On the heels of its July 2006 acquisition of Mark Russinovich's Winternals Software, Microsoft has replaced the popular Regmon and Filemon utilities with a single tool offering advanced capabilities for real-time monitoring of registry and process thread activity.
The release of the new utility, called Process Monitor coincides with the relaunch of the Sysinternals portal as the Windows Sysinternals TechCenter on Microsoft TechNet.
Russinovich, a respected Windows kernel guru who joined the Redmond, Wash. vendor as a Technical Fellow in the Platforms and Services Division, describes Process Monitor as "a powerful new monitoring tool that is best described as Regmon and Filemon on steroids."
Regmon and Filemon are hugely popular among virus and spyware researchers who use the real-time file and registry monitoring tools to determine changes made to an infected operating system.
Microsoft announced this week it is nearing release of a new version of its customer relationship management software -- Microsoft Dynamics CRM for the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista.
Additionally, besides continuing to be sold via the company's standard volume licensing program, Dynamics CRM will also be offered through the licensing used with Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource planning products.
The updated version features the new "ribbon" user interface as Office 2007, as well as taking advantage of Excel 2007's data visualization enhancements to provide better analysis and decision-making for CRM managers and users, the company said in a statement. It also provides Windows Vista gadgets that let users place CRM activities, analytics and alerts directly onto the desktop or home page.
After five years and many twists and turns, Microsoft on
Wednesday said that development of Windows Vista is complete.
Windows chief Jim Allchin said Microsoft signed off on the code less than an hour ago. "It's rock solid and we're ready to ship. This is a good day," Allchin said in a conference call.
Allchin said Vista will go on sale to consumers Jan. 30. He said that Microsoft is releasing Vista in five languages. The French, Spanish, and Japanese versions were actually signed off on before the English version, Allchin said.
Just a year after releasing its primary tool set for building applications on Windows, Microsoft has announced a set of new technologies aimed at helping developers build next-generation interactive applications for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office System and the Web.
In a keynote address at the Visual Studio & .Net Connections conference here Nov. 6, Scott Guthrie, general manager of the Developer Division at Microsoft, laid out the new products Microsoft is making available to developers to promote a better development experience on the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system. Windows Vista is expected to be released to manufacturing any day now.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, at the company's first European-based Convergence conference that kicked off in Munich Nov. 6, is working hard to show that Microsoft is on top of the tech revolutionat least when it comes to offering its enterprise resource planning technology on demand.
During his keynote address on the first day of Convergence, typically an ERP-focused conference held in the United States, Gates announced that the Dynamics suite of applications is going liveas in Microsoft Live, the company's answer to the on-demand movement.
While it's no secret that Microsoft has been quietly cobbling together the pieces of a VoIP strategy for several months, CEO Steve Ballmer finally tied it all together at a company conference in Japan on Monday: the company will formally enter the market early next year by incorporating the Web phoning technology with its operating system.
According to media reports, Ballmer said Microsoft's VoIP rollout, which would include videoconferencing as well as VoIP, will be combined with e-mail, video and instant messaging technologies. The ambitious deployment would not only be a part of its operating system, but also be incorporated in desktop applications and server software.
A shortage of information technology graduates from Western universities is leading companies to call on developing countries to meet research demand, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday.
After the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia's internationally renowned education system became a cheap talent pool for the West. Now dozens of Russian language Web sites offer computer programming jobs in the United States, alongside visa support and language training.
"Worldwide, a lot of the developed countries are not graduating as many IT students as they were in the past, which is kind of ironic as it does mean it does increase the opportunities," Gates said.
Microsoft can now register top-level Internet domains.
Last week, the company was added to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers list of accredited domain
name registrars, according to
domain name service provider Dot and Co. This means that Microsoft can now add new top-level domains to the databases used by computers on the Internet.
Microsoft was not immediately able to comment for this story, but the move is probably related to its Office Live product, which is expected to emerge from its beta testing period on Nov. 15, according to Rich Miller, an analyst with Internet research firm Netcraft Ltd.
No need to shake the box. It's another tie. Microsoft has unwrapped a sleigh-full of presents for its partners and customers, including enhanced developer tools and new software integrations.
The software tools are intended to help developers write new applications for Vista and the 2007 Office suite.
At its Visual Studio Connections conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft released to manufacturing .NET Framework 3.0, which helps programmers build more interactive communication, workflow and online identity management applications.
Microsoft sources confirmed this past weekend that the company is set to finalize Windows Vista as early as Monday and release the product to manufacturing sometime this week. The final build number is expected to be 6000.16386.061101-2205.
In its quest to finalize Vista, Microsoft has faced two hurdles in recent days, one technical and one a bit unusual. The proposed final build was marred by a few late-breaking bugs, which the company expected to squash over the weekend. Meanwhile, a power outage in the Windows build lab on Friday prevented Microsoft from creating a new Vista build that night.