He said: "Windows 2000 will be very popular because of its terminal services. Windows 2000 debuted on the French market yesterday amid claims it would boost French Internet use and pull customers away from the popular Minitel.
Microsoft claims it has made "real progress" in the last year towards its goal of Trustworthy Computing but criticised businesses for failing to be more proactive on security. Speaking at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference in Toronto, Mike...
The software is set to enter beta testing in about two weeks and be available in the second half of this year. Microsoft is dropping plans to combine several of its management software titles into a single package, saying customers wanted the...
Though the next version of Windows Server is not expected until 2007, Microsoft said on Thursday that it's on track to deliver a beta version of the operating system this summer. A company representative would not give a specific date for the...
Microsoft released an initial beta of the server product in July, at the same time as the beta for the desktop version of Longhorn, now called Vista. However, the beta of the server OS was made available only to a small group of testers.
The company has been exploring the idea of online or ad-supported versions of its core word processing and spreadsheet programs, largely within its Works unit. The US service will exit the beta-testing phase on 15 November, Koopmans said.