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Cognos and Sybase partnered to deliver a Business Intelligence (BI) bundle with Sybase Industry Warehouse Studios.
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The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) announced the keynote speakers and educational curriculum for its first conference.
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CompUSA Inc. chose SAP Retail solutions on the Windows NT operating system and SQL Server platform to streamline its financial, retail, and materials management systems.
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DWSoft Corp. is a charter vendor member of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS).
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Appsource's Exploring OLAP is now available online for Microsoft Certified Solution Providers (MCSP).
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In the emerging enterprise Windows NT and Windows 2000 (Win2K) data center market, IBM announced today its completion of a merger agreement to purchase Sequent Computer Systems.
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Knosys Inc. is licensing Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) as part of its strategy to deliver open, flexible, customizable platforms for the SQL Server 7.0 OLAP technology environment.
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Microsoft and Siebel Systems will deliver SQL Server 7.0 as a core component of Siebel's Web-based front office application products.
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NCR released TeraMiner Stats, software to improve data mining processes for Teradata Warehouse customers
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Microsoft announced new Access 2000 client/server features that let users more easily build Access applications as a front end to SQL Server and help IT organizations upsize existing Access applications to SQL Server 7.0.
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PASS, an independent, user-run association of global SQL Server technology professionals, issued a call for presentations for its first European conference.
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To ensure its products are fully integrated for best-of-breed enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, AccountMate Software Corporation is partnering with COSS Systems, a leading manufacturing and shop floor software vendor.
By Carol Tomerlin
AccountMate Software Corporation has formed strategic alliances with TIW Technology and Silvon Software, letting each company integrate its products with Visual AccountMate, AccountMate Software’s midrange financial information platform.
By Carol Tomerlin
AccountMate and Edge Technologies have joined to integrate Visual AccountMate (VAM) with Account Wizard.
By Angie Brew
Accounting Software News and K2 Enterprises awarded the Accounting Software Industry’s 1999 Best Third-Party Add-on Products award to AccountMate Software Corporation.
By Carol Tomerlin
AccountMate Software has introduced a Developer Partner Program to offer software developers and authorized AccountMate business partners all the tools they need to optimize Visual AccountMate, AccountMate’s financial software.
By Angie Brew
TIBCO Software has agreed to acquire Extensibility in a stock transaction valued at approximately $100 million.
By Carol Tomerlin
Actio Corporation, a pioneer in providing Web-based chemical management services and material safety data sheets, has announced a marketing relationship with InteGreyted Consultants, a full-service environmental health and safety firm.
By Angie Brew
In a deal valued at $75 million in cash and stock options, Active Software announced plans to acquire TransLink Software, a provider of high-performance mainframe integration solutions for e-business.
By Carol Tomerlin
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Hummingbird Communications announced that France-based Aerospatiale-Matra, an aerospace manufacturer, purchased the Hummingbird Enterprise Information Portal (EIP).
By Carol Tomerlin
Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have selected Aelita Software Corporation’s Domain Migration Wizard to help migrate 42,000 Agilent users worldwide from the HP network to Windows 2000 (Win2K).
By Carol Tomerlin
Compaq, Knosys, and Microsoft announced a turnkey product bundle that gives customers a complete, cost-effective data-warehousing and analytic application solution.
By Carol Tomerlin
SAS Institute and MERANT announced that SAS will integrate MERANT’s data access technology, DataDirect, with SAS’ data warehousing solutions.
By Carol Tomerlin
Under separate agreements, Knosys ProClarity will be embedded in Changepoint’s Professional Services Automation (PSA) products and Best Software Best! Imperativ Active Planner.
By Carol Tomerlin
Allshare Enterprise has renewed its distributor agreement to sell and implement Comshare's e-business applications for management planning and control in the Netherlands.
By Carol Tomerlin
A free, quarterly, online resource for people working with analytical applications is now available to provide industry news, product updates and tips, and industry resource links.
By Carol Tomerlin
Analytical software industry vendors created the Analytical Solutions Forum (ASF), a nonprofit industry consortium.
By Carol Tomerlin
DataMirror Corp. announced that Andersen Consulting selected its Transformation Server software.
By Carol Tomerlin
MEDAC, the United States’ fastest-growing, full-service anesthesia practice management firm, adopted Cognos Enterprise Reporting solution for e-business. The solution will enhance MEDAC customers’ billing information.
By Carol Tomerlin
WhiteCross Data Exploration announced the availability of ExplorationSTUDIO, a solution that integrates ANGOSS Software’s KnowledgeSTUDIO with WhiteCross’ large-scale data mining capability.
By Carol Tomerlin
APEX Software and VideoSoft signed a merger agreement to become ComponentOne LLC.
By Angie Brew
City Business, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based publication covering business news and trends in the Twin Cities, named AppDev on its list of the area’s fastest growing privately held companies.
By Carol Tomerlin
AppsCo Software and Brio Technology are teaming up to provide an integrated, seamless, end-to-end platform for the development of packaged, easily customizable analytical applications for SQL Server.
By Carol Tomerlin
Argent Software’s annual Technical Leadership Contest is underway through April 4, 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
Bluestone Software Inc. announced that Arrow Electronics Inc. will standardize its global intranet applications infrastructure.
By Carol Tomerlin
Replicon announced that AT&T Wireless Services has selected Replicon’s Web TimeSheet solution for its aviation communications division.
By Carol Tomerlin
Schumann Security Software and Arthur Andersen LLP are joining forces, with Arthur Andersen to offer consulting and integration services for large-scale deployment of Security Administration Manager (SAM).
By Carol Tomerlin
Best Software is joining a global initiative to help develop and launch the new Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL).
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 Enterprise Edition enables application integration within and between organizations through the universal standard of XML.
By Carol Tomerlin
The Statistical Center for the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) selected Bluestone Software’s Total-e-Server as the e-business infrastructure for sharing clinical trial information.
By Carol Tomerlin
To establish consulting and implementation practices for its new Total-e-Business Services, Bluestone Software allied with Grant Thornton LLP, modis, and Technology Solutions. Each ally company will create an e-business practice based on Total-e-Business.
By Carol Tomerlin
BMC Software has formed a new business unit to focus on distributed database management.
By Angie Brew
BMC Software, maker of e-business systems management software, will acquire Sylvain Faust in a deal that is expected to become final later this month.
By Angie Brew
Bowne Global Solutions expanded its worldwide testing services and integrated them with its localization services, letting global IT developers release fully tested products ready for immediate international deployment.
By Carol Tomerlin
BRYTE Software Design developed a Web-based purchasing system that helps prominent retailer Neiman Marcus monitor and control capital expenditures for its stores and corporate offices.
By Carol Tomerlin
Comshare announced that BudgetPLUS, its flagship product, is surpassing the budgeting and planning market’s estimated annual growth rate of 40 percent, posting a calendar-year 1999 revenue growth of 53 percent.
By Carol Tomerlin
Portman Building Society selected Comshare’s enterprise management planning and control (MPC) solution on Microsoft SQL Server.
By Carol Tomerlin
In a cash transaction valued at approximately $15 million, Business Objects has acquired OLAP@Work.
By Carol Tomerlin
CCC Network Systems announced a $16.5 million investment from numerous companies.
By Carol Tomerlin
Eastman Chemical is deploying Cognos Enterprise Reporting solutions to most of its 16,000 employees. The selected Cognos products will provide employees with a cost-effective way to view multidimensional data and better understand the business.
By Carol Tomerlin
To help its partners develop successful e-business solutions, Cognos established the Cognos Cornerstone Education Series for its North American channel partners.
By Carol Tomerlin
The Ottawa Board of Trade named Cognos Company of the Year at its annual Business Achievement Awards.
By Carol Tomerlin
Informix announced that Cognos joined the Certified Data Warehouse (CDW) program. Sponsored jointly by Informix and Hewlett-Packard, CDW is designed to reduce the risks and costs of implementing Business Intelligence (BI) solutions.
By Carol Tomerlin
Dedicated to delivering packaged e-business applications that provide rapid corporate investment returns, Cognos created the e-Business Intelligence Applications Business Unit.
By Carol Tomerlin
In a move that extends data warehouse value for end-to-end Business Intelligence, Cognos Inc. will support Informatica’s MX2 1.6, the latest Metadata Exchange (MX2) API version.
By Carol Tomerlin
In an agreement to provide a performance charting solution for Web users, The Nasdaq-AMEX Market Group turned to Cognos to provide a new financial charting solution to support online financial reporting.
By Carol Tomerlin
Cognos and NCR signed an enterprise agreement, allowing NCR to deploy Cognos’ Enterprise Reporting for e-business solutions to NCR employees.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft, Unisys, and Giganet announced that Giganet's cLAN server farm network products helped achieve a breakthrough SAP R/3 benchmark on Windows 2000 (Win2K), running SQL Server 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
The RealWare Awards were held in San Francisco on August 15, 2000.
By Angie Brew
Knosys announced that six independent software vendors signed OEM agreements to integrate the ProClarity Analytical Platform into their line-of-business applications.
By Carol Tomerlin
Navision Software US and Compaq Computer Corporation signed an agreement that will let Navision launch an application service provider (ASP) program to deliver its applications to middle-market companies.
By Carol Tomerlin
Comshare has achieved partner-level status in Microsoft’s Data Warehousing Alliance 2000 (DWA 2000) program in the analytic applications category.
By Carol Tomerlin
Comshare Inc. has announced the renewal of its distributor agreement with ID Application.
By Angie Brew
Comshare announced that Aexis has renewed its distributor agreement to sell and implement Comshare’s e-business applications for management planning and control (MPC) in Belgium.
By Carol Tomerlin
Comshare announced that European distributor, Decision Support Systems, and Asian distributor, the Beacon Group, will be bringing the newest release of Comshare’s management planning and control software, MPC 4.0, to various countries in their regions.
By Angie Brew
Comshare appointed SSE Brazil as its new Brazilian distributor. SSE Brazil’s business consultant team resells and implements a complete range of Comshare products.
By Carol Tomerlin
BellSouth’s Comshare Decision purchase will merge its mainframe processes, previously handled by two mainframe systems that fed a server system to produce accounting information for state and federal regulators.
By Carol Tomerlin
Comshare announced its support for Windows 2000 and says it has submitted its solutions for BackOffice Logo certification and is integrating its solutions with SQL Server and Microsoft Excel 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
Comshare joined IBM’s FastStart program for Business Intelligence, which provides IBM Business Intelligence solutions to small and midsize companies.
By Carol Tomerlin
Deloitte & Touche Management Solutions in the United Kingdom signed a service provider agreement with Comshare to provide consulting and implementation services for BudgetPLUS, Comshare’s planning, budgeting, reporting, and analysis solution.
By Carol Tomerlin
To meet the budgeting needs of mid-size and large companies, Comshare and Microsoft will bundle Comshare BudgetPLUS with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 database.
By Carol Tomerlin
O’Reilly and Associates is sponsoring a technical conference for developers of enterprise-class Java-based applications. The four-day conference is scheduled for March 27 through 30, 2000, in Santa Clara, California.
By Carol Tomerlin
SQL2TheMax promises to give developers, systems analysts, and IT managers an opportunity to take their enterprise-level and intranet-enabled application development needs to the next level.
By Carol Tomerlin
Premiering as a business-to-business e-commerce specialist, CoreCommerce will provide Internet commerce clients technical expertise and help them understand business complexities, processes, and strategies.
By Carol Tomerlin
Steuben Foods, a leading producer of dairy products, implemented Wonderware’s Protean 3.1 enterprise resource planning (ERP) application in a record 61 days.
By Carol Tomerlin
By Carol Tomerlin
Data Junction Corporation’s inaugural user conference, “Integration 2000: Putting It All Together,” will be held October 12 through 13.
By Angie Brew
As part of a new alliance, eXcelon Corporation is integrating its business-to-business (B2B) products with Data Junction's data integration software.
By Carol Tomerlin
An alliance between Data Junction Corporation and IBM will let Data Junction’s content- aggregation and data-integration XML solution work with IBM’s WebSphere Commerce Suite, Marketplace Edition.
By Carol Tomerlin
Industry magazine Upside named DataChannel one of the top companies in e-business technology in its March issue.
By Carol Tomerlin
DataMirror Corporation’s flagship product, Transformation Server, received a Crossroads 2000 A-List Award.
By Carol Tomerlin
Decisionism is now an OLAP Train Certified Partner, fully equipped to provide e-business information reporting and analysis solutions, including data sourcing, application building, training, and education.
By Carol Tomerlin
To deliver comprehensive reporting and analysis applications for e-business, Decisionism Inc. formed the e.Business Performance Management Unit.
By Carol Tomerlin
Depot America has chosen Sessio.com Instant Service to give its site visitors realtime assistance from a customer service representative (CSR).
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft front-line technical experts will teach Developer Days 2000 attendees how to build real-world, Web-based solutions.
By Carol Tomerlin
For the second consecutive year, Comshare was selected for DM Review magazine’s 1999 Data Warehouse 100 by magazine readers. The designation places Comshare among the industry’s top 100 Business Intelligence (BI) and data warehouse vendors.
By Carol Tomerlin
The Meta Data Services software development kit (SDK) for SQL Server 2000 is now available for download.
By Angie Brew
ServerNet II interface cards are now available for download as part of SQL Server 2000 VIA ServerNet II Network-Library (Net-Library).
By Angie Brew
Microsoft has released beta 1 versions of two new software development kits (SDKs)--the .NET Framework SDK and the .NET Mobile Web SDK--for its .NET suite.
By Donna Nabel
A download of Microsoft’s XML View Mapper Beta is now available for SQL Server 2000.
By Angie Brew
Electronic Commerce (EC) World 2000 will be held October 2 through 5, 2000 in Orlando, Florida.
By Angie Brew
Enbridge Pipelines, operator of the longest crude oil and petroleum products pipeline, recently deployed Motiva’s eChange Solutions.
By Angie Brew
Maximal Innovative Intelligence is integrating its Max Business Intelligence (BI) solution with Priority, Eshbel Technologies’ leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
By Carol Tomerlin
Broadening its reach into the international market, Evolutionary Technology International (ETI) added a record 33 new customers, including several from Latin America and the Asia Pacific.
By Carol Tomerlin
Exact Software’s B@co, its new Internet-based ERP package, will include Maximal's business intelligence capabilities.
By Angie Brew
In response to increased demands for Open Source XML and XSL tools, the Apache Software Foundation created the xml.apache.org Project. Project collaborators include Bowstreet, DataChannel, Exoffice, IBM, Lotus Development and Sun Microsystems.
By Carol Tomerlin
Meeting the needs of those who manage people, projects, or networks, all four Microsoft Visio 2000 editions share a set of intelligent diagramming tools and a common graphics engine that help convey ideas.
By Carol Tomerlin
FutureLink Corporation is offering StrataSource’s LightsOut! database administration and management service in conjunction with its own hosted application services.
By Carol Tomerlin
Genitor signed an OEM agreement with Premia, maker of CodeWright, a Windows-based programming editor.
By Carol Tomerlin
To meet the increasing specialization in customer relationship management (CRM) and infrastructure resource management (IRM), GoldMine Software Corporation has formed CRM and IRM divisions.
By Carol Tomerlin
GoldMine Software is planning a bicoastal preview of its new customer relationship products at the DCI show in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Support Services show in San Francisco, California, the week of October 25, 1999.
By Carol Tomerlin
Peregrine Systems granted worldwide master VAR status to GoldMine Software for numerous Peregrine Systems products to be sold with GoldMine’s HEAT help desk software, sales force automation software and customer relationship management solutions.
By Carol Tomerlin
Questions and comments about SQL Server 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
Great Plains signed a worldwide OEM agreement with Knosys to imbed the analytical functionality of the ProClarity Analytical Platform into its Microsoft SQL Server-based products.
By Carol Tomerlin
The SQL Server 2000 Hands-On Labs will showcase the new features and enhancements that SQL Server 2000 brings to database construction and management through hands-on tutorials.
By Carol Tomerlin
Hummingbird Communications and SuSE announced that the Hummingbird Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) core engine will be included in SuSE’s Linux distribution.
By Carol Tomerlin
In a collaborative effort to offer enhanced search functionalities, Hummingbird Communications Ltd. and InterWorld Corporation are teaming up to embed Hummingbird's SearchServer technology in InterWorld’s Commerce Exchange platform.
By Carol Tomerlin
To provide advanced storage functionality to customers, Information Builders joined EMC’s E-Infostructure Developers Program. The companies’ complementary technologies will allow EMC customers to access and move large volumes of data via EMC protocols.
By Carol Tomerlin
As its silver anniversary approaches, Information Builders adopted a new corporate identity aimed at positioning the company as a comprehensive IT solution leader.
By Carol Tomerlin
EBI is deploying the Cognos Enterprise Reporting solution to deliver coordinated and consistent information to employees, partners, and clients.
By Carol Tomerlin
Intellisource is partnering with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to provide desktop computer outsourcing services for NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
By Carol Tomerlin
International SEMATECH selected BMC Software’s Web DBA for its database administration needs.
By Angie Brew
Internet Security Systems (ISS) has formed nine new partnerships to provide e-business protection to small and mid-sized businesses.
By Angie Brew
Knosys announced that it has closed the first round of venture-capital financing totaling $2 million.
By Carol Tomerlin
Fujitsu Ltd. selected Adaptec’s Ultra 160 SCSI technology for storage connectivity within Fujitsu’s teamserver/GRANPOWER5000 PC server products.
By Carol Tomerlin
Wonderware announced that its executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer, Joe Cowan, will replace Roy H. Slavin as CEO and president of Wonderware on April 1, 2001, at the expiration of Slavin’s three-year contract with Wonderware.
By Angie Brew
Knosys Inc. announced its partner level membership in the Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
Knosys opened Knosys France in Paris.
By Carol Tomerlin
As part of its growth activities, Knosys opened a Scandinavian office, Knosys Nordic AB, in Stockholm, Sweden. All ProClarity sales activities for the Nordic region will originate from the Sweden office, which Bo Noresson will manage.
By Carol Tomerlin
Knosys officially opened its third international office, Knosys Italia, in Milan, Italy.
By Carol Tomerlin
Knosys opened a United Kingdom office in London, its second international office to open in the last month. This office will help Knosys market and support ProClarity in the United Kingdom market.
By Carol Tomerlin
Knosys and The Power of Ten are teaming up in a partnership that lets The Power of Ten offer Knosys's SQL Server-based ProClarity Analytical Platform products to its customers in Australia and New Zealand.
By Carol Tomerlin
Knosys, a provider of analytic front-end technologies for SQL Server 7.0 and OLAP Services, has signed technology licensing agreements with four software vendors.
By Angie Brew
RadView Software announced that KPMG LLP selected RadView’s WebLoad to test NetAid.org’s scalability and integrity.
By Carol Tomerlin
To accommodate a newly merged staff, world-class law firm Clifford Chance purchased 1100 seats of Hummingbird Communications’ document management software for implementation in offices throughout the world.
By Carol Tomerlin
The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) named LECCO Technology its 2000 Incubator Graduate of the Year in the technology category.
By Carol Tomerlin
LEXIS-NEXIS which provides decision-support information and services in the legal, business, and government markets, recently built a search solution on SQL Server 2000.
By Angie Brew
Overland Data’s LibraryXpress has met Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs’ (WHQL’s) quality standards and can use the “Designed for Microsoft Windows 2000” logo.
By Carol Tomerlin
ASCo Group, the largest logistics service provider to the international oil and gas industry, selected Comshare Inc.'s financial consolidation solution, Comshare FDC, to streamline its management planning and control process.
By Carol Tomerlin
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
MTI Technology announced that lucy.com, one of the first online sports apparel stores for women, has selected MTI’s enterprise storage systems and DataServices.
By Angie Brew
Manugistics Group Inc. will enhance its Supply Chain Analytics (SCA), by embedding Knosys Inc.’s ProClairty components directly into Manugistics SCA applications. ProClarity components are designed specifically for SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services use.
By Carol Tomerlin
Clarity Systems and Maximal Innovative Intelligence formed a partnership to offer Maximal’s Max data analysis tool as part of its business intelligence (BI) solutions.
By Angie Brew
Maximal Innovative Intelligence and TopINET are partnering to offer a decision support solution for retail chain management.
By Angie Brew
To help its business partners exploit new opportunities in the OLAP market, Maximal Innovative Intelligence Ltd. created a worldwide Maximal Partner Program.
By Carol Tomerlin
Maximal Innovative Intelligence expanded its North American operations by relocating its headquarters to Reston, Va.
By Carol Tomerlin
Maximal Innovative Intelligence and Pointofsale are teaming up to provide an easy-to-use decision support solution for retail management.
By Carol Tomerlin
The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) named Owens & Minor (O&M) the winner of its 1999 Leadership in Data Warehousing Awards competition.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft SQL Server version 7.0 users may discover that the Index Tuning Wizard is not processing workloads with parameterized commands that span batches.
By Carol Tomerlin
Aspect Communications announced that Microsoft purchased the Aspect Customer Relationship Portal to standardize its product support services team of nearly 5000 professionals in 12 North American locations over the next 18 months.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft announced the beta release of the OLE DB for Data Mining specification, a SQL-based protocol that provides an open interface for integrating data-mining capabilities into line-of-business and e-commerce applications.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft has posted two new Knowledge Base articles that clarify how the ODBC driver for SQL Server 2000 and 7.0 returns messages from certain commands and how to create a SQL Server 2000 Blackbox trace.
By Kathy Blomstrom
Microsoft has posted two new Knowledge Base articles for SQL Server: one that explains how to transfer logins and passwords between SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 7.0 servers and one that provides workarounds for a SQL Server 2000 stored procedure bug.
By Kathy Blomstrom
Comshare announced that Microsoft selected Comshare BudgetPlus for the Universal Business Intelligence Campaign (UBIC).
