X control and moderate vulnerabilities in three client versions of Windows and the Services for Unix 3.0 Interix SDK.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 03, 2002
IBM Corp.’s Lotus Software Group on Tuesday officially took the wraps off of the long-awaited Release 6 (R6) of its Notes and Domino messaging and collaboration products. The major enhancements to Notes/Domino since Lotus last refreshed the products almost three years ago involve efforts directed at reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 02, 2002
Microsoft this week released the beta code for Systems Management Server 2003, a follow-up product to the aging Systems Management Server 2.0. Little has changed in terms of features since this spring when Microsoft formally unveiled the SMS 2003 name for the product formerly known by the code-name "Topaz".
- By Scott Bekker
- October 02, 2002
An independent security vendor based in London, mi2g, says September was the third consecutive record-setting month for what it calls "overt digital attacks." Windows systems made up the lion's share of targeted systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2002
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- By Dian Schaffhauser
- October 01, 2002
Antivirus vendors warned customers on Tuesday that corporate networks worldwide were being hit by a new worm, appropriately called Bugbear, which is listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a synonym for "problem."
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2002
Microsoft publicized a critical new vulnerability for Web servers running its FrontPage Server Extensions.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 26, 2002
Microsoft grew its share of shipments in the server operating environment market in 2001 by seven percentage points even as the overall market declined by about one percent, according to market researchers at IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 25, 2002
IBM on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of Intel-based server blades, which allow users to stack about twice as many blades per rack as the current 1U generation of server blades. IBM expects to ship the blades, which will support Windows, Linux and Novell NetWare on Xeon processors, in November.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 24, 2002
Earlier this month at its Server DevCon event in Seattle, Microsoft professed its support for Java, describing Visual J# .NET as a primary language for the .NET Framework. And though developer interest seems low, Microsoft continues to insist J# is equally important in the .NET scheme of things as its flagship languages Visual C# .NET and Visual Basic .NET.
- By Matt Migliore
- September 23, 2002
In Windows 2000, Microsoft packaged a Process Control tool for workload management only in its high-end Windows 2000 Datacenter Server product. The OEMs who sell Windows Datacenter systems have typically layered on additional functionality with their own workload management technologies drawn from Unix or mainframe product lines. This month, Hewlett-Packard made its workload management tool more attractive to lower-end Windows Server users.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 23, 2002
Although Web services is finally starting to gain momentum as the latest “it” technology for enterprises, one of the concept’s base-level standards, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, has been particularly slow out of the gate.
- By Matt Migliore
- September 23, 2002
Two months after being acquired by storage networking vendor FalconStor Software, IP Metrics is shipping an update to its four-year-old network card failover and load balancing software that moves the solution up the fault-tolerant networking stack.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 23, 2002
Microsoft issued a patch early Thursday fixing two critical vulnerabilities in its controversial Microsoft Virtual Machine, Microsoft's middleware for implementing Java code on Windows machines.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 19, 2002
An advocacy group this week submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that Microsoft's efforts to comply with the antitrust settlement through changes implemented in its recent Windows XP and Windows 2000 service packs are "hopelessly inadequate and misleading."
- By Scott Bekker
- September 19, 2002
It's no secret that many companies are holding off from migrating to the advanced features of Windows 2000, such as Active Directory, as well as to Windows XP on the client side. It also appears that companies will be slow on the uptake for migrating to Windows.NET as these server operating systems roll out. IT budgets are tight, and companies don't see the urgency to moving to new versions of Windows. However, companies that procrastinate on these migrations do so at their own peril, a Yankee Group analyst warned in a recent teleconference sponsored by the consultancy.
- By Joe McKendrick
- September 19, 2002
IBM's next release of its DB2 universal database, version 8.1, will come with much lower prices for mid-market customers and higher prices for enterprise customers, especially for those deploying high-end clustered configurations. DB2 8.1 for Windows, Linux, and Unix will ship on November 21.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 19, 2002
Microsoft this week put out a second version of the handheld edition of its SQL Server database. Aside from the usual performance enhancement work, Microsoft crammed several new features into the compact database. The download availability of SQL Server CE 2.0 was simultaneous with a private Beta 2 release of the Visual Studio "Everett" developer toolset.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 18, 2002
A lot of attention around Web services has been hype, and many necessary standards are not in place. Nonetheless, analysts at Gartner said this week that even cautious companies need to begin Web services pilot programs in 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 18, 2002
Microsoft recently altered its licensing with Windows Datacenter Server to allow for four-processor licensing packs. The change makes it easier for customers to license and use Datacenter for its high availability features.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2002