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Microsoft will raise prices for SQL Server 2005 compared to SQL Server 2000, but SQL Server will continue to come in a free edition, a new low cost edition is being added and functionality previously reserved for the Enterprise Edition is working its way down to lower cost versions.
02/24/2005
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More competency exams available for Microsoft software licensing experts.
02/23/2005
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Some of Windows NT's oldest subsystem and protocol friends will be left behind when the codebase moves to x64.
02/23/2005
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IBM will ship the first of its X3 32/64-bit, dual-core capable servers within 30 days, the company said this week. The eServer xSeries 366 (x366) is the first in a planned IBM family of dual-core-capable Intel-based server offerings.
02/23/2005
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Intel is shipping five 64-bit Pentium 4 processors for use in desktop computers. The release comes on the heels of the company’s shipment earlier this month of early production versions of its dual-core CPUs.
02/23/2005
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Columnist Russ Cooper would have liked a few more specifics out of Bill Gates' much-anticipated keynote address at the RSA conference last week.
02/22/2005
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the purchase of a third-party wizard for implementing Microsoft Axapta.
02/22/2005
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Microsoft this month started a blog dedicated to its Windows Server family. The Windows Server product team appears poised to use the blog as an information clearinghouse for minor product milestones, such as release candidates and other betas, to float trial balloons for potential features, and as a place to gather user input.
02/22/2005
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From the business wires this week: compliance and auditing tools, a security and antitheft tracking solution, and more.
02/18/2005
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Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 Enterprise Edition will be generally available in March, eight months after the Standard Edition of the firewall, VPN and Web caching server hit the market.
02/17/2005
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Intel announced this week it is shipping upgraded versions of its 64-bit Xeon processors, and also said it will ship new multi-processor Xeons within three months.
02/17/2005
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Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD announced this week that it will ship two new Opteron processors within the next month, and also announced that Cambridge, England-based startup XenSource will port the Xen open-source system virtualization platform to run on Opteron-based systems.
02/17/2005
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Lucid8 is shipping version 3.1 of its GOexchange automated Exchange maintenance product.
02/16/2005
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Fresh on the heels of a security-related update of Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft is promising a second security-focused overhaul of the browser for Windows XP SP2 systems called Internet Explorer 7.0.
02/16/2005
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In a recent bout of stupidity, the U.S. Department of Energy apparently
accidentally published confidential Homeland Security Department
documents marked "For Official Use Only", and the documents remain
visible via Google's Web cache.
02/15/2005
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Windows "Longhorn" Beta 1 is on track for availability in the first half of this year, a Microsoft official said last week.
02/15/2005
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Microsoft is doubling the size of the group conducting private tests of the Windows Server 2003 "R2" release, but the test group remains tiny compared to the scope of Microsoft's public betas for operating systems.
02/15/2005
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Gates made the IE announcement during a wide-ranging keynote about Microsoft's security plans at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Gates also said Microsoft will develop its own anti-virus engine, its anti-spyware software will be free for consumer users of Windows, and Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 is released to manufacturing.
02/15/2005
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Two can take Microsoft's Exam 70-270 for the price of single exam; available for limited time.
02/15/2005
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From the business wires this week: an Oracle plug-in for .NET, a VPN client, a LAN management solution and more.
02/11/2005
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Intel announced this week it is already turning out trial production runs of two of its promised dual-core processor models, enabling creation of desktop PCs that can run four separate threads at once. Deliveries of production processors and supporting chipsets will come in the second quarter, a company spokeswoman says.
02/10/2005
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Intel is facing a challenger in multi-core processors from a surprising competitor -- a consortium that includes IBM, Sony and Toshiba.
02/10/2005
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Microsoft posted second release candidates on Wednesday night for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
02/09/2005
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Microsoft signed a definitive agreement to buy anti-virus and anti-spam vendor Sybari Software for an undisclosed sum, the companies said on Tuesday.
02/09/2005
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HP chairman and chief executive officer Carly Fiorina, the architect and champion of HP's controversial 2002 merger with fellow computer giant Compaq Computer, resigned Wednesday at the request of HP's Board of Directors.
02/09/2005
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Consider yourself a scripting expert? Prove it with this certification.
02/09/2005
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Microsoft on Tuesday delivered its promised heavy load of security bulletins, including two patches for critical flaws already in the public domain.
02/08/2005
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates used the company's first Office System Developer Conference to pitch Office as the obvious smart client for applications being built by the 800 partner developers in the audience.
02/08/2005
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From the business wires this week: AD tools; antispam solutions; tape appliances that compress, encrypt and sign data; and more.
02/04/2005
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ScriptLogic is shipping Cloak, a tool that lets systems managers show individual users only those files and directories that they are allowed to access. Like the fabled stealth capability of Klingon warships, files and directories that users are not authorized to access become invisible to them.
02/03/2005
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Microsoft kicked off its first ever Office System Developer Conference here Wednesday, emphasizing the increasing programmability of the Office suite and its improving integration with other products.
02/03/2005
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IT departments worldwide should have an exceptionally busy Tuesday next week, evaluating and deploying a flood of patches from Microsoft.
02/03/2005
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Microsoft on Wednesday posted a free security tool in the Microsoft Download Center to help administrators root out unauthorized network sniffers running on Windows computers.
02/03/2005
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Microsoft's most recent quarterly financial report showed a stumble in the lucrative Office suite's otherwise steady march toward ever-larger revenues. Revenues for the Information Worker unit fell 3 percent compared to the year-ago quarter. On the other hand, profits from the unit shot up 11 percent.
02/02/2005
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High-performance computing is becoming more common and less expensive, according to analysts at IDC.
02/02/2005
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Windows Insider
You might want to take a few precautionary steps prior to initiating ADPREP.
02/01/2005
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Security Advisor
Misconceptions of encryption keep us from obtaining the full range of benefits it offers.
02/01/2005
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Microsoft's long-awaited direct challenge to Google's Internet search dominance arrived Tuesday with the formal launch of MSN Search.
02/01/2005
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Microsoft's Learning Group to introduce simulations to MCP exams; new question type already available in Windows Server 2003 core exams.
02/01/2005
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Simplify your administrative life with HTAs.
02/01/2005
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Our Beta Man offers an early look at what Windows Server 2003 SP1 will bring.
02/01/2005
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What's in a name? A whole lot more than some people anticipate.
02/01/2005
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The back-and-forth between Microsoft and government regulators about whether Windows "Longhorn" will violate the U.S. antitrust agreement will escalate this month to a face-to-face meeting. Windows XP Service Pack 2 also emerged as a topic for antitrust-related discussion.
02/01/2005
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True Image Server for Windows can take away your worries about accurate and efficient server recovery.
02/01/2005
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In-Depth
Jeff Raikes, head of Microsoft's Information Worker unit, expounds on Office, Software Assurance and the changing nature of life at work.
02/01/2005
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A funny thing's been happening on the security mailing lists lately,
and it's got me shaking my head.
02/01/2005
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In-Depth
The more work you put in up front, the easier it will be to get and stay current when the patches hit.
02/01/2005
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A Q&A with CEO John Curtis
02/01/2005
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Worried about trojans and viruses sneaking in with downloaded files? DownloadSecurity can help you stop them at the gate.
02/01/2005
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In-Depth
A private IM environment may be just the answer to give your company all the benefits of IM while mitigating the inherent security risks.
02/01/2005