Thursday, July 31, 2003

Microsoft.com revamps search. The software giant updates its corporate Web search technology with in-house software, its latest effort to catch up with innovations in the navigation-tools market. [CNET News.com]

Another shot in search wars.


6:20:47 PM    

Network Solutions glitch darkens sites. An apparent failure in the company's hosted Web addressing system knocks Web sites and e-mail addresses offline for several hours. [CNET News.com]

I noticed.  We where down for about 3 hours.


6:18:35 PM    

Microsoft's New Point Man on Linux Speaks Out. Martin Taylor, Microsoft's new platform strategist, has a game plan for changing the way that Microsoft competes with open source. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
4:49:31 PM    

Microsoft fixing another faulty patch - Computerworld - Microsoft Corp. acknowledged yesterday that a recent security patch is causing problems on machines running the Windows NT 4.0 operating system. The patch, released July 23 and described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-029, causes the Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) on NT 4.0 machines to fail, Microsoft said.
10:49:59 AM    

InformationWeek > Linux > Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive > July 30, 2003 - In an effort to better understand its main source of competition, Microsoft has deployed Linux and other open-source software in a test center that's typically used by its business customers to experiment with Microsoft's own products.
10:40:03 AM