Gates Explains How Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Initiative Is Going
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

It's not everyday that I get an email from Bill Gates, chief software architect and chairman of Microsoft, but it looks like it might be happening from time to time. Like many people last week, I got an email from Gates to discuss at length Microsoft's efforts to improve the reliability and security of its products, which come under the Trustworthy Computing initiative at Microsoft. Gates and the top brass intend to use email as a means of reaching out to the Windows community to talk about Trustworthy Computing and other important issues. READ MORE >

Microsoft Snags Systems Management Expert From BMC
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Microsoft announced last week that it had hired away the top technical guru for systems management at BMC Software to head up its own systems management initiatives. As Microsoft's operating system technologies mature in an ever increasing complex of networks, systems management is not just vital to make Windows and heterogeneous networks play nicely, it is going to be a revenue growth opportunity that Microsoft must chase. READ MORE >

Microsoft Finishes a Respectable Fiscal 2002
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Microsoft finished its fiscal 2002 at the end of June and reported pretty respectable numbers, especially compared to the myriad software companies who have seen revenue declines anywhere from 20 percent to 50 percent in this difficult world economy. But Microsoft is ever cautious about managing expectations, and has told Wall Street to curb their estimates for fiscal 2003. With Microsoft expecting to post only around 13 percent growth in the next 12 months, about the same revenue growth it posted in fiscal 2002. READ MORE >

IBM Server Sales Down 16 Percent
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM, like other IT suppliers coping with skittish customers still suffering from a hangover associated with binge IT buying in the dot-com boom and a bad case of the jitters in the current economic climate, nonetheless sold a fair amount of stuff in the second quarter and did better than many Wall Street analysts expected. However, IBM's Server Group took it on the chin, with sales of $2.9 billion, down 17 percent from the second quarter of last year. READ MORE >

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