Customer queries bounced back and forth like ping-pong balls, calls were lost and employees switched between client service and business process roles. That is when Canadian Western Trust, a small Vancouver-based financial institution, decided this was not the way to run its business.
Aiming to reach a larger audience of software developers, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced slimmed-down "Express" editions of its Visual Studio developer tool for specific programming languages.
Responding to the rapid spread of the Slammer worm through a software vulnerability in its SQL Server 2000 database product, Microsoft Corp. posted pre-release versions of a number of utilities that can ferret out systems that are susceptible to Slammer.
Responding to the rapid spread of the Slammer worm through a software vulnerability in its SQL Server 2000 database product, Microsoft Corp. posted pre-release versions of a number of utilities that can ferret out systems that are susceptible to Slammer.