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the completion of BizTalk Server 2000, its XML-enabled Business-to-Business (B2B) solution, and the final 2.0 release of the BizTalk Framework.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Corporation announced this week that it has released SQL Server 2000 to manufacturing.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Corp. recently demonstrated ANGOSS Software Corp.’s data mining technology integrated with SQL Server 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft President Steve Ballmer has asked his employees to "significantly reduce" expenses and return to the "cost-conscious culture that marked Microsoft's early years."
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft announced 47 applications and tools from 39 vendors qualified for Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance 2000. Alliance members and partners are committed to delivering tools and applications based on the Microsoft Data Warehousing Framework 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
ANGOSS Software announced that Microsoft’s Microsoft Network (MSN) business unit licensed its KnowledgeSTUDIO and KnowledgeSTUDIO SDK, a data mining workbench and software development kit.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft recently released a comprehensive patch that eliminates three security vulnerabilities.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft will host its Professional Developers Conference 2000 in Orlando, Florida, July 11 through 14, 2000.
By Angie Brew
This week, Microsoft announced that the company is revamping the Microsoft Certified Solution Provider (MCSP) program and renaming it the Microsoft Certified Partner program.
By Paul Thurrott
A new Microsoft article, "FIX: Query Performance Slower When Client Locale Differs from Server Locale," explains a fix for a known SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services problem.
By Kathy Blomstrom
SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes a fix for a problem with transactional replication of updates.
By Kathy Blomstrom
Microsoft has released a security patch to repair a flaw in an application programming interface (API) that works with extended stored procedures (XPs).
By Donna Nabel
Microsoft's new Office 2000 Developer Tools Service Patch 2 (SP2) updates the Workflow Designer for SQL Server to support SQL Server 2000 and includes the latest updates for the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) tools.
By Kathy Blomstrom
Microsoft announced today the worldwide availability of SQL Server 2000
Beta 2, a feature-complete preview of the next version of SQL Server.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft announced the availability of Access Workflow Designer, a tool to help developers design and build Web-based workflow and tracking solutions that can also be used offline. The tool is free to all licensed Microsoft Office 2000 Developer users.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft has selected Information Builders as a Universal Data Access (UDA) partner to provide complementary and approved technology for enhancing Microsoft’s enterprise-wide data access strategy.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft will host a Support WebCast about SQL Server 2000's log-shipping functionality February 15 at 10 A.M. (Pacific time).
By Kathy Blomstrom
Thanks to Dieter De Preester for the tip: Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET Web site was updated Friday with information about the release of the Beta 1 version of the company's upcoming software development suite
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft has announced that its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, the company's first security product, will ship this month.
By Paul Thurrott
Microtest has opened Chinese headquarters in Beijing with satellite support in Shanghai.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microtest announced its spring seminar schedule and training services, "Advanced Cabling for the New Millennium."
By Carol Tomerlin
Primavera Systems announced that Chevron’s Pascagoula, Mississippi, Refinery will standardize on Primavera Enterprise as its enterprise project management software suite.
By Carol Tomerlin
As its next-generation e-business infrastructure, United Guaranty Corporation selected Bluestone Software’s Sapphire/Web Application Server framework and Bluestone XML Suite Integration Server.
By Carol Tomerlin
MTI Technology expanded its patent portfolio with a patent for RAID redundancy technology that offers greater fault tolerance and data integrity.
By Carol Tomerlin
An agreement between MTI Technology and VERITAS Software includes joint marketing and development programs to enhance the value of MTI’s existing DataServices portfolio through the addition of VERITAS Software technology.
By Carol Tomerlin
Navision Software US announced that the next version of Navision Financials will offer Microsoft Windows 2000 benefits.
By Carol Tomerlin
Navision Software signed a global sales and distribution agreement with Microsoft that lets Navision’s partner network sell and distribute Microsoft BackOffice products integrated with Navision solutions.
By Carol Tomerlin
NETsilicon, the leading provider of network-enabled, system-on-chip solutions for embedded systems, is teaming with Green Hills Software.
By Angie Brew
NETsilicon is expanding its presence in Germany, adding three design-center partners, three sales and marketing positions, and offices near Munich.
By Carol Tomerlin
An advisory warns users about proper configuration to avoid a SQL Server 7.0 SA password compromise.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
NEW WORLD APPS, an Internet management service provider, has joined the Application Service Provider (ASP) Industry Consortium.
By Angie Brew
The New York State Human Services Application Service Center (HSASC) selected Cognos’ Web-based Cognos Enterprise Reporting Solution for statewide reporting.
By Carol Tomerlin
Nortel Networks will pay an estimated $2.1 billion worth of its common shares to buy Clarify’s common shares on a fully diluted basis.
By Carol Tomerlin
Want to learn more about SQL Server 2000 Profiler and SQL Server trace architecture?
By Angie Brew
Want to know more about SQL Server 2000's new cascading Declarative Referential Integrity (DRI) constraints?
By Angie Brew
Microtest and large-scale network cabling test-bench station supplier DCM Industries signed an OEM agreement, allowing DCM to integrate Microtest OMNIScanner technology into its test systems for factory environment use.
By Carol Tomerlin
Participants learn how to demonstrate and sell the new OLAP@Work for the Office, Microsoft Digital Dashboard using OLAP@Work elements, OLAP@Work Report Repository, and OLAP@Work Object Model for building custom solutions.
By Carol Tomerlin
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OLAP@Work will conduct partner training sessions March 28 and 29 at its corporate headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
By Carol Tomerlin
DMR Consulting Group will use OLAP@Work products to enhance its focus on Microsoft-based intelligence and data warehousing, including applications for customer care and intelligence, target marketing, and relationship management.
By Carol Tomerlin
Information Systems Marketing (ISM) named ON!contact Software Corporation’s Client Management Software (CMS) as one of the top 15 customer relationship management (CRM) software packages for 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
ON!contact Software Corporation won Technology Marketing Corporation's customer relationship management (CRM) Excellence Award for 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
ON!contact Software’s Client Management Software (CMS) received the C@LL CENTER CRM Solution Product of the Year award in the customer relationship management (CRM) solution category.
By Carol Tomerlin
Onyx Software Corporation announced record-setting benchmark results for Onyx Front Office 2000 running on Microsoft Windows 2000, and SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition.
By Carol Tomerlin
Open Systems Inc. will host its 2000 Reseller Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 3 through 5, 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
Open Systems Holdings Corp. launched a series of seminars on TRAVERSE Accounting Business Software for Windows.
By Carol Tomerlin
In a bid to become the Microsoft of the Internet age, software giant Oracle is set to announce its plans for a future of Web-based software services.
By Paul Thurrott
To provide information and demystify the storage solution selection process, Overland Data is sponsoring an online contest in which site visitors can experience the company’s latest data storage, backup, and restore technologies, and win prizes.
By Carol Tomerlin
Shaman Corporation has joined the Remedy Corporation Product Partner Program, offering Remedy customers an integrated solution for managing software changes, improving software reliability, and speeding problem resolution.
By Carol Tomerlin
An alliance between Embarcadero Technologies and Red Hat will let Embarcadero make its ER/Studio 4.0, Rapid SQL 5.5, and DBArtisan 5.1 database management solutions available to Red Hat Linux.
By Carol Tomerlin
Attendees will have an opportunity to master SQL Server technology at the PASS 2000 North America SQL Server Users’ Conference & Expo.
By Carol Tomerlin
By registering for the PASS 2000 Europe conference before February 1, 2000, participants can save $100 on registration fees. The conference is scheduled for March 12 through 15, 2000, in London.
By Carol Tomerlin
The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) has extended its deadline for accepting “We Did It!” award applications to August 31.
By Angie Brew
The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) and Microsoft TechNet are hosting several SQL Server Web chats in upcoming weeks.
By Angie Brew
The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) recently unveiled Knowledge Portal (KP), a one-stop SQL Server resource.
By Carol Tomerlin
PeopleSoft Inc. plans to buy The Vantive Corp., a move that will enhance PeopleSoft’s ability to offer comprehensive e-business solutions and robust applications.
By Carol Tomerlin
Pervasive Software Inc. and Renaissance Worldwide Inc. are teaming up to deliver turnkey e-business solutions powered by Tango 2000 Web application development software.
By Carol Tomerlin
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) named Primavera Systems’ TeamPlay as a finalist in the Business Software—Best Debut category of the 2000 Codie Awards.
By Carol Tomerlin
If you try to process a SQL Server 7.0 object from a SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS) task to process a cube on SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Server, you'll get the following error message: "DSO Object doesn't support this action."
By Carol Tomerlin
Knosys announced that buy.com, a leading Internet superstore, has implemented ProClarity for sales and marketing analysis.
By Carol Tomerlin
Quark is integrating Knosys' ProClarity Analytical Platform capabilities with Mirim, Quark’s new merchandising and marketing analysis product.
By Carol Tomerlin
To promote its Open Financial Exchange- (OFX-) enabled wealth management software, Prologic Corporation has established a strategic alliance with Intuit Inc. Prologic is a founding member of Intuit’s OFX solution provider program.
By Carol Tomerlin
Quality Systems signed an OEM and reseller agreement with Knosys that lets Quality Systems offer Knosys’ ProClarity products to its customers and embed ProClarity’s analytical functionality into future products.
By Carol Tomerlin
QueryObject Systems is offering its customers a guaranteed performance level in Internet-based strategic business data analysis compared with competing product performance.
By Carol Tomerlin
Quest Software Inc. announced that its second-quarter 2000 revenues more than doubled revenues for the same period last year.
By Carol Tomerlin
Quest Software Inc. acquired QMASTER Software Solutions Inc., a privately held developer of distributed output management software solutions, including QMASTER Output.
By Carol Tomerlin
Siebel Systems has selected Quest Software to provide tightly integrated performance, monitoring, and high-availability solutions for deployment with Siebel eBusiness Applications for sales, marketing, and customer relationship management.
By Angie Brew
Quest Software signed a definitive agreement to acquire MessageWise, a performance-monitoring and configuration-management solution provider for Microsoft Exchange email networks.
By Carol Tomerlin
A $6 million second-round venture financing effort will help RadView Software support infrastructure and accelerate sales channel growth and research and development.
By Carol Tomerlin
Java Developer’s Journal (JDJ) announced that RadView Software’s WebLoad earned the 1999 Editor’s Choice Award for best Java testing tool.
By Carol Tomerlin
Jones Lang LaSalle , a leading real estate services and investment management firm, selected Comshare to develop a fully integrated Web-based management planning and control system.
By Carol Tomerlin
Registration is now open for Microsoft’s Developer Days 2000 (DevDays).
By Angie Brew
Increase your knowledge of SQL Server at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) 2000 North America conference October 25 through 28 in San Francisco.
By Angie Brew
International Data Corporation (IDC) recently cited Information Builders, particularly its WebFOCUS software, for its strong growth in the end-user query/reporting software market.
By Carol Tomerlin
In an all-cash deal valued at $445 million, The Sage Group plc entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Best Software for $35 per share.
By Carol Tomerlin
Sage Software and SalesLogix Corporation signed a letter of intent to develop interfaces linking the companies’ product lines.
By Carol Tomerlin
In a transaction valued at approximately $70 million, Sagent Technology purchased Qualitative Marketing Software (QMSoft).
By Carol Tomerlin
SanOne, an Alanco Technologies company, has formed a strategic alliance with BakBone Software.
By Carol Tomerlin
SAP AG has chosen SQL Server 7.0 as its strategic database for the Windows platform.
By Carol Tomerlin
If you register by May 12, 2001 for Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 training, you can save 25 percent on Microsoft’s regular training prices.
By Angie Brew
Scottish Courage selected Comshare’s BudgetPLUS 3.1 to help manage Web-based budgeting and forecasting for its five on-trade companies, Courage, John Smith’s, Scottish Brewers, Newcastle Breweries, and National Sales.
By Carol Tomerlin
Seagate Technology signed a definitive agreement to buy XIOtech for $360 million worth of Seagate common stock.
By Carol Tomerlin
SoftQuad and ec-Content are partnering to let suppliers quickly and efficiently create and distribute customer-specific catalogs to e-markets.
By Angie Brew
Quark, and Extensibility, announced a software bundling agreement that will let avenue.quark purchasers receive a trial version of XML Authority, Extensibility’s premier XML schema creation, conversion, and management solution.
By Carol Tomerlin
Solid Data Systems earned VERITAS Cluster Server Certification for its Excellerator 800 Ultra solid-state storage system.
By Carol Tomerlin
Sopheon and Teltech have completed a merger to become a comprehensive provider of information and knowledge-management solutions that run on SQL Server.
By Angie Brew
Teva Sport Sandals is using Sage Enterprise Suite to streamline the company’s e-business processes.
By Carol Tomerlin
Scottsdale, Arizona, is the site of SQL Connections 2000, scheduled for October 4 through 7, 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
More than 700 developers and systems engineers gathered Oct. 1-3 at The Scottsdale Princess in Scottsdale, Arizona, for DevCon 1999 and SQL DevCon 1999.
By Mark D. Scott
SQL Server 2000 achieved National Security Agency C2 certification.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft has announced the coming of SQL Server 2000, the latest version of the company's flagship enterprise database product.
By Barrie Sosinsky , et al.
SQL Server 2000 introduces several features for querying database tables and receiving the results as an XML document.
By Carol Tomerlin
Want to give mobile users powerful database functionality? Check out SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition (SQL Server CE).
By Angie Brew
SQL Server 2000 has claimed eWEEK's 2001 eXcellence Award for best enterprise systems development tool.
By Kathy Blomstrom
Reported problem with linked SQL Server 7.0 systems.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
According to Microsoft, SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and SP2 introduce a security risk.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
SQL Server advocate Michael Yocca, a SQL Server data warehousing and OLAP consultant for Ace Database, died February 28 from injuries sustained in a snowmobiling accident.
By Carol Tomerlin
The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS)is sponsoring PASS 2000 European in London.
By Carol Tomerlin
The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) launched a new SQL Server Developer Center, a comprehensive Web site packed with timely information about SQL Server development, including availability, interoperability, and scalability.
By Carol Tomerlin
SQL Server Magazine recently presented Best of Show awards to products in three categories—database design, database management, and database applications—at the SQL Connections conference in New Orleans.
By Michele Crockett
Sundog Technologies joined the SyncML Industry Initiative.
By Carol Tomerlin
SuperOffice, Europe’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) solutions provider for the business-to-business market, and Microsoft will jointly market Microsoft-based CRM solutions in Europe.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft will host a WebCast about SQL Server 2000's multiple-instance support Thursday, March 22, at 10 AM (Pacific time).
By Kathy Blomstrom
Microsoft will host a support WebCast January 16 at 10 A.M. (Pacific Time) about SQL Server 2000's new INSTEAD OF trigger support.
By Kathy Blomstrom
According to Internet market research and strategic consulting expert Zona Research, Microsoft SQL Server continues as the database used by most of the companies responding to a recent poll.
By Carol Tomerlin
Syspro Impact Software and Info Works Software entered into a strategic technology accord under which Info Works developed a seamless interface to Syspro’s IMACT Encore.
By Carol Tomerlin
The Shareware Industry Conference (SIC) will hold its 10th annual international meeting of software programmers, developers, and distributors July 13 through 15 in Tampa, Florida.
By Carol Tomerlin
SQL Server Magazine and sister publication Windows 2000 Magazine presented Best of Show awards to six exhibitors at the Microsoft Tech-Ed 2000 Conference.
By Paul Thurrott
Information Architects (iA) and ZOT Group will jointly develop core technical infrastructure and functionality for TechMediary.com.
By Carol Tomerlin
The Windows DNA 2000 Readiness Conference, scheduled for February 29 through March 3 in Denver, will give Microsoft partners, developers, architects, and consultants a sneak preview of SQL Server 2000.
By Carol Tomerlin
Technology Week, Microsoft’s Professional Trainer Conference, is scheduled for September 18 through 22, 2000, in San Diego, California.
By Carol Tomerlin
Tenrox and Maximal Innovative Intelligence announced a partnership to integrate Tenrox’s Projeca e-Workforce Suite and Maximal’s Max data-analysis tool.
By Donna Nabel
The Home Shopping Network (HSN) recently migrated from Oracle running on Sun Solaris to SQL Server 2000 running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
By Angie Brew
Microsoft has reported a SQL Server 2000 problem that blanks out the sa password when you change Windows security.
By Angie Brew
Diogenes Torres, a guest lecturer with the Data Warehouse Institute, will speak at Hart-Hanks’ Forum2000 user conference, slated for June 4-7 in Boston.
By Carol Tomerlin
To expand its total solution offerings, Toshiba America Information Systems’ Computer Systems Group has partnered with LearnKey.
By Carol Tomerlin
SQL Server customers can download a free trial version of Database Scanner from Internet Security Systems.
By Angie Brew
Microsoft has recently reported a couple of SQL Server 2000-related bugs to watch out for.
By Angie Brew
U.S. Marketer.com has integrated SQL Server 2000 into its online marketplace, which matches marketing professionals with marketing service providers.
By Angie Brew
Lancaster, one of the United Kingdom’s leading retail motor groups, is putting its financial management process on the Web with Comshare’s e-business management planning and control (MPC) solution.
By Carol Tomerlin
Ultera Systems signed an agreement with e-DataGroup Pty Ltd. to market Ultera products through its distribution company Digital Tape Solutions (DTS), distributor of tape drives and autoloader/library systems in Australia.
By Carol Tomerlin
Ultera Systems signed a nonexclusive agreement with SAN SOLUTIONS SA to deliver Ultera’s tape array controllers and systems to premier storage resellers in Spain and Portugal.
By Carol Tomerlin
A strategic partnership between Ultimate Software and Epicor Software lets Epicor market Ultimate’s UltiPro solution under the Epicor ePeople.
By Carol Tomerlin
The SQL Server 2000 technology guarantee allows customers who have purchased the full package or upgrade version of specific SQL Server 7.0 products to upgrade to the corresponding SQL Server 2000 version.
By Carol Tomerlin
MTI Technology announced that Uproar chose MTI as the standard supplier of its high-availability enterprise storage solutions.
By Carol Tomerlin
The State Corporation Commission of the Commonwealth of Virginia has selected Hummingbird Communications' CompInfo to provide the software and services necessary to implement the commission's new case- and document-management system.
By Carol Tomerlin
CYRANO announced new services that provide detailed Web site load testing and firewall vulnerability scanning.
By Carol Tomerlin
Thanks to O’Reilly & Associates’ WebBoard conferencing software, Growth House is a semifinalist in the Fourth Annual Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft’s Reinaldo Kibel will present a support Webcast on August 29, 2000, at 10:00 A.M. Pacific time.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft will host an overview of the SQL Server CE architecture during a January 25 WebCast at 10 A.M. (Pacific time).
By Kathy Blomstrom
Microsoft has selected RadView Software’s WebLoad to analyze the Web server performance capabilities of Windows 2000 Server (Win2K Server) in an enterprise and small business Internet server configuration.
By Carol Tomerlin
WebTrends has formed a technology integration alliance with Microsoft and Knosys to broaden its CommerceTrends OLAP portfolio.
By Angie Brew
Wise Solutions Inc. and Seagate Software, the maker of Crystal Reports, are joining in a technology partnership.
By Angie Brew
To service its growing Asia-Pacific customer base, Wonderware Corporation has opened a new customer support center in Singapore.
By Carol Tomerlin
Microsoft SQL Server version 7.0 users may find that changing the system administrator (sa) password from a blank to any other value on Microsoft Windows 95- or Microsoft Windows 98-based computers might prevent the SQL Server Agent from starting.
By Carol Tomerlin
As part of the SQL Agent Man Series, the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) announced workshops that will help SQL Server users maximize their effectiveness.
By Carol Tomerlin
The World Bank Group has implemented a global economic analysis solution based on SQL Server 2000 and Knosys’ ProClarity Analytical Platform.
By Angie Brew
SoftQuad Software launched the XMetaL Quick Start Program.
By Carol Tomerlin
XML One is returning to Santa Clara, California, November 8 through 11, 1999, for its fall conference. The expanded conference offers four tracts and 62 sessions, reflecting the latest advances in Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology.
By Carol Tomerlin
XML World 2000, scheduled for September 5 through 8, 2000, in Boston, Massachusetts, will focus exclusively on XML business applications in which XML is making a tangible difference.
By Carol Tomerlin
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A California judge in the County of Santa Clara has ruled that representatives of three Macintosh enthusiast Web sites must reveal their insider sources.
By Paul Thurrott
European Union (EU) Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes said yesterday that the European Commission was still examining whether
Microsoft was violating the terms of the 2004 EU antitrust ruling.
By Paul Thurrott
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it was working with the state of Massachusetts to stop one of the world's largest spam rings, which was working out of the Boston area. The civil complaint resulted in a state judge ordering the shutdown of spam
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft's oft-delayed SQL Server 2005 family of products will finally ship mid-year, the company said this week, but it will bring with it a new product lineup and higher prices. For starters, Microsoft is adding a Workgroup Edition of SQL Server. But
By Paul Thurrott
At the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany this week, Microsoft announced that it would be expanding the availability of PCs based on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 to 20 additional countries by the end of 2005. That expansion means that the
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates will kick off WinHEC 2005 with a keynote address touting the x64 releases of Windows 2003 and Windows XP, as well as the next major Windows version, code-named Longhorn.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft today unveiled the third phase of its "XP Reloaded" plan, in which it is attempting to renew consumer enthusiasm in Windows XP, its three-and-a-half year old OS.
By Paul Thurrott
In conjunction with investment research firm Punk Ziegel and market research firm Perseus Development, "Internet World" magazine recently surveyed 495 executives and line of business (LOB) managers.
By Keith Furman
iDefense announced that it will pay $10,000 to anyone who discovers a bug in a Microsoft product that results in a new Microsoft Security Bulletin with a critical severity rating.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Hackers of the world unite: the so-called "Cult of the Dead Cow" (CDC)
demonstrated a Windows NT hacking application called "Back Orifice" (you
have to love the name at least) that promises to give its user complete
control over a remote Windows NT
By Paul Thurrott
After a more careful reading of the CDC Web site, thanks to the urging of
several readers, I must say I'm a little less worried about the "Back
Orifice" hacking tool. It seems this tool is targeted solely at Windows 95
and 98 machines, not NT, making
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft recently revealed that it will try to head off antitrust action in Europe around its Office product line by adding an Office document "ballot screen" to the next version of Office, Office 2010.
