Startup aims to simplify x64 Exchange upgrades
A new company started by a former Microsoft Exchange director aims to solve potential challenges Microsoft customers will face when Exchange moves to x64 hardware in the next 18 months.
A new company started by a former Microsoft Exchange director aims to solve potential challenges Microsoft customers will face when Exchange moves to x64 hardware in the next 18 months.
Microsoft has signed up three companies to add phishing monitoring and detection technology to its antiphishing filter in the MSN Search Toolbar and the upcoming release of Internet Explorer (IE) 7, and its SmartScreen e-mail filter, the company said Thursday.
Microsoft next month will begin shipping the first major update of its Great Plains enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite since the software was rebranded under the Dynamics moniker. The new software, called Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0, will be generally available in English-language versions on Dec. 19, with versions in other languages to be released in the first quarter of 2006, a Microsoft executive said.
A new research report by Gartner advises customers that they likely won't complete a full migration to Windows Vista until 2008, even though the next version of Microsoft's Windows client OS is scheduled to ship at the end of 2006.
SAN FRANCISCO: If there is one thing Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, made clear at Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 launch event, it's that the new business software products from the company are a good fit for enterprise deployments.
Microsoft will tout its version of Windows for high-performance computing at the Supercomputing 2005 show this week in Seattle, but observers said the company faces a considerable challenge in selling the OS for compute-intensive environments already dominated by Unix.
Though the powers that be at Microsoft seem to have finally grasped the impact of the Internet on the future of packaged software, industry observers and a key rival said the company still must prove that its plan to compete in the Web 2.0 marketplace is more than just hype.
Microsoft and Cisco Systems have teamed up to support a protocol for communicating across network address translators (NATs) that they believe will hasten the adoption of VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) for enterprises.
A group of high-profile technology vendors have formalised plans to promote Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) as a global standard after a meeting at IBM last week, according to an IBM executive.
Microsoft will include a host of new software adapters with BizTalk Server 2006 without charging for them, but the price of the integration server will go up, according to the software's product manager.
If there is one thing Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer made clear at Microsoft's launch event Monday, it's that the new business software products from the company are a good fit for enterprise deployments.
As widely expected, Microsoft Tuesday unveiled its software-as-a-service strategy, an effort to provide a more seamless connection between customers and their business and personal data by offering a range of services accessed over the Web by various devices.
Microsoft revenues were up slightly for its first quarter ended Sept. 30, driven by demand for core platform software such as the Windows OS and SQL Server, as well as growth in PC and server shipments, the company said Thursday.
Microsoft will be retiring Exchange Server 5.5 and support for the product at the end of the year and is recommending users upgrade to the latest version, the company said Wednesday.
Microsoft is expected to release to manufacturing the next version of its Windows desktop OS on July 25, 2006, to ensure PC vendors will have it on machines in time for the 2006 holiday season in the U.S., according to sources familiar with the company's plans.