Thor Olavsrud

Eyeing the market of mobile workers that spend little time behind desks, Emeryville, Calif.-based Sendmail Tuesday joined forces with Hewlett-Packard and Intel to push a Linux-based mail solution for corporate email infrastructures. Noting that “deskless” mobile workers represent more than half of all employees in a typical enterprise, Sendmail said many organizations have found it […]

Microsoft’s 12th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this week brought long-sought revelations concerning its forthcoming version of the Windows operating system code-named “Longhorn,” the next iteration of its Windows Server operating system code-named “Blackcomb,” and a new strategy for deep integration of hardware and software exemplified by the “Athens” prototype PC co-developed with Hewlett-Packard. […]

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard snuggled up to each other Tuesday, using their already close partnership to show manufacturers a new future in PC manufacturing where vendors work with Microsoft from the ground up when developing new PC technologies. The result is “Athens,” a PC prototype which takes a page from Apple Computer’s book with deep integration […]

Many will at long last get a peek at the guts of Microsoft’s forthcoming ‘Longhorn’ operating system this week as the software giant kicks off its Windows Hardware Engineering (WinHEC) trade show in New Orleans Tuesday. Windows Longhorn is the codename for the next major Windows operating system release, expected in late 2004 or early […]

Continuing its quest to become the mobile infrastructure provider of choice, IBM will unveil on Tuesday a new version of its WebSphere Everyplace Access middleware product and a packaged solution designed to help enterprises from small to large rapidly deploy infrastructure to support their mobile workers. With WebSphere Everyplace Access (WEA), IBM aims to create […]

The enterprise application software market is poised for growth and the biggest beneficiary may be Microsoft, according to Deutsche Bank Securities. The investment bank has initiated coverage of the sector. However, the firm warned that the market has been showing signs of maturity for the past several years, and growth of most players is likely […]

Microsoft’s long-delayed Windows Server 2003 will make its grand entrance in San Francisco Thursday, carrying with it the company’s hopes to become a player in the high-end supercomputers, clusters and mainframes markets, as well as enterprise storage. Based on preliminary tests by customers and industry groups running beta versions of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft claims […]

As Office 2003 edges closer to launch this summer, Microsoft has begun to provide greater clarity into its strategy for the productivity suite, including the reasoning behind its decision to release it in six different editions, or stock keeping units (SKUs). Only the Professional Enterprise Edition and Professional Edition will include support for custom-defined schemas. […]

Despite earlier analyst predictions that Microsoft might show some of the burn that other software companies have felt the past year, the company said Tuesday that it exceeded consensus estimates for its fiscal third quarter and proceeded to slightly boost its guidance for the full fiscal year. “We reported another quarter of strong revenue and […]

With spam on track to become one of the biggest drains on companies’ network resources, Microsoft Monday used the RSA Conference in San Francisco as a platform to introduce a new antispam tool for Exchange Server 2003. The tool opens up Exchange Server to allow partners to integrate their own antispam modules with the server, […]