By Paul Thurrott
"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is creating a 30-minute comedy variety show/infomercial that will promote Windows 7 on the Fox TV network.
By Paul Thurrott
As previously reported in WinInfo, Microsoft Corporation will usher in its final Windows 9x product under the moniker "Windows 2000 Millennium Edition," the company confirmed today. Millennium, which might otherwise be thought of as "Windows 98 Third
By Paul Thurrott
The TNT cable network will air "Pirates of Silicon Valley" for the first
time this Sunday, depicting the ascension of Apple Computer and Microsoft in
the early 1980's. Starring Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates and ER's Noah
Wyle as Steve Jobs, the
By Paul Thurrott
By Mark Joseph Edwards
It's official! Microsoft Corporation announced today that it is renaming Windows NT 5.0 to Windows 2000 as it ushers in the most important update ever to its line of 32-bit operating systems.
"We will also firmly establish Windows NT as the
By Paul Thurrott
Is that a Web search engine in your pocket, or are you just happy to see
me? @Home, the fledgling high-speed Internet access company, announced
Monday that it will be buying Excite Inc. for $6.7 billion in stock. Excite
currently has about 20 million
By Paul Thurrott
A T1 in every home? The dream of constant high-speed Internet access got a
little closer to reality this week when the @Home network, suppliers of
cable modem Internet access, announced this week that it had signed ten new
distribution agreements in
By Paul Thurrott
Just two years ago, @Home, the cable Internet access company, formed an
alliance with Netscape Communications, pledging to provide its customers
with Navigator as the browser of choice. At the time, @Home called
Navigator the "foundation" of its
By Paul Thurrott
A study released today by Information and Interactive Services Report
states that an estimated 18 million people were using the Internet and
major online services by the end of 1996. If current trends continue,
over 30 million people will be online
By Paul Thurrott
The often scrutinized adware company 180solutions announced that it will merge with Hotbar and rename the new entity Zango.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
180solution filed suit against seven former distributors of its search software for allegedly causing the software to be installed on people's computers without proper notice and consent.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
A little over a year ago, on Pearl Harbor day 1995, Bill Gates announced
Microsoft's Internet strategy. No one took it very seriously, and most
people seriously doubted that a company the size of Microsoft would be
able to recast themselves for the
By Paul Thurrott
Paul Thurrott's compilation of the top stories of 1997 is now available at the new 1997: the year in review site. Please note that Paul will be on vacation until January 9th, so WinInfo will resume
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft is four weeks into the first alpha of
Internet Explorer 5.0 and the company hopes to have the final release
version ready before the end of 1998. Internet Explorer 5.0 will natively
support the vector graphics file format, which generates
By Paul Thurrott
The celery jokes have ended. With the introduction Monday of new 366 and
400 MHz Celeron processors, Intel's low-end microprocessor takes a serious
step up in performance while retaining the pricing edge of its
predecessors. And on the heels of this
By Paul Thurrott
Windows & .NET Magazine author Paul Robichaux wrote a book, "Secure Messaging with Exchange Server 2003." A chapter from the book, "20 Tips on Securing Outlook in 20 Minutes," is now available online that helps people secure their Outlook clients.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
While the current view of 2008 is one of financial misery, what with the slumping economy and stagnant PC industry growth, this year will likely be remembered in tech circles for far more meaningful reasons. Microsoft, which jumpstarted and then led the
By Paul Thurrott
Computer Associates (CA), nStor Technologies, Overland Data, and QLogic have joined to promote the adoption of 2GB serverless backup for Fibre Channel-based Storage Area Networks (SANs).
By Keith Furman
As reported earlier in WinInfo, Intel will soon announce sweeping price
cuts in its line of microprocessors in an effort to stave off competition.
Intel is also due to premier its Pentium II CPU in two weeks, a Pentium
Pro-class chip with MMX
By Paul Thurrott
3Com announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire intrusion prevention solution maker TippingPoint.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
3Com, makers of the popular Palm Pilot personal information manager (PIM),
are considering suing Microsoft over its use of the word "palm" to name its
new Palm PC PIM. The Palm PC, which bears a more than casual similarity to
3Com's device, was
By Paul Thurrott
Generally, when Microsoft enters a new market, people expect the software
giant to dominate. But that's not always been the case: Witness the
Microsoft Network, which holds a very distant second place to America
Online, the juggernaut of online
By Paul Thurrott
3Com Corporation and Microsoft Corporation announced Wednesday that they had shipped the first in an expected series of home networking products that will make it easy for consumers to connect computers at home and share Internet connections. The 3Com
By Paul Thurrott
Four SQL Server professionals walked away with top honors in the first annual SQL Server Innovator Awards, presented at the SQL Server Magazine LIVE! conference in Orlando, Florida, this week.
By Various Authors
Lucent Technologies is proposing a standard for 56K modems that would allow
high-speed modems from different manufacturers to talk to each other. Until
the announcement, Lucent was competing with U.S. Robotics to get a 56K
modem to market. Unless an
By Paul Thurrott
With the release of Windows NT 5.0 slipping into late 1998 or early 1999,
Microsoft is, for some reason, evangelizing a future 64-bit version of
Windows NT, to be dubbed Windows NT 6.0. Microsoft will provide developers
with an early beta release of
By Paul Thurrott
RSA Security announced that its RC5-64 Challenge was finally finished when the correct encryption key was discovered on July 14. However, due to a glitch in the software running the competition, the winning key wasn't discovered until August 12.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
The next version of SQL Server, code-named "Sphinx," will likely support
64-bit code, allowing it to support data warehousing. Originally, 64-bit
support was expected in the 1998 release, to coincide with other 64-bit
offerings, but Microsoft wants to
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft's 64-bit computing platform continues to claim performance records on the way to its launch, expected in April.
By Various Authors
As reported earlier in WinInfo, the 64-bit version of Windows 2000, code-named "Janus," is on track for a mid-2000 release that will coincide with the release of Merced, Intel's first 64-bit processor. The 64-bit edition of Windows 2000 will support far
By Paul Thurrott
According to a study conducted by the Software Publishers Association,
70% of the people in the United States getting access to the Internet do
so through an online service such as America Online, CompuServe, or the
By Paul Thurrott
Sega of America unleashed its Windows CE-based Dreamcast Thursday to Christmas-like crowds across the continent as eager users waited at midnight for the special retail rollout to begin. Sega has taken over 300,000 preorders for the $200 system, which is
By Paul Thurrott
Wow. What can I say? I received more e-mails today than I ever
imagined possible, and got the back issues that I needed. Thank you all
so much for taking the time to write and send me the back issues. I
really, really appreciate
By Paul Thurrott
Tomorrow, Apple will begin selling its eagerly awaited second generation iPhone handheld, the iPhone 3G, along with associated products like the iPhone Software 2.0 Update, iTunes 7.7, and MobileMe. Today, however, Apple made available what will likely
By Paul Thurrott
Want to use the ">" feature in Outlook right now? Well, I have one of
those good news/bad news deals for you: there is a way to make it work
right now--that's the good news. The bad news is that you have to use
Word as your E-mail
By Paul Thurrott
OK, here's some more humor for the weekend, courtesy of Douglas J. Hunley.
Enjoy!
--
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, except Papa's mouse.
The computer was
By Paul Thurrott
Thanks to George Beekman for passing this joke along:
Bill Gates and Scott McNealy were playing a friendly game of frisbee on the
Gate's estate on the shore of Lake Washington. At one point, Bill
accidentally sends the frisbee over Scott's head,
By Paul Thurrott
These days, it's a little too easy to pick on Microsoft for its almost
complete control of the operating system market, but what the heck, this
one is pretty funny, especially if you're a Tolkien fan (and what
self-respecting geek *isn't* a Tolkien
By Paul Thurrott
News about a potential delay in Windows Longhorn, the next major update to Windows XP, has quickly evolved from mindless analysts predictions to so-called fact, with several major tech news outlets reporting on Microsoft's supposed setbacks. But Microsoft
By Paul Thurrott
To those of us here in the United States, the notion of an international body imposing strict antitrust limits on an American economic superpower like Microsoft is somewhat unsettling.
By Paul Thurrott
As is so often the case in the waning days of any year, it's been a slow news week, and a short one at that, thanks to the New Year's holiday. So instead of dredging up a tired press release from a third rate PC maker or hardware vendor, I thought it
By Paul Thurrott
Well needless to say, this week didn't exactly go as planned. I'd like to
thank everyone once again for showing up for me during this most recent
difficult bout with plagiarism. I'd also like to mention that the guys
responsible for the theft have
By Paul Thurrott
I tried to write a news story today, I really did. I've even railed against the news over-coverage of the anniversary of 9/11, when America's remaining innocence and false sense of security was swept away in four violent acts of evil. But whether it's the
By Paul Thurrott
Terrorist attacks crash four commercial airliners, two of which destroy the World Trade Center in New York. As President Bush addresses the national tragedy, we'd like to forward our condolences to the victims of these senseless crimes.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft has formed a new storage business unit and is actively considering developing storage products.
By Keith Furman
Microsoft expects last week's Office XP Service Pack 1 (SP-1) release to usher in a new era of corporate adoptions of the product, since many organizations wait on the first consolidated update package before upgrading
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft on Tuesday began selling its second generation Zune portable media devices along with a compatible suite of software, online services, and accessories. Unlike the first generation Zune, which arrived in the US in late 2006, this version seems
By Paul Thurrott
I am in San Fransisco this week, so if I'm a little late replying to
mail, it's because I'll only be online for an hour or two each day, except
for my "server days", when I will be installing Normandy servers, Visual
InterDev, and other programs on
By Paul Thurrott
Thanks to Robert Williams and Patrick Laughlin for the tip: Internet
Explorer 5.0 users that are bothered by what I call "the garbage string bug"
will be interested in a nice little work-around. This bug occurs when you
type a bad URL (usually because
By Paul Thurrott
Thanks to Jim Biddison and Eric D. Senf for tipping me off to this: the
following warning is applicable to anyone running Internet Explorer 4.0
that wishes to install the Office 97 Service Release 1 (SR-1) mentioned in
yesterday's
By Paul Thurrott
Abit Computer and Via Technologies announced new chipset features that will include security technologies.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Reversing an earlier decision that would have made its next Web browser less compatible with existing Web standards, Microsoft on Monday announced that Internet Explorer 8 will ship use standards-based rendering by default. The announcement comes on the
By Paul Thurrott
With the Yahoo! debacle behind it, Microsoft has turned, as expected, to smaller social networking sites for possible acquisition. First up, according to a report today in "The Wall Street Journal" is Facebook. Though neither company will comment on any
By Paul Thurrott
I will be in San Francisco on business next week but I will be able to
check my mail every day and I am expecting to publish WinInfo as usual.
Hopefully, my travel plans won't impact WinInfo, but if I miss a day or
two, that's why. I will be
By Paul Thurrott
I'm heading back to the Bay area again next week to get some work done on the Web server and prepare a new database-driven, dynamic version of the Internet Nexus Web site. I'll have more information next week, but the Nexus will soon feature the past few
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft has released two new templates for the SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (Accelerator for BI), an application-development tool that lets you automate the process of building an analytical application.
By Various Authors
A recently revealed bug in Microsoft Access, the company's desktop database
application, can corrupt data by overwriting one record with information
from another. Microsoft confirmed the bug on Tuesday, which can occur in a
form view with numerous
By Paul Thurrott
Shipments of PCs worldwide were better than expected in the third quarter of 2009, thanks to strong sales of low-cost netbooks.
By Paul Thurrott
Two of the world's biggest PC makers announced their agreement to merge on Monday, with Acer purchasing Gateway for $710 million in cash.
By Paul Thurrott
When Microsoft releases Beta 2 of Windows NT 5.0 this June, of the new
operating system's most eagerly awaited features is going to finally be
ready. Active Directory, the next-generation replacement for its
now-antiquated domain system used in
By Paul Thurrott
Windows Server 2003 R2 will support single-sign-on and federated authentication using Active Directory as the backend. Centrify aims to enable the technology on non-Microsoft platforms.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
I can't say that I really expected this, but next month, beta versions of
ActiveX will be made available for Linux, Digital UNIX, Solaris, and the
Macintosh. Next quarter, a beta will be released for HP-UX as well.
Microsoft is working on the ports
By Paul Thurrott
A set of consumer and privacy groups railed against the US government for not acting to investigate or block the sale of Windows XP, which will be released tomorrow. According to the groups, the FTC should have acted against XP
By Paul Thurrott
According to industry reports, Adaptec is on the verge of acquiring Eurologic Systems, a storage subsystem manufacturer.
By Keith Furman
A new agreement calls for Adaptec to provide all RAID controllers for IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries servers for the next 3 years.
By Keith Furman
Adaptec has acquired Tricord Systems' assets through bankruptcy proceedings.
By Keith Furman
Adaptec and Cisco have launched an initiative to promote IP Storage solutions.
By Keith Furman
Adaptec has shipped the first sample of its Serial ATA RAID controller to four major OEMs, enabling the OEMs to test the technology.
By Keith Furman
With the completion of its purchase of Elipsan, Adaptec plans to increase its solutions' diversity by adding Elipsan's virtualization software to Adaptec's RAID subsystems.
By Keith Furman
Adaptec has launched a new initiative with Hard Disk Drive (HDD) manufacturers Fujitsu, Hitachi, Maxtor, and Seagate Technology to promote the upcoming Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) standard.
By Keith Furman
The Adaptec Flexible Storage Architecture (FSA) provides modular, interoperable components that OEMs can combine into customized storage solutions ranging from simple arrays to highly available enterprise systems.
By Keith Furman
Adaptec announced that it has developed new technology to increase the performance and lower the overhead that Ultra320 SCSI requires.
By Keith Furman
The first Serial Attached SCSI chip to power 4.8GBps data transfer rates (seven times the rate of Ultra320 SCSI) reaches the market.
By Keith Furman
Continuing its buying spree, Adaptec expands its NAS options by purchasing Snap Appliance.
By Keith Furman
A WinInfo subscriber pointed out that NeXT did indeed create an Intel
x86 version of NeXTStep, contrary to my claims. I checked into it, and as
expected, my memory has let me down again. It was called "NeXTStep for
By Paul Thurrott
It's a sad day for UNIX fans as the world's one-time leading proponent of the venerable operating system has announced a deal with Microsoft to resell Windows Server on its machines. Of course, that's not how Sun is positioning this news: The company says
By Paul Thurrott
Adobe this week announced that it is extending its popular Flash platform.
By Paul Thurrott
Adobe this week informed its customers that they will need to pay for new versions of many of its products if they expect to run them glitch-free on Windows Vista. The reason? Adobe has no plans at all to ensure that many of its most expensive currently
By Paul Thurrott
Adobe is offering a free download of the PageMill 3.0 beta, the latest
version of its Web site authoring tool. PageMill 3.0 builds on the feature
set of 2.0, adding advanced site management features.
The PageMill 3.0 preview is a 16 MB download
By Paul Thurrott
Thanks to all that wrote in with the information that Adobe has released the
final version of Acrobat 4.0, its document creation suite. The read-only
version of Acrobat, Reader, is now available for free download as well.
Check out the By Paul Thurrott
Though it is only one quarter the size of the company it is trying to buy,
Quark Incorporated, makers of the QuarkExpress desktop publishing package,
attempted to purchase Adobe Systems Inc., makers of PageMaker and
Illustrator, this week. The offer
By Paul Thurrott
Adobe on Monday announced the availability of its AIR technologies, which aim to bridge the gap between Web applications and true PC-based software. These types of applications are considered a major stepping stone to the coming era of so-called cloud
By Paul Thurrott
Thanks to Keith Furman for the tip: Adobe is currently beta testing its Acrobat 4.0 software, which works with the Portable Document Format (PDF). A read-only version, Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0, is also available as a beta download. The final version is
By Paul Thurrott
Long-time Apple supporter Adobe Systems announced a new version of its high-end video editing platform Premiere this week. There's just one catch: The new Premiere will be Windows-only, making this version of the product the first in which Adobe will not
By Paul Thurrott
According to a report in "The Wall Street Journal," Microsoft competitors Adobe and Symantec are behind recent EU investigations into Windows Vista.
By Paul Thurrott
Emboldened by a recent court ruling in his favor, Lindows CEO Michael Robertson is calling on Microsoft to compete with his company in the marketplace, not in the courtroom.
By Paul Thurrott
A media player usage recount that was supposed to bolster Apple QuickTime has been completed, but the outcome isn't quite what Apple wanted: Instead, RealNetworks has retained the top spot for home-based media playing, though its usage share has fallen
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft on Monday filed its official response to a March 1 European Union (EU) charge that the company was violating its 2004 antitrust order. Though the details of the response are currently unknown, Microsoft said that it was attempting to avoid
By Paul Thurrott
As the old adage goes, when it rains it pours, and Microsoft's scheduled monthly security patches are no different. On Tuesday, Microsoft released six security patches, three of which were rated critical, the company's highest designation. (Microsoft also
By Paul Thurrott
While Microsoft is busy trying to overcome consumer opinions of its current operating system, Windows Vista, the software giant is also undergoing an internal effort to beta test the next version, called Windows 7. Last week, the company began testing an
By Paul Thurrott
Akonix Systems announced that it will release its new L7 Gateway, a perimeter security product designed to protect networks against the use of "rogue protocols."
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Microsoft confirmed yesterday afternoon that the company will delay Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) until the first half of 2005.
By Paul Thurrott
Alexa 3.0 Beta is now available for free download: This is the technology
that Netscape licensed for their "What's related" feature in Navigator 4.07
and 4.5. Alexa 3.0 adds a small pane to the bottom of your browser window
that follows along as you
By Paul Thurrott
A year after the debut of Microsoft's innovative Tablet PC platform, the software giant is keeping an upbeat tone despite slow sales, thanks to a powerful new hardware platform that will erase past performance and battery life issues and a new version of
By Paul Thurrott
The time for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to make good on his threats has come. Ballmer previously informed Yahoo! that he would seek to oust its board of directors and replace them with one more amenable to Microsoft's $44.6 hostile takeover offer if the
By Paul Thurrott
Two leaders in Web design and development tools, announced that they would merge in a transaction worth approximately $360 million.
By Paul Thurrott
Government attorney David Boies stunned the courtroom Tuesday during the
Microsoft antitrust trial when he showed that the videotape demonstration
that the company had shown Monday was edited to falsely support its claims.
In the video, whose
By Paul Thurrott
Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building. Jim Allchin, the senior vice president most directly responsible for the glacial development time of Windows 2000, has announced a curiously timed "vacation," which Microsoft watchers generally believe
By Paul Thurrott
Echoing my earlier comments about Windows Vista being a train wreck, Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin walked into chairman Bill Gates' office in July 2004 and told him that the software project was horribly behind schedule and would never get
By Paul Thurrott
In an open letter to developers, Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin predicted that there would be over 200 million people using Windows Vista within 2 years of its January 2007 launch. This, he says, is an opportunity that hasn't arisen since Windows 95
By Paul Thurrott
In an interview with the Gartner Group, Microsoft VP Jim Allchin, the man
most directly responsible for Windows 2000, says that the beta 3 release of
the OS, which was released last week, is better than any production OS
Microsoft has ever shipped.
By Paul Thurrott
In an interview with PC Week, Microsoft VP Jim Allchin, the man most
directly responsible for Windows 2000, described the OS as basically
complete, with only "tweaking" left to be done between now the final release
in October. And Allchin did a bit to
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin, the man most directly in charge of Windows XP, said last week that the company was "very happy" with sales of the new OS, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
By Paul Thurrott
A fascinating (and alleged) internal Microsoft memo has been making the
rounds this weekend on the Internet, showing a company that has privately
taken the Linux threat to heart while it publicly asserts that it has
nothing to fear. The memo, which
By Paul Thurrott
LSI Logic Storage Systems and StorageTek have formed an alliance to develop alternatives for the open-systems storage market.
By Keith Furman
Altiris announced that it will acquire Pedestal Software in a deal valued at $65 million.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Opening a new round in its battle with Apple's popular iTunes service, Amazon this week revealed that it will soon expand its Amazon MP3 service, which offers digital music in a non-protected format, worldwide. Currently, Amazon MP3 is available only to
By Paul Thurrott
Joining the ranks of Wal-Mart and other retailers who are seeking to break Apple's dominance of the digital music business, Amazon this week opened the virtual doors of its music download service. The service, called Amazon MP3 Store, offers songs in a
By Paul Thurrott
Last week, I reported on the ongoing debate between Amazon's Jeff Bezos and publishing legend Tim O'Reilly, who had called Bezos to task for securing yet-another patent related to online technology. Bezos responded with an open letter asking for the
By Paul Thurrott
Online retailer Amazon this week reported that it has experienced its "best-ever" holiday sales season, thanks to consumer electronics products like the Microsoft Xbox 360, Apple iPod, Cannon PowerShot Digital Elph, and the Garmin global positioning
By Paul Thurrott
Online retailing giant Amazon.com reported on Friday that it has experienced its "best ever" holiday sales period, bucking industry trends and providing a bright spot in an otherwise disastrous economy. That said, Amazon didn't provide many specifics
By Paul Thurrott
Online retailer Amazon.com this week reported its strongest holiday season yet, with a record 5.4 million items sold on December 10 alone, the busiest shopping day of the year. Amazon ramped up shipments to 3.9 million units per day, the company reported
By Paul Thurrott
Online retailer Amazon.com on Monday shipped its Kindle eBook reader, a portable hardware device with wireless capabilities that seeks to do for reading what the iPod did for music. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos says his company has been working on
By Paul Thurrott
Online retailing giant Amazon.com said today that it will purchase audiobook seller Audible in a deal valued at $300 million. Amazon is expected to offer Audible's digital audio content, which includes newspapers, magazines, and radio shows in addition to
By Paul Thurrott
Amazon.com announced yesterday that it set a sales record during the 2004 holiday sales period by selling more than 2.8 million items in a single day--an average of 32 items per second.
