Security
Infoworld, 2/6/03: Microsoft issues security bulletins for IE and XP
IE flaw deemed 'critical'
By Ashlee Vance February 06, 2003
Microsoft issued two security advisories Wednesday, pointing to a "critical" flaw in its Internet Explorer browser and a second, less severe problem with its Windows XP operating system.
The problem with Internet Explorer stems from a security function in the software designed to stop one domain, such as a Web site, from sharing information with another domain, Microsoft said in a security bulletin. Microsoft has discovered that such information sharing can occur when certain dialog boxes are used.
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Fortune, 2/3/03: The Perils of E-Mail
It was supposed to make life easier. Now e-mail has become a prosecutor's No. 1 weapon and the surest way for companies to get sued. How e-mail became e-vidence mail--and why the solution is often worse than the problem.
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Microsoft
Internet Week, 2/5/03: Microsoft Looking To Beef Up Windows Server 2003 Reliability
Microsoft on Wednesday introduced programs and services designed to improve reliability of its upcoming Windows Server 2003.
The company upgraded its two-year-old datacenter availability program for the software, which is due to ship in April. The Datacenter High Availability program is designed to give servers 99.999 percent availability for Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition. The datacenter version of the software will be available on certified, pretested hardware configurations. Support will be available from PC vendors, resellers and systems integrators, along with Microsoft itself.
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Intel
Fortune, 2/3/03: See This Chip?
It's Intel's most powerful processor ever. It has the ability to take on IBM, sink Sun, make or break HP, and crush or revive AMD. It's keeping every CEO in computing up at night. And it's just getting started. The multibillion-dollar battle between Itanium 2 and its rivals has begun.
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Economy
Reuters, 2/5/03: Intel says PC upgrades to boost corporate spending
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel thinks a rebound in corporate spending on information technology is just around the corner, driven by the need to update aging desktop computers, and the world's largest chipmaker is getting ready for it, an executive said on Wednesday.
"I think you'll see that people are going to have to move (to new PCs) in order to get the support they need," Leslie Culbertson, the company's director of corporate finance, said at the Thomas Weisel Partners technology conference.
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