Microsoft 11960 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft Corp. is getting a new open-source and Linux strategist as the end-of-financial-year staff shuffle continues.

Peter Houston, who as the senior director of Microsoft's Windows Server Strategies has had to defend and explain the company's response to the competitive threat posed by Linux and open source for the past 18 months, is now moving to Microsoft's Enterprise Management Division where he will work on the upcoming Systems Center product.
Read more

Microsoft 11960 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft issued late Tuesday its release candidate of Systems Management Server 2003 (a k a "Topaz"). On the client side, Microsoft made its Office 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh officially available to all 600,000 Office testers on Tuesday, too.

Read more

Microsoft 11960 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Turns out it is the release candidate (RC) of Microsoft's Real Time Communications Server that went gold yesterday, not the final product. Today, Microsoft's Small Business Server 2003 goes to RC stage, as well.

Read more

Microsoft 11960 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft has prepped a place on its BetaPlace beta-download site for the first official "Yukon" SQL Server beta bits. An update sent to testers recently says Beta 1 is on track for July. Beta 1 is expected to be relatively small and open only to pre-selected partners and customers. Microsoft says the final Yukon release will ship before the end of calendar 2004.

Read more