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  • Prepping for Patching

    Patch Tuesday once more, with feeling. 02/12/2007

  • Moving to the Forefront

    Microsoft ships Forefront's management console beta. 02/12/2007

  • News

    Microsoft to Update Windows for Wireless

    Microsoft Corp. plans a launch this spring of its next-generation operating system for wireless devices, Windows Mobile 6. 02/08/2007

  • News

    Management Console Beta for Forefront Security Released

    Microsoft announced this week it is shipping the public beta for its forthcoming Forefront Server Security Management Console. The announcement came at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. 02/08/2007

  • News

    Gmail Becomes More Widely Available

    Google Inc.'s e-mail service is almost ready to accept all comers, nearly three years after the online search leader shook up the Internet by offering users an unprecedented amount of free storage and displaying ads based on the content of the correspondence. 02/08/2007

  • News

    12 Microsoft Patches Coming Tuesday

    Microsoft Security Response Center plans to publish 12 security bulletins next Tuesday, according to Thursday's advance notification. 02/08/2007

  • News

    Apple: Record Labels Should Drop DRM

    Apple Inc. indicated it would open its iTunes store to other portable players besides its ubiquitous iPod if the world's major record labels abandoned the anti-piracy technology that serves as the industry's security blanket. 02/08/2007

  • News

    VeriSign To Spend More Than $100M on Infrastructure Upgrade

    VeriSign Inc., which manages the ".com" and ".net" domain names registry and ensures Internet users can reach those locations, said it will spend more than $100 million in a massive infrastructure upgrade to combat a new wave of computer attacks and manage a surge in online activity. 02/08/2007

  • News

    Inventors to Be Honored on Capitol Hill

    Robert Metcalf, inventor of Ethernet, among honorees. 02/08/2007

  • News

    Sun To Ship ODF Translator for Office 2003

    Sun Microsystems Wednesday took the wraps off of its OpenDocument Format, or ODF, add-in for saving Microsoft Office 2003 documents in the emerging open standard's file format. 02/08/2007

  • News

    Sun CFO Reaffirms Q4 Outlook

    Sun Microsystems Inc., which turned a rare profit last quarter, is on track to reach its previously stated goal of a 4 percent operating profit margin by the end of the fiscal year, the company's chief financial officer said Tuesday. 02/07/2007

  • News

    New Certification for Hosting Providers

    New Windows 2003 Web Hosting exam now available, as well as new certification track aimed at hosting providers. 02/07/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Preps Identity Lifecycle Manager

    Microsoft is preparing a spring release for an identity management infrastructure tool aimed at simplifying credential administration across the enterprise, officials said this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. 02/07/2007

  • News

    VeriSign to Spend Over $100M on Upgrade

    VeriSign will spend more than $100 million in a massive infrastructure upgrade to combat a new wave of computer attacks and manage a surge in online activity. 02/07/2007

  • News

    Cisco's Q2 Profit Surges 40 Percent

    Cisco Systems Inc.'s second-quarter profit surged nearly 40 percent as the world's largest maker of networking gear benefited from equipment upgrades to support bandwidth-hogging video downloads. 02/07/2007

  • News

    Microsoft: Not Behind Russia Piracy Case

    Microsoft Corp., responding to a plea from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, said Tuesday it had no role in Russia's investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Windows software. 02/07/2007

  • News

    Vista Vulnerable Through Third-Party Programs

    Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system might well be Redmond's most secure client operating environment to date, but that doesn't -- and couldn't -- mean Vista is completely unassailable. 02/07/2007

  • News

    Gmail Becomes More Widely Available

    Google Inc.'s e-mail service is almost ready to accept all comers after nearly three years of beta testing. 02/07/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Licensing Key Protocols to Competitors

    Microsoft quietly announced last week that it is making several key communications protocols used by its software available for license, so that third-parties, including competitors, can link into its newest enterprise products. Some are available immediately 02/07/2007

  • Major Hack Fails To Take Down 'Net

    The hours-long attack didn't even register with most computer users. 02/07/2007

  • Excel Open to Zero-Day Hack

    Word gets some company. 02/07/2007

  • Word Edges Closer to OpenDoc

    ...by way of some complex maneuvering. 02/07/2007

  • Time Mag Doesn't Love Vista

    But that's perfectly fine. 02/07/2007

  • News

    Gorbachev Asks Gates To Intervene in Russian Windows Piracy Case

    Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has asked Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to intervene in the case of a Russian school principal facing a prison term for buying pirated Windows software for his students, according to a statement. 02/06/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Ships CTP of WPF/E

