Latest Microsoft news.
Microsoft earnings set record, but red flag seen on licensing, 10/21/04
Microsoft set a record for revenue and profit in its fiscal first quarter, but the company saw a drop in unearned revenue, an indication that renewals in its volume-licensing program could be slowing.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1020microearn.html?nl
Microsoft scales back Passport ambitions, 10/20/04
Microsoft is recasting ambitions for its .Net Passport identification system, saying the service now will be limited to its own online offerings and those of close partners. Microsoft no longer sees Passport as a single sign-on system for the Web at …
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1020microscale.html?nl
Singapore’s MinDef offers open source alternative, 10/22/04
Singapore’s Ministry of Defence has moved away from a predominantly Microsoft desktop policy by installing the open source OpenOffice productivity software on 5,000 desktop computers.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1022singaminde.html?nl
Microsoft: No extra licenses needed for multicore chips, 10/19/04
Customers that use the dual-core processors that Intel and AMD are expected to begin shipping next year will not need to buy extra licenses for Microsoft software, the software maker will announce Tuesday.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1019micronoex.html?nl
Microsoft announces Istanbul LCS client, 10/19/04
Microsoft is developing a new front-end application for its upcoming Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 instant-messaging server that links LCS 2005 with end users’ telephones.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1019updat-mic.html?nl
Microsoft targets midmarket with Navision update, 10/18/04
Microsoft is building on its 2002 buy of Danish business application developer Navision A/S with the release Monday of its first major product built on the Navision software suite.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1018microtarge.html?nl
Opinion: Core software as security vulnerabilities, 10/18/04
The whole list comes across a little bit like telling someone to stop breathing in order to avoid getting cancer from air pollution – accurate but useless advice. I’ll focus on the Windows part of the list because many more people can relate to …
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/101804bradner.html?nl
Microsoft delays access control technology for two years, 10/18/04
Microsoft Monday again revised its Windows server roadmap, this time delaying for nearly two years the release of features for controlling network access – in part to implement a new plan to develop the technology in unison with similar technology …
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1018msnap.html?nl
Newsletter: Reflections on ‘first Tuesday’, 10/18/04
There was a time when “first Tuesday” usually referred to Election Day in November. Now it’s the eagerly awaited day, each month, when Microsoft releases a flurry of …
https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nt/2004/1018nt1.html?nl
Weblog: Cisco and Microsoft to unite network protection schemes, 10/18/04
Cisco and Microsoft this week will both take a step closer to having a compatible LAN-based network security story. The vendors say they will begin interoperability work with Cisco’s Network Admission …
https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/routers/006527.html?nl
Newsletter: What’s to blame for porous software?, 10/20/04
Last time, I was rattling on about how it seemed the march of security vulnerabilities leading to patches leading to new vulnerabilities was never-ending, and that was a …
https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nt/2004/1018nt2.html?nl
Newsletter: Microsoft’s take on process development, 10/20/04
In a recent article, I talked about the importance of developing processes and mentioned that the IT Infrastructure Library was receiving increasingly more …
https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nsm/2004/1018nsm2.html?nl