By Paul Thurrott
To help thwart illegitimate copies of its processors, AMD has added new holographic labels to ensure authenticity.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Late yesterday, Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) announced new Athlon microprocessors that close the gap with Intel's most powerful performers. The Athlon XP 2800+ and 2700+ use a 333 MHz bus, a first for AMD, and are roughly comparable to Intel's market-
By Paul Thurrott
Microprocessor maker AMD announced this week that it would cut 1680 workers, or about 10 percent of its workforce, citing an unexpected 15 percent drop in revenues for the current quarter. AMD currently employs almost 17,000 workers
By Paul Thurrott
Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) announced today that it would be releasing its 64-bit processor, code-named Sledgehammer, as the Opteron, when it goes on sale later this year. Unlike Intel's 64-bit offering, the Itanium, the AMD Opteron offering 100 percent
By Paul Thurrott
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced Monday that it is expecting to report a "significant" loss for its first fiscal quarter, due to lower-than-expected sales of its microprocessors. AMD sells the K6-2 line of processors, which compete with Intel's
By Paul Thurrott
Microprocessor maker AMD (Advanced Micro Designs) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corporation on Monday, accusing the chip giant of forcing customers into exclusive deals that prevent them from buying AMD chips. According to the suit, Intel
By Paul Thurrott
Three cheers for the little guy. AMD is set to release its K6 processor,
a Pentium Pro competitor that undercuts the price of Intel's top of the
line chip while adding MMX-compatibility. And that, according to Intel, is
the problem. Intel sought a
By Paul Thurrott
Advanced Micro Design (AMD) announced Monday morning that it has beat Intel Corporation in the race to 1 GHZ (1000 MHz) with the shipment of its 1 GHz Athlon microprocessor. Compaq Computer and Gateway will be the first PC makers to ship systems based on
By Paul Thurrott
AMD today announced the availability of its Phenom quad-core microprocessors, consumer-oriented desktop processors that the company had originally expected to ship in January. The company also announced the release of a new line of triple-core
By Paul Thurrott
There's a revolution spreading through the computer industry. Apple is kicking Microsoft's butt in digital music, despite going it alone in a crowded market in which the software giant has partnered with numerous companies. Tiny Mozilla Foundation has
By Paul Thurrott
Microprocessor upstart AMD has pledged to ship a dual-core version of its x64-compatible Athlon 64 chip by the end of 2005, turning up the heat on rival Intel. The announcement comes just a day after Intel released x64-compatible versions of the Pentium 4
By Paul Thurrott
Tomorrow in New York, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will unleash its 64-bit Opteron and Athlon 64 processors, the company's most concerted efforts yet to steal market share from microprocessor giant Intel. Unlike previous AMD designs, the Opteron and
By Paul Thurrott
AMD on Tuesday announced the availability of its ATI Radeon HD 4800 series graphics processing cards, one model of which the company describes as the world's fastest, and the first to exceed over one teraFLOPS of computing power. The Radeon HD 4800 series
By Paul Thurrott
As expected, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) unveiled its K6 microprocessor
yesterday. The K6 is a Pentium Pro-class CPU that features MMX capabilities
previously found only on special versions of Intel's Pentium line. The
company is positioning the chip
By Paul Thurrott
Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) has renamed its K6 3D microprocessor only days
before its launch and may price it to compete head-to-head with Intel's
market-leading Pentium II. Now dubbed the K6-2, the new chip is expected on
May 28. It is designed
By Paul Thurrott
Microprocessor maker AMD has sent a subpoena to Microsoft, asking the software giant to provide evidence for AMD's antitrust case against microprocessor market leader Intel. AMD says it sent the subpoena last Thursday and has asked the software giant to
By Paul Thurrott
Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) will launch its K6 processor tomorrow, a chip
the company claims bests the Pentium Pro and Pentium II in performance. The
K6 ushers in a new era of Intel-compatible competition as previous releases
by AMD and Cyrix have
By Paul Thurrott
Intel competitor AMD announced Monday the immediate availability of its 1.1 GHz (1,100 MHz) Athlon microprocessor, which is now shipping in new systems from 10 major PC makers. The 1.1 GHz Athlon regains ground lost to Intel's Pentium III, which recently
By Paul Thurrott
Chipmaker AMD today announced the immediate availability of the first mainstream dual-core video card, the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, which combines two Radeon HD 3870 graphical processing units (GPUs) on a single board. Previously, gamers looking for the
By Paul Thurrott
AMD on Monday unveiled its new quad-core Opteron microprocessors, new chips that pack foru microprocessor cores into a single package. The processors, which were codenamed Barcelona, are initially headed for the server market, but as with the
By Paul Thurrott
Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) unleashed its latest Pentium III-killer this week, the 700 MHz Athlon microprocessor. The Athlon, which was already beating Intel's best microprocessor, the Pentium III 600, in benchmark tests, extends its lead with this
By Paul Thurrott
Advanced Micro Design (AMD) has released its latest challenger to the Intel Pentium III and this time the perennial underdog has got a winner on its hands: AMD's 600 and 650 MHz Athlon (K7) microprocessors beat the Intel Pentium III handily in just about
By Paul Thurrott
America On-hold. America off-line. You've heard the jokes, but if you're
an America Online subscriber, you're not laughing. Traffic on AOL has
increased dramatically since the company switched to a flat-fee payment
plan, almost tripling since December
By Paul Thurrott
This would be funny if it wasn't so sad: America Online is suffering
another blackout. No one is sure when it started or when the online
service will be operational again. Callers to America Online technical
support are greeted by the following
By Paul Thurrott
America Online announced Tuesday that it will adopt Microsoft Outlook
Express as its email client and will integrate the program with the AOL
software. Currently, AOL is using an outdated, proprietary email client
that generates thousands of
By Paul Thurrott
Online giant America Online (AOL) announced this week that it would be
buying Sedona, Arizona-based Nullsoft, makers of the popular WinAMP audio
player, for approximately $80 million. AOL is also purchasing Spinner
Networks Inc., a streaming audio
By Paul Thurrott
America Online on Thursday announced plans to expand its online service on
to the Web, similar to offerings now available to users of the Microsoft
Network. AOL's Web plans include AOL Netmail, which allows its users to get
and send mail from a Web
By Paul Thurrott
Have I mentioned that I love this industry yet?
America Online is in discussions now to acquire its number one competitor,
CompuServe. Negotiators worked over the weekend, hammering out the details,
which should cost AOL about US$1.2 billion in
By Paul Thurrott
According to reports, America Online (AOL) is buying Mirabilis (Latin for
"marvelous"), the company that makes ICQ, a popular Internet communications
tool. ICQ, which is available for free on the Internet, allows its users to
contact each other via
By Paul Thurrott
In a move that could alter the competitive landscape of the Internet
forever, online giant America Online is attempting to purchase ailing
Netscape Communications for a stock swap worth almost $4 billion. AOL,
Under terms of the deal, Netscape's
By Paul Thurrott
By an overwhelming margin, American citizens are against any government,
be it state or federal, interfering with Microsoft's planned schedule for
releasing Windows 98. In a poll taken by Hart-Teeter Research of over 1000
adults last week, American
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft has informed its hardware and wireless carrier partners that it has delayed the release of Windows Mobile 7, the upcoming major update to its smart phone platform. The delay suggests that warring parties inside of Microsoft continue to disagree
By Paul Thurrott
Amino Communications announced patent-pending technology that might help eliminate the need for encryption.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
As reported previously, Microsoft announced Friday that it had reached a settlement with the United States government in its three-year antitrust case. But the settlement is a travesty of justice
By Paul Thurrott
Paul provides his usual in-depth analysis and opinion, this time of Judge J. Frederick Motz's decision regarding the Microsoft antitrust class action lawsuit proposed settlement.
By Paul Thurrott
As expected, the nine remaining US states allied against Microsoft on Friday presented their proposed remedy for Microsoft's antitrust case. This proposed remedy is far more realistic and pragmatic than the earlier proposed settlement
By Paul Thurrott
As a contributing editor of InfoWorld and author of several best selling books, Brian Livingston is in a unique position to make a difference for Windows users. Through his constant interaction with the people that actually use Windows day-to-day,
By Paul Thurrott
Last week, I got a tremendous amount of information about C2 from various
WinInfo readers and, originally, I had intended to publish most of it. But
I just received an interesting post from Frank Mayer, of Science
Applications Internal Corporation
By Paul Thurrott
Now that we've had a bit of time to allow the judge's findings of fact to sink in, it's time to consider what the document really means. Does the judge understand the computer industry well enough to make a determination of culpability? And were the
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft's 118-page appellate filing this week raises a number of issues, both technical and legal, that will frame the next phase of its antitrust case. On the one hand, the company's complaints about Judge Jackson's behavior are interesting and of
By Paul Thurrott
Lest there be any doubt, Bill Gates is still calling the shots at Microsoft. In an October email memo to the company that was obtained by Windows IT Pro Magazine and other news outlets, Gates sets the future direction of the company once again, harkening
By Paul Thurrott
Analysts at the GigaWorld IT Forum '98 in Scottsdale Arizona on Monday
advised attendees to skip Windows NT 5.0 in favor of a later release. Rob
Enderle of the Giga Information Group says that NT 5.0 is likely to be
buggy because 85% of its 30 million
By Paul Thurrott
As Microsoft announced its plans to transition from the New Economy to the Old Economy with the discontinuation of the most successful stock option plan in corporate history, analysts hailed the move as a huge long-term win for investors. While giving
By Paul Thurrott
Based on an interview with one of the people that first discovered the recent "51 IP" bug in Windows 2000, and email discussions with various people at Microsoft Corporation, it has become clear that the company knew about this bug before the release of
By Paul Thurrott
I've been warning Microsoft for months that it needs to counter the unending swell of negativity around its Windows Vista operating system. But the company has responded in only a lukewarm fashion thus far, issuing the occasional whitepaper and carting
By Paul Thurrott
On the eve of an appeals court appearance, the state of West Virginia unexpectedly dropped its bid to seek stronger penalties in the Microsoft antitrust case, privately settling with the software giant and leaving Massachusetts as the final hold-out
By Paul Thurrott
Netscape "chief technology officer" Marc Andreessen outlined the future of
his company today during a keynote speech at the Netscape DevCon. The big
announcement: a "100% Pure Java" version of Communicator by 1998.
"Next year we are going to do a
By Paul Thurrott
Eric Hahn was named Chief Technical Officer of Netscape Communications
today, replacing the increasingly missing-in-action Marc Andreessen. Hahn
joined Netscape in 1995 following the acquisition of his company Collabra.
Andreessen was named vice
By Paul Thurrott
Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, addressing a Linux user group in San
Jose, says that the combination of Navigator 5.0 and Linux could be a fatal
blow to Windows. Netscape used Linux as its model when it decided to release
the source code to
By Paul Thurrott
Netscape VP Mark Andreessen addressed the Massachusetts Software Council on
Friday and said that Linux would bring the UNIX market together and
threaten Microsoft's Windows NT. Linux is a free clone of UNIX that runs on
a variety of hardware
By Paul Thurrott
Well, I think I'm finally ready to get this mailing list switched over to
LSoft and tomorrow--hopefully--will be the big day. I've mailed the
subscriber list to Keith Furman, who will be managing it from now on, and
we've been sending test messages
By Paul Thurrott
Fans of my earlier "Implementing Visual InterDev" title will be happy to
hear that I'm now working on a follow-up that will be published by Macmillan
publishing in early 1999. I will be writing a hefty portion of "Visual
InterDev 6.0 Unleashed"
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft's annual analyst meeting, which was held Thursday in Seattle,
gave no indication that the industry heavyweight is going to start cutting
its competitors any slack. The company outlined its strategies for new
integrated products while
By Paul Thurrott
Tom Ferris reported a new flaw in Internet Explorer on fully patched Windows XP SP2 systems. Microsoft is reportedly investigating the problem.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
This week, Hannover Fairs USA announced that it is canceling the CeBIT America 2005 trade show, which was to have been held in New York City in June 2005.
By Paul Thurrott
With Windows Vista complete and former Microsoft Copresident Jim Allchin out the door, Microsoft is embarking on yet another dramatic reorganization of its Windows Division.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Corporation acknowledged yet another bug in Internet Explorer 5.0 (IE 5) this week; this one could allow malicious Web site operators to view files on a user's local hard drive. The bug, which affects the JScript feature in Internet Explorer,
By Paul Thurrott
Dell Computer, the number one PC maker in the United States, saw its profits rise 42% in the most recent quarter, as phenomenal Internet sales pulled them through a period of higher hardware costs due largely to the earthquake in Taiwan. The company
By Paul Thurrott
Two Norwegian researchers created a Web browser called Opera a few years
ago, and are now shipping a 32-bit version. It doesn't support Java
applets, ActiveX controls, and contains basically unusable mail and news
programs. It does, however, have a
By Paul Thurrott
When Microsoft announced its Windows Live OneCare security and PC health product over five years (as MSN OneCare), Symantec, McAfee, and the other consumer-oriented security vendors reacted with stunning vigor.
By Paul Thurrott
On Monday, the US Congress gave its approval to the first federal law regulating spam, legislation that president Bush has said he will sign into law by the end of the year. The antispam law was passed unanimously by the House of Representatives, and
By Paul Thurrott
Here come da judge, here come da judge... The U.S. District Court of Washington announced Tuesday that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson will issue his findings of fact in the Microsoft antitrust case "on a Friday" at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. But which
By Paul Thurrott
It seems that Microsoft will never be able to satisfy European Union (EU) antitrust regulators. Yesterday, representatives of the European Commission (EC) once again complained that the software giant's response to its 2004 antitrust ruling was inadequate
By Paul Thurrott
Antitrust expert William Page, who coauthored a paper called "The Microsoft Case: Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare," has described the European Union's (EU's) complaint against Microsoft's bundling of Windows and Internet Explorer
By Paul Thurrott
Saying that he used the mistakes of previous antitrust trials as a guide, the judge in Microsoft's historic antitrust case said this week that he purposefully avoided "Vietnam morasses" by keeping the trial short. U.S. District Court judge Thomas
By Paul Thurrott
The Microsoft trial plodded along without me earlier this week as Microsoft
CEO Bill Gates took the virtual stand Monday morning, when highlights from
his videotaped testimony were shown in court. The snippets were a prelude
to Intel exec Steven
By Paul Thurrott
The U.S. government accused Microsoft Corporation of bribing Intuit, makers of the popular Quicken personal finance software, to include Internet Explorer with its product. And on the stand today in the Microsoft antitrust trial, Microsoft executive
By Paul Thurrott
Antivirus software vendors warn about a new worm and Trojan. The worm attempts to delete security software and the worm sends private info offsite.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
For Microsoft, Google's last minute deal with America Online (AOL) owner Time Warner was like a knife through the corporate heart, ending the software giant's bid to dramatically improve the standing of its embattled online search unit. But for Google
By Paul Thurrott
America Online announced a quarterly loss of $155 million yesterday, blaming a $74 million GNN restructuring bill and a $24 million charge to refund subscribers. The loss was much higher than analysts expected, even when the restructuring bill and charge
By Paul Thurrott
AOL Time Warner has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to drop a requirement that the company make its Instant Messaging (IM) interoperable with competing IM products. You might recall that the requirement was a condition of America Online
By Paul Thurrott
America Online (AOL) has quietly released the latest version of its client
software--version 4.0--after two years of testing. AOL users will be able
to download the latest version from within the online service's current
software, while a Web
By Paul Thurrott
Late today, the U.S. Department of Justice released a transcript of the
direct testimony of AOL senior vice president David Colburn in anticipation
of his appearance in court tomorrow for cross examination by Microsoft. All
of the major witnesses in
By Paul Thurrott
America Online (AOL) announced Tuesday that it was laying off 50 employees who worked on the Netscape Web browser and reorganizing development of the Mozilla project under which the browser is developed, signaling an end to Netscape and to the company's
By Paul Thurrott
An AOL engineer was arrested this week and charged with selling over 93 million AOL email addresses to spammers. The 24-year-old employee was arrested at his home in West Virginia on Wednesday, while a compatriot, who brokered the email addresses to
By Paul Thurrott
An AOL engineer has been arrested after stealing 92 million AOL screen names and selling them to a Las Vegas, Nevada, spammer.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
America Online (AOL), the online division of AOL Time Warner, will soon discover whether its 35 million subscribers will pay additional monthly fees to download music to their PCs, a key test of digital music subscriptions. The new service is called
By Paul Thurrott
Barry Schuler, president of America Online's (AOL) interactive services,
told lawyers during his deposition for the Microsoft antitrust case that
Netscape's browser was "decimated" before AOL decided to buy Netscape and
that the sale went through so
By Paul Thurrott
America Online (AOL) senior vice president David Colburn took the stand
today in the historic Microsoft antitrust trial, telling the court that AOL
feared that Microsoft and its MSN online service would put his company out
of business. It was 1995:
By Paul Thurrott
According to a report in the New York Times today, several directors of AOL Time Warner are seeking the ouster of chairman Steve Case, who previously headed online giant America Online (AOL) when it was a separate company. The enigmatic Case, however, is
By Paul Thurrott
Online service America Online (AOL) announced this week that it hit the 12
million subscriber mark, further distancing itself from onetime rivals such
as the Microsoft Network (MSN) and Prodigy. The subscriber increase comes
two months after AOL
By Paul Thurrott
Online juggernaut America Online (AOL) announced Monday that it was acquiring media giant Time Warner for about $166 billion in stock. If this purchase goes through, it will be the biggest corporate merger of all time, as the resulting company will be
By Paul Thurrott
AOL Time Warner confirmed this week that a security vulnerability in the Windows version of its AOL Instant Messenger (AOL IM) chat application could allow hackers to gain control of the user's computer. The vulnerability affects millions of AOL IM users
By Paul Thurrott
America Online (AOL) saw its user base grow to 16.9 million members worldwide as it
posted quarterly income of $117 million on revenues of $1.3 billion. When
income from the recently acquired Netscape Communications is factored in,
the company reports
By Paul Thurrott
Something huge almost happened last week and it was kept pretty quiet until
now: Apparently, telecommunications giant AT&T decided it wanted to swallow
online services giant America Online (AOL) and launched a takeover bid a
week ago. The bid was
By Paul Thurrott
America Online has released the second preview release of Netscape 6, its next-generation Web client, to the public. Netscape 6 PR 2, which is built on the Mozilla platform, features a customizable user interface, multiple email accounts, new Sidebar
By Paul Thurrott
Despite the fact that a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) condition of the AOL Time Warner merger required the company to open up interoperability between its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) product and competition, AOL revealed this week that it has no plans
By Paul Thurrott
According to a report this weekend in the Washington Post, AOL Time Warner is in talks to buy Linux maker Red Hat Software. If the deal is consummated, the acquisition will give AOL an operating system to challenge Microsoft's market leading Windows
By Paul Thurrott
After dropping support for Microsoft's Sender ID antispam technology last month, AOL announced this week that it's once again supporting the technology.
By Paul Thurrott
America Online has agreed to refund customers up to two months of service
fees, a group of Attorneys Generals announced today. The settlement will
prevent a consumer fraud lawsuit threatened by 37 states. According to the
group, the most an individual
By Paul Thurrott
Online giant America Online (AOL) found itself in legal trouble this week when a class action lawsuit was filed against the company alleging that its new software is crippling rival Internet accounts. The lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of 8 million
By Paul Thurrott
AOL Time Warner, which owns Netscape Corporation, sued Microsoft today in a federal court for illegally destroying Netscape's share of the browser market. The lawsuit is based on a ruling in Microsoft's wider antitrust case
By Paul Thurrott
AOL Time Warner this week posted the largest annual loss in US corporate history--a whopping $100 billion--for fiscal 2002. The loss includes a $45 billion charge the company took in the fourth quarter to adjust the value of some of its assets, including
By Paul Thurrott
AOL Time Warner revealed Wednesday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the company's accounting practices, raising the possibility of criminal charges. The DOJ investigation of the world's largest media company comes just weeks
By Paul Thurrott
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), AOL parent Time Warner is close to reaching a deal with Microsoft to create an online advertising service that will rival a similar service from Google. Microsoft and Time Warner have been in talks
By Paul Thurrott
AOL is resuscitating the Netscape name, but fans of the one-time Web browser king will be hugely disappointed to discover why. Rather than make a serious run at unseating Internet Explorer (IE), AOL is instead targeting another rival from Microsoft, MSN
By Paul Thurrott
America Online is going to license Microsoft's DirectX 7 multimedia technology so that its customers can run the latest multiplayer Windows-based games using the online service. It's an odd agreement between two companies that have been at each other's
By Paul Thurrott
America Online (AOL) will finally unveil its easy-to-use CompuServe 2000 software for its 2 million CompuServe subscribers. Like the America Online software, CompuServe 2000 is based on Internet Explorer 4.0 and features an AOL-like, but professional,
By Paul Thurrott
As expected, America Online (AOL) released the first public preview of Netscape 6, its next-generation, standards-based Web browser suite. With this first truly componentized version of Netscape, users can download and install only those modules they
By Paul Thurrott
America Online (AOL) Chairman Steve Case provided his deposition for the
rebuttal phase of the Microsoft trial Friday, opining that Microsoft
basically held his company hostage because of the need to ensure a place for
AOL on the Windows 95 desktop.
