Microsoft has introduced a Web conferencing service - and although it features minor integration with the company's enterprise products, the service falls quite short of the company's plan to offer its collection of collaboration software as an integrated package.
Microsoft has shipped the first beta of a software installer that is one key piece in a forthcoming overhaul of the company’s patch management architecture.
Microsoft has given in to the drawn-out migration timetables of its Exchange 5.5 customers and said it would offer a free year of extended support on the messaging server.
IBM has added the Lotus Domino server to its growing suite of software targeted at companies with fewer than 2000 users.
Microsoft might be hyping its next-generation Longhorn software as a "big bang" event, but the company is being quiet about the fact that the products will require corporate customers to perform multiple, carefully planned upgrades reminiscent of the difficult migration from Windows NT to 2000.
Microsoft has wrapped up the development work on Windows Server 2003 and will ship the operating system on schedule next month. However, a just released survey by The Yankee Group claims that only 12 per cent of the current Windows installed base plans to adopt the new OS in the next year.
The list price for Windows Server 2003 will be identical to pricing for its predecessor Windows 2000, Microsoft has announced.
Microsoft has given companies a subtle shove toward installing new desktop and productivity software by updating a free set of tools designed to help enterprise customers test application compatibility and ease the transition to Windows XP and Office XP.
Apparently there is a lot in a name - as Microsoft on Thursday changed the moniker of its forthcoming server operating system for the fourth time.
Microsoft has released a tool designed to entice millions of Lotus Notes/Domino customers to migrate their applications to Exchange and other Microsoft infrastructure servers.
Microsoft said on Wednesday that the SSL flaw recently uncovered by an independent researcher is in multiple versions of the Windows operating system but not its Internet Explorer Web browser.
Lotus Software Group on Monday announced it will include server-side spam filtering controls in Domino 6.0 when the collaboration server ships later this year.
Network executives are having problems distinguishing the differences between Web services vendors and the products they offer, but a majority of IT professionals are starting to deploy or test the technology, according to a recent survey.
Advanced Reality this week will release collaboration software that plugs into Microsoft's Excel and lets users of that application share spreadsheet data from within the familiar interface.
Lotus Software Group bucked its recent trend of tardy software delivery on Thursday with the public release of the next beta of its forthcoming Domino 6 server.
