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It's Official: Windows 7 Available Oct. 22

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

Exchange 2000 Server Versions and Licensing

By Tony Redmond, 06/26/2000

On June 16, 2000, Microsoft announced details of Exchange 2000 Server licensing and packaging.

Novell Earnings Below Expectation

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 ...

128-Way NT Coming Your Way

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 ...

Analysts Debate ASP Market's Future

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 ...

IDC Publishes High Availability Survey

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 ...

Microsoft Criticized for Outlook Love Bug Patch; Changes Tune

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 ...

Outlook Patched After Recent Viruses

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 ...

Cisco Acquires Qeyton Systems

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 ...

Prominent CEOs Jumping Ship to Start ASPs

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.

New Love Packs a Wallop

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 ...

Most Dangerous Variant of VBS/Loveletter Yet

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 ...

Dataquest Publishes 1999 Database Market Analysis

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 ...

Intel Reorganizes

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 ...

Microsoft Project Released, Certification Announced

By , 05/12/2000

Microsoft has announced availability of Microsoft Project 2000 and Microsoft Project Central.

Microsoft Responds to the DOJ

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.

Xerox and Microsoft Form Digital Rights Management Company

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 ...

EMC Unveils Several Upgrades

By C. Thi Nguyen, 05/08/2000

EMC recently made several announcements about its product line.

Microsoft Windows 2000 Embedded Doesn’t Stick Around

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 ...

Love Letter Virus – An Update

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.

New Virus Loves You

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 ...

Office 2000 SR-1 Troublesome to Some

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 ...

DOJ and States File Proposed Remedy

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 ...

FileMaker Developer 5 Ships

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, ...

Discovering Additional Derogatory Netscape References

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.

Microsoft and Andersen’s Billion Dollar Baby

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 ...

Pocket PCs Launch in Grand Central Station

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 ...

IBM Announces DB2 Universal Database Version 7

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.”

Dell’s New Strategy Includes Appliance Servers

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, ...

Forrester Critiques IBM's WebSphere Everyplace

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 ...

An Analyst's View of the Microsoft Antitrust Case

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 ...

Netscape 6 Preview Available

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, ...

Banyan Becomes ePresence

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 ...

Microsoft Announces BackOffice 2000 Server

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.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 2

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.

SHYM Ships Application Security Server

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 ...

Judge Issues Conclusions of Law

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 ...

IBM Hardens Its Servers, Adds SANs Connection

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.

Microsoft Settlement Talks Break Down

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 ...

Microsoft Announces Office 2000 Service Release 1

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.

Unicenter: The Next Dimension

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 ...

3Com Leaves Enterprise Networking Space

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.

Windows 2000 Passes the Million Unit Shipped Mark

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 ...

MetaFrame for UNIX Rises with Sun Solaris

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 ...

1GHz Processor Explosion

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 ...

Lotus Notes Outships Exchange Server in 1999

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 ...

Small Business Server 2000 to Appear Third Quarter 2000

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 ...

IBM Reveals Edge of Network Strategy

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 ...

Novell Introduces Net Services

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 ...

IDC Declares: Post-PC Era Starts Now

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 ...

Lotus Phasing Out cc:Mail

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 ...

Novell Open Sources Directory Toolkit

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 ...

First Round of Windows 2000 Patches Released

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 ...

Lotus Announces Knowledge Management Server

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 ...

Microsoft Releases Windows 2000 Readiness Kit for BackOffice 4.5

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) ...

Microsoft Announces Exchange 2000 Server RC1 and Conferencing Server

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 ...

BindView Buys Entevo in Bid for Market Dominance in Directory Management

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 ...

IBM Releases Enterprise Internet Print Server for Win2K and NT

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 ...

Windows 2000 Launches—Finally!

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, ...

HP Releases Automated Security Product for NT Web Servers

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 ...


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