windows server news from FierceCIO

Microsoft has decided to discontinue the Windows Essential Business Server (EBS), to be effective June 30 this year. EBS shipped in November 2008, and is aimed toward businesses with between 250 to... Read more...

It appears that one of the updates in this month's Patch Tuesday is triggering a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) on a limited number of computers. So far, the culprit has been narrowed down to update... Read more...

There will be six security updates come Patch Tuesday next week, according to Microsoft. This is less than half the number announced for October's Patch Tuesday, which with a grand total of 13... Read more...

Microsoft has been working hard to clean up a number of bugs after the largest Patch Tuesday release ever earlier this month. Software affected by buggy patches includes Live Communications Server... Read more...

The Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) new cloud-computing offering is now available for production use. First unveiled a year ago, the Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) allowed... Read more...

The release candidate of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 was announced at the beginning of the week. According to Exchange product manager Michael Atalla, it is now feature complete. This means... Read more...

Mainframes may be an old idea, but they are still popular in the workplace. A new Information Week survey found that 831 business tech professionals say mainframes are still alive and being used at... Read more...

In a move that has Linux backers hailing it as an endorsement of the open-source development model, Microsoft on Monday submitted source code for inclusion to the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.... Read more...

Microsoft has a new security problem, and there is no way to fix it. Security firm Symantec told USA Today that cybercriminals have already found the vulnerability, which affects PCs using Windows XP... Read more...

Three security bulletins affecting Windows are due to be pushed out today, with one of them being a "critical" remote execution flaw affecting all the latest Windows platforms: Windows 2000, XP,... Read more...