By Paul Thurrott
Last night, Microsoft and The Associated Press (AP) announced a join venture to develop the AP Online Video Network, which will provide AP members with news video content for their Web sites. As part of the deal, Microsoft will provide its MSN-branded
By Paul Thurrott
The world's most popular Web server, Apache, will soon ship in a version for
Windows 95 and NT 4.0. And you can't beat the price, because it's free, but
it also includes the source code so that developers can modify the program
as they see fit. Apache
By Paul Thurrott
Responding to the ENT survey of Web servers that was quoted recently in WinInfo, an Apache Web magazine decided to do a survey of its own to prove that the Apache Web server is indeed dominant on the Web. But while Apache does have the lead position
By Paul Thurrott
The Microsoft antitrust trial took a dramatic turn late Tuesday when the U.S. District Court of Appeals suddenly announced that it would hear Microsoft's appeal of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's damning ruling against the company. In what can only be
By Paul Thurrott
A federal appeals court has upheld 2001 and 2004 rulings in which Microsoft was cleared of liability in class action lawsuits related to the software giant's US antitrust case. Plaintiffs in the class action case had argued that Microsoft had overcharged
By Paul Thurrott
After two days in front of an appellate court, it's as if the Microsoft antitrust trial never even happened, with doubts cast on the trial, the evidence, and even the judge who tried the case.
By Paul Thurrott
The Appeals Court hearing Microsoft's antitrust case determined that it would review Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's conduct, to discover
whether he was biased against the company.
By Paul Thurrott
A U.S. Appeals Court has overturned the preliminary injunction against
Microsoft Corporation that barred it from forcing hardware manufacturers to
bundle Internet Explorer with Windows. Saying that the lower court made
"substantial errors" in its
By Paul Thurrott
You have to wonder how many Judge Jackson decisions will be thrown out
before he gets the message: The U.S. Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted
Microsoft's request for a temporary stay of Jackson's ruling that would
have opened depositions of CEO
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft's trademark lawsuit against Lindows.com will continue to trial, possibly later this year, after a federal appeals court denied Microsoft's appeal request.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft's antitrust appeal got off to a rosy start Monday, as a panel of Appeals Court judges grilled Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers on their handling of the case. The company's prospects have already brightened considerably.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Corporation was informed Friday that a U.S. Court of Appeals has
upheld a decision by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that will release
virtually all of the evidence in the company's antitrust trial to the
public. Microsoft had sought to keep
By Paul Thurrott
Free speech advocates have declared victory after Apple Computer announced late Tuesday that it would not continue its legal attack against various bloggers for leaking information about upcoming products on their Web sites. Apple had previously been
By Paul Thurrott
On Tuesday, at its annual Macworld conference in San Francisco, Apple Computer announced two new Macintosh computers based on chips from Intel, and promised to convert its entire product line to Intel-based chips by the end of the year. Meanwhile
By Paul Thurrott
Only Steve Jobs could announce a smallish 300 MHz notebook computer with only 32 MB of RAM and declare it "the second fastest portable in the world" (after Apple's own PowerBook, naturally). This little hunk of plastic, like the iMac it emulates, is
By Paul Thurrott
At one of the most eagerly anticipated digital media events since the unveiling of the original iPod in 2001, Apple Computer unleashed a slew of products.
By Paul Thurrott
Friday night, after the close of the Stock Market, Apple Computer announced
that it would lose between $100 million and $150 million for its first
quarter. The company blames slow sales of the Performa line and a shortage
of PowerBooks. Performas
By Paul Thurrott
As expected, Apple announced a massive shortfall this week, losing more
than $120 million, which exceeded Wall Street expectations. Sales of Apple
Macintosh products fell 32%, with the Performa line selling especially
poorly. Apple's Chief Financial
By Paul Thurrott
At its annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco yesterday, a Steve Jobs-less Apple attempted to live up to the onstage shenanigans of its maestro.
By Paul Thurrott
As expected, Apple announced a sweeping reorganization yesterday in an
attempt to turn the company's recent financial problems around. Steve Jobs
got a seat on Apple's executive committee and Steve Wozniack received an
advisory role. Avie Tevanian of
By Paul Thurrott
The debacle that is Apple Computer's line of G4 Power Macs has gotten worse: The company admitted Thursday that Motorola would be unable to supply it with error-free versions of the 500 MHz G4 microprocessor until after New Years. As a result, the
By Paul Thurrott
A day after Apple Computer posted a grammatically and politically dubious statement on its Web site complaining about a Windows virus that made its way into a small number of iPods, Microsoft and security experts responded with some common-sense
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer today unveiled the 240 Mhz PowerBook 3400, enabling the company to claim bragging rights to the world’s fastest portable computer. The new PowerBook, which runs on a PowerPC 603e CPU, also features built-in Ethernet, hot-swappable bays,
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer stock hit a ten-year low today of 13-3/16, falling 7.5
percent. Last Thursday, an unidentified investor thought to be Steve Jobs
sold off 3.4 million shares of Apple stock, causing the stock to fall
dramatically. Today, analysts blame
By Paul Thurrott
Well, it was a long time coming, but Apple Computer finally cancelled the
unpopular Newton, a hand-held device that has improved steadily but never
realized its market potential. Apple's cancellation includes the Newton OS,
as well as all Newton
By Paul Thurrott
With Apple's sharp OS turnaround last week, there's been a lot of
confusion over the fate of Apple's Intel plans. In the original plans for
Rhapsody, Apple's next generation server operating system, Apple was going
to create a version of the OS that
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer surprised Wall Street analysts by posting its third
consecutive profitable quarter in a row: Apple made $75 million on sales
of $1.4 billion. Apple's profit represents 50 cents a share, far higher
than the 33 cents analysts were
By Paul Thurrott
At its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company had completed its transition to Intel microprocessors. Jobs also showed off ten minor new features in Apple's new operating system
By Paul Thurrott
Two weeks before its expected retail release, Apple Computer has announced that the "Gold Master" of Mac OS X has been released to manufacturing, effectively signaling the end of the four-year development of the company's first reliable OS for consumers.
By Paul Thurrott
If this doesn't stop Power Computing from complaining about Apple, nothing
will. The companies announced today that Apple Computer was buying the core
assets of Power Computing--until now the biggest Macintosh clone maker--for
$100 million in stock.
By Paul Thurrott
RealNetwork's Rob Glaser isn't the only critic of Microsoft these days.
Along with bitter pill Larry Ellison and Lotus CEO Jeff Papows testifying
at the Senate antitrust committee hearings this week, other complaints
about Microsoft have been raised
By Paul Thurrott
Visitors to Apple Computer's Web site on Monday morning were greeted by
a cryptic message feature three images: a cookie, a shopping cart, and a
screwdriver. The message read: "Think different. Really different. Come
back Monday at noon (PST) and
By Paul Thurrott
In a bid to remain viable and relevant, Steve Jobs announced today in his
Boston MacWorld Expo keynote address that Apple Computer has agreed to
participate in a new partnership with their ex-rival Microsoft. The terms
of the agreement state that
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer finally met with shareholders, months after the usual time.
The company had hoped to have a new CEO in time for the annual event, and
pushed the date forward last Fall. In the meantime, interim CEO Steve Jobs,
who has been offered the
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer posted a $47 million profit during its first fiscal quarter,
ending a string of devastating financial quarters. In the same quarter a
year earlier, the company lost $120 million. Though Apple's sales fell from
$2.1 billion to $1.6
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer posted stronger than expected earnings for its second fiscal
quarter, with a profit of $93 million on sales of $1.53 billion. This bested
the results from the same quarter last year by about 9%, not a huge amount
considering the success
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer released its first major storage solution at Macworld Conference & Expo.
By Keith Furman
Apple Computer has agreed to reinstate its "Apple Assurance" program after
the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charge the computer maker with fraudulent
advertising. Apple had promised customers that purchased Macintosh
computers between 1992 and 1996
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer will announce this week that it will name CompUSA its sole
national retailer of Macintosh computer hardware. The move comes a few
months after CompUSA started creating Macintosh "store within stores" in
its massive superstore
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer "iCEO" Steve Jobs introduced the company's next generation workstation, the PowerMac G4, during his keynote address at the Seybold Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. The new PowerMacs, which are powered by the new PowerPC G4
By Paul Thurrott
Monday morning, Judge Edward Mann ruled that Apple Computer is entitled to use its apple-shaped logo on its iTunes Music Store, rejecting a lawsuit filed by Apple Corps, the company representing "The Beatles." Apple Corps had argued that Apple Computer
By Paul Thurrott
You've heard it all before: "Apple is dead." "A footnote in the history
of the computer industry." "The magic is gone." But is Apple really on the
way out, or can they escape from a downward spin that has now lasted
years, not months?
In the
By Paul Thurrott
As expected, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs announced yesterday during his keynote address at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2005 trade show that his company is migrating to Intel microprocessors.
By Paul Thurrott
In its bid to create a world-class operating system that will compete effectively with Windows 2000, Apple Computer has delayed the release of the product yet again, aping the long development time of its Microsoft competition. Mac OS X, which would have
By Paul Thurrott
At an iPod announcement yesterday, a noticeably thin Apple CEO Steve Jobs returned to the stage for the first time in almost a year to a rousing ovation.
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer posted its fifth consecutive quarter in the black with a
$123 million profit on $1.7 billion in sales, an 8% improvement from the
same quarter a year before. Apple says that 519,000 iMacs were sold in the
quarter, which was below
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer announced profits of $106 million this quarter, punctuated
by sales of over 275,000 iMacs, making the new blue/green box the fastest
selling computer in the company's history. The company had revenues of
$1.6 billion for the quarter.
By Paul Thurrott
Apple on Tuesday announced its latest quarterly results, with the company earning $1.14 billion on revenues of $7.9 billion. While sales of Apple's Mac computers and iPod devices remained strong, the standout this time was the iPhone 3G smart phone, which
By Paul Thurrott
Apple on Wednesday announced financial results for its fiscal second quarter, the first calendar quarter of 2008. The company posted earnings of $1.05 billion on revenues of $7.51 billion, both up sharply from the same quarter a year ago. Apple credits
By Paul Thurrott
Apple reported its latest quarterly earnings Tuesday, again beating its own conservative estimates. But the Mac and iPod maker frightened investors with its lower-than-expected guidance for the coming quarter, sending shares diving 11 percent. Another
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer senior vice president of software engineering Avie Tevanian
took the stand on Monday in the historic antitrust trial against Microsoft
Corporation. Tevanian, who joined Apple with Steve Jobs from NeXT, alleges
that Microsoft forced
By Paul Thurrott
Proving that men are simply boys with bigger toys, interim Apple CEO Steve
Jobs and Apple board member Larry Ellison sent prank emails this week to a
California man who had been pestering Apple. Apparently, Michael Murdock,
upset that Apple has yet to
By Paul Thurrott
I've always had a contentious relationship with Apple fanatics, but my revelation earlier this year that Apple Computer will move to Intel microprocessors has to be the most important chapter of that relationship yet.
By Paul Thurrott
Analysts are expecting Apple Computer to lost US$250 million this quarter.
This loss will include a $155 million restructuring charge the company will
take to pay for 4100 layoffs. This is the quarter one year ago that Apple
posted a whopping $740
By Paul Thurrott
Here's an interesting excuse: Apple Computer has notified analysts that its fourth quarter earnings would be much lower than previously expected because of a shortage of Motorola G4 chips. What's interesting about this, of course, is that Apple's fourth
By Paul Thurrott
After dominating the online music service business for over two years, Apple's seminal iTunes Music Store service is about to face it's biggest challenge yet. Unexpectedly, that challenge is not coming from Microsoft or its partners, but rather from the
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer finally knows what it's like to be Microsoft: a company that thoroughly dominates a market, shutting out its competition through artificial links between its products.
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer needs to cut costs 20% to return to profitability and has
finally decided to layoff a large portion of its workforce. The layoffs--
estimated at 2500 to 4000 people--will be announced in February. Macintosh
prices will drop 27% as
By Paul Thurrott
Under pressure from regulators, Google CEO Eric Schmidt this week resigned his position on Apple's board of directors.
By Paul Thurrott
In a long-needed move suggested by Steve Jobs, Apple finally dropped the
Newton division and will spin it off as its own, separate, company. The
official announcement came this afternoon but sources have leaked that
Apple had unsuccessfully shopped
By Paul Thurrott
With success after success, it's hard to deny that Apple Computer has been on the comeback trail as of late. But no product demonstrates this more clearly than the second iteration of the iMac, which was announced today at Apple headquarters in
By Paul Thurrott
Taking a page from IBM's OS/2 playbook, Apple has decided to proceed with
new models of Newton next month, despite the fact that they continue to
lose money on the product. The Newton MessagePad 2000 and Newton eMate 300
will ship as planned.
By Paul Thurrott
The era of Microsoft/Apple glasnost expanded further this week when the
two companies announced that they are now collaborating on Microsoft
products for the Macintosh. This comes less than a year after Microsoft's
$150 million investment in Apple--a
By Paul Thurrott
Apple and Sun Microsystems are negotiating the sale of Apple's disastrous
line of Newton handheld computers. Though no deal is imminent, Apple is
trying desperately to rid itself of the machines, which have lost millions
of dollars since they were
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer Corporation announced on Tuesday that it was stripping its
Claris Corporation subsidiary of its name and all of its products save one.
Now known as FileMaker Inc., the new company will only sell and support
FileMaker Pro, the popular
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer issued a statement this week critical of Microsoft's proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit filed against the software giant in the State of California. In the statement, Apple said that the settlement, valued at $1.1 billion
By Paul Thurrott
Today, Apple Computer launched its fourth-generation iPod, a much-improved portable digital audio player that finally adds much-needed functionality to a product that was already destroying the competition.
By Paul Thurrott
At a special event Wednesday, Apple announced its late 2007 lineup of iPod portable media players, most of which have been updated significantly since last year. Among the new iPods is a completely new iPod touch model that is based on the iPhone and a
By Paul Thurrott
Struggling computer maker Apple informed its employees today that layoffs
would be announced March 14. The announcement came in the form of a letter
from CEO Gil Amelio, who informed the 13,000 employees that the company
will disclose the number of
By Paul Thurrott
Citing sluggish demand for its products overseas, Apple Computer posted a
$161 million loss. This compares to a suspicious $25 million gain for the
same quarter a year ago. Included in the loss is a $62 million charge for
restructuring and a $75
By Paul Thurrott
Apple surprised Wall Street by losing "only" $56 million, far less than the
anticipated $70-100 million. Revenues dropped 23% compared to the same
quarter a year ago.
Apple CFO Fred Anderson, who refuses to predict when the company will
By Paul Thurrott
Apple today announced that it will be laying off 2,700 employees and will
take a charge of $155 million this quarter. An additional 1400 contract
employees are also getting the axe today. The company is also throwing
in the towel on technologies that
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer was issued a stinging legal defeat by the California state appeals court in Santa Clara County on Friday, when it overturned a 2005 lower court decision that would have forced bloggers to reveal their confidential sources. In December 2004
By Paul Thurrott
Now, it's clear what kind of damage the rumor mill can do to a company like Apple, which relies on excitement generated by its product announcements to propel growth each quarter. In the week leading up to yesterday's presentation of "fun new products"
By Paul Thurrott
If you're an Apple follower, this sort of news gets filed under "the end
of times": sales of Mac-based desktop publishing software--the one area
that the Macintosh has truly dominated--were down 30% last year. Sales of
Windows-based desktop
By Paul Thurrott
Two industry bellwethers reported their quarterly earnings this week, and the results were as different as their respective product lines.
By Paul Thurrott
In a special media event Tuesday, Apple unveiled slightly updated iPods and a major new version of the iTunes Music Store that now supports purchasing downloadable versions of Hollywood movies. But the big news was a preview of a set-top box currently
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer disclosed in its yearly 10K filing with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission that its marketshare fell sharply during 1997.
Worldwide, Apple's marketshare fell from 5.2% to 3.1%, while it fell from
6.6% to 4.3% in the United
By Paul Thurrott
When you're at the bottom of the heap, there's no place to go but up.
According to IDC, Apple's marketshare of the personal computer market rose
for the first time in over a year last quarter, up to 4% from 3.4% the
previous quarter. IDC attributes
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer, facing marketshare that's fallen below 5% and at least two
more quarterly losses, is considering closer ties with former enemies Intel
and Microsoft. Apparently, the company is considering making a line of PCs
that runs on the Intel
By Paul Thurrott
On the first anniversary of the launch of its iTunes Music Store, Apple announced that it has sold 70 million songs online, a tremendous achievement for such a nascent market, but far below the 100 million songs that CEO Steve Jobs promised. Furthermore
By Paul Thurrott
Apple's revolutionary iTunes Music Store has logged over 2 million digital song downloads in its first 16 days, the company announced this week, and over half of them were purchased as part of complete albums, dispelling worries that the service would
By Paul Thurrott
According to rumors, Apple Computer will announce a new line of Network
Computers (NCs) at the January MacWorld and will release the new machines
"no later than March." Apple officials declined to comment.
The issue of Apple-branded NCs has come
By Paul Thurrott
Expect some stunning news from Apple tomorrow as massive layoffs are
announced. In the meantime, a couple of interesting tidbits are coming out
of Cupertino today. Ellen Hancock, recently deposed as head of Apple's
R&D department is apparently
By Paul Thurrott
After arguing for years that the success of its iTunes Store rests on low, standardized pricing, Apple on Wednesday unveiled a new feature of the online service, called Complete My Album, that was directly requested by the music industry. Users who
By Paul Thurrott
Playing close to the vest as always, Apple executives on Tuesday unveiled a host of minor functional changes coming in the next iPhone software update, which is due around mid-year. However, the company fell well short of satisfying the rumor mill
By Paul Thurrott
Tonight we're going to party like it's ... 1984?
The Apple faithful gathered in San Francisco to lap up good news about the
iMac and squeal with delight as new G3 desktop systems were unveiled by
"iCEO" Steve Jobs. Aside from the dubious speed
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer on Wednesday posted a $55 million profit on sales of $1.4
billion. The profit was far higher than any estimates, and shipments of
G3 Power Macs improved 8% to 650,000 for the quarter.
"Apple had a great quarter, no question about
By Paul Thurrott
The red ink just won't stop flowing from Apple Computer these days, as
the company posted a tidy US$708 million loss this quarter. This is only
one year after posting a $740 million loss in the same quarter of 1996.
Apple said the loss contains a
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer announced Wednesday that strong iMac sales led the company to
its seventh consecutive profitable quarter, with a profit of $114 million on
sales of $1.56 billion. This compares with the same quarter a year ago, when
Apple made $101
By Paul Thurrott
Apple on Tuesday announced that it posted a profit of $1.23 billion on revenues of $8.34 billion for the quarter ending June 30, 2009. The company posted slightly improved (and record breaking) Macintosh sales and weak iPod sales, but iPhone sales were
By Paul Thurrott
In sharp contrast to Microsoft, Apple on Wednesday posted strong earnings and revenues for the fourth calendar quarter of 2008, earning a record profit of $1.61 billion on revenues of $10.17 billion. While its Mac and iPod businesses were up only
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer will spend the next 18 months or so promoting the newest
release of the MacOS--version 8.0--to users and developers as a preview to
their "NeXT-generation" OS, code-named "Rhapsody." Apple will attempt to
woo developers with free tools
By Paul Thurrott
According to Apple's Dr. Ernest Prabhakar, the company will not be
releasing an PC-compatible version of Mac OS X Server, the UNIX-based
server operating system developed to compete with Windows NT Server. This
comes as somewhat of a surprise, given
By Paul Thurrott
Apple on Tuesday issued what appeared to be a minor update to its iPhone 3G smart phone, noting in its terse support documentation only that the release "fixes bugs." But the size of the iPhone 2.0.2 update, as it's called--a massive 250 MB--belied
By Paul Thurrott
Apple today announced that it has reached an agreement with antitrust regulators in the European Union (EU), ending an investigation into its pricing schemes for online music there. Apple says that it will lower prices on music it sells in the UK to match
By Paul Thurrott
Apple on Monday announced blockbuster financial results for the most recent quarter, proving that, once again, it appears to be immune to the economic woes that are dogging the rest of the industry.
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer and its FileMaker subsidiary announced new versions of their
popular AppleWorks and FileMaker software, both of which are available for
Windows as well as the Macintosh. Both AppleWorks and FileMaker were
formerly published by Claris,
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer has released a beta version of its QuickTime 4.0 streaming
media player for Windows. This new version supports the Flash file format
and features a new hi-tech user interface.
For more information, please visit the By Paul Thurrott
In a bid to fend off advances from the Microsoft camp, Apple on Tuesday introduced two new iPod portable audio devices, one of which can display digital photos on its tiny color screen. The other new iPod, dubbed the iPod U2 Special Edition, provides
By Paul Thurrott
In a widely-publicized marketing event yesterday in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a range of new products that the company hopes will guide it through a healthy holiday shopping period. But the big star of the show, naturally, was a new
By Paul Thurrott
For all its touch screen innovation, the most notable features of Apple's iPhone when it debuted a year ago were its lofty price--the typical asking price for the phone at the time was about $600, plus $75 a month for an expensive data plan--and its
By Paul Thurrott
Apple on Monday issued financial results for the third calendar quarter of 2007, stunning analysts by hitting at the upper end of estimates and setting a record for Mac computer shipments. The iPod and Mac maker earned $902 million on revenues of $4.84
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer opened its MacWorld Expo Wednesday with a bang, unveiling its upcoming operating system, Mac OS X, which will go head-to-head with Windows 98 and Windows 2000. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who slyly noted that he had dropped the "interim" title,
By Paul Thurrott
On Monday, Apple announced that it has sold 100 million iPods, an unprecedented success story in the portable music player market.
By Paul Thurrott
Maybe Apple should have left the word 'Computer' in its name after all: The Cupertino consumer electronics firm sells lots of iPods and iPhones, but once again the Macintosh computer line bolstered Apple's bottom line. Apple sold 2.5 million Macs in the
By Paul Thurrott
Plagued by delays and missing any of the exciting "secret" features promised a year ago, Apple's next-generation Mac OS X operating system, codenamed Leopard, will be released to the public on October 26, the company announced. Leopard is the fifth minor
By Paul Thurrott
This week, Apple reported that a relatively small number of its iPod portable MP3 players shipped with a Windows virus.
