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Bundle Aims To Simplify Regulatory Compliance for SMBs

NetIQ will ship this month a bundle of existing management tools that aims to help small and medium-sized businesses meet regulatory compliance requirements for recent laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA acts.

Internet Explorer 7.0 to Include Tabbed Browsing

Internet Explorer 7.0 will include the tabbed browsing feature already present in several rival browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Netscape, Microsoft developers confirmed this week.

Windows Server Roadmap Gets an Update

The Windows Server Roadmap, a handy document on Microsoft's Web site with rough delivery date guidance, got an update this month.

Opinion: Social Engineering Still Alive and Kicking

A social engineering attack resulted in secure e-mail service provider Hushmail having its Website redirected to a defaced site. According to reports, Network Solutions, the Domain Name Service provider behemoth, gave out information through a customer support line sufficient to allow an attacker to alter DNS record information for Hushmail.com.

Sun-Microsoft Collaboration 'Wasn't Easy'

It's not easy to turn years of animosity between two massive corporations into a working technical collaboration.

Microsoft to Offer Corporate Desktop Search

As it launched a consumer search toolbar with desktop search capabilities on Monday, Microsoft revealed that it is working on a corporate version of desktop search.

Sprint Signs up with Microsoft MapPoint Location Server

A U.S.-based carrier is onboard with Microsoft's MapPoint Location Server, providing a major boost to Microsoft's fledgling server software for real-time tracking and management of vehicle fleets and highly mobile employees.

IT Weekly Roundup, May 13

From the business wires this week: data recovery software for Windows File Systems, a .NET tool for creating application skins, and a near-indestructible tablet PC.

Microsoft Pardons Users of Pirated Windows

Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.

PGP Ships Updated Encryption Products

PGP Corp. is shipping updates to both its desktop and server encryption products aimed at centralizing policy management and expanding enterprise management features.

Wi-Fi Security Enhanced in Update for XP SP2

A free download available from Microsoft on Thursday brings support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) to Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Microsoft Simplifies Volume Licensing Documentation

In an effort to reduce the pain users face in combing through Licensing 6.0 documentation, Microsoft this week previewed a change coming in July to its massive Product Use Rights document.

RSA Readying Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA Compliance Package

RSA Security announced Wednesday that it will ship in June a tool to help IT organizations that are already using the company’s event-logging software to comply with new rules required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA and other regulations.

Michael Dell Invests $100 Million in Red Hat

Dell Inc. chairman and founder Michael Dell is investing $100 million in Red Hat, the Linux distributor that often stands in as a symbol for the open-source movement's challenge to Microsoft's OS dominance.

Microsoft Pardons Users of Pirated Windows

Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.

'Maestro' Aimed at Business Performance Management

Microsoft unveiled "Maestro" this week and released a private beta of the server-based business performance management scorecard application.

IBM Readies Director Updates, Partner SDK

IBM is readying two upcoming releases of its IBM Director systems management tool for Intel platforms, as well as a toolkit to enable third-parties to integrate their own tools with Director.

Sun, Microsoft to Provide Update on Relationship

A year after publicly declaring an end to their longstanding feud, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft plan a news conference on Friday to discuss progress in their relationship.

Windows 2000 Patch the Lone Fix for May

As planned, Microsoft released only one security bulletin for May in its monthly Patch Tuesday event today. The bulletin patches an "important" flaw in Windows 2000 that can allow an attacker to take control of a vulnerable computer over the Internet.

SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 Released

Microsoft on Friday posted Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000, the first service pack update for the company's flagship database server since early 2003.

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