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Maxtor Corp. on Monday announced a pair of Serial ATA hard drives, increasing capacities to 300MB while offering native command queuing and a significantly larger 16MB buffer. The new 7,200-rpm drives point to a new axis for improvement in hard drives: throughput. Both the additional buffer size and the NCQ technologies are designed to move […]

Monday, August 16, was set to be D-day for the automatic delivery of Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). But at the last minute, the Redmond software vendor decided to push back by at least nine days the Windows Update/Automatic Update launch date for its collection of security fixes and features. Microsoft cited customer […]

Not too long ago, the Gartner Group raised a minor dustup in the IT community by releasing a report claiming that portable storage media—including consumer devices such as cameras and MP3 players with built-in or removable memory—represent a new security threat to corporate networks. While I am almost always happy to see people talking about […]

In an effort to head off support calls, Microsoft has published a list of about 50 programs from both the Redmond software giant and third-party software vendors that require tweaking in order to work properly with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Among the applications that are encountering problems are Web servers, remote desktops, file-sharing […]

Since Microsoft Corp. began its staged rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) late last week, there have been a few bumps—but, at least so far, no major potholes—on the road to deployment. Microsoft has characterized SP2 as a “critical” must-have update. The company’s overriding message is that all Windows XP users should deploy […]

Microsoft acknowledged earlier this week that it won’t ship its new 64-bit Windows serverversions until mid-2005. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft is content to leave the 64-bit market to Solaris and Unix customers, according to officials with the Redmond, Wash., software vendor. Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on what it’s calling the “x64 Technology […]

REDMOND, Wash.—For more than two years, Microsoft has been talking up its goal of providing users with an integrated search capability that would allow them to find information stored locally on hard disks, on corporate intranets and across the Internet. On Thursday, Microsoft finally showed a prototype of such a service. Here at the annual […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft’s war on Linux isn’t about to let up. The Redmond software vendor plans to step up its “Get the Facts” anti-open-source campaign in the coming year by adding more evidence, in the form of customer case studies and analyst reports, to its arsenal. That’s what Kevin Johnson, Microsoft’s group vice president of worldwide […]

IT managers shouldn’t hold their breaths waiting for any of the new 64-bit Windows Server or Windows XP versions that Microsoft was shooting to deliver this year. And ditto with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the security-focused update originally targeted to ship this year. Now, Microsoft officials are saying these updates won’t ship […]

Mike Devlin, general manager of IBM’s Rational division, will be top dog at the Rational Software Development User Conference this week in Dallas. When IBM finalized its $2.1 billion acquisition of Rational Corp. in February 2003, Devlin traded his CEO position for that of general manager of IBM Rational. Devlin talked with eWEEK Senior Writer […]

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Netgear Inc. announced a recall of one of the company’s Ethernet bridges Wednesday. No injuries were reported, although the product is described as a possible shock hazard. The Netgear Wall Plug Ethernet Bridge, avaialble for between $50 to $80 on shopping sites, contains a plastic housing that can […]

As you no doubt know, the latest Internet Explorer exploit, Download.Ject, escalates security problems to the lose-your-life-savings point for users. Do business with an infected bank site and user keystrokes get logged and sent to a “bad guy” server. Yow! As of this writing, nobody knows exactly how the Windows-based IIS was infected, except the […]