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  • Microsoft and Citrix Gang Up on Cisco

    Partners move quickly on ERP strategy. 08/24/2006

  • IE7 RC1 for Download ASAP

    IE7's not done, but it's close enough. 08/24/2006

  • News

    Microsoft Considers Vista Discounts

    Microsoft considers discounts or other promotions during holidays to entice consumers to upgrade PCs to Vista, months before it may hit stores. 08/23/2006

  • News

    CrossTec Ships Activeworx 3.5

    CrossTec Corp. announced it is shipping an updated version of its Activeworx security event management software. 08/23/2006

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    Microsoft Sues 'Cybersquatters'

    Microsoft has filed three lawsuits against "cybersquatters" who hope to profit from typo-misdirection-based pay-per-click advertising. 08/23/2006

  • Working with Microsoft's Services for Unix, Part 2

    In the second of a two-part series, Emmett walks through setting up password synchronization in heterogenous environments. 08/23/2006

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    S. Korea to Get New Versions of Windows

    Microsoft to release four versions of Windows in South Korea that comply with antitrust ruling. 08/23/2006

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    IBM To Buy ISS for $1.3 Billion

    IBM Corp. said Wednesday it will spend $1.3 billion in cash to acquire Internet Security Systems Inc., which performs network monitoring and analysis services for companies. 08/23/2006

  • News

    IDC: 2Q Sales Growth Up for Volume Servers

    The good news for hardware vendors is that growth in revenues for so-called "volume servers" -- servers that cost $25,000 or less -- continued to grow in the second quarter. 08/23/2006

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    Windows Controls 97 Percent of PCs

    Despite Microsoft's failure to release a new desktop operating system in the past five years, Windows' previous versions still give the company control of nearly 97 percent of all PCs worldwide, according to a leading Web analytics firm. 08/22/2006

  • News

    Salesforce.com Acquires Google-Focused Startup

    Salesforce.com has acquired a four-person startup specializing in paid search technology that will be tailored to work with the online business applications of Salesforce. 08/22/2006

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    Microsoft Offers to Help Firefox Devs Port Code to Vista

    Microsoft executives may have a hard time talking about open source software without getting their blood up, but the company appears to be taking a pragmatic approach when it comes to Windows Vista and the growing popularity of the Firefox browser. 08/22/2006

  • Is Microsoft Trying To Trap a (Fire)Fox?

    Redmondians want to work from within the den. 08/22/2006

  • News

    UPDATE: Microsoft Disputes PowerPoint Flaw Claim

    Microsoft is disputing claims of a zero-day flaw in its PowerPoint application that could allow remote code execution. 08/21/2006

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    Future of Wireless Communications: Blimps?

    Bob Jones has a lofty idea for improving communications around the world: Strategically float robotic airships above the Earth as an alternative to unsightly telecom towers on the ground and expensive satellites in space. 08/21/2006

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    Romanian Police Break Up Phishing Ring

    Authorities in the southern city of Pitesti have broken up four sophisticated Internet crime rings, police said Saturday. 08/21/2006

  • News

    Analysts: Dell Down, Not Out

    It wasn't too long ago when Dell Inc. was riding high on the success of its patented direct-sales model to consumers and businesses, boldly predicting during an April 2005 meeting with analysts that the computer maker would soon swell from $50 billion in revenue to $80 billion. 08/21/2006

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    Microsoft Ups Stock Buyback Plan After Tepid Response

    Dutch auction brings in only $3.8 billion, far short of $20 billion the company was hoping to repurchase. 08/18/2006

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    Dell: Sony to Keep Supplying Batteries

    World's top computer seller still places faith in Sony batteries. 08/18/2006

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    Brocade 3Q Earnings Beat the Street

    Storage vendor cites strong demand in China among reasons in beating Wall Street estimates. 08/17/2006

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    AMD Gains on Intel with More Dell Business

    Dell's newest line of servers and desktops will expand its use of the Intel CPU alternative. 08/17/2006

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    Microsoft Hires Former McAfee Anti-Virus Exec

    Microsoft confirmed this week that it has hired a well-known security and anti-virus executive. 08/17/2006

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    Microsoft Sues Testing Materials Vendor

    Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against testing materials vendor TestKing, alleging that the company is illegally selling the actual answers to its certification exams. 08/17/2006

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    Ex-CEO Gets Some Credit for HP Surge

    Although Carly Fiorina was sacked in one of the most humbling ousters in corporate America, her initial moves to reinvigorate Hewlett-Packard Co. are now paying off in HP's healthy profit and recent stock surge. 08/17/2006

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    Dell Earnings Slump Amid SEC Probe

    Dell Inc. on Thursday posted disappointing second-quarter earnings amid a regulatory probe. 08/17/2006

  • Google’s Gone Goofy

    Readers google the word "dumb." 08/17/2006

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    Dell Recall a Boon for Sony Rivals

    Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million laptop computer batteries came as embarrassing news to Sony, which supplied the problem batteries, but proved to be good news for rival Japanese electronics companies Sanyo and Matsushita, pushing the struggling company's shares higher Wednesday. 08/16/2006

  • In-Depth

    Robert C. Martin on Real-World Agile for .NET Developers

    An interview with a leading proponent of Agile software development practices. 08/16/2006

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    Windows Mobile 5.0 Exams in Development

    Scant details available for two new exams for mobile and embedded device developers. 08/16/2006

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    New-Generation Exchange 2007 Exams Coming Soon

    Microsoft hints at structure of Exchange Admin track of exams, currently in development phase. 08/16/2006

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    Preview of ADO.NET vNext Ships

    Microsoft is shipping the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of its next generation data access libraries for the .NET programming framework. 08/16/2006

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    IBM Open Source Roadmap: Beyond Linux

    IBM executives Tuesday rolled out a roadmap for the company's investment in new open source areas beyond Linux, in a continuing but quiet assault on Microsoft's territory: the desktop. 08/16/2006

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    Dell Recalls Fire-Risk Laptop Batteries

    World's biggest PC seller to replace 4.1 million notebook computer batteries made by Sony Corp. because they can burst into flames. 08/15/2006

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    IBM Challenges Microsoft with Sametime for Linux

    In a move clearly aimed at Microsoft, IBM announced it has ported its enterprise instant messaging client to run atop Linux on the desktop and plans to have a Linux server product out next year. 08/15/2006

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    Microsoft Begins Beta of Blog Editor

    Microsoft has released the first beta test version of its coming entry into the realm of blog publishing tools based on a familiar theme: "What you see is what you get" or WYSIWYG. 08/15/2006

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    Microsoft To Sell Video Game Development Software

    Hoping to spur interest among video game enthusiasts, creative types and students, Microsoft Corp. said it plans to offer a consumer version of the professional software tools used to create video games for its Xbox 360 console. 08/14/2006

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    Rural Towns Eye Fiber Optics

    Hay and beans have fueled this rural economy for years. But it's fiber of another kind that city leaders believe is key to Powell's future. 08/14/2006

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    CA Profit Falls 64 Percent

    CA Inc.'s fiscal first-quarter profit fell 64 percent on increased expenses, and the business software maker said it will trim its work force by about 10 percent, or 1,700 positions. 08/14/2006

  • News

    Google Sponsors Spyware Warning Project

    Google is issuing this warning to people who try to click on links to sites with spyware and other malicious code: "The site you are about to visit may harm your computer!" 08/10/2006

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    High-Profile Developer Jumps the Windows Live Ship

    A recent high-profile Microsoft hire, brought onboard to work on Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's Windows Live vision, has suddenly announced his pending departure, citing a pullback on plans he had signed on to implement. 08/10/2006

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    Google To Keep Storing Search Requests

    Although he was alarmed by AOL's haphazard release of its subscribers' online search requests, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday the privacy concerns raised by that breach won't change his company's practice of storing the inquiries made by its users. 08/10/2006

  • News

    IBM Acquisition Aimed at Microsoft?

    As the competition for information management and control platforms heats up, IBM announced late this week that it will acquire content management vendor FileNet in a deal valued at $1.6 billion in cash. 08/10/2006

  • Even More WGA On The Way

    WGA for PC makers and system builders. Who's next? 08/10/2006

  • When You Don't Patch Windows, The Terrorists Win

    A matter of national security? Puhleeze.... 08/10/2006

  • News

    Cisco Shares Surge After Bullish Outlook

    Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. jumped nearly 12 percent in pre-market trading Wednesday, a day after the network-equipment maker reported a gain in fiscal fourth-quarter profit and issued a bullish outlook. 08/09/2006

  • News

    Delta Seeks To Outsource 200 IT Jobs to IBM

    Delta Air Lines Inc. asked a bankruptcy judge Tuesday to let the nation's third-largest carrier use IBM Corp. rather than its own employees to maintain its computer systems. 08/09/2006

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    Is Vista Close to Release Candidate Stage?

    Despite calls by some beta testers for Microsoft to release a third beta of Windows Vista, the company appears to be instead readying to push its first golden code candidate out the door. 08/09/2006

  • News

    Microsoft To Discontinue Virtual PC for Mac

    Microsoft this week announced that it will discontinue work on future versions of Virtual PC for the Mac. 08/09/2006

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    Jobs Unveils Mac Intel Desktops, Mocks Vista

    Apple Computer Inc. completed its switch to Intel Corp. microprocessors and previewed its next-generation operating system Monday, shifting attention -- for the moment -- from the company's troubles surrounding the mishandling of stock options. 08/08/2006

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    Lenovo Expands Use of AMD Chips

    In another sign of the inroads Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is making against rival Intel Corp., No. 3 computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. is rolling out a new line of desktop PCs with AMD chips. 08/08/2006

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