By Zac Wiggy, 06/02/2009
Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing in July and generally available on October 22
By Tony Redmond, 06/26/2000
On June 16, 2000, Microsoft announced details of Exchange 2000 Server licensing and packaging.
By C. Thi Nguyen, 06/02/2000
Novell announced the results of its second financial quarter 2000, which ended April 30. Earnings are lower than expected at $300 million or $0.08 a share. Analysts had expected ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/31/2000
Times N Systems, a privately held start-up company in Austin, Texas, is promising 128-way Windows NT clustering technology, with 20 to 30 percent faster performance than ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/30/2000
Recently, research firms International Data Corporation (IDC) and Forrester Research examined the application service provider (ASP) market and released reports that offer ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/29/2000
International Data Corporation (IDC) has issued its annual high-availability (HA) server marketplace survey by category for 1997 through 2003. IDC projects that the HA server ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/26/2000
Microsoft announced late Wednesday, May 24, that it will delay the Outlook patch until the week ending June 2. Microsoft now plans to include the ability to modify the list of ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/24/2000
Microsoft plans to release an Outlook security patch in the wake of the devastation wrought by the Loveletter (aka Love Bug) virus, a Visual Basic (VB) Script bug that propagated ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/22/2000
Cisco has announced it has acquired Qeyton Systems of Stockholm, Sweden. Qeyton develops the Metropolitan Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (MDWDM) technology, which uses multiple ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/19/2000
Industry leaders from companies such as Novell and Microsoft are leaving to take their chances with application service provider start ups.
By Mark Joseph Edwards, 05/19/2000
As expected, several variations of the Love Letter worm are making their way around the Internet. However, the latest rendition, named New Love, is far meaner and trickier than ...
By Sue Mosher, 05/19/2000
A new variant of the VBS/Loveletter virus is loose today. Officially dubbed VBS.NewLove.A or VBS.Loveletter.FW.A, this virus disables Windows systems by replacing all files not in ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/17/2000
GartnerGroup's Dataquest unit has released its findings on the 1999 database market. "Oracle and IBM are still virtually neck and neck for the top position in the overall database ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/15/2000
In late April, Intel announced plans to merge its Microprocessor Products and Architecture Business groups, combining its chipset research and development group with its more ...
By , 05/12/2000
Microsoft has announced availability of Microsoft Project 2000 and Microsoft Project Central.
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/11/2000
Calling the government’s breakup proposal unjust, unprecedented, and excessive, Microsoft called for a dismissal of the proposal, and offered its own proposal yesterday.
By Mark Joseph Edwards, 05/10/2000
At WinHEC, Microsoft recently announced a joint venture with Xerox called ContentGuard, a startup Internet company that will provide digital rights management (DRM) software ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/08/2000
EMC recently made several announcements about its product line.
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/05/2000
Microsoft has formed a 500-person development group to focus on the embedded OS space, deployment strategies, and strengthening the Powered by Windows brand name. The new ...
By Editors, 05/05/2000
Variations of the newly discovered Love Letter virus, a Visual Basic (VB)-based script that arrives with a message subject of "ILOVEYOU," are already spreading.
By Mark Joseph Edwards, 05/04/2000
A new virus is spreading rapidly through email as a file attachment targeted at Outlook and Internet Explorer users. The newly discovered virus comes in the form of a Visual Basic ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/03/2000
Sporadic reports indicate that Microsoft's recent upgrade to Microsoft Office 2000, Service Release 1 (SR-1), is causing some problems. The problem isn't widespread, but it's ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/01/2000
After the markets closed on Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 17 of the 19 states' attorneys general involved filed a proposal to split Microsoft into two separate ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/01/2000
FileMaker has shipped FileMaker Developer 5, completing the introduction of its workgroup server product line. Other products in this line include the FileMaker Pro 5 client, ...
By Editors, 04/28/2000
The “Netscape engineers are weenies” reference in Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0 earlier this month might not be just an isolated incident.
By C. Thi Nguyen, 04/28/2000
Avanade is a joint venture between Microsoft and Andersen Consulting to start a company that provides enterprise services for Windows 2000. At the moment, Avanade consists of a ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 04/26/2000
Times are good in New York where the Yankees are winning. Microsoft hoped to capture some of that pinstripe magic on Monday, April 17, when it introduced Pocket PC, the second ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 04/24/2000
IBM announced DB2 Universal Database Version 7, which the company bills as “the world’s first fully integrated e-business database.”
By C. Thi Nguyen, 04/21/2000
On April 5, Dell announced a new comprehensive business strategy aimed at Internet specialization and including new business partnerships, Internet access pledges and initiatives, ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 04/19/2000
In March, IBM launched WebSphere Everyplace, a suite at the center of IBM's wireless Web effort, with technologies such as data synching and WAP functionality. This service ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 04/17/2000
Shortly after Judge Jackson's Conclusions of Law finding Microsoft guilty of monopolistic behavior, Giga Group released Rob Enderle's report "Planning Assumption: Strategic ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 04/14/2000
On April 5, AOL Chairman Steve Case introduced Netscape 6 Preview Release 1, Netscape's next-generation Internet browser. After 3 years of incremental upgrades to version 4.x, ...
