Microsoft changed the name of the family of server operating systems it plans to release next year to Windows .NET Server 2003, company representatives said late Thursday.
The new name is the fourth for the family of server operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2002
Microsoft alerted users to a critical vulnerability involving an ActiveX control that ships in all supported Windows clients. A patch is available.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2002
The first service pack for Windows XP will be distributed within 10 days, the financial news agency Bloomberg reported. Microsoft discussed its plans with financial reporters in the context of its antitrust agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 28, 2002
The new HP saw revenues sink and weathered a large loss in its first financial quarter operating as the product of the controversial merger between computer giants Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 28, 2002
Intel rolled out new versions of its premier desktop processors this week. The latest Pentium 4 desktop chips are closing in on the 3-GHz clockspeed threshold. Intel released Pentium 4s in speeds of 2.8 GHz, 2.66 GHz, 2.60 GHz and 2.50 GHz.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2002
Summer break? What summer break? Microsoft's security teams demonstrated that they're not sleeping during the dog days of summer this year when they issued patches for eight newly discovered security problems last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2002
Microsoft released a downloadable service built on its flagship SQL Server 2000 database for generating personalized notification messages for different client devices.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2002
It's all about timing. Microsoft formally synchronized the release of the next version of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework with Windows .NET Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 22, 2002
IBM Corp. will introduce an entry level version of its new modular, Intel-based servers.
On Aug. 30, IBM will begin offering two-way versions of the eServer x440 servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 22, 2002
Iomega Corp., best known for its handy Zip personal storage drives, is getting into the game of "Windows Powered" Network-Attached Storage by releasing devices running Windows 2000 technology.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 21, 2002
The market shares of the major Web servers surge and ebb with the fortunes of the largest Web hosters. When major ISPs go out of business or shift to Apache or to Internet Information Services, market shares for the platforms, as tracked by researchers at U.K.-based Netcraft, rise or fall.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 21, 2002
Rational Software is delivering a .NET Edition of its visual design and development environment. The Rational XDE Professional: .NET Edition earns the Microsoft .NET part of its name by supporting Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 21, 2002
Microsoft created a new cumulative patch for SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000. A fix for a new flaw involving extended stored procedures in SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 prompted Microsoft to roll up all the recent SQL Server patches.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 20, 2002
Microsoft warned users of an important new flaw in Windows 2000. A hacker could use an elaborate process to elevate his or her privileges through a security problem in the Network Connection Manager (NCM) within Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 20, 2002
A security company released information this week about what it calls an "extremely high risk" vulnerability involving the Apache open source Web server running on non-Unix platforms, such as Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 15, 2002
IT professionals interested in the stand-alone version of Active Directory for applications that Microsoft started discussing last month can find out more about the technology in a new white paper on Microsoft's Web site.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 15, 2002
Economic downturns can be bright spots for certain industries. That appears to be partially the case with thin client computing.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 14, 2002
Dell and EMC this week released the first new piece of storage hardware under their five-year partnership unveiled in October.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 14, 2002
HP, which was supposed to be plagued by merger-related malaise and confusion in the second quarter of the calendar year, instead roared through the quarter in terms of U.S. server sales, according to a study by Gartner's Dataquest market research arm.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 14, 2002
Linux used to be about the little guy, independent developers working to perfect the grassroots operating system. But the loudest voices at this week’s LinuxWorld Expo are the giants of enterprise computing, IBM and Sun.