Despite developing most of a new digital certificate model for Australian business on .Net software, Australian Tax Office (ATO) chief technology officer Peter Wilson said the platform "doesn't give us anything we (the ATO) couldn't do before".
Two years ago, Microsoft Corp. stuffed a number of collaboration features in Exchange Server with great fanfare. Last week, the company started to tell network executives why it now plans to pluck them out.
Microsoft Corp. last week announced storage management software that will let systems running Windows 2000 Server and Windows .Net Server 2003 communicate with storage arrays across multiple devices supported by more than a dozen leading vendors.
With its first iteration of Visual Studio .Net just a few days more than six months old, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday began revealing details of the next version, as well as an upgrade to the .Net Framework.
Microsoft Corp. is planning to release this month the third service pack for its Exchange 2000 server software, which will include fixes for bugs discovered as part of its lengthy review of the software code.
Microsoft successfully made the leap from desktop dominance to grabbing a hefty share of the server operating system market. Now the vendor is setting its sights on high-performance workstations and servers.