By Paul Thurrott
As expected, Apple Computer has shipped 10,000 beta copies of Rhapsody, its
next-generation operating system, to developers. Dubbed the Developer
Release, the beta is designed to help software developers create new
programs that will run on the new
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer has shipped its Web Objects 4.0 application server software
for Windows NT. The new release adds support for Java and tools for
speeding application deployment. Web Objects is now relatively bargain
priced (compared to earlier
By Paul Thurrott
Stock in Apple Computer continues to erode and Wednesday it fell to a 12
year low, closing at $13.06. Investors fear that Apple has been hit by too
much bad news lately, with Power Computing jumping ship to the PC platform
to escape the reins of Apple
By Paul Thurrott
What looks like an iMac, but is actually useful, with Windows compatibility, a floppy drive, better expandability, and PC card support? It's called an eOne PC and it's maker, eMachines, is in hot water with Apple Computer because the design of the
By Paul Thurrott
Apple posted its latest quarterly earnings on Wednesday, and results surpassed even the most optimistic expectations. Apple profits jumped 88 percent in the quarter to $770 million on revenues of $5.26 billion, the company said. Sales of iPod portable
By Paul Thurrott
In a move that was widely anticipated, Apple today announced the beta version of a new software application called Boot Camp which allows Intel-based Macintosh computers to dual-boot between Mac OS X and Windows XP. The software is available for free and
By Paul Thurrott
Think Different no more. Apple Computer has launched a new advertising campaign this week that finally pushes the company's products to Windows users rather than the rapidly diminishing percentage of people that use the Mac. Previous to its "Real People"
By Paul Thurrott
Just in time for the back-to-school selling season, and falling on the heels of several consecutive quarters of remarkable growth, Apple this week unveiled new iMac home computers and software suites aimed at digital media and personal productivity. Apple
By Paul Thurrott
Apple's Mac-compatible version of Rhapsody--the next version of the Mac OS that is based on NeXT Software's OpenStep OS--will run only on the PowerPC but the company will also sell an Intel version. Apple has no plans to sell Apple-branded Intel
By Paul Thurrott
Though only a few days have passed since the historic Apple/Microsoft deal,
the ramifications of the agreement are still being sorted out. One
interesting side note to the talks, which will continue for the next few
months at least, is that Apple is
By Paul Thurrott
Apple this week introduced new iPods and a new version of its iTunes digital media management software and promised a new version of its iPhone system software by the end of the week. But unlike with many such announcements, Apple has found itself
By Paul Thurrott
For a self-described software company, Apple Computer sure does know how to make a pretty PC. The company unleashed several new pieces of hardware this week at MacWorld New York, including new PowerPC systems, multiprocessor systems, and iMacs. Apple CEO
By Paul Thurrott
On Monday, Apple unveiled its upcoming Mac OS X "Panther" operating system and the 64-bit PowerPC G5 systems on which it will run, ushering in what will no doubt be a new era of debates over the relative merits of PCs and Macintoshes. Apple's new designs
By Paul Thurrott
Despite its dwindling market share--now barely more than 2 percent, as first reported here in WinInfo Daily UPDATE--Apple Computer continues to amaze with exciting new machines, software and now, an online music service that offers the best of the free
By Paul Thurrott
On Tuesday, Apple Computer released a minor upgrade to its market leading iTunes digital music jukebox, which adds the ability to subscribe to radio-like audio recordings called "podcasts." The company also terminated its iPod photo product line, adding
By Paul Thurrott
A confidential memo leaked out of Apple Computer this week shows that the
computer manufacturer used its bundling of Microsoft software as an
advantage against Macintosh clone makers. Apple has always had an unsteady
relationship with the clone
By Paul Thurrott
Snubbed by Apple, Be Inc. has shopped its OS around to Macintosh clone vendors, dropped development of a proprietary machine and has come out stronger than ever. Today, Motorola added to Be’s success by announcing that it would bundle the BeOS with its
By Paul Thurrott
In a baffling move, Apple has decided to keep the Newton and not spin its
division off as a separate company. Apparent amnesia sufferer Steve Jobs,
who was behind the original spin-off, is now touting the Newton eMate as
the future of Apple's
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer announced this week that it will be making its AppleScript
scripting language a native, integral part of the Rhapsody operating
system. AppleScript allows users and administrators to automate repetitive
tasks, and many key customers
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer has finally admitted that their new operating system--code-
named "Rhapsody"--will be developed for Intel-based PCs as well as PowerPC
Macintoshes. Avie Tenanian, Apple's head of system software engineering,
made the announcement in a
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer announced on Thursday that it will not be naming a new CEO
by the end of the year as expected.
"Apple's search for a CEO has been met with interest from several serious
candidates," said Apple spokesperson Katie Cotton. She said
By Paul Thurrott
Despite the failure of its last attempt at such a device (the "Pippin",
which was recently cancelled), Apple Computer is developing portable and
TV set-top boxes that offer Internet access, play games, play music CDs and
DVDs, and run the Mac OS. The
By Paul Thurrott
Make no mistake: Apple Computer has reached the upper echelon of PC/electronics companies. How do I know this? It's the only way to explain how Apple's quarterly earnings failed to impress analysts and investors, sending its stock price down sharply in
By Paul Thurrott
It looks like Apple's strategy for tasty colored computers is falling on deaf ears: According to market researcher PC Data, the Apple iMac has fallen off of the top five best selling PCs list, dropping to number six since the release of the colored
By Paul Thurrott
With fans lining up around the block in front of retail stores in the UK, France, and Germany to purchase Apple's innovative new iPhone communications device, one might think the company's latest product was off to a fast start in its second major sales
By Paul Thurrott
While consumers looking for Sony's powerful PlayStation 3 video game console usually went home disappointed during the 2006 holiday season, many were more than happy to pick up a Microsoft Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii instead.
By Paul Thurrott
Amidst rumors that CEO Steve Jobs secretly had a liver transplant two months ago, Apple sold over 1 million third-generation iPhone smartphones over the weekend, the company said.
By Paul Thurrott
After years of false starts, the Apple "Switch" campaign appears to be finally paying off: In the latest quarter, the company's Macintosh computers garnered almost 3 percent of the worldwide PC market for the first time in a decade and exceeded 5 percent
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer announced quarterly earnings that were even worse than expected given the recent warnings, sending its stock below $20 while the company moved into damage control mode. Apple posted profits of $170 million for the quarter ending September
By Paul Thurrott
With analysts warning that Apple Computer's sales of iPods had likely peaked a quarter ago, the iPod maker surprised one and all with earnings that dramatically topped estimates and set a company record for that particular quarter. Apple Computer revenues
By Paul Thurrott
In the wake of last week's antitrust brouhaha over ties between Apple and Google, new reports suggest that the collusion between the two companies may have been deeper than originally thought.
By Paul Thurrott
As more and more reports begin surfacing about spontaneously exploding iPhone smart phones, Apple is says it is investigating the issue and claims there are only "isolated incidents."
By Paul Thurrott
Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs introduced a number of Windows-oriented initiatives during his MacWorld keynote address in New York Wednesday, but the most impressive thing about his much-anticipated talk was the revelation that some of the company's most
By Paul Thurrott
With Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs giving contradictory explanations of
Apple's NC strategy, the company finally announced that no NC plans will be
divulged at the upcoming MacWorld trade show in January.
According to Ellison, who has a seat on
By Paul Thurrott
Frustrated by recent news reports, Apple announced today that Rhapsody, the next generation Mac OS that will be based on NeXT technology will not run on the Intel processor: it is being developed for PowerPC only. The problem lies with porting the
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft released its Application Center 2000 server product to manufacturing this week, which provides management, monitoring, and Web application load balancing features, and server clustering to Windows 2000-based networks.
By Paul Thurrott
If you've read any of the news stories around the Internet lately about the recently reported remote procedure call (RPC) security problem then you might be wondering if the Internet will be brought to its knees any time.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Faced with a growing number of partners defecting to the competition, Toshiba announced Tuesday morning that it would cease production of HD DVD hardware, effectively ceding the high definition DVD format war to Sony's Blu-Ray. Toshiba's decision
By Paul Thurrott
A weekend funeral caused me to miss a WinInfo late last week, so I thought I'd do a quick catch-up on the non-stories that I've been queried about constantly since my return. You know, the stuff that gets published on a slow news day when there's nothing
By Paul Thurrott
A red-eye flight and four hours of sleep got my week off to a magnificent
start early this morning as I finally arrived into New York. On Tuesday,
Keith and I will join the guys from WUGNET--Joel Diamond, Howard Sobel, and
Larry McJunkin--for PC Expo,
By Paul Thurrott
Thinking about developing applications with SQL Server CE? You might be interested in a solution from ARTech.
By Editors
Microsoft has released an article detailing how to set up appliation names in SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services.
By Editors
A recent Microsoft article explains how to work around a SQL Server 2000 problem that occurs when you change the file growth value for the tempdb database from fixed increments to percentage.
By Various Authors
Before you install SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) on a SQL Server 2000 virtual server, you must complete several essential checks to your system.
By Various Authors
If your organization needs to store data in multiple languages in one database, then you know the importance of understanding collations to maintain the readability and accuracy of your data.
By Various Authors
In its second full week on the market, Microsoft's new Bing search engine continued to steal usage share away from Yahoo! and Google.
By Paul Thurrott
The worst-kept rumor in the tech industry became reality on Monday, when Google and a host of hardware, software, services, and carrier partners announced the Open Handset Alliance.
By Paul Thurrott
You didn't really think that the state of Massachusetts was really going to drop Microsoft Office did you? In one of the most bald-faced attempts ever at getting Microsoft to change its products slightly to accommodate specific needs, Massachusetts
By Paul Thurrott
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced incentives that it hopes will keep customers buying Windows-based PCs during the 2006 holiday selling season, even though Windows Vista won't ship until January. According to Microsoft, consumers who purchase new PCs
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft on Monday lowered the cost of its Xbox video game system from $179 to $149 in the US and announced similar price reductions in other North American markets, fulfilling persistent rumors that the company was preparing to lower prices in a bid to
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft has requested that the U.S. Supreme Court not fast track its antirust appeal and instead allow the Court of Appeals to review the case before handing it over to the highest court in the land. In its filing, Microsoft argues "that a 'full and
By Paul Thurrott
Confirming persistent rumors, Microsoft today announced that it was slashing the price of its most expensive Xbox 360 video game console, the Xbox 360 Elite, by $100 to $299.99 in the United States.
By Paul Thurrott
As predicted, Microsoft's mysterious Origami project is simply a hardware reference design for a new generation of small Tablet PC devices now called the Ultramobile PC. First revealed at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in 2004
By Paul Thurrott
Yahoo! lowered the boom on Tuesday as expected, announcing that it would lay off 1500 employees, a workforce reduction of 10 percent. Presumably, the company's top executives--who infamously rejected a $44.6 billion buyout offer from Microsoft earlier
By Paul Thurrott
As Microsoft veers toward a mid-March 2005 Beta 1 release of its next generation operating system, codenamed Longhorn, the company is also starting to reevaluate which product editions it will ship. When Windows XP first arrived in 2001, the company had a
By Paul Thurrott
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill, members of Congress expressed their displeasure with the DOJ/Microsoft settlement, while Microsoft lashed out at "radical and punitive" remedies suggested by 9 rogue states
By Paul Thurrott
With the public launch of Windows XP today, Microsoft is unleashing a wide range of XP product updates, available from its Windows Update Web site, that enhance and expand your out of the box experience
By Paul Thurrott
SQL Server Magazine has joined with members of Microsoft's SQL Server development team to bring you a new column that answers your most pressing questions.
By Editors
Microsoft added new memory technology to Vista Beta 2 that aims to make certain types of attacks much harder to accomplish.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
The ASP Industry Consortium (ASPIC) has announced the names of the 14 finalists for the second annual ASPire Awards, which honors best practices in the application service provider (ASP) industry.
By Christa Anderson
If you ever been frustrated with browser detection in Active Server Pages
(ASP), then you're going to appreciate this tip: Check out the cyScape
Web site for the latest version of
their browscap.ini
By Paul Thurrott
When did you last profile your SQL Server 2000 system for potential threats? If you haven't done so, you might want a toolkit and some easy-to-understand guidelines.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Will it ever ship? As the final version of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) teetered on the edge of completion yesterday, Microsoft abruptly pulled back the release for further testing, throwing the massive security update off schedule yet again.
By Paul Thurrott
During his MacWorld 2007 keynote address in San Francisco yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs did the unthinkable: He didn't discuss the Mac even once, other than to note early on that this year's MacWorld would be about other products. He then went on to
By Paul Thurrott
At its Web developer-oriented MIX 07 Conference in Las Vegas Monday, Microsoft provided more details about its Silverlight browser plug-in and released the first public beta of the technology. Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie discussed
By Paul Thurrott
We can now add AT&T to the growing list of companies snubbing Microsoft: The cable giant announced this week that it would use software from Liberate to power its Interactive TV set-top boxes during an initial test project. The deal mirrors the one made
By Paul Thurrott
Last fall, AT&T quietly sued Microsoft Corporation, claiming that it had a
right to view and modify the source code for Windows NT. Specifically, it
was looking for the source code to NT 5.0, which Microsoft was denying the
company. AT&T, which is
By Paul Thurrott
In a move that could have sweeping ramifications for the PC market, AT&T yesterday announced that it is test marketing selling netbooks to consumers using the same subsidized pricing model that wireless carriers use for cell phones and smart phones
By Paul Thurrott
In a bid to get Comcast's merger with AT&T Broadband approved by federal regulators, the two companies announced late last week that they would open up the service to third party Internet Service Providers (ISPs), giving consumers choice and lower prices
By Paul Thurrott
NetIQ will become a business unit AttachmateWRQ and the company will pay $495 million for the acquisition.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Just a week before Microsoft was expected to lower the price of its Xbox video game console from $300 to $200 in the United States, market leader Sony offered the same price reduction for its PlayStation 2 (PS2), despite previous statements that it would
By Paul Thurrott
If you're interested in saving $50 on Windows XP, Microsoft is offering a rebate for those people who attend a local launch event for the product on October 25
By Paul Thurrott
According to a new bill before the U.S. House of Representatives, the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 (ATA), would may make computer intrusion an act of terrorism punishable by up to life in prison.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
In June 2007, the French Parliament will switch from the comfortable confines of Windows and Microsoft Office to PCs running Linux, Mozilla Firefox, and the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite.
By Paul Thurrott
The lastest audit report from Earthlink and Webroot show that spyware is prevelant on a large number of systems
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Stephen Kost of Integrity discovered a vulnerability in the communications protocol that Oracle Applications FND File Server (FNDFS) uses.
By Various Authors
Security consultant Georgi Guninski has highlighted a new Outlook security vulnerability.
By Sue Mosher
Because of a problem that affects Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.6 and all editions of SQL Server 2000, if you use the adPromptAlways constant to open a trusted connection to SQL Server 2000, you will receive an error message.
By Various Authors
With AWE, SQL Server can reserve memory that the OS and other applications aren't using.
By Various Authors
Well, I'm back and no broken bones to report, although I did fall on my
face and back about 100 times while taking snowboarding lessons. It's a
lot harder than it looks. And to think that I used to make fun of those
guys! Ah, well: I guess you can
By Paul Thurrott
Less than two months after casting controversial Carly Fiorina out of the company, Hewlett-Packard (HP) this week selected NCR veteran Mark Hurd to be its next CEO. Hurd, unlike Fiorina, is a bland and traditional chief executive with a record of cost
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Corporation is planning on a mid-2000 release of BackOffice 2000, the follow-up to its current suite of server products that will be targeted at Windows 2000. BackOffice 2000 will include updated versions of each of the products in the suite,
By Paul Thurrott
With BackOffice 4.0 only recently out the door, Microsoft is already
working on the next version, BackOffice 4.5 (code-named "Horton"), which
will include numerous new ease-of-use features. BackOffice 4.5 will be
timed around the release of SQL
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft today revealed that its next generation Windows Live Search engine will be branded as Bing, confirming widespread rumors. The service, which is being tested under the codename "Kumo," will replace Windows Live Search later this year, Microsoft
By Paul Thurrott
A potentially devastating virus emerged last week, threatening to unleash the kind of widespread disruption the PC industry experienced last year with Sobig.F.
By Paul Thurrott
Touting the advanced security technologies in Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and other similar products his company plans to release this year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took to the road this week, making appearances on both coasts of the US
By Paul Thurrott
Just a day before he was to appear onstage in Las Vegas for his keynote address at the Microsoft Management Summit, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer abruptly canceled those plans to fly to Brussels and enter into intense closed-door negotiations with European
By Paul Thurrott
Responding to complaints from shareholders, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday said that the company's investors should be patient. Microsoft, he said, needed time to invest in the next generation products and technologies that will power the company's
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft president and CEO Steve Ballmer dropped some serious bombshells this week while keynoting Gartner Group's Symposium/Itxpo, simultaneously disparaging high-end competitor Sun Microsystems while easing into the news that his company will support
By Paul Thurrott
The ever-quotable Steve Ballmer, executive VP of Microsoft, took to the
(virtual) streets this week, evangelizing his company in a strategic move
to cushion the blow of antitrust fallout. Ballmer says that Microsoft is
the best thing that ever
By Paul Thurrott
If Microsoft's controversial 'Vista Capable' lawsuit heads to trial, the company's CEO, Steve Ballmer, will be forced to appear in a court deposition to answer questions. That was the ruling this week of US District Judge Marsha Pechman, who denied a
By Paul Thurrott
When one thinks of innovation in the PC industry, Microsoft isn't generally the first company that springs to mind. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would like to change that perception. During an appearance at the 2005 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo yesterday
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft president Steve Ballmer gave a special keynote address at the
Network+Interop tradeshow in Atlanta where he discussed the upcoming
release of Windows NT 5.0 and its new Windows Management Architecture
(WMA). Ballmer said that the three key
By Paul Thurrott
This year has been a quiet one for Longhorn, the next version of Windows, although that situation is going to change, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
By Paul Thurrott
In an internal memo designed to rally employees Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed his plans to cut $1 billion in annual expenses while staying focused on future products like Windows "Longhorn" and "Office 12," the next version of the
By Paul Thurrott
In an sometimes bizarre open letter posted to the Microsoft Web site this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses how his company needs to do more to better serve its customers. The bizarre part comes early in the letter, with Ballmer discussing
By Paul Thurrott
While in Europe this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered up two tantalizing tidbits about some of the more controversial issues surrounding the company. He said that Microsoft could "wake up" if enough people complain about the June 2008
By Paul Thurrott
In a company-wide memo sent out earlier this week, Microsoft president and CEO Steve Ballmer urged his employees to continue working furiously on the company's Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS) initiative and ignore the antitrust case as it take
By Paul Thurrott
In a memo to employees Tuesday, Microsoft president and CEO Steve Ballmer stressed that the federal government would not break up his company, regardless of "newspaper headlines." A copy of the memo was leaked to WinInfo, and while it's full of positive
By Paul Thurrott
In an email delivered to all of Microsoft's 33,000 employees, president and CEO Steve Ballmer explained that the company would make further "substantial" settlement offers and that its lawyers were working hard to end the trial without compromising the
By Paul Thurrott
In an email message directed to the company's enterprise customers, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday declared that Windows was cheaper, more reliable, and more secure than Linux. But these are common talking points from the software giant. Perhaps
By Paul Thurrott
Has it been six months already? Microsoft committed yet another executive reorganization this week, its third in eighteen months. Designed primarily to make room for its new .NET initiative, Microsoft's latest reorg divides the company into groups that
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft CEO and president Steve Ballmer this week told attendees at the European IT Forum 2000 in Monaco that the full .NET user experience is still 2-3 years away, making it likely that it will be delivered in a future version of Windows currently
By Paul Thurrott
Saying that customers don't expect the same quality in a browser as they do
in other software products, Microsoft's number two executive declared
Internet Explorer 4.0 "a tradeoff." Ballmer admitted that the IE 4.0 team
was as concerned with getting
By Paul Thurrott
Like Microsoft's product strategy, the list of competitors that the company most worries about is a moving target. At various times, the Redmond giant has pointed to Sun Microsystems, America Online (AOL), Netscape, and even Nintendo as the company from
By Paul Thurrott
Responding to the threat by Sun Microsystem's purchase of StarOffice, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer this week announced that the company will be creating a future version of its Microsoft Office productivity suite that will run over the Web. Though
By Paul Thurrott
In Germany for the CeBIT trade show this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer underscored the importance of his company's Mira technology, which will enable a new generation of detachable, smart, tablet-like displays which can be carried around the home
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told reporters that he has no plans to boost the company's online search efforts with any major acquisitions. Well, probably not anyway.
By Paul Thurrott
Speaking at the company's annual partner conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday promised that customers would never again have to wait so long for a Windows upgrade. Ballmer was referring to Windows Vista, which will ship over five years after
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, addressing developers at his closing
keynote address at the Business Applications Conference in Las Vegas, said
that the release of Windows NT 5.0 was "eight to twelve months away,"
placing it the second half of
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, addressing developers at his closing
keynote address at the Business Applications Conference in Las Vegas, said
that the release of Windows NT 5.0 was "eight to twelve months away,"
placing it the second half of
By Paul Thurrott
Speaking to the press in Munich, Germany yesterday as part of a multi-city tour to promote his company's upcoming products, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 would provide just a small bump to PC sales.
By Paul Thurrott
It's a product line that has consumed tens of billions of dollars of R&D, money that can never be recouped. The most recent version of the product is so endemically buggy that it has suffered from an historic product recall whose value exceeds $1 billion
By Paul Thurrott
Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale must hate getting up in the morning these days.
