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Microsoft issues critical patches
News Microsoft on Tuesday released three security updates, two of which address critical flaws in its Exchange email server and third-party software in Windows. The critical Microsoft Exchange flaws affect Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 with Post...
[May 10, 2006, 9:15]
Microsoft wants Windows on supercomputers
News As first reported by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com, the Windows Server 2003 HPC Edition will include features for running windows on clusters of machines interconnected by a high-speed network to form a single computing resource, Microsoft...
[June 24, 2004, 9:35]
Longhorn Server enters closed beta
News Microsoft has confirmed that just a handful of people will get to look at the beta version of Longhorn Server, despite the public release of a beta for its next-generation client-side operating system, Windows Vista.
[August 8, 2005, 17:30]
Windows Server's identity crisis
News Microsoft on Thursday again changed the name of the product, marking the fourth name for what will now be called Windows Server 2003. The product started out with the code name Whistler, but Microsoft named the software Windows 2002 Server in April...
[January 10, 2003, 8:40]
Microsoft to fix critical Windows holes
News The flaws, which could allow an attacker to remotely run code on a PC and take control of it, affect Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Windows Client for the Mac, Office 2000, XP and 2003, Microsoft Office Small Business...
[August 7, 2009, 13:18]
Microsoft releases critical patches
News The updates include "critical" fixes to Windows' TCP/IP networking, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, Office and Exchange Server. Similarly, no immediate attention was needed on the Windows flaws for those running the just-released Windows Server...
[April 13, 2005, 10:05]
MS seeks source of Windows Home Server leak
Blog According to an article on Techworld, Microsoft is actively seeking a person who leaked a preview version of Windows Home Server onto a blog site. In an email to testers, Kevin Beares, the Windows Home Server community lead at Microsoft, told Most...
[April 17, 2007, 16:52]
Microsoft makes source code plea to EC
News Microsoft has offered to make its Windows server source code available to people licensing its server interoperability protocols, in its latest attempt to achieve compliance with 2004's European antitrust ruling.
[January 25, 2006, 13:25]
Microsoft puts its server software to the test
News In recent weeks, the company has switched 79 of 80 servers that power Microsoft.com over to Windows Server 2008, a new version of its server operating system still in testing. Whilst some of the servers running Windows Server 2008 are at Microsoft...
[June 29, 2007, 9:46]
Analysts: Windows Server 2008 will please users
News Microsoft's long-awaited server operating system, Windows Server 2008, provides evidence that the company is taking note of what customers want, according to analysts. In order to generate demand, Davis added Microsoft will need to provide plenty...
[February 27, 2008, 7:41]
Microsoft on Hyper-V: 'We're virtually there'
News Microsoft has reached the feature-complete release-candidate stage for its Hyper-V hypervisor-based virtualisation software for Windows Server 2008, meaning that it now resides in the middle ground between beta-stage development and final release.
[March 19, 2008, 14:36]
MS readies next-generation software
News Six months after Windows 2000 ships, Microsoft is aiming to deploy new knowledge management applications, code-named Tahoe and Polar Server. Tahoe will be the successor to Site Server 3.0, according to sources close to the Microsoft.
[February 12, 1999, 9:00]
Network boost from Windows Server 2008 R2
Blog Just come away from a briefing and demo of Microsoft's newly-released Windows Server 2008 R2; it's much more than a minor update of the main release last year. Microsoft reckons that administrators can configure an existing computer running Windows...
[September 25, 2009, 17:17]
Microsoft brings embedded products to the cloud
News Kevin Dallas, general manager of Windows Embedded business at Microsoft, said in a phone interview on Monday that the software giant will add the Windows Embedded Server product to its embedded platforms product line, as well as set up a central...
[March 31, 2009, 9:10]
Dedicated Windows OS for 64-bit AMD
News In March, Microsoft released both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 to PC manufacturers for Intel chips, including the Xeon and Itanium 2. Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will offer a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003 for AMD...
[April 9, 2003, 15:16]
Linux servers praised for security
News Linux was rated as 'secure' or 'very secure' by 74 percent of respondents, while Microsoft Windows Server was given one of these rating by 38 percent of respondents. Software development managers rate Linux significantly higher than Windows server...
[April 12, 2005, 12:50]
System Recovery Using Windows Server 2003 on Dell PowerEdge Servers
White Papers To help avoid unplanned outages, Microsoft has improved the robustness of the Windows Server 2003 operating system (OS), introducing enhanced system recovery features. This paper explores several powerful mechanisms for the recovery of Dell...
[May 7, 2005, 3:00]
Password and Account Lockout Features
White Papers Password and Account Lockout Features WebCast will provide information about configuring the password and account lockout settings, security and administrative considerations, new features in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 and...
[November 30, 2003, 23:00]
Small businesses hit by Microsoft flaw
News SharePoint, which is used to create a company intranet, is included as part of the standard and premium editions of the recently launched Small Business Server 2003 package, which also includes the Windows Server 2003 operating system and...
[December 3, 2003, 9:25]
Migrating to Windows from UNIX and Linux
White Papers This paper explains why to consider migrating to Windows from UNIX, then choose from detailed information on how to move from UNIX systems to Windows XP, Windows 2000, and the upcoming Windows .NET Server and Microsoft .NET Web services platforms.
[October 9, 2009, 2:39]
