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Maxtor Corp. on Monday announced that it had begun shipping its Maxtor SATA Ultra16 hard drive kits. The 250GB and 300GB kits are available from most retailers for $239.95 and $279.95, respectively. Parallel ATA Ultra16 hard drive kits will be available in the fourth quarter, according to the company. The drives themselves contain a 16MB […]

Although the IBM Software Group generates billions of dollars of revenue for IBM each year, it is a nimble multibillion-dollar division. Responding to an evolution in the buying patterns of its customers, the Somers, N.Y., group late last year pushed into high gear an initiative to embrace vertical-industry customers through comprehensive middleware solutions. Steve Mills, […]

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Microsoft began notifying customers Tuesday that it has established new deadlines regarding how long they will be able to block Windows XP Service Pack 2 from downloading automatically to their systems. Microsoft made available to customers in August a couple of different tools to temporarily disable the delivery of SP2 to users’ machines via its […]

Microsoft Corp. is counting on next week’s release of its Virtual Server 2005 to entice users of older versions of Windows Server to migrate to Windows Server 2003. Microsoft set Sept. 13 as the date for taking the wraps off of Virtual Server 2005, which is designed to allow customers to run multiple operating systems, […]

By cutting the Windows File System (WinFS) feature out of both Longhorn client and server, Microsoft Corp. didn’t affect only its next-generation Windows release. It also has set back technologies designed to be dependent on WinFS. One of the most prominent of these technologies is the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF). The Microsoft Business Framework is […]

On Friday, Microsoft Corp. went public with an executive decision that’s been brewing for the past couple of weeks. The company decided in order to keep Longhorn client ship dates from slipping further, it would remove the crux of Longhorn – the new Windows File System (WinFS) from the operating system. Read about Microsoft’s decision […]

Microsoft announced on Friday, as expected, that it is cutting some of its planned Longhorn features in order to get the desktop version of the product out the door by 2006. The Windows File System (WinFS)—technology that was set to simplify information storage and retrieval—won’t make it into the final, shipping versions of Longhorn client, […]

With Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) done, it was high time for the Windows team to make a choice. It could push the delivery date out (yet again) so as to incorporate all the new features it has been promising for the past few years. Or it could scale back the feature list and […]

While Microsoft and most customers equate Windows XP Service Pack 2 with security updates, SP2 includes refreshed versions of Microsoft’s Tablet PC and Media Center versions of Windows XP, too. And there are plenty of other non-security-specific features buried among the SP2 bits that have gotten far less publicity than the new firewall, pop-up blocker, […]

Microsoft is bracing for the next phase of its rollout of its Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2), which kicks off Wednesday. Microsoft is set to begin pushing the service pack to Windows XP Professional users tomorrow via Windows Update/Automatic Update. A week ago, Microsoft began delivering SP2 to Windows XP Home users via its […]

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the 2004 version of its Host Integration Server (HIS) product, which is designed to integrate IBM mainframes and servers with Windows systems. The 2004 edition is the first update Microsoft has made to its mainframe-gateway product in four years. “The goal with HIS is to help customers get the data that’s […]