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Microsoft is closing in on the final stage of Windows Vista SP1's availability. In this context, the service pack is being wrapped up for delivery through Windows Server Update Services. Windows Vista SP1 was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and to the general public on March 18. In addition, the a... |
20 June 2008
06:52 GMT |
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With the advent of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is taking failover out of what it referred to as a "dark art" status, and making the technology more mainstream. The software giant's latest Windows server operating system brings to the table streamlined failover clustering management capabilities designed to ma... |
20 June 2008
05:18 GMT |
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As of June 10, Microsoft has completed the migration to Windows Server 2008 from the previous version of the operating system. The last Windows Server 2003 box that was powering Microsoft.com has been upgraded to Windows Server 2008. Even as early as the beta development stages of the latest server operating system, ... |
11 June 2008
04:40 GMT |
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Without indicating a strong affinity for the open source business model Microsoft is rather generous with its operating systems. Windows products, being developed as proprietary platforms, inherently came with price tags, and are in this context more expensive than Apple's Mac OS X, and without a doubt more than... |
1 April 2008
14:36 GMT |
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Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing alongside Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on February 4, 2008. In this manner, the Redmond company has managed to go gold with the code for the latest version of Windows Server operating system just ahead of the global availability date scheduled for February 27, 2... |
21 February 2008
09:53 GMT |
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February 4, 2008 is synonymous with the releasing to manufacturing of Windows Server 2008. The successor of Windows Server 2003 will be launched officially at the end of the month, on February 27, 2008, at the Heroes Happen Here event in Los Angeles, alongside Visual Studio 2008, which has already RTMed and SQL Serve... |
5 February 2008
04:01 GMT |
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Today, February 4, 2008, Microsoft has released Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing. Although it was initially planned for RTM by the end of 2007, the release of the final bits was postponed to early 2008, with the Redmond company failing to offer additional details. Well, the wait for Windows Server 2008 Gold is fi... |
4 February 2008
10:30 GMT |
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Although Microsoft has failed to confirm the date when the code for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will go gold, all indications point to mid-February 2008 for the releasing to manufacturing of the refresh. Following the RTM of Vista SP1, it will be served as an update through Microsoft Update. In this regard, Dustin J... |
29 January 2008
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Microsoft is a company that is notorious for its dogfooding appetite... Dogfooding is a term illustrative of scenarios when a developer is using its own products, essentially eating its own dog food. In Microsoft, dogfooding is a common enough practice, especially when it comes down to software products. And Windows ... |
25 January 2008
04:40 GMT |
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The 64-bit version of Windows XP will not be getting Service Pack 3 by mid 2008. The third and final service pack for Windows XP will be made available exclusively for the 32-bit versions of the operating system. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was released on April 2005, while the x86 variant of the platform dro... |
16 January 2008
07:43 GMT |
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Concomitantly with the advancing into the final stages of the development of Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, Microsoft applauded the fact that it was converting its infrastructure to the latest edition of the server operating system. Of course that the Redmond company has a strong tradition at dogf... |
11 January 2008
06:28 GMT |
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So... Windows Server 2003 walks into a bar and the Windows Server 2000 bartender hands him over a blue screen of death cocktail and says... 'Have you heard this one?' Well, chances are that indeed you haven't, and as such I took the liberty of embedding the small video fragment at the bottom of this ar... |
9 January 2008
06:28 GMT |
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With the spotless performance delivered by ShopLocal during the online shopping frenzy synonymous with the 2007 holiday season, Microsoft is applauding a success story of an infrastructure built with its own technology. The Redmond company revealed that ShopLocal featured Microsoft software at the back-end, and that ... |
9 January 2008
03:43 GMT |
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Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is no leas than 45 times faster than its predecessor, Windows Server 2003, in terms of network transfer speeds. Now whatever the perspective is on Microsoft's last 32-bit server operating system, the fact of the matter is that faster transfer speeds for of up to ... |
22 November 2007
04:37 GMT |
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No matter how bulletproofed will Microsoft manage to get the Windows operating system, there will always be an alternative avenue for attacks. And while targeting the Windows core, one of the preferred methods for attackers is to piggyback ride on faulty and vulnerable third-party drivers, in this manner gaining kern... |
14 November 2007
12:11 GMT |
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As Microsoft is hard at work patching Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista managed to get by without a single scratch. On November 13, the Redmond company made available two security bulletins addressing vulnerabilities in XP and Windows Server 2003. The updates are designed to patch two security holes r... |
14 November 2007
03:09 GMT |
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Microsoft is little shy about advertising Windows Vista as a veritable apex of security in comparison to the older windows operating systems on the market, be them on the client or server side. Form the get go, as the operating system was launched, the Redmond company applauded Vista as the most secure Windows platfo... |
9 November 2007
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Windows Vista is still breathing as Windows XP is now choking on the latest vulnerability to hit Microsoft's platform. The Redmond company issued a security advisory detailing a flaw residing in the Macrovision SECDRV.SYS driver that ships by default with both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Vista was not no... |
7 November 2007
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Microsoft is offering Search Server 2008 Express as a free download, in a move designed to expand the company's offerings focused on delivering search at enterprise level. The Enterprise Search Summit West in San Jose was the stage where Microsoft unveiled Server 2008 Express, expanding its lineup of products de... |
6 November 2007
09:58 GMT |