By , 04/12/2000
Banyan, a long-time presence in the enterprise networking market, has reformed as a pure-play Internet services company. Banyan put its legacy products, such as Banyan Vines, on ...
By , 04/10/2000
On April 3, Microsoft announced that it will release BackOffice Server 2000 later this year and that it will provide pricing information as the release date approaches.
By , 04/07/2000
On March 30, Microsoft released SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2), which fixes bugs in both SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) 1.0.
By , 04/05/2000
SHYM Technologies began shipping PKEnable V2, a server-based middleware security system that authenticates transactions between applications on different servers. PKEnable offers ...
By , 04/04/2000
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his Conclusions of Law on the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ), 19 states' attorneys general, and the ...
By Joshua Feinberg, 04/03/2000
IBM continues to push into the Windows 2000 (Win2K) enterprise server space by announcing two new 4-way servers, the Netfinity 7100 and Netfinity 7600.
By , 04/03/2000
Last Friday, it became apparent that the talks aimed at settling the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft by 19 states and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) had reached an impasse ...
By Joshua Feinberg, 03/31/2000
Microsoft has announced the release of Office 2000 Service Release 1 (SR1), a free upgrade for Microsoft’s flagship application suite.
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/29/2000
Computer Associates (CA) announced the general availability of the first beta of Unicenter TND (The Next Dimension), the latest version of Unicenter TNG (The Next Generation), the ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/27/2000
3Com is changing direction radically, discarding its enterprise networking products to focus on consumer, small- to medium-size business, and network service provider products.
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/24/2000
Microsoft announced that Windows 2000 (Win2K) sales surpassed the 1-million-unit sales mark less than 1 month after its official ship date. That figure doesn't include large ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/22/2000
Citrix, which leads the pack in providing thin-client solutions in the Windows 2000 (Win2K) and Windows NT space, released MetaFrame for Solaris 1.0, the first release in its ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/20/2000
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel have both released 1GHz processors. Although AMD was first to market with its 1GHz Athlon, Intel's 1GHz Pentium III tests slightly faster in ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/17/2000
In a year of tremendous growth, Lotus Notes outshipped Microsoft Exchange Server by 3 million seats in the fourth quarter of 1999, according to Messaging Online. This surge in ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/15/2000
Microsoft is readying the next version of Small Business Server (SBS), called SBS 2000, which the company expects to release in the third quarter of 2000. SBS is the central ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/13/2000
IBM has begun to articulate its Edge of Network (EON) strategy, which joins servers, desktops, and laptops with the next generation of portable, wearable, and multifunction ...
By , 03/10/2000
On February 8, Novell unveiled Net services, a suite of products aimed at establishing NetWare as the infrastructure platform of choice for e-commerce. Products in the suite ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/08/2000
The post-PC era is coming straight at you, says the latest report from IDC, which predicts that information-appliance shipments will exceed consumer PC shipments by 2002, and that ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/06/2000
Lotus is retiring cc:Mail, its early LAN messaging platform. The company will stop selling cc:Mail on the last day of October 2000; online technical support will continue for 1 ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/03/2000
Novell is open sourcing an LDAP directory toolkit to let developers create applications that interoperate with a variety of directory services. The company plans to release the ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 03/01/2000
Microsoft has already released its first batch of Windows 2000 (Win2K) patches, only days after the release of Win2K. The patches include one Critical Pack with several fixes and ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 02/28/2000
Lotus Development announced its forthcoming knowledge management (KM) server, code-named Raven, at IBM's Lotusphere conference held in Orlando, Florida, January 16 to 20. Raven is ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 02/25/2000
Microsoft has released the Windows 2000 Readiness Kit for BackOffice 4.5. This kit provides patches for all Microsoft BackOffice components to ensure their Windows 2000 (Win2K) ...
By Joshua Feinberg, 02/23/2000
On Tuesday, February 22, Microsoft announced the availability of Exchange 2000 Server Release Candidate 1 (RC1) and Microsoft Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server, the newest member ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 02/21/2000
BindView, a well-known Windows NT security and configuration administration company, will acquire Entevo, maker of the DirectManage directory administration suite, at the end of ...
By Kathy Ivens, 02/18/2000
On February 1, IBM announced Infoprint Manager for Windows NT and Windows 2000 (Win2K), a print server that lets you send and manage print jobs over the Internet with the Internet ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 02/18/2000
Microsoft launched Windows 2000 (Win2K) on Thursday, February 17 at the 3-day Windows 2000 Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Bill Gates, ...
By C. Thi Nguyen, 02/16/2000
On January 17 at the RSA 2000 Security Conference, Hewlett-Packard released Praesidium WebEnforcer for Windows NT, a new product for securing NT-based Web servers. HP claims that ...