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The Solaris 8 Operating Environment And Microsoft Windows 2000 — Race For Control Of Web Infrastructures
White Papers With the Solaris 8 platform, Sun maintains its lead over the first version of Microsoft's Windows 2000, which still falls short of key Solaris software functions related to reliability, scalability, and manageability.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Outlook Express Flaw Speeds Hacking
News Microsoft has warned Outlook Express users that a software flaw could allow an online vandal to control their computers. A critical vulnerability in the email reader could allow an attacker to send a specially formatted message that would crash the...
[October 14, 2002, 9:49]
Shades Of Things To Come -
Talkback There will be further activation issues to watch out for as Microsoft plans to offer a similar service to independent software vendors whereby they can "control" licensing through activation and other measures similar to the Software Protection...
[September 4, 2007, 4:34]
Stallman Takes Gates To Task Over GPL Attacks
News Attacks by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on the GNU General Public License (GPL), under which a lot of open source and free software is distributed, have been driven by a fear that the GPL creates a domain of software that Microsoft cannot...
[May 1, 2002, 11:07]
Web At Risk From New MS Flaw
News Microsoft said Monday that a "serious vulnerability" in its flagship Web server software used by computers running more than 6 million sites could allow hackers and online vandals to take control of the computers.
[June 19, 2001, 8:30]
Microsoft And Siemens Collaborate On Communication
News Under the multiyear agreement, Siemens will integrate its HiPath OpenScape Telephony Control Link with Microsoft's Office Live Communications Server 2005 and "Istanbul" instant messaging client. The OpenScape telephony control link and Istanbul...
[January 12, 2005, 14:51]
Microsoft: Ready For Open Source Threat?
News There's more to Microsoft's recent attacks on the open-source movement than mere rhetoric: Linux's popularity could hinder the software giant in its quest to gain control of a server market that's crucial to its long-term goals.
[June 19, 2001, 11:29]
MS Plugs Home Network Developer Kits
News To accomplish this task, Microsoft advocates use of a standard called Simple Control Protocol (SCP), a communication method that lets different devices find each other and control each other. Meanwhile, Microsoft also is trying to let people...
[April 17, 2002, 15:59]
VMware Cries Foul Over Microsoft Virtualisation
News The battle to control the virtualisation market has heated up with the launch of a white paper from VMware, which accuses Microsoft of anti-competitive practices. In addition, Microsoft is "moving to control this new layer that sits on the hardware...
[February 27, 2007, 16:01]
Cisco Takes NAC Software Open Source
News Although Cisco will continue to develop network access control (NAC), critics see the move as a concession that Microsoft will now provide network access control on the desktop. Cisco is ceasing development of its network access control client...
[February 12, 2007, 16:08]
Controls Eased On MS Passport
News Microsoft said Wednesday that it plans to revise the "terms of use" policy for its Passport service following criticism that the agreement gives the software behemoth Draconian control of customer communications.
[April 5, 2001, 8:03]
From Microsoft Word To Microsoft World: How Microsoft Is Building A Global Monopoly
White Papers Microsoft is using both its control of the desktop and its inroads into the server market to leverage control of emerging Internet standards and commerce. Its purchase of and alliance with a range of audio and video streaming" technology companies...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Open Source Fans To Emulate .Net
News As previously reported, the move could increase the importance and popularity of the .Net strategy while diminishing Microsoft's control over the software itself. With DotGNU and Mono, you will be able to use C# if you wish, without surrendering...
[July 10, 2001, 12:06]
MS Palladium: A Must Or A Menace?
News At the USENIX Security Conference held in San Francisco recently, Microsoft developers touted the company's upcoming Palladium architecture as technology that would enhance privacy, stymie piracy and increase a corporation's control over its...
[November 8, 2002, 8:05]
Microsoft Rushes To Fix Outlook Flaw
News A vulnerability exists in Microsoft's Outlook software that could enable an attacker to easily gain control of a user's mailbox and run code or delete files. The View Control is only supposed to allow users to view messages or calendar entries, but...
[July 18, 2001, 15:59]
MP Attacks Government Over Microsoft Policy
News A Liberal Democrat MP has launched a stinging attack on the government's IT strategy, saying that it has given Microsoft too much control. The government had ceded control to Microsoft, the MP said, pointing to Connecting for Health, the NHS's...
[October 10, 2007, 13:13]
'Code Red' Worm Claims 12,000 Servers
News The worm could also help attackers identify infected computers and gain control of them. But the way the worm is written, it could allow online vandals to build a list of infected systems and later take control of them, said Marc Maiffret, chief...
[July 19, 2001, 9:56]
Microsoft Throws Governments A Standardisation Bone
News ECMA standardisation efforts, it's not clear that Microsoft will relinquish control of the Office formats to other companies. The company hopes this will allay concern about its level of control over document formats.
[November 22, 2005, 8:30]
Single PC To Adopt Multiple OS
News The same day, VMware plans to release new management software that it revealed details about in July under the name Control Center. VMware's management software lets administrators control how virtual machine software runs on numerous computers.
[November 10, 2003, 10:00]
Security Enhancements For Microsoft Windows NT And Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server
White Papers CD and Floppy Device Access Control For example, one manager may choose to install password hashing but not password generation, while other systems may only require installation of the CD and floppy device access control function.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
