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As details trickle out on Microsoft's "Eiger" operating system for less powerful PCs, analysts at Gartner are offering usage recommendations for the enterprise.
05/19/2005
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News
NetIQ will ship this month a bundle of existing management tools that aims to help small and medium-sized businesses meet regulatory compliance requirements for recent laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA acts.
05/18/2005
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News
Internet Explorer 7.0 will include the tabbed browsing feature already present in several rival browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Netscape, Microsoft developers confirmed this week.
05/17/2005
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News
The Windows Server Roadmap, a handy document on Microsoft's Web site with rough delivery date guidance, got an update this month.
05/17/2005
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News
A social engineering attack resulted in secure e-mail service provider
Hushmail having its Website redirected to a defaced site. According
to reports, Network Solutions, the Domain Name Service provider
behemoth, gave out information through a customer support line
sufficient to allow an attacker to alter DNS record information for
Hushmail.com.
05/17/2005
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News
It's not easy to turn years of animosity between two massive corporations into a working technical collaboration.
05/16/2005
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News
As it launched a consumer search toolbar with desktop search capabilities on Monday, Microsoft revealed that it is working on a corporate version of desktop search.
05/16/2005
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A U.S.-based carrier is onboard with Microsoft's MapPoint Location Server, providing a major boost to Microsoft's fledgling server software for real-time tracking and management of vehicle fleets and highly mobile employees.
05/16/2005
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From the business wires this week: data recovery software for Windows File Systems, a .NET tool for creating application skins, and a near-indestructible tablet PC.
05/13/2005
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News
Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.
05/12/2005
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PGP Corp. is shipping updates to both its desktop and server encryption products aimed at centralizing policy management and expanding enterprise management features.
05/12/2005
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A free download available from Microsoft on Thursday brings support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) to Windows XP Service Pack 2.
05/12/2005
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In an effort to reduce the pain users face in combing through Licensing 6.0 documentation, Microsoft this week previewed a change coming in July to its massive Product Use Rights document.
05/12/2005
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RSA Security announced Wednesday that it will ship in June a tool to help IT organizations that are already using the company’s event-logging software to comply with new rules required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA and other regulations.
05/12/2005
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News
Dell Inc. chairman and founder Michael Dell is investing $100 million in Red Hat, the Linux distributor that often stands in as a symbol for the open-source movement's challenge to Microsoft's OS dominance.
05/11/2005
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News
Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.
05/11/2005
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News
Microsoft unveiled "Maestro" this week and released a private beta of the server-based business performance management scorecard application.
05/11/2005
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News
IBM is readying two upcoming releases of its IBM Director systems management tool for Intel platforms, as well as a toolkit to enable third-parties to integrate their own tools with Director.
05/11/2005
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News
A year after publicly declaring an end to their longstanding feud, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft plan a news conference on Friday to discuss progress in their relationship.
05/11/2005
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As planned, Microsoft released only one security bulletin for May in its monthly Patch Tuesday event today. The bulletin patches an "important" flaw in Windows 2000 that can allow an attacker to take control of a vulnerable computer over the Internet.
05/10/2005
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News
Microsoft on Friday posted Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000, the first service pack update for the company's flagship database server since early 2003.
05/07/2005
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From the business wires this week: a .NET framework that supports ASP.NET; products and services that reduce your spam intake; and an online service that can help you recover Microsoft Access files.
05/06/2005
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Microsoft has a $12 upgrade program to encourage customers running 32-bit Windows XP Professional on machines with x64 processors to make the jump to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The software giant warns, however, that customers need to proceed carefully with respect to their hardware.
05/05/2005
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Microsoft will put some of the fruits of its $5-billion-per-year R&D operation on the auction block, offering to license the technologies to entrepreneurs for a fee and a cut of the profits.
05/05/2005
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May will be a light month for security bulletins from Microsoft. The software giant plans to release only one bulletin during its monthly Patch Tuesday next week.
05/05/2005
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Mixed signals in the United States and slower growth in Western Europe and Japan to slow IT spending growth through 2005, analyst firm says.
05/05/2005
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Stumped about how to prepare for 64-bit Windows now and in Longhorn? A Gartner analyst recently laid out a roadmap for organizations to follow in evaluating x64 versions of Microsoft Windows.
05/04/2005
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IBM announced late Wednesday a restructuring that will result in layoffs of as many as 13,000 workers, primarily in Europe, and a pre-tax charge of up to $1.7 billion.
05/04/2005
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IBM has released three new XML development tools for its Emerging Technologies Toolkit, a collection of free tools aimed at familiarizing developers with areas that the company sees as strategic to its vision of computing going forward.
05/03/2005
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News
Microsoft released eight security bulletins in April. According to our analysis,
one is critical, one important and another noteworthy. The rest can be applied
with the next service pack or major version upgrade.
05/03/2005
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The security organization says the rate at which threats are emerging requires more regular updates to its closely watched list. New to the SANS Institute list are seven Microsoft vulnerabilities and problems with products from Computer Associates, Oracle, antivirus companies and media player companies.
05/03/2005
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Cisco Systems on Tuesday launched a key component of its Self Defending Network initiative when it delivered the first of its Adaptive Server Appliance 5500 Series family of multi-function network security appliances.
05/03/2005
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In-Depth
The right server management tool closely monitors your network and offers proactive responses to most common problems.
05/01/2005
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Security Advisor
Redmond's new Security Advisor drills down the specifics of what should be considered when selecting your next firewall.
05/01/2005
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Used appropriately, PopUp is a powerful addition to any scripter's toolbox.
05/01/2005
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Recovery Manager lets you do large-scale, store-level Exchange backups, while still helping locate and restore individual messages.
05/01/2005
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StorageX takes a global approach to streamlining file management.
05/01/2005
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Get ready to upgrade to Win2003 x64.
05/01/2005
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News
Beefed-up four-ways and "Truland" take center stage.
05/01/2005
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In-Depth
Many businesses expect IT to use
the equivalent of a radar gun and monitor employees for infractions. But laying down the law can have serious repercussions, both for employees and the IT departments doing the watching.
05/01/2005
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News
A look at Microsoft's current collaboration technologies and how Groove Networks' Vritual Office fits in.
05/01/2005
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ADtoolkit enables anyone to perform Active Directory group edits.
05/01/2005
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Asset Navigator helps you keep tabs on what you have and how it's being used.
05/01/2005
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In-Depth
Microsoft's free vulnerability scanner works well—as long as you don't have to stretch it too far.
05/01/2005
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Will public policy make a difference in virus attacks and spyware infiltration?
05/01/2005
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In-Depth
There's a saying in IT that
"complexity is the enemy of security." It's also the enemy of efficiency, troubleshooting
and other critical network functions. Here are six ways to untangle that crowded web
you've weaved.
05/01/2005
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Windows Insider
Don't let either the real or perceived limitations in Microsoft's default Group Policies prevent you from taking full advantage of this technology.
05/01/2005
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News
Latest attempt to bring data mining to the masses with SQL Server 2005 hinges on new features, ease-of-use and low cost.
05/01/2005
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In-Depth
Remote management has never been a Microsoft strong suit, but Windows Server 2003 is helping users manage servers that no IT staff can touch.
05/01/2005
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Denied the actual list of names submitted by Microsoft to the EC, we felt it our duty to do our best guesstimating.
05/01/2005