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Ten years of verifiable experience is one of many challenges to face candidates who plan to tackle Microsoft's architecting certification.
06/03/2005
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With the advent of cell phone viruses and Bluetooth worms, it was bound to happen. PatchLink is readying an upgrade to its eponymous flagship patch management tool aimed at adding patch support for smartphones and wireless PDAs.
06/02/2005
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The open standard for Web documents will be the default file format for the next version of Microsoft Office.
06/02/2005
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VIA Technologies showed off the latest iteration of its x86-compatible CPU for notebook computers at the Computex 2005 trade show in Taiwan this week, touting the chip’s low power requirements.
06/02/2005
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Microsoft will add support for the RAW digital photo format in Windows. It will be provided as an add-on to Windows XP and natively in the Longhorn release of Windows.
06/02/2005
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Microsoft on Wednesday released to manufacturing its Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, the real-time communications client formerly known by the code-name "Istanbul."
06/02/2005
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Microsoft will make XML-based file formats the default for its forthcoming "Office 12" version of Office, which is scheduled for release late in 2006. While Microsoft supported XML file formats in Office 2003, the formats weren't the defaults and XML functionality was only available in certain high-end versions of the Office suite.
06/02/2005
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Microsoft extends "second-shot" exam promotion three more months.
06/02/2005
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Windows Insider
With Windows 2003 SP1, you get a single, authoritative source of lockdown settings you can deploy with a single stroke that are fully supported by Microsoft.
06/01/2005
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Doug talks about this month's cover story, "The Microsoft Survey," and how Microsoft should interpret our readers' opinions.
06/01/2005
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In-Depth
Love Microsoft? Hate it? Somewhere in between?
It's all of the above in the Redmond magazine survey of your attitudes
toward the world's most important computer company.
06/01/2005
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News
AMD announced this week it is shipping the first dual-core 64-bit Athlon CPU for desktops right on schedule. The company had said in late April that it would ship them in June and beat that by a day.
06/01/2005
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Security Advisor
Protect your corporate network by controlling which users and computers can access it at all.
06/01/2005
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In-Depth
System requirements proving hard to nail down; breakthroughs for some scenarios.
06/01/2005
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News
Shavlik's Eric Schultze sounds off on WSUS, hackers and more.
06/01/2005
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Perk-filled, dangerous and beyond the call of the duty -- how does your company match up?
06/01/2005
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News
From the fat bank account of a sworn enemy of Microsoft emerged a company that today is one of Redmond's best pals -- Vintela.
06/01/2005
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In-Depth
Patching your servers is an art that takes time to master. Here's a paint-by-numbers kit to help you get started.
06/01/2005
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HP will ship by mid-June three new additions to its t5000 line of thin clients, finally answering customers’ questions as to what the company will do now that Transmeta is exiting the thin client processor business, and taking aim at low-priced competitors.
06/01/2005
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Desktop Authority helps you automate desktop management, even if you don't know the finer points of scripting.
06/01/2005
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In-Depth
Besides Web conferencing, readers have found many other uses for Microsoft's NetMeeting.
06/01/2005
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Comparing the MCAP to a PhD is a bit lofty, and, well, wrong.
06/01/2005
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In-Depth
What works on 64 bits will always work faster, but early adopters will have to accept some limitations. Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest put X64 through its paces.
06/01/2005
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News
Windows servers now support up to 1TB of memory -- more than you're likely to need.
06/01/2005
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News
A recent survey of security and law enforcement executives shows that
the fight against electronic crimes (e-crimes) continues to be an
uphill battle.
06/01/2005
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In-Depth
Several popular Linux distributions are poised to take on Windows on the corporate desktop.
06/01/2005
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The new PolicyMaker adds more extensions to give you greater control over your desktop landscape.
06/01/2005
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While SecurityManager won't actively fix your problems for you, it does make finding them fairly simple.
06/01/2005
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More than just a browser, WMIX packs more bang than fluff.
06/01/2005
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In-Depth
Microsoft is battling the perception that there's little to get excited about in the long-awaited and much-ballyhooed Longhorn.
06/01/2005
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News
Windows management software heavyweight Quest Software will buy Vintela Inc., a newer firm specializing in integrating Unix and Linux systems into Active Directory, for
$56.5 million in cash, the companies announced this week. Quest expects the deal to close late in the second quarter or early in the third quarter, assuming regulators approve.
06/01/2005
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Factory revenues for Unix servers and Windows servers were equal for the first time ever in the first quarter of 2005, according to market researchers at IDC.
05/31/2005
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AMD released the complete specification of its “Pacifica” chip-level virtualization technology for its 64-bit processors this week, joining Intel in the rush to build chip support for running multiple operating systems simultaneously.
05/27/2005
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From the business wires this week: a bevy of anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-spam solutions to keep your computer clean and you sane.
05/27/2005
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IBM is shipping two new toolkits that combine technologies from two of its middleware businesses – Rational and Tivoli – to help developers and operators diagnose problems in production code while it’s running.
05/26/2005
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FullArmor is shipping the latest release of its IntelliPolicy user policy-enforcement client for Windows desktops.
05/25/2005
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Windows surged again in 2004 as a platform for new relational database management system licenses, but Linux is growing at an extremely rapid pace as Unix loses popularity, according to new research from Gartner Inc.
05/25/2005
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Microsoft updated its server software platform for speech-enabled applications this week with an R2 version of Microsoft Speech Server 2004.
05/25/2005
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This month: Wrapping up your deal—final negotiation and contract tips, and implementing for success.
05/25/2005
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Popular exam savings and retake offer extended through Microsoft Certfied Partners and Microsoft Business Solutions programs.
05/25/2005
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Windows OneCare service provides one-stop solution against malware and mucked-up computers.
05/25/2005
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Microsoft released more pre-release code for some core elements of the Longhorn operating system in advance of the general Longhorn Beta 1 scheduled for this summer.
05/24/2005
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From the business wires this week: a GPMC tool for change control, free network monitoring software, and Microsoft invests in LapLink.
05/20/2005
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Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing Service Pack 1 for Windows Small Business Server 2003.
05/19/2005
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Microsoft's exam retake promotion is coming to an end on May 31, which means just a sliver of time remains to take advantage of it.
05/19/2005
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Thursday offered his vision of the "New World of Work" for information workers during a keynote to 100 CEOs from the Global 1000 at the annual Microsoft CEO Summit. Microsoft also unveiled the timeline for Office 12 -- beta this fall with general availability in the second half of 2006.
05/19/2005
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Microsoft has distributed enough copies of Service Pack 1 to update nearly one-fifth of the installed base of Windows Server 2003, the company estimated on Thursday.
05/19/2005
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Microsoft issues one of its first security advisories under a new program. Citing several mitigating factors, the company says the flaw is not considered a significant threat.
05/19/2005
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A year after Microsoft paid nearly $2 billion to Sun Microsystems to settle legal claims and license technologies in a 10-year technical collaboration, some undisclosed amount of money is starting to flow the other way.
05/19/2005
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The battle with Linux gives both companies a vested interest, aside from benefits to customers, in better interoperability. Meanwhile, Sun's recent acquisition of Citrix competitor Tarantella goes a long way toward boosting Sun-Microsoft interoperability efforts.
05/19/2005