A Windows 2000 server software package can be crashed by sending it a comparatively simple request for a Web page, a security company has discovered. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Microsoft Corp. plans to adjust its per-processor licensing model to provide relief for customers that run its software on partitioned servers, a Microsoft executive said last week. On April 1, the ...

Push-back is blow to AMD, which has been waiting for version of Windows that can take advantage of Athlon's 64-bit capabilities. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, ...

Microsoft is the 800-pound-gorilla of software. So perhaps it was just a matter of time before the company rolled out a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) play, combing software-defined compute, ...

Microsoft Corp. has released a patch to fix a security flaw that could allow a hacker to gain complete control in seconds of a Web site running Windows 2000 Internet server software. The security flaw ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) is one of the top 10 networking features supported by Windows Server 2019, and it'll power so-called "software-defined datacenters" (SDDCs), Microsoft claimed in a ...

When you read about Microsoft Windows Server licensing, more often than not, the message is negative. Microsoft seems to be taking it on the chin a lot, but really for such a large software company, I ...