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Tiers of an application developer
News What's been lacking in the move from client-server applications to Internet applications to logical n-tier designs is some guidance on what functions should logically reside in each tier and how they can be stitched together to form a cohesive...
[October 23, 2002, 10:34]
Intel seeks profit in dual cores
News We have the ability to turn 64 bits on as soon as the [forthcoming] Microsoft [64-bit Windows operating system] is completed and validated," Otellini said. Intel may also jump to 64 bits with its dual-core desktop chips, a measure it already...
[May 14, 2004, 9:00]
Dearer Linux servers gain sales
News Microsoft identified Linux as a top threat, and indeed Linux servers outgrew Windows servers. Gartner, IDC's major rival, reported its 2003 server sales figures on Wednesday. With the server market's heavy pricing pressure, revenue growth has...
[February 27, 2004, 8:05]
High-profile New Zealand websites hacked
News Microsoft's main site was defaced, together with the sites for MSN, Windows Live, Hotmail and MSDN. The source believed the hackers were able to inject name server records for the domains in question through Domainz.
[April 21, 2009, 14:35]
Virtualisation gets ready for the mainstream
News While Microsoft's Windows and management tools for the operating system are not being relegated to the sidelines, VMware's approach can make them more peripheral. Before it met its present success in the server market, VMware started out on PCs.
[September 7, 2009, 17:13]
SCO at your service
News Our focus is moving towards server-based computing. Translation: SCO is in the process of making a switch from traditional client and service computing to the Internet and server model. Tarantella acts as a universal translator between clients and...
[January 17, 2000, 13:35]
Microsoft fares well despite PC slowdown
News Server software and services sales also increased, to $1.25bn from around $1bn during the year-ago quarter. Microsoft hobbled fast enough past slow PC sales to meet expectations for its fiscal 2001 third quarter
[April 20, 2001, 8:33]
Fedora 5 released
News For server users, Fedora Core 5 upgrades database software packages MySQL to version 5.0 and PostgreSQL to 8.1, and the Apache Web server to version 2.2. Red Hat released Fedora Core 5 on Monday, with new graphics and virtualisation abilities...
[March 22, 2006, 8:15]
Microsoft's pre-modern message puts a new face on Vista
Blog Comment Microsoft could offer a Windows XP Embedded Express like its VS2005/8 software tools and that would be extremely attractive and probably would generate a lot of interest in Windows with costing them too much.
[August 2, 2008, 20:17]
HP puts AMD in servers
News Microsoft will come out with a 64-bit version of Windows tweaked for the chip in the second half of 2004. With HP, AMD will have design contracts will three of the world's four largest server makers. Large server manufacturers concentrating in...
[January 27, 2004, 8:55]
IPlanet: Software's not a dirty word
News Breya and her colleagues are betting there's still a lot of life left in the back-end server software suites popularised by companies including Microsoft with its BackOffice Server product family. Because iPlanet is an alliance of two Web-centric...
[December 11, 2000, 14:08]
Gates: Win2000 will ship this year
News Server management is imperative," Gates said, "because you are always going to have a lot of servers. Gates, who spent much of his keynote reiterating plans for the future, did offer some new tidbits, such as that Microsoft will spend $3.8bn this...
[August 26, 1999, 8:41]
AOL not sold on IM interoperability
News In August 2001, AOL began server-to-server tests with Sametime, an instant messaging product developed by IBM's Lotus. It has proven a hard nut to crack for the entire industry, and it is clear through testing that arriving at a server-to-server...
[July 24, 2002, 9:26]
Take note
Blog Microsoft Small Business Server Note usernames, passwords and server names, plus any non default server settings and your webmail service's URL. Server name and IP the adress on the network Your Windows workgroup or domain.
[September 26, 2008, 8:03]
Microsoft posts Service Pack 6 for NT 4.0
News SP6 for Windows NT 4.0 affects Workstation, Server and Enterprise Editions of Windows NT 4.0. Microsoft on Wednesday afternoon posted the sixth service pack for Windows NT 4.0 to its Web site. Although the service pack consolidates new patches and...
[October 29, 1999, 15:17]
Microsoft: The next quarter century
News While Microsoft has vanquished many of its old-school competitors, such as IBM, Novell and Lotus, on the desktop operating system and office-suite fronts, it has an equally fierce group of rivals on the newer Internet access, server OS, PDA, e...
[September 4, 2000, 14:22]
Cisco speeds up mobile workers' application access
News Key applications to be accelerated for mobile workers included Vista, Microsoft Office, Windows Server 2008 and Exchange, he said. It accelerates TCP-based applications to the mobile worker by reducing the number of TCP roundtrips made between the...
[January 22, 2008, 16:57]
Microsoft makes next-gen Messenger public
News Later this summer, Microsoft plans to launch Office Real Time Communications (RTC) Server 2003, which will offer an instant messaging product that corporate technology departments can monitor and secure from network hackers.
[June 18, 2003, 10:05]
Free at last: Novell gives away directory tool
News Microsoft made its Active Directory a focal point of its efforts to drive sales of its Windows 2000 server operating system to corporations. Novell's eDirectory runs on several server operating systems, including NetWare, Windows 2000, Sun's...
[May 10, 2001, 9:33]
Microsoft: The next quarter century Pt II
News At the same time, we're also building the server infrastructure that is to be built into the carriers' networks. We had very ambitious plans for client and server [in the TV space]," Belluzzo acknowledged.
[September 4, 2000, 14:28]