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What is the fastest way to Windows' heart? Well, take your pick. The Windows operating system is hardly bulletproofed. This although Microsoft has the largest degree of control over the end result of its own development process. But on top of the operating system and the native components that ship by default wi... |
6 November 2007
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In October, Microsoft has updated its DirectX offerings for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. The new downloads involve both the DirectX Software Development Kit and the DirectX End-User Runtimes (November 2007). But while the DirectX End-User Runtimes are quite mundane, the same is no longer the cas... |
29 October 2007
11:28 GMT |
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It appears that the consistent efforts that Microsoft has poured into Windows Vista via the Secure Development Lifecycle are really paying off. In this context, the Redmond company's claim that Vista is the most secure Windows operating system on the market accurately reflects the superiority of Microsoft's... |
17 October 2007
03:56 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is nothing short of an open door for attacks. Microsoft informed that it is currently investigating a remote code execution vulnerability in various versions of XP and Windows Server 2003 running Internet Explorer 7. The Redmond company added that Windows Vist... |
15 October 2007
09:46 GMT |
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Windows Server 2008 is Microsoft's last 32-bit server operating system. While it was initially planned to be released to manufacturing by the end of 2007, Microsoft pushed back the RTM date for Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, to early 2008 due to quality issues. At this point in time, the produ... |
8 October 2007
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It's a veritable updating fiesta over at Microsoft. Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 have all been served refreshes designed to either fix issues or to extend functionality across the operating systems. There are no less than four updates for Windows Vista, two for Windows XP and two for Windows... |
26 September 2007
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If there was still any amount of doubt left in you that virtualization represents the future, then scratch it off completely. And in this context, you can use as argument the capabilities introduced by Microsoft's own hardware emulating technologies. Now, the Redmond company is by no means a leader on the virtua... |
10 August 2007
03:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available fresh downloads of its updated DirectX offerings for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. In this sense, the company is delivering the latest versions of DirectX Software Development Kit and DirectX End-User Runtimes (August 2007). The August 2007 DirectX SDK is designed to ... |
30 July 2007
10:55 GMT |
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Uninstalling Windows Vista and restoring the previously deployed version of Windows - be it Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 or even a low level edition of Vista - is quite a task. If you don't know your way around the command prompts, then you'd better stay away from this one or ask for help. ... |
5 July 2007
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Microsoft has made available for download a new release of .NET Framework 3.5. Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are the operating systems supported by the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 June 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP). The CTP of .NET Framework 3.5 is just a 2.4 MB download that went live ... |
3 July 2007
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Microsoft is offering a resource designed to highlight the features and technologies that have been freshly introduced or that were developed in Windows Server 2008, in comparison with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007 in Los Angeles on May 15, Microsoft ... |
3 July 2007
08:19 GMT |
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Microsoft has made one step forward with the evolution of the two-factor authentication technologies associated with the Windows operating system. The efforts that Microsoft has poured into building the Windows Smartcard Framework (WSF) translate into the company's vision of generalizing the usage of PKI smart c... |
3 July 2007
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Are you running Windows Vista on a system powered by an Intel processor? Then it's about time you updated your operating system. Microsoft has made available for download a microcode reliability update addressing specific issues associated with the Windows operating system and Intel processors. The microcode upd... |
25 June 2007
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With the latest versions of client and server operating systems, Microsoft is delivering nothing short of "dramatic network performance benefits." This is the conclusion that the Tolly Group has presented following a comparison of two tandems: Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn and Win... |
8 June 2007
09:02 GMT |
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Microsoft is right on track to deliver upgrades to Windows XP Professional x64 and Windows Server 2003 via Automatic Updates. With the availability of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, the Redmond Company will introduce a collection of updates, and enhancements rising the level of security and stability in both Wi... |
7 June 2007
04:10 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting closer to the date synonymous with the release of Windows Server 2003 via Automatic Updates. The second service pack for Windows Server 2003, was made available in mid March 2007. The Windows Server Division took its due time producing the service pack, as the release candidate was launched back ... |
24 May 2007
09:18 GMT |
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Fresh releases of Windows Defender, for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, are available for download from Microsoft. Windows Defender is a free solution from Microsoft sharing the same engine as the company's Windows Live OneCare anti-virus. Validation is mandatory for the download, but once scanned by the Windo... |
24 May 2007
02:56 GMT |
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Microsoft is blaming hardware configurations for transfer problems between Windows XP- and Windows Server 2003-based computers and machines running Windows Vista. According to Microsoft, the transfer issues will manifest themselves when users attempt to copy files 100 MG or larger from XP and Windows Server 2003 to V... |
16 March 2007
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Yesterday, March 13, 2007, the second service pack for Windows Server 2003 went live. SP2 is designed as a cumulative service pack and it includes updates, security and stability enhancements and new capabilities integrated into Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 operating systems. "Thousands of cust... |
14 March 2007
07:12 GMT |
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Windows Home Server is currently in the beta 2 stage and Microsoft has not mentioned the limit of participations although it has sent out in excess of 20,000 invites. The initial release of Windows Home Server will involve a single product based on the technology of Windows Server 2003. However, Todd Headrick, the pr... |
8 March 2007
06:57 GMT |
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