MCTS Certifications

Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing, a move seen as a direct attack on a Linux stronghold. High-performance computing once required massive, expensive, exotic machines from companies such as Cray, but the field is being remade by the arrival of clusters of low-end machines. While the trend […]

With a long-awaited security update to Windows XP now complete, Microsoft is preparing a holiday season push for the 3-year-old operating system–and is set to revisit ambitious plans for the next major revision, News.com has learned. That revision, code-named Longhorn, one of the most difficult and complicated in the company’s history, has fallen further behind […]

For its regular monthly security announcement in August 2004, Microsoft released only a single Security Bulletin, MS04-026, “Vulnerability in Exchange Server 5.5 Outlook Web Access Could Allow Cross-Site Scripting and Spoofing Attacks.” This vulnerability, which could allow a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on a compromised system, has also been assigned the MITRE candidate […]

Cooperation between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft probably won’t drastically alter the information technology landscape, analysts and IT professionals say, but it should eliminate some integration headaches. Last month’s historic agreement between the two computing giants is most likely to create near-term progress in two areas: identification and directory services, and Web services. Further down the […]

Recently, Microsoft announced yet another security vulnerability. Yes, I know that Microsoft announces new security vulnerabilities every week, but this one requires your immediate attention. It’s a critical vulnerability that allows remote code execution on quite a few different Microsoft operating systems. I will explain the component affected by this vulnerability and show you how […]

There’s talk that Microsoft may introduce new certifications for desktop support and security. The discussion began last month at CompTIA’s 2002 Strategies conference. Microsoft’s Judith Morel announced that a worldwide Job Task Analysis survey of MCPs showed that MCSAs and MCSEs don’t spend much time working with client OSs. She added that there’s also strong […]

Microsoft recently introduced a new product support life cycle policy designed to make support availability more predictable and consistent. This will allow customers to better plan their upgrades, instead of relying on announcements about the retirement of products or the discontinuation of support for them. Under previous policies, customers couldn’t effectively plan upgrades. This had […]