In his third day being cross-examined, Barksdale's written testimony was
run through the blender again as Microsoft attorney John Warden presented
evidence that showed even
By Paul Thurrott
In a press and analyst event yesterday to plug Netcenter, Netscape's new
home page, Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale took time to map the future of the
company. Not content to rest on its laurels, Netscape is expanding past the
limited Web browser market
By Paul Thurrott
An increasingly agitated Jim Barksdale, the CEO of Netscape, faced a
second grueling day in court on Wednesday as Microsoft attorney John
Warden attempted to cast doubt on his credibility. Warden moved through
Barksdale's 127 page written testimony
By Paul Thurrott
The ever-quotable Jim Barksdale, CEO of Netscape Communications, told a
group at the ITExpo this week that competition is healthy and that
consumers would benefit from the Web browser wars. The bulk of Barksdale's
keynote address was devoted to a
By Paul Thurrott
On May 20, Craig Barrett will succeed Andy Grove as the president and
chief operating officer of Intel Corporation, the company that supplies
microprocessors to the vast majority of computers on the planet. Grove,
who will continue as chairman, will
By Paul Thurrott
With the holidays rushing toward us, it should be a quiet time in the tech industry, but a slew of recent developments in the battle over UNIX and Linux ensures that anyone with a stake in this conflict will have some unsettling news to mull over. This
By Paul Thurrott
Interim Apple CEO Steve Jobs opened Seybold this week with a keynote
address featuring information about a new version of the MacOS, a new line
of PowerBook's, and a new publishing system from Adobe that will run on
MacOS X Server. On Wednesday,
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft president Steve Ballmer opened day two of the Seybold conference
in San Francisco, following Apple's Steve Jobs, who gave his own address
the day before. Ballmer had some interesting things to say, as always, and
he once again pledged
By Paul Thurrott
There's a growing uproar that some of the more impressive opinions in the public comment period of the Microsoft case--such as those from public figures--were bought by special interest groups both aligned with and aligned against Microsoft.
By Paul Thurrott
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) recommended that Apple Computer stop advertising its Power Mac G5 as "the world's fastest personal computer" after reviewing independent tests that refute that claim.
By Paul Thurrott
Little Be Inc., makers of the PowerPC-based BeOS, demonstrated a version
of its object-oriented, multithreaded, multitasking, protected memory
operating system running on Intel hardware this week. The demonstration,
occurring this week at Software
By Paul Thurrott
Be, which recently lost a bid to engineer the next Mac OS, announced today
that they are exiting the hardware business to focus on developing their
own operating system, called BeOS. Currently, BeOS runs on a proprietary
two-processor system called
By Paul Thurrott
Be, Inc. announced this week the release of BeOS Release 4, an operating
system for "digital content creators who want to manipulate high bandwidth
digital media" (in other words, Mac users). BeOS 4 will debut at Fall
Comdex in Las Vegas next week
By Paul Thurrott
Be Incorporated, makers of the Be OS, a multimedia operating system for
content creators, are preparing version 4.0 of the product for a launch
later this year. Be OS 4.0 will run on Intel and PowerPC hardware, as does
the current release, 3.x. The
By Paul Thurrott
Be has released BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition, the first free version of its award-winning multimedia OS. Or at least the company says it has: Demand for the new OS is so high that on Tuesday it completely brought down the tiny company's Web servers. Be
By Paul Thurrott
Let it Be: Tiny Be, Inc. is going the free software route, offering its flagship Be OS 5.0 for free to individual users and other non-commercial use. Be OS 5.0, which will ship sometime before the end of March, is designed to be the most elegant
By Paul Thurrott
One highlight of the upcoming Linux Desktop 10 is the Beagle desktop search tool.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
MMX-enabled (multimedia) versions of the Pentium Pro processor, code-
named Klamath, are going to be made available this Spring. Expect them to
carry premium price tags.
Adding to the price will be a supply shortage until Intel releases a
By Paul Thurrott
Amidst long-standing complaints that it abandon foreign software and adopt Chinese-built solutions, the city of Beijing China has canceled a $3.5 million deal with software giant Microsoft. Previously, Microsoft had won a deal to provide Beijing with
By Paul Thurrott
It seems the only time OS/2 ever makes the news is when someone steps
forward to predict it's dead. Well, OS/2 may be dead, but that hasn't
stopped IBM from quietly enhancing it. This week, IBM announced that it
intends to create a version of OS/2
By Paul Thurrott
On April 24, Microsoft announced the first single-system TPC-C benchmark result to surpass the 600,000 tpmC mark.
By Various Authors
Electronics superstore Best Buy announced Wednesday that it was dropping
Apple Macintosh computers as soon as existing inventory runs out. A
spokesperson for the company says that it will continue to honor Apple
warranties and sell
By Paul Thurrott
Best Buy has agreed to purchase online music service pioneer Napster for $121 million, though it's unclear what the electronics retailing giant sees in the struggling company. The all-cash deal will provide Best Buy with a very small bump in the online
By Paul Thurrott
Starting September 7, Best Buy retail locations in the US will begin selling Apple's popular and innovative iPhone 3G smart phone. This announcement makes Best Buy the first retailer outside of Apple and its AT&T wireless partner to offer the iPhone to
By Paul Thurrott
These are the times when I can’t wait to get my own Mail Server: yesterday, I sent out WinInfo at about 5 p.m. Normally, I get an automated reply within minutes so I can accept or deny the post to the mailing list. At this point, WinInfo is processed and
By Paul Thurrott
Windows & .NET Magazine and SQL Server Magazine pick the finalists leading up to the Best of TechEd 2004 Awards. Find out who made the cut.
By Editors
Microsoft has posted for download the updated beta version of the SQL Server 2000 Driver for Java Database Connectivity (JDBC).
By Kathy Blomstrom
A refresh of the Beta 2 build of Microsoft Office 2003 will likely push the release date of the product suite to late summer or early fall, sources at the software giant told me this weekend. But in an official statement about the refresh, a Microsoft
By Paul Thurrott
Web search giant Google has unveiled the first nonbeta version of its Google Desktop Search tool, which lets Windows users search for files on the PC as well as search for information on the Internet.
By Paul Thurrott
Thanks to Steven Kreis for tipping me off that Microsoft Press is now
selling a beta version of the Windows 98 Resource Kit. The Kit, which is
now available from amazon.com for $56, includes a full working version of
the Windows 98 Beta 3 software, a
By Paul Thurrott
The people behind WinZIP, the popular compression tool for Windows, are
looking for WinZIP 2.2 beta-testers, and apparently anyone is invited.
WinZIP 2.2, now in beta, offers the following new features:
- Self-extracting files can span
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft has released Internet Security And Acceleration Server 2004 (ISA 2004) into open beta testing.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
My ISP problems caused WinInfo to go out a little late yesterday...or
early this morning, depending on how you look at it. Sorry about that.
I thought the problems were cured late Monday when my Netwrx E-mail
started working but it was down all day
By Paul Thurrott
IBM announced that it has entered into deal to buy Internet Security Systems for $1.3 billion in cash.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
With the release of its new mobile Pentium II microprocessors complete,
Intel is turning its attention to the other processor announcements it has
been planning for this month: the debut of Celeron--it's new low-end
processor--and the release of 350
By Paul Thurrott
Two big releases this week from the Open Source Software (OSS) camp signal
a new maturity in competition to Windows NT. The World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) has released it's long-awaited "Jigsaw" Web server, which is designed
to work with the HTTP 1.1
By Paul Thurrott
The Big Tent Web server is back up now. We added a new 2.0GB Ultra-Wide
SCSI-3 hard drive to the 4.3 GB that was already there and added 64 MB
more of RAM. These changes caused us to completely reinstall the system
from scratch, so we had to take it
By Paul Thurrott
The latest defeat at the hands of Apple's OS licensing is Joel Kocher,
president and chief operating officer of Power Computing, who left the
company yesterday. Apple has pulled an abrupt about-face in recent weeks,
and apparently decided that all of
By Paul Thurrott
Bill Baker, Microsoft General Manager for SQL Server Business Intelligence, will kick off the second round of the Get Ready for SQL Server 2005 Roadshow series next Tuesday, July 26, in Portland at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower.
By Editors
Bill Baker will deliver the keynote address on Tuesday in Boston at the first stop on the Get Ready for SQL Server 2005 Roadshow tour, produced by SQL Server Magazine and PASS and sponsored by Microsoft.
By Editors
At a hastily scheduled news conference Thursday, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced that in two years he would step down from his full time jobs at the software giant to reorder his personal priorities and focus more on
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates has been asked to testify at a Senate
Judiciary Committee meeting on March 6th, along with Sun's Scott McNealy
and Jim Barksdale of Netscape. A Microsoft spokesperson says that Gates has
an unspecified "previous
By Paul Thurrott
He is the cofounder of Microsoft, a Harvard drop-out, one of the world's richest men, and arguably the greatest philanthropist in history, but this week William H. Gates III--that's Bill Gates to you and I--will step away from full-time employment and
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates demonstrated Windows 2000 earlier this week at
Spring Comdex and unlike last year's infamous Windows 98 crash at the same
event, it went well this time around. Gates demonstrated the bandwidth
availability features of Windows
By Paul Thurrott
The night Microsoft announced sweeping support for Java and several new
Java tools, CEO Bill Gates told developers that Microsoft's Win32 and
Internet software was "selling like gangbusters."
"We're focused on developers' success. That's how the
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates said Tuesday at his Spring Comdex
keynote speech that Windows NT would receive $1 billion this year, almost
half of Microsoft's entire R&D budget. According to Gates, some developers
already have an early alpha of
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates kicked off TechEd this morning in Orlando, Florida
with a keynote address that positions Windows and its Component Object
Model (COM) as the cornerstone of distributed computing. Over 15,000 people
listened as Gates described
By Paul Thurrott
One hundred top CEOs from 25 companies met with Microsoft CEO Bill Gates
and other company officials this week for two days of speeches and
discussions about making their companies more competitive in
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft CEO opened the Professional Developers Conference in Denver
Colorado with a less than exciting keynote address before 6000 attendees.
Gates said that more applications would be available for Windows NT 5.0
when it shipped than for any other
By Paul Thurrott
Claiming that two-thirds of the predictions he made for 1997 have come
true, Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates has turned his attention to
1998. Gates says that technologies such as Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
and Digital Versatile Disk (DVD)
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates spoke out about his videotaped
deposition on Monday, saying the government had told him it wouldn't be
shown publicly. Gates' testimony has brought laughter in the court where
it's been shown, largely at his
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates, along with other industry luminaries
such as Michael Dell, Jim Barksdale, and Scott McNealy, appeared before a
Senate judiciary committee today to testify about Microsoft's dominant
position in the software
By Paul Thurrott
The view from the top just keeps getting better--and more distant--every
year. Bill Gates has topped the Forbes magazine list of the world's
richest people once again. Gates' net worth doubled this year to $36.4
billion, placing him well ahead of
By Paul Thurrott
Bill Gates, now 41, said yesterday that he intends to run Microsoft into
his 50's. "I can't think of being 60 and running the company. By then I
will pick a new CEO," he said. When asked if a mid-life crisis might
change his priorities and have him
By Paul Thurrott
At his Windows Solution keynote address in Tokyo yesterday, Bill Gates
predicted that Windows NT would achieve complete dominance over UNIX. "PCs
are now invading the Unix [workstation] space," he said. "Up on the server
level, the same thing will
By Paul Thurrott
Backed by a multi-million-dollar advertising campaign and great word-of-mouth marketing from happy users, Microsoft's new search engine Bing has once again improved its market share.
By Paul Thurrott
For the second straight month since its release, Microsoft's newly minted Bing search engine has made small gains against second-place player Yahoo! and dominant market leader Google.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new feature for its Bing search engine called Visual Search that allows users to perform certain searches using image galleries instead of text.
By Paul Thurrott
According to StatCounter, Bing surpassed Yahoo! Search last week to take the number-two spot behind Google.
By Paul Thurrott
Faced with a withering court loss that could have cost it billions of dollars and embarrassed the company for violating various patents when it created the iPod user interface, Apple Computer today announced a settlement with Creative. Apple will pay
By Paul Thurrott
BitTorrent, a company known for its pirate-friendly software, yesterday announced the availability of its BitTorrent Entertainment Network (BEN), an online service for legally downloading movies and TV shows. Essentially a peer-to-peer (P2P) equivalent
By Paul Thurrott
If you ever doubted that Google's Web-based office productivity suite, Google Apps, was a competitive concern for Microsoft, doubt no more: The software giant issued a bizarre public statement about the suite, first published by ZDNet blogger
By Paul Thurrott
While it doesn't actually change the focus of the product, Microsoft has changed the codename for the version of Windows that will follow Windows Vista from "Blackcomb" to "Vienna." The Vienna name is only a codename, however, and the final product won't
By Paul Thurrott
Internet Security Systems (ISS) announced BlackICE Agent for Workstations 3.1, a combination firewall and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) that analyzes network activity on servers, workstations, and network segments that VPN connections use.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
A new rootkit detection tool, BlackLight, will become available this week.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
One might think that buying exploit code to create spyware would be sort of expensive. But it's not.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
A new Web site is available for those of you who use Snort IDS. The site offers new snort rules that aren't necessarily part of the regular Snort rules distribution.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
After receiving thousands of complaints, many from upset MVP members, Microsoft Corporation has quietly backed away from an earlier decision to terminate its Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program. The company alerted MVP members of the turnaround in
By Paul Thurrott
Movie rental giant Blockbuster this morning announced that it will take its unsolicited $1 billion takeover bid for ailing electronic retailer Circuit City directly to the company's shareholders. The move comes after months of discussions between the
By Paul Thurrott
On Monday, microprocessor maker AMD announced that it was purchasing graphics chip maker ATI in a blockbuster deal for $5.4 billion in cash and stock. While many question the heady sum AMD is paying for the company, the intention is clear: By bringing an
By Paul Thurrott
I guess we all saw this one coming: Sony on Wednesday delayed the release of its next-generation PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game system by about six months, from early 2006 to November 2006. The company blamed the console's delays on a delay in the copy
By Paul Thurrott
SNIA announced last week that a group of storage companies plans to contribute new technology aimed at advancing standards-based SAN management.
By Keith Furman
BMC announced that it has reach an agreement to acquire OpenNetwork, makers of Web application management and single sign-on technology.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Former U.S. presidential candidate and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole is
backing the Department of Justice anti-trust investigation of Microsoft.
Despite the fact that his "[Republican] instincts lead [him] away from
government regulation," Dole
By Paul Thurrott
Representative Mary Bono (R-Calif.) introduced a new bill, cosponsored by Representative Edolphus Towns (D-NY), that would regulate computer spyware that companies use to gather various information from users.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
With the recent problems Intel has been having with its high-end chips, here's to hoping that the company's October 30 launch of the Pentium 4 is more treat than trick. According to sources close to the company, Intel will launch its Pentium 4
By Paul Thurrott
Borderware intends to integrate Phil Zimmerman's Zfone encryption technology into its VoIP solutions.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Borland and Microsoft announced today that they have reached a settlement
in the lawsuit Borland filed earlier this year in which they accused
Microsoft of recruiting and hiring Borland technical talent in an
intentional effort to harm
By Paul Thurrott
Borland International Inc. is changing its name to Inprise Corporation and
renewing its focus on distributed enterprise development. CEO Del Yocam
says the evolutionary change is the culmination of 18 months of planning
and acquisitions. To officially
By Paul Thurrott
One bit of goods news that came out of Paul Flessner's TechEd 2003 address is that SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition's price will drop from $499 to just $49.
By Paul Thurrott
Borland announced today that it will layoff 300 workers—or 30% of its workforce—today, in a bid to return to profitibility by April. Borland CEO Delbert Yocam said the layoffs will save the company US$30 million in annual operating costs. The cost of the
By Paul Thurrott
Borland has posted a beta version of their upcoming C++ Builder to the
Web. The product, which will replace Borland C++ 5.x, uses the award-
winning Delphi IDE to allow rapid C++ application development.
The retail versions of C++ Builder and
By Paul Thurrott
Borland previewed its upcoming Delphi 3 product at the JavaOne conference
on Wednesday and outlined plans for an Object Request Broker (ORB) that
will manage objects across different platforms. Multitier Distributed
Application Services (MIDAS) will
By Paul Thurrott
Alleging Microsoft is luring its employees away to seek unfair advantages,
Borland sued the Redmond, Washington computer giant on Wednesday. The suit
claims that Microsoft has stolen 34 of Borland's engineers in the last
two and a half years and that
By Paul Thurrott
It's amusing but disconcerting to me that what I write can be so widely misunderstood. In an article earlier this week about Microsoft's plans for improving the Web standards compliance in Internet Explorer (IE) 7, I repeated a recommendation I've been
By Paul Thurrott
Vice President Brad Chase will be the next executive taking up the defense of Microsoft Corporation in its antitrust battle with the government. Chase, who is currently in charge of Windows marketing and developer relations, participated in negotiations
By Paul Thurrott
On Monday night, US District Judge J. Frederick Motz granted Sun Microsystems a preliminary injunction in its antitrust lawsuit against software giant Microsoft, a ruling that will require the software giant to begin bundling Sun's Java technology in its
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft's Brian Valentine, who is currently heading the Windows 2000 project at Microsoft, keynoted the annual NT Wizards conference Tuesday in Seattle, showing off a host of new Windows 2000 features. And Valentine confirmed the Beta 3 Release
By Paul Thurrott
A group of the largest businesses in Great Britain has asked the British government to investigate Microsoft's new software licensing policies, which are going into effect October 1, complaining that they will double costs over the next four years
By Paul Thurrott
Putting litigation on hold, the two companies join forces to simplify installation and management of Emulex HBAs and Brocade SilkWorm switches into an easy-to-use interface.
By Keith Furman
Brocade Communications Systems announced plans to acquire Rhapsody Networks, a privately held provider of intelligent switching platforms.
By Keith Furman
Storage networking switch manufacturer Brocade has released updated products for SANs.
By Keith Furman
As part of a strategy to target small businesses, Brocade will release new OEM products that are designed to reduce the cost of SANs.
By Keith Furman
JavaSoft will announce the Java run-time environment (JRE) this week, a
free package that includes the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Java
Development Kit 1.1 (JDK). The JRE allows Java applications to run and be
stored directly on the client's
By Paul Thurrott
It's been a while since we looked at the latest browser stats, so I
thought I'd check out two browser statistic pages, "BrowserWatch" and
"Web Trends" to see what they had to say about it all.
According to BrowserWatch, Windows dominates the Web,
By Paul Thurrott
The long-stagnant Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) might command about 95 percent of the Web browser market but a recent spate of security vulnerabilities seems to be finally helping IE's competitors make some inroads into the market.
By Paul Thurrott
According to a study by Zona Research, Internet Explorer has widely surpassed Netscape Navigator as the browser of choice in the enterprise. The study reveals that 59% of study participants are using Internet Explorer, compared to 41% for Netscape
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft developed a prototype defense tool, BrowserShield, that can defend unpatched browsers by filtering and rewriting incoming Web pages at network borders.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Brussels SQL Server Day, an event produced by SQL Server Magazine and the Windows IT Pro Custom Events Group, drew 10007 attendees from 20 countries to the Kinepolis cinema complex in Brussels last week.
By Editors
Neel Metha of Internet Security Systems' (ISS) X-Force discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in Snort, which according to ISS also affects Sourcefire--the commercial version of Snort.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Read about two new vulnerabilities in SQL Server 2000 utilities related to a buffer overrun and SQL injection.
By Various Authors
Read about a vulnerability in SQL Server 2000 when you use it with the Microsoft Jet 4.0 database engine.
By Ken Pfeil
David Litchfield of Next Generation Security Software discovered that a buffer-overflow vulnerability exists in Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) that could result in the SQL Server failing or executing arbitrary code from a potential attacker.
By Various Authors
Foundstone discovered that a Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) vulnerability might let a potential attacker execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.
By Various Authors
Mozilla Foundation's Bug Bounty Program pays researchers to find security problems. This week the foundation awarded $2500 to a German bug hunter.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
The bug in Microsoft Access 97--which can also afflict Access 2.0 and 95
users--has been traced to a flaw in Microsoft's "Jet" database engine, the
software that handles Access database functions under the hood. The bug
can strike when the user is
By Paul Thurrott
Well, a week that will live in infamy is finally over. I don't think I've
ever seen the likes of this week, when bugs in Windows NT and Java--and
several bugs in Internet Explorer 3.0 were discovered. And let's not forget
that great ASP
By Paul Thurrott
It may be the dominant Web browser and the overwhelming technological champion, but Internet Explorer 5.0 is causing fits for Microsoft Corporation. Bug after bug has plagued the Web browser since its release in March, and now, just six months later, its
By Paul Thurrott
A pending patent-theft case with Burst.com has Microsoft in legal hot water this week. Burst.com alleges that Microsoft systematically destroyed incriminating email messages from its servers, despite the many international, federal, state, and class
By Paul Thurrott
A political lobbying firm representing both Microsoft Corporation and George W. Bush, who is currently running for U.S. president, was forced to make a public apology this week when a potential conflict of interest was revealed. It seems that Century
By Paul Thurrott
The people responsible for Internet Explorer have had a busy week fixing
bugs and patching security holes, leading to, among other things, a slight
delay for the Harry Goodwin interview. We hope to get that published
within a week or so. Sorry for the
By Paul Thurrott
Butterfly Security released CodeSeeker as open source through the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Buy any Microsoft Office 95 product and get a FREE upgrade.
If you acquire any version of the Microsoft products listed below
between 10/3/96 and 3/31/97, you may upgrade to the corresponding
Office 97 version of the same product for the cost of
By Paul Thurrott
In the wake of Apple's success with digital music downloads, hopeful competitors are stumbling over themselves to get a product out that can emulate and, presumably, surpass the iTunes Music Store. First up to bat is Buy.com's Buymusic.com, which opened
By Paul Thurrott
Computer Associates (CA) is offering a free remote vulnerability assessment to current CA customers and other qualified companies until March 31, 2002.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Caldera Inc., claiming that Microsoft Corporation has not fulfilled a
federal ruling and turned over all of the source code for DOS and Windows,
is heading to court once again. The company says that Microsoft has failed
to turn over all of the source
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft's attempt to have the antitrust case brought against it by Caldera
has been struck down by the judge overseeing the case. Caldera inherited the
case when it bought former Microsoft rival Digital Research a few years ago:
Digital Research
By Paul Thurrott
Lost in all of the legal turmoil surrounding Microsoft these days is a
long-outstanding lawsuit from Caldera that will go to court in November. At
issue is Microsoft's alleged attempts to push DR DOS out of the market back
in the DOS/Windows 3.1
By Paul Thurrott
California Governor Gray Davis signed legislation that prohibits advertisers from sending unsolicited email and said the law contains no loopholes that can be used to thwart it.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Friday passed without incident or comment from either side in the Microsoft
anti-trust battle, but Microsoft did meet with the DOJ and representatives
from some of the states seeking to curb the Redmond giant. On Thursday,
Microsoft effected a
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft quietly pulled its "Can Your Palm Do That?" advertisements recently, after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged the company with deceptive advertising.