    On February 2, Microsoft released the February CTP of Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), a cross-platform browser plug-in that allows clients to display and play back rich media, 3D and vector graphics, animation, audio and video. 02/06/2007

  • News

    FTC Sets Maximum Royalties on Memory Chip Designer Rambus

    The Federal Trade Commission finalized its ruling that Rambus Inc. violated antitrust laws, imposing limits on the royalties the memory chip designer can charge. 02/06/2007

  • News

    German Police Barred from Secret Internet Computer Searches

    Police cannot secretly search suspects' computer hard drives over the Internet, a German court ruled Monday. 02/06/2007

  • News

    Zero-Day Exploit for Excel Now, Too

    Microsoft last week added another to a running tally of Office zero-day exploits that currently includes four known Word attacks.The software giant confirmed that it was investigating reports of a new round of "very limited" Excel zero-day attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in Office 2000, Office 2002 (XP), Office 2003 and Office 2004 Mac Edition. 02/06/2007

  • News

    Microsoft: Not Behind Russia Piracy Case

    Microsoft said it had no role in Russia's investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Windows software. 02/06/2007

  • News

    Hackers Attack Key Net Traffic Computers

    Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday. 02/06/2007

  • News

    Defendants Acquitted in AOL Revenue Conspiracy Trial

    Two former midlevel executives at America Online were acquitted Tuesday on all counts of charges that they conspired with a now-defunct Las Vegas software firm to inflate its revenue with secret side deals and backdated contracts. 02/06/2007

  • News

    ODF Add-in For Word 2007 Available

    Open source group SourceForge.net is shipping version 1.0 of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) add-in for Microsoft Word 2007, the organization said in a statement. 02/06/2007

  • News

    Gates: Secure Data Remains Key Challenge

    Keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's most formidable challenge, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said. 02/06/2007

  • News

    SP3 Beta Bows for Systems Management Server 2003

    Microsoft has begun the open beta of Service Pack 3 for its aging Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003. 02/06/2007

  • FSF to Ban Novell Linux Sales? Not Exactly

    Beat 'em? Join 'em? We can't make up our minds.... 02/06/2007

  • Dell and Intel: I Knew Something Was Up

    Another shareholder lawsuit, this time against Dell. 02/06/2007

  • Zune Exec Zooms Off

    Without missing a beat, officials say the departure had nothing to do with the player's sales. 02/06/2007

  • IAG 2007 -- A Whale of a Deal

    And a tale, too. 02/06/2007

  • News

    VA Hard Drive With Personal Data Missing

    A portable hard drive that may contain the personal information of up to 48,000 veterans may have been stolen, the Department of Veterans Affairs and a lawmaker said Friday. 02/05/2007

  • News

    German Court Bars Stealth PC Searches

    Police cannot secretly search suspects' computer hard drives over the Internet, a German court ruled Monday. 02/05/2007

  • News

    Michael Dell Details Corporate Changes in Companywide E-Mail

    In a memo to Dell Inc. employees days after returning as chief executive officer, Michael Dell said one of the world's largest computer makers is quashing bonuses and reducing managers to help cut costs and steer the company back toward dominance. 02/05/2007

  • News

    Apple Urges iTunes Users To Wait for Vista Compatibility Fix

    Apple Inc. is urging some iPod and iTunes users to hold off on upgrading their computers to Windows Vista, warning that the iTunes music software may not work well with the new operating system from rival Microsoft Corp. 02/05/2007

  • News

    Dutch Spammer Fined $97,000

    A spammer whom authorities say e-mailed more than 9 billion unwanted advertisements faces a hefty fine. 02/05/2007

  • News

    Global Chip Sales $248B in 2006

    Global semiconductor sales reached a record $248 billion last year, driven largely by favorable economic conditions and rising demand for consumer electronics such as high-definition TVs, digital music players and cell phones, an industry group said Friday. 02/05/2007

  • iTunes and Vista Non-Simpatico

    So hold off on that upgrade, Apple says. 02/05/2007

  • Bill's Mac Ad

    Foot, meet mouth. 02/05/2007

  • More Apple Ads On the Way

    And they're not getting any friendlier. 02/05/2007

  • Gates Still Not Mellow

    ...and he's not shy about calling out Apple. 02/05/2007

  • News

    EU Microsoft Judge: Ruling by September

    The judge due to rule on Microsoft's appeal against the European Commission's antitrust order hopes to publish his decision before he leaves office in September. 02/02/2007

  • News

    Dell Accused of Hiding Intel Payments

    A new class-action lawsuit claims that computer maker Dell Inc. inflated profits with secret payments of about $1 billion a year from chip maker Intel Corp. 02/02/2007

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