Latest Microsoft news.
Microsoft begins to flesh out ambitious management platform, 09/08/03
Microsoft last week shipped one of the first tools in the company’s wide-ranging portfolio designed to create a comprehensive platform for managing computing resources.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0908msoft.html
Microsoft benchmarks step up Linux assault, 09/05/03
Stepping up its campaign against the Linux operating system, Microsoft Thursday released file and Web serving benchmark results that, it claims, show Linux on the mainframe lags behind Windows 2003 …
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0905microbench.html
Review: Favorable returns on Exchange, 09/08/03
The newest upgrade to Exchange 2003, based on our testing of the Release to Manufacturing version, is a welcome one, offering performance, security and anti-spam features that many users have longed for.
https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2003/0908rev.html
Microsoft issues Office security warnings, 09/04/03
Microsoft Wednesday warned of several flaws in its ubiquitous Office products, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to take control of a user’s computer.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0904microissue.html
Microsoft releases tool for automatic deployment of server OS, 09/03/03
Microsoft on Wednesday shipped one of the first tools that is part of the company’s wide-ranging strategy to create a comprehensive platform for managing corporate data centers.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0903ads.html
Orange to offer Microsoft-based Motorola phone, 09/05/03
In a move that may help establish Microsoft’s long-sought-after credibility in the mobile phone market, mobile operator Orange, handset maker Motorola and Microsoft intend to announce that Orange will sell a Microsoft-based Motorola phone, sources familiar with the plans said Friday.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0905orangtoof.html
Microsoft’s patent loss rattles tech community, 09/03/03
Companies with products that work on the Internet are slowly waking up to the broad implications of a recent judgement against software behemoth Microsoft in a patent infringement case.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0903micropaten.html
Microsoft parades new mice and keyboards, 09/03/03
Microsoft Wednesday refreshed its mice and keyboard lineup, introducing three mice with a tilting wheel for horizontal scrolling and in new styles and colors, including black leather. Two of the …
https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2003/0903msmice.html
Check the locks work for your house, 09/01/03
The analogy of an operating system as a house that I introduced a couple of weeks ago seems to have caught the fancy of quite a few readers.
https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nt/2003/0901nt1.html
A reference book you’ll use again and again, 09/03/03
Back in 1986 I installed my first PC network, which used an IBM XT as the server and IBM PCs as workstations.
