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In-Depth
Blade servers from HP and IBM help you pack the maximum amount of storage into the least amount of space.
01/01/2006
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Microsoft and Massachusetts continue sparring over file formats.
01/01/2006
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The 11th annual salary survey from Redmond magazine shows pay going up. Is yours?
01/01/2006
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If your plans call for taking the new-generation MCP developer and SQL exams in the next few weeks, tell us how you plan to approach them and what steps you'll take to pass them.
12/29/2005
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Security experts at F-Secure reported on Tuesday a zero-day exploit that exposes vulnerabilities in the Windows graphics handling engine to enable malware to take control of PCs running fully patched Windows XP SP2.
12/29/2005
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Users of Microsoft’s upcoming Outlook “12” will be able to monitor Really Simply Syndication (RSS) feeds from within the e-mail client, according to a Microsoft official’s Weblog.
12/27/2005
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Twas the week before Christmas when Seagate Technology announced plans to acquire smaller rival Maxtor in an all stock deal worth an estimated $1.9 billion.
12/27/2005
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Just as the holiday weekend was about to start, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee got a special Christmas present -- an end to his legal problems surrounding his departure from Microsoft and his simultaneous recruitment by search competitor Google.
12/27/2005
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The European Commissioner for Competition warned Microsoft on Thursday that it is facing fines of nearly $2.4 million per day unless it immediately delivers complete documentation of its programming interfaces, particularly those for work group servers, to enable competitors to interoperate with Windows.
12/22/2005
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Microsoft reaffirmed this week that, with the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, Apple Mac versions of Internet Explorer will no longer be supported.
12/22/2005
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.NET-based exams 70-526 and 70-529 get their time in front of developers next month.
12/22/2005
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Research group IDC has upgraded its projections of global PC shipment growth for the fourth quarter of 2005 and calendar 2006. It seems that, even as growth slows, it’s nonetheless still continuing to grow, and more quickly than earlier estimates had predicted.
12/22/2005
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Get ready for more colorful graphics on Google pages. That may be one of the most visible outcomes of a deal between the king of search engines and America Online.
12/21/2005
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CommVault announced it is shipping version 6.1 of its QiNetix data management suite.
12/21/2005
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Microsoft said it and partner SAP will provide a technology preview of their jointly developed “Mendocino” product to 40 customers and 10 partners on Friday, right on schedule.
12/21/2005
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As promised, after skipping November, Microsoft began shipping the December Windows Vista community technology preview (CTP) to customers and partners this week. Among other features, the latest build debuts a slew of new security capabilities.
12/20/2005
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Billing mistakes for Microsoft software happen more often than you might think. And when things go wrong, it's not just the price -- compliance can be affected as well. Here's what to watch out for.
12/20/2005
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News
What do Bill and Melinda Gates have to do with 11 U.S. Presidents, and dozens of world leaders, great humanitarians, dictators, and just plain interesting people on a list that stretches back to 1927?
12/20/2005
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Microsoft announced Monday that it has snagged a leading user interface visionary to work in the company's research division.
12/20/2005
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A handful of individuals abused the Microsoft Action Pack program to obtain hundreds of the cheap software bundles and sell the software online and elsewhere, Microsoft has alleged in a flurry of recent lawsuits.
12/19/2005
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RPG development solutions provider ASNA announces support for Visual Studio.
12/19/2005
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From the business wires: Group Policy management software, a solution for migrating customer data into Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, and an 8GB USB flash drive.
12/16/2005
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Microsoft filed 10 lawsuits in federal court accusing three companies and nine individuals of illegally selling Microsoft software.
12/15/2005
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Quest Software is shipping version 2.5 of its Group Policy Manager tool for creating, testing and implementing Windows Group Policy.
12/15/2005
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Microsoft recently took another small step in its Trustworthy Computing initiative by obtaining security certification for a number of updated products.
12/15/2005
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Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Visto filed suit against Microsoft for patent infringement in connection with Windows Mobile 5, which introduces push e-mail technology similar to Visto’s offerings.
12/15/2005
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Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 will be generally available on Monday in the United States and Canada, Microsoft said.
12/15/2005
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Microsoft's board increased the company's quarterly dividend by a penny to $0.09 a share.
12/15/2005
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Role-based administration is a major feature in the beta, which is limited to about 1,400 testers.
12/14/2005
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Microsoft finished development this week on the Web access component of its Office Communicator client.
12/14/2005
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Microsoft and Whale Communications announced a partnership that enables Whale to sell an integrated solution that combines Microsoft’s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 with the smaller firm’s Intelligent Application Gateway product.
12/14/2005
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VMware made a splash in November when it released the free VMware Player, which lets users run pre-built VMware virtual machine configurations on client PCs. Now the company has taken its efforts a step further, teaming with Mozilla and Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu Linux) to create a pre-built virtual machine for the Firefox Web browser.
12/13/2005
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Microsoft shipped at the end of last week Service Pack 1 for Visual FoxPro 9.0, a quiet update that fixes 200 or so bugs but that adds no new features to the revered database development tool.
12/13/2005
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Attackers are already exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer that Microsoft released a patch for Tuesday.
12/13/2005
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All of the noise and attention surrounding the release last month of Firefox 1.5 appears to have helped the alternative Web browser’s market share, even if those gains are still only in fractions of percentage points.
12/08/2005
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XenSource announced this week that it is shipping version 3.0 of its Xen system virtualization environment built on the open source Xen hypervisor.
12/08/2005
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Microsoft plans to post two security bulletins for Windows next Tuesday, and at least one of them addresses a critical vulnerability.
12/08/2005
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Wave of new developer and IT exams in beta testing during December.
12/08/2005
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It's critical for Microsoft to demonstrate strong partner support for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 launch this week.
12/07/2005
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FullArmor is shipping PolicyPortal, a Web services-based tool designed to automatically enforce Active Directory Group Policy settings on computers that are disconnected from the directory, either temporarily or permanently.
12/07/2005
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Microsoft is shipping a free software add-in designed to enable retailers to transfer point-of-sale data, such as transactions and purchase orders, directly into their financial management software.
12/07/2005
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Microsoft plans to ship the second beta test version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP early next year.
12/07/2005
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Microsoft officials plan to appeal an antitrust ruling against the company by South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission.
12/07/2005
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While IBM has previously endorsed the OpenDocument standard, this week it decided to put its money where its public relations message resides and announced that the next version of its Workplace Managed Client will support the format.
12/06/2005
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Microsoft is shipping the second of its “Project Green” – now renamed Microsoft Dynamics – products on schedule, this one its CRM package.
12/06/2005
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To encourage new virtualization scenarios in Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, Microsoft will sell the new OS with a half-price version of its server virtualization tool.
12/06/2005
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Windows Server 2003 R2 reached its final development milestone on Tuesday when Microsoft released the product to manufacturing. The minor update to Windows Server 2003 will be generally available within 60 days.
12/06/2005
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Security Advisor
A program that can detect rootkits should be an integral part of your
security toolbox.
12/01/2005
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In the final installment of this four-part series, Chris shows that the best solution may not be the most elegant one.
12/01/2005
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Can Google -- or some other company -- change the world of computing?
12/01/2005