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Seagate Technology says it is shipping the first 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drive built on perpendicular recording technology, producing drives that can contain up to 160GB of storage.
01/18/2006
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Scott responds to a reader’s call to action against the “black shirts.”
01/18/2006
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Corel announced this week that it will ship the latest release of its graphics bundle in February.
01/18/2006
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Microsoft released to developers a previously promised community technology preview – or CTP – for a set of key technologies coming in Windows Vista.
01/18/2006
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Who said that only Apple does cool things? Microsoft recently had King Crimson co-founder Robert Fripp over to Microsoft Studios a few blocks from the company’s Redmond, Wash. campus, to record some sounds that may well end up being the startup music when you boot Windows Vista.
01/17/2006
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Microsoft is rolling out new and updated tools to help customers migrate their Lotus Notes and Domino applications to its own collaboration platform based on Office and its SharePoint Services.
01/17/2006
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Microsoft announced yesterday that three manufacturers -- Casio, DigiPoS Systems Group and HP -- will sell point-of-sale terminals pre-loaded with Microsoft Point of Sale software.
01/17/2006
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It may seem like Microsoft has scaled every peak, but the software giant is playing an important game of catch-up with Yahoo! and rival Google in the area of search engine advertising.
01/13/2006
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From the business wires: a tool pack for spotting security holes in software, a database query and reporting tool, and 10GbE Layer 4-7 switches.
01/13/2006
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Microsoft to waive MCT program fees for new candidates who join prior to start of 2006 program.
01/12/2006
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German utility developer 1-abc.net announced it is shipping a bundle containing four of its increasingly popular end-user Web tools.
01/12/2006
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A year after first disclosing its internal “Project Elixir,” Microsoft has begun releasing sample code and documentation so that developers can use it as a pattern to design their own integrated front-end and back-end systems around Outlook 2003.
01/12/2006
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ScriptLogic says it is shipping a tool meant to improve how desktop software is packaged for installation across an enterprise.
01/12/2006
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Microsoft plans to work more closely with nearly every Certified and Gold Certified partner in 2006 even as the software giant aims to dramatically increase the number of partners in those top two tiers of the Microsoft Partner Program, according to industry analysts familiar with Microsoft's plans.
01/11/2006
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Symantec this week announced it has completed its purchase of enterprise security compliance software maker BindView.
01/11/2006
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Microsoft has a formal new program to lure independent software vendors from Linux and Unix to Windows.
01/11/2006
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The same day that Apple trotted out the first in its line of Intel-based iMacs, Microsoft recommitted to supporting Apple going forward, the company said at this week’s MacWorld in San Francisco.
01/11/2006
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The Microsoft Partner Program got high marks from industry analysts at IDC in a recent survey comparing the channel programs of 25 top software vendors.
01/11/2006
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is slightly modifying its support lifecycle to provide what it calls “more predictability” for customers.
01/10/2006
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Remember that old gasoline ad about putting a “tiger in your tank?” How about Windows in your gas pump?
01/10/2006
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs debuted the first new iMacs based on Intel CPUs at the company’s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday -- two of them available immediately.
01/10/2006
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Microsoft looks to electronic musician Robert Fripp to create the sounds of the next Windows OS.
01/09/2006
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Storage maker EMC acquires IT services firm Internosis.
01/09/2006
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From the business wires: a Group Policy security extension, a load testing tool for Web apps, USB flash drives with LCD displays, and Windows Media Player 11.
01/06/2006
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The focus of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is, as you might expect, consumer electronics. But amid the smart watches, television-ready cell phones and movie download services were a few tidbits sure to impact IT in the coming year.
01/05/2006
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Microsoft is releasing an out-of-cycle patch Thursday for the Windows Meta File (WMF) vulnerability that attackers were already exploiting when the flaw was made public in the last week of December. Earlier this week, Microsoft had said it would not release a patch until its regular Patch Tuesday event next week.
01/05/2006
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Spending on IT in the United States is set to grow by a modest 5 percent this year, according to new projections released by the technology market research firm IDC on Wednesday. The firm expressed unusual confidence about its numbers.
01/05/2006
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Microsoft showed off the newest additions to its growing Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, including an updated line of SPOT-enabled watches and a wireless weather forecasting center with an information link through MSN Direct.
01/05/2006
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At the very end of 2005, Microsoft quietly began shipping the first beta of IronPython, a release of the open source Python scripting language that functions within the .NET common language runtime (CLR).
01/04/2006
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser slowly but surely lost significant market share to Firefox over the past year, according to the latest monthly traffic report released Wednesday by Web metrics tool vendor Net Applications.
01/04/2006
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Symantec is acquiring instant messaging software maker IM Logic.
01/04/2006
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Intel kicked off the new year by updating its brand image to focus on the company’s emerging strategy of featuring itself as a platform company rather than just a chip giant.
01/03/2006
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The Semiconductor Industry Association announced Tuesday that global sales of semiconductors continued to set a record pace in November, up 7.2 percent over a year earlier.
01/03/2006
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Microsoft is nearly finished with a patch for a zero-day exploit discovered in malware last week, but the software giant doesn't plan to release the fix until next week.
01/03/2006
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Microsoft leads an industry-wide struggle to balance customer privacy and business value.
01/01/2006
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The Sony BMG rootkit fiasco could be the worst retail marketing meltdown since the launch of New Coke.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Tom’s Hardware tests the highest-end desktop systems.
01/01/2006
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Gates and crew's new direction in offering Microsoft's products as Web services is being met with more confusion than mandate by the industry.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act poses a real compliance headache for businesses of every size, and Windows admins are feeling the heat. Fortunately, we’re here with a few handy shortcuts.
01/01/2006
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Foley on Microsoft
The hardware demands of the next Windows and Office System 2006 products may prove to be not worth the effort for vendors and customers.
01/01/2006
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Security Advisor
Keep your inboxes clean of spam and viruses with some new tools and enhancements in Exchange 2003.
01/01/2006
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An industry alliance formally defines "spyware,"a move that should help companies combat insidious intrusions.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Users say Apache 2.0 is a robust, flexible and secure Web server that just plain works.
01/01/2006
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The Enterprise Edition of ISA 2004 provides centralized management and unmatched scalability.
01/01/2006
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Take a large-scale view of your network traffic and topology.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Virtualization has become a serious tool for production environments.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Software audits are a hassle, an embarrassment, and can result in hefty fines and worse. Here’s how to prepare for, and win, an audit.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Should you be a Microsoft reference account? A few hardy souls say yes, but many IT managers steer clear of the experience for good reasons.
01/01/2006
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Microsoft finally catches up with its competitors with features like tabbed browsing and integrated RSS feeds in Internet Explorer 7.
01/01/2006
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Sun's director of Web technologies talks about Microsoft's decision to go open source with an Office file format.
01/01/2006