By Paul Thurrott
On Monday, Steve Case announced that was stepping down from his Chairman position at AOL Time Warner, casting further doubts on the future of the troubled company. Case came on board when Time Warner merged with his company, America Online, the
By Paul Thurrott
Casio announced today that it is boosting production of the Cassiopeia
handheld PC that runs Windows CE. The company expects to sell 500,000 units
this year, far more than originally estimated. To meet the unexpected
demand, Casio will more than
By Paul Thurrott
Casio and Compaq Computer will post a patch tomorrow that fixes a bug on their Handheld computers (HPCs) running Windows CE. The bug causes the batteries to drain when the unit is off, and it only affects the Casio and Compaq versions: other HPCs do not
By Paul Thurrott
Internet Security Systems (ISS) has released its Catastrophic Risk Index (CRI), which the companies says is "a list of the most serious, high-risk vulnerabilities and attacks currently affecting computer networks."
By Mark Joseph Edwards
SAS was one of the hot technologies at the first CeBIT computer trade show recently held in the United States.
By Keith Furman
Intel's original Celeron wasn't the bonanza the company was hoping for, so
they re-tooled it and re-released it this week with faster speeds and more
powerful features. The new "Celeron A" processors, as they're called, offer
128 KB of L2 cache,
By Paul Thurrott
It's been a while, and we've had a chance to get used to it, but we all
groaned collectively when Intel announced that it had settled on the name
"Pentium" for its P5/586 microprocessor. Well, get ready to start groaning
again, because the people who
By Paul Thurrott
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is offering free benchmarking tools designed to help users better secure their Windows 2000 systems, Cisco Systems routers, and Sun Microsystems Solaris systems
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Central Command announced that it is offering its Vexira Antivirus software to accredited colleges, high schools, junior high schools, and grade schools for $1.79 per 1-year license.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
The Boston Globe reported that startup Cereva Networks has made some major changes.
By Barrie Sosinsky
An anonymous person has again posted vulnerability information gleaned from the Computer Emergency Response Center (CERT).
By Mark Joseph Edwards
The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has issued a new report that outlines the current trends in computer-related attacks. The report, "Overview of Attack Trends," reveals six trends that network operators need to be aware of.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) released a study that highlights recent trends in Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. All systems connected to the Internet face a real and eminate danger.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) published its year-end summary of vulnerabilities. But don't let the numbers alone lead you to conclusions.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
The UK location of The Training Camp is now offering a “Certified Ethical Hacker” course to qualified individuals.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates opened the 2003 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last night with a keynote address titled "Smart Living in the Digital Decade."
By Paul Thurrott , et al.
During his 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote address last night, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates outlined his company's digital entertainment successes.
By Paul Thurrott
Sirius Satellite Radio, the nation's second largest provider of Satellite radio services, inked a deal with Ford Motor Company this week that will place factory-installed Sirius equipment in 21 Ford vehicle models. Customers purchasing these cars and
By Paul Thurrott
Following in the footsteps of Microsoft's Media Center software, digital video recording (DVR) pioneer TiVo this week announced that it would finally augment its service with the ability to copy certain recorded TV shows to PC notebook computers.
By Paul Thurrott
In the first part of my CES blog, I travel to Las Vegas, have a few meetings, and enjoy Pepcom's Digital Experience event
By Paul Thurrott
On day two, Paul recounts a few details from the previous night and heads out for a day of meetings and show floor wandering
By Paul Thurrott
Day three dawns early. On the slate today: Meetings with Microsoft, HP, and Dell, and more time on the show floor
By Paul Thurrott
This week, North America's largest trade show will get underway in Las Vegas as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2006 kicks off with over 200,000 attendees. Yes, CES is a mess, and it's just getting worse. And once again, I'll be there, covering the
By Paul Thurrott
During his Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2006 opening keynote address Wednesday, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates touted a number of his company's consumer-oriented products and services, showed off new consumer Windows Vista features, and
By Paul Thurrott
Is this the company everyone was so afraid of? Seriously? An amateurish presentation by Google co-founder Larry Page late Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2006 betrayed that the multi-billion dollar corporation still has a lot of work to do
By Paul Thurrott
In a bid to win the hearts and minds of consumers as well as business users, Intel is dropping its 15-year-old "Intel inside" marketing slogan and changing its corporate logo. The microprocessor giant will also announce a new line of microprocessors at
By Paul Thurrott
While the debate over which next-generation DVD format--HD-DVD or Blu-Ray--will win over consumers is still alive, this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) suggests that HD-DVD has the early lead. According to HD-DVD backers such as Toshiba, there will
By Paul Thurrott
To hear Microsoft chairman Bill Gates tell it, there's Xbox 360 and everyone else. The world's richest man is in Las Vegas this week for the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and one of the facts he touted during his keynote address Sunday night was
By Paul Thurrott
With all due respect to the world's richest man, you've clearly worn out your welcome. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivered his first Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote address in 1994 when, in his words, "Windows 95 was just coming together
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft on Monday announced details of the upcoming release of Windows Home Server (WHS) Power Pack 1 (PP1), a major update to its recently-released home server product. WHS PP1 will include a number of new features, including support for x64-based
By Paul Thurrott
During his first-ever Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2009 keynote address last night in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the pending public availability of a feature-complete Windows 7, the final version of Windows Live Essentials, and
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates opened the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with a preview of the home-oriented products his company will release throughout the year and beyond.
By Paul Thurrott
Live from Las Vegas: I'd been to Vegas numerous times for Fall COMDEX but this is the first time I'd come for the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Despite the surface similarities, I haven't felt this out of the loop in a long time:
By Paul Thurrott
Though we had arrived early for Monday's Press Day and a number of meetings with Microsoft and other companies, the 2001 Consumer Electronics Show didn't officially kick off until Tuesday morning. Unlike COMDEX, CES has grown dramatically in recent years
By Paul Thurrott , et al.
Live from Las Vegas: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates opened the 2001 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Saturday with a keynote address that revealed his company's consumer-oriented plans for 2001. Gates showed off the Xbox
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates opened the 2001 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Monday night with a keynote address that touched on the company's upcoming digital media integration products and services
By Paul Thurrott
Live from Las Vegas: Intel CEO Craig Barrett introduced the "Extended PC Era" during his Friday night keynote of the 2001 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, a cutting response to predictions that we are entering the post-PC era.
By Paul Thurrott
Live from Las Vegas: Microsoft on Saturday announced the availability of the UltimateTV service, which combines satellite-based DirecTV programming with digital video recording, live TV controls, interactive TV features, and Internet access, all
By Paul Thurrott
With this week's preview of a new product called Freestyle, Microsoft has made a credible and even exciting case for moving PCs out of the office and into the family room.
By Paul Thurrott , et al.
Live from Las Vegas: Microsoft on Saturday unveiled Microsoft Car.NET, a set of next-generation technologies that the company says will revolutionize automobile-based computing and communications. Based on Windows CE for Automotive 3.0, Car.NET
By Paul Thurrott
Live from Las Vegas: At the Saturday launch of 2001 CES, Microsoft announced the availability of six new hardware devices based on Windows CE, the company's Windows-like OS for non-PC devices. These devices, which include Internet radios, Web
By Paul Thurrott
Live from Las Vegas: Microsoft announced Saturday at 2001 CES that 11 new digital music devices have announced support for the Windows Media format, bringing the total number of compatible devices to over 60. The new products, which are being
By Paul Thurrott
With the purchase of CompuServe's one million dial-up accounts a done deal,
online juggernaut America Online (AOL) has begun reorganizing itself to
better compete in the future. Plans include raising its basic monthly fee,
laying off about 500
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft programming legend Charles Simonyi is leaving the company after a 21 year stint, the company announced today. Simonyi joined Microsoft in 1981 when Microsoft had only 40 employees--it has approximately 50,000 today--and guided the company's
By Paul Thurrott
Later this year, Microsoft will release a dramatically improved Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 (code-named Bobcat) family of products to satisfy the needs of small businesses that have no inhouse IT staff.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft vice president Brad Chase, facing down DOJ lawyers during his first day in court for the Microsoft antitrust trial Thursday, said that there never were plans for a version of Windows 98 that didn't include Internet Explorer. DOJ attorney David
By Paul Thurrott
Thanks to everyone who wrote this week interested in testing the Chat
server. As fate would have it, I was too busy all week to get it started,
so I'll have to do it next week when I get home from San Francisco. I'll
only be gone from Friday night
By Paul Thurrott
On June 16, Microsoft will host an online chat with Mike Nash, vice president of the company's Security Business Unit (SBU).
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Randy Franklin Smith is one of the foremst authorities on the the Windows Security Event Log and a respected trainer who teaches Monterey Technology Group's "Security Log Secrets" course.
By Editors
With the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2005 wrapping up yesterday, many members of the technical press are turning their attention to this week's MacWorld Expo.
By Paul Thurrott
SQL Server Magazine and CSA Research have launched an online too called the Database Performance Portal.
By Various Authors
One of the most pleasing things that came out of last week's little
plagiarism fiasco was a chance to exchange email with Woody Leonard, an
incredible author and icon in the computer industry. At the risk of
embarrassing him further, Woody is the
By Paul Thurrott
The companies announced they will instead opt for a business partnership.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Check Point Technologies announced a deal to acquire Sourcefire, makers of the commercial version of the ever-popular Snort intrusion detection system.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Check Point Software Technologies announced the release of its new appliance-based VPN-1 Edge solution.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Checkpoint Technologies announced that it will acquire Zone Labs, maker of the popular ZoneAlarm desktop firewall line of products.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
A Chicago man has sued Microsoft because his Xbox 360 overheated, charging the company with rushing the product to market despite quality issues. The man alleges that Xbox 360 has a design flaw Microsoft was aware of before the product's launch
By Paul Thurrott
China has begun an antitrust investigation of Microsoft in advance of an August 1 anti-monopoly law coming into effect in that country. China, which is home to the most egregious software piracy on earth, says it is investigating why Microsoft's Windows
By Paul Thurrott
This week, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, working in concert with their counterparts in the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced the largest software piracy bust in history.
By Paul Thurrott
Chinese president Hu Jintao is visiting the United States this week, but his first stop isn't a state dinner at the White House in Washington D.C. Instead, Hu will first dine with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and tour a factory at airplane maker Boeing
By Paul Thurrott
It looks like the Grinch has already stolen Christmas from high tech companies Gateway and Transmeta, which each announced a bad news in the waning days of November. PC maker Gateway warned analysts Wednesday evening that the traditionally strong holiday
By Paul Thurrott
When Chromeffects--an odd combination of DirectX and HTML/Web technology
that requires some pretty serious hardware--was demoed at the Windows 98
launch in June, most people just shook their heads and wondered who
Microsoft was targeting the
By Paul Thurrott
CIMCOR released its new CimTrak Web Security Edition software, which detects and circumvents unauthorized file changes and defacements to a Web site and automatically restores the files.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Investment firm Merrill Lynch recently released a report detailing IT and storage trends and beliefs by chief information officers (CIOs).
By Keith Furman
The new services aims to help alert companies when their Web sites are mimicked for fraudulent purposes.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Next Generation Security Software (NGSS) announced today that it has rewritten the code for its former Cerberus Internet Scanner (CIS), renaming the revised version Typhon Security Scanner.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Cisco Systems will pay up to $2.5 billion to acquire Andiamo Systems, a privately held company.
By Keith Furman
Microsoft announced that it will also expand its relationship with Cisco Systems to help deliver next-generation SAN technology.
By Keith Furman
An update to to IBM's TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller virtualization software adds support for EMC, Hitachi, and HP storage products and iSCSI connectivity.
By Keith Furman
IBM will resell Cisco MDS 9000 Family multilayer directors and fabric switches that incorporate Fiber Connectivity (FICON)-related features.
By Keith Furman
Cisco and Microsoft's announced that their respective technologies, Cisco Network Admission Control and Microsoft Network Access Protection, will be interoperable.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
A Russian Web site, SecurityLab, reported that someone claimed to have stolen the source code for Cisco IOS 12.x operating system.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Cisco Systems and NetApp are codeveloping a NAS device.
By Keith Furman
Cisco Systems and HDS announced plans to work together.
By Keith Furman
With its latest acquisition, Cisco aims to bring its customers IP-enabled physical security.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Symantec has acquired Platform Logic, maker of AppFire - a host protection suite, and Cisco announced that it has finalized an agreement to acquire BCN, provider of software design and developer of application routing architecture.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Cisco's new DDoS Protection solution helps service providers protect their customers' networks as well as their own networks.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Aimed squarely at branch offices, the new appliance will be based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and ISA Server, and Citrix WANScaler.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Citrix Systems announced this week the next-generation version of its MetaFrame thin-client solution, dubbed MetaFrame XP, which supports a wide range of client devices, a smart network protocol, and better scalability.
By Paul Thurrott
Citrix Systems announced plans to aid in recovery efforts in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States.
By Christa Anderson
Monday, Citrix released four updates to previous products: Feature Release 1 (FR1) for Citrix MetaFrame XP, FR1 for MetaFrame for UNIX 1.1, NFuse 1.6, and Citrix Extranet 2.5.
By Christa Anderson
WinInfo subscriber Kai Schätzl points out that TweakUI will only create
folders on the desktop, not cascading Start menu items, so if you will
still have to use the hack mentioned two days ago if you want to achieve
that effect. To further clarify the
By Paul Thurrott
I mentioned yesterday that a trial version of Visual J++ 1.1 was
available but forgot to tell you where to get it. The single file, self-
extracting executable weighs in at a hefty 22 MB, by the way, and can
be downloaded at:
By Paul Thurrott
Numerous readers mentioned that Microsoft is prohibited from forcing OEMs
to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows 95; they are not, however,
prohibited from bundling the two products per se. These readers are, of
course, correct: I apologize if I
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft's antitrust nightmare became even scarier this week as several class action lawsuits were launched across the country in response to the findings of fact, released two weeks ago by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. In one such lawsuit, filed in
By Paul Thurrott
Ever since Bill Gates unveiled Microsoft's ClearType technology last fall at Comdex in Las Vegas, users have been clamoring to use it in an actual product. Well, the wait is almost over: The company announced Monday that this technology will be released
By Paul Thurrott
With Microsoft's June 1 European Union (EU) antitrust compliance deadline looming, the software giant and European trustbusters have some decisions to make. Microsoft faces daily fines of up to $5 million a day for refusing to comply with the EU's
By Paul Thurrott
I'm pleased to announce the availability of the second issue of World Wide
Windows (WWWin), ClubWin's online magazine for Windows users. While this
issue focuses on Internet Explorer 5.0, there are a wide range of articles,
including IE 5 as an
By Paul Thurrott
I'm proud to announce the very first issue of ClubWin's new online magazine, World Wide Windows (WWWin)! World Wide Windows is written by a highly skilled group of technology enthusiasts, including authors, journalists, developers, and programmers. They
By Paul Thurrott
Black Hat, Inc. has been acquired by CMP Media. Jeff Moss, founder and now former owner, will join CMP Media as Director of Black Hat.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
In a stunning development reminiscent of the decision to rename Windows NT 5.0 as Windows 2000, Microsoft will soon drop the "Windows CE" moniker and rebadge these non-PC devices as "Windows Powered." Windows CE hasn't exactly set the world on fire since
By Paul Thurrott
A coalition of plaintiffs won a settlement in their lawsuit against Sony BMG for including a rootkit in some of its music CDs.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
If you're running SQL Server on Windows, you need to know that a new vulnerability in Windows Script Engine can result in the execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.
By Various Authors
A German programmer released source code for a new worm called CodeGreen, which counter-attacks and patches Code Red-infected systems.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
In an interesting bit of complicity between two of the top three players in the Internet streaming media market, Apple Computer and RealNetworks announced this week that RealNetworks has licensed Apple's QuickTime media format, effectively shutting out
By Paul Thurrott
I've added a new technology showcase to the SuperSite for Windows 2000, an introduction to COM+, the distributed, component-based infrastructure that brings COM to the next level in Windows 2000. Admittedly technical, this showcase will be of interest to
By Paul Thurrott
Well, another long, strange week at Fall Comdex is over and I'm back home wondering where the time went. I've got coverage of the entire week on my special Comdex report, along with a slew of photos from the show. Special thanks, as always, to WUGNET,
By Paul Thurrott
The first day of COMDEX Fall didn't officially begin until Bill Gates' Digital Decade-themed keynote address, which was delivered to 15,000 people at the MGM Grand Garden arena Sunday evening
By Paul Thurrott , et al.
We invested some time yesterday on the Las Vegas Convention Center show floor at Comdex checking out some of the new products and technology.
By Paul Thurrott , et al.
After the Gates keynote Sunday evening, we headed over to a post-keynote reception for the Tablet PC. Representatives for several of the companies supporting this new PC form factor were on hand
By Paul Thurrott , et al.
I've read a lot about the demise of COMDEX, but sitting here amid the throng of show goers in the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), I can't call COMDEX Fall 2002 a bust. Sure, the numbers are down: Approximately 100,000 people packed the show this year
By Paul Thurrott
Live from Las Vegas: Getting to Las Vegas from Boston is considerably more of a chore than doing so was from Phoenix, but I now fly out of the nearby Providence airport, which has two interesting side effects: Fewer crowds and a much earlier wake
By Paul Thurrott
After a rather exhausting series of meetings finally ended late Monday, I headed out from the Las Vegas Convention Center toward the Hilton. It's a lot colder than usual in Vegas this year, but that's appreciated, as it's usually unbearably hot,
By Paul Thurrott
Live from Las Vegas: After the Gates keynote Sunday night, I headed over to the press reception and ran into Microsoft president and CEO Steve Ballmer, who shook my hand, squinted as he looked down at my name badge (causing my heart to skip a
By Paul Thurrott
This year, for the first time, the opening Comdex keynote was held on the
Sunday night before the opening of Comdex, not that morning. Trying to beat
the crowds into Vegas--an estimated 215,000 people will attend this year's
show--Joe and I left
By Paul Thurrott
Monday morning we did the lemming thing and stood in line for an hour or so
to catch a bus to the Las Vegas Convention Center, which is the main hall
for Fall Comdex. We met up with the Wugnet guys--Larry, Joel, and
Howard--in the press tent, made
By Paul Thurrott
I'm home, finally, and exhausted of course. Comdex is a rush unparalleled in the computing industry, with competing visions of the future pounding at you from all directions. It's an overload of sights and sounds, no doubt about it. But the most striking
By Paul Thurrott
Live from Las Vegas: Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect did his part to explain .NET to the masses Sunday, providing demonstrations of a future TabletPC, Office 10, and Visual Studio.NET along the way. Gates said that the TabletPC
By Paul Thurrott
Intel Corporation confirmed this week that it would finally begin shipping its next-generation Pentium 4 processor on Monday, setting the stage for a product transition from the old P6/Pentium III line to the new architecture. Intel says that the Pentium
By Paul Thurrott
Today, Microsoft announced that four new PC maker partners will sell Media Center PCs running Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE). Gateway, Alienware, Cyberpower and ABS are all unveiling new Media Center PC designs this week at the Fall COMDEX 2002
By Paul Thurrott
During his keynote address at Fall COMDEX 2002, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates unveiled a new Microsoft Office 11 Family Member, OneNote, which takes advantage of the handwriting recognition and digital drawing features of the
By Paul Thurrott
Live from Las Vegas: Microsoft announced a new subscription-licensing model for the next version of Office this week, detailing what the company says is a preview of its future revenue model. Office 10, as the product is now known, will be offered
By Paul Thurrott
This week at the Fall COMDEX 2002 tradeshow, Microsoft announced the immediate availability of Visual Studio .NET 2003, code-named "Everett," which includes the final version of the .NET Compact Framework for smart devices based on Windows CE .NET
By Paul Thurrott
At Comdex this week, Microsoft unveiled plans for its SharePoint product, which will ship alongside Office 10 late in Q2 2001. Designed to compete with eroom.com and Lotus QuickPlace, SharePoint is an online document collaboration tool that will likely
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft announced Monday that Windows .NET Server 2003 will hit the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) milestone within two weeks. The company will then launch the product publicly in April 2003, though Microsoft has yet to announce the exact date or venue for
By Paul Thurrott
Live from Las Vegas: Microsoft on Monday announced the availability of a Windows Media Player (WMP) preview release for the PocketPC, which adds support for streaming audio and video. The new technology builds on the WMP that shipped with the
By Paul Thurrott
At the Fall COMDEX 2002 trade show in Las Vegas Monday, Microsoft announced three important changes to the ways the company communicates security fixes to its customers. The changes come less than a year after the company rallied around its "Trustworthy
By Paul Thurrott
Update:Microsoft has since issued a correction to this article. Please see my follow-up article for details.
Though Microsoft chairman Bill Gates never referred to Whistler as
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft revealed Monday that it will finalize its software for Windows Powered Smart Displays (code-named "Mira") this week, with partners delivering the first generation hardware on January 8. Customers interested in buying Windows Powered Smart
By Paul Thurrott
SunGard purchases Comdisco's Availability Solutions business unit for approximately $825 million in cash.
By Keith Furman
Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced that it has increased its bid for Comdisco's Availability Solutions Business unit from $600 million (earlier this summer) to $750 million.
By Keith Furman
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