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As 2004 comes to a close, Microsoft faces small but growing threats around the edges of its desktop monopoly.
12/01/2004
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Too many versions of Windows adds to the burden of support.
12/01/2004
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Is Windows XP SP2 bringing your remote admin scripts down? Mr. Script has the answer you've been looking for.
12/01/2004
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In-Depth
Vendors have lots of ways to manipulate ROI data to their advantage, making it seem as if every product is the answer to your IT prayers. Don't believe the hype.
12/01/2004
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Not your father's SQL Server, administrators will find comfort in Yukon, while developers are left out in the cold.
12/01/2004
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In-Depth
Forget about low-carb diets. Storage consolidation is the new craze hitting the fat-conscious world.
12/01/2004
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The latest incarnation of Microsoft's primary firewall offering is more secure and easier to use.
12/01/2004
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Following a management and maintenance regimen reduces administration, maintenance, and business expenses while increasing reliability, stability, and security.
12/01/2004
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In-Depth
Ditch your server dead weight: Consolidate to streamline management.
12/01/2004
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PC-Duo is a veritable Swiss Army knife of management utilities.
12/01/2004
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Windows Server 2003's Volume Shadow Copy Service will help admins get off the restore treadmill.
12/01/2004
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Where are they now?
12/01/2004
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In-Depth
Exchange 2003 allows for a more consolidated e-mail architecture. Here's how to pull it off.
12/01/2004
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A Q & A with Blake Ross, lead architect of the Firefox browser.
12/01/2004
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Analysts at Gartner expect tough times ahead for the PC industry.
12/01/2004
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Microsoft on Wednesday released a security patch for the critical Internet Explorer flaw that was being exploited through compromised Web banner servers. Microsoft considered the flaw, which has been public for about a month, important enough to release the patch ahead of its normal patching day, which falls on Dec. 14 this month.
12/01/2004
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Live Communications Server 2005 is barely off the drawing board.
12/01/2004
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In-Depth
New hacking methods make short passwords unsafe, but Microsoft makes it tough to go long. Her's how to forge an effective policy.
12/01/2004
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A Dutch Web analytics provider released statistics this month showing that market share for the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser fell below 90 percent for the first time in several years as Mozilla browsers surged to 7.35 percent.
11/30/2004
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Attackers defaced the SCO Website at least twice in recent days -- in one case changing the company's logo to "We own all your code, pay us all your money," and in the other case claiming the company was preparing to sue Microsoft.
11/30/2004
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It may not be time to retire the term "Wintel" yet.
11/30/2004
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Factory revenues for Windows servers and Unix servers were "essentially equal" in IDC's market share report for the third quarter, marking a potential turning point for the Windows server market.
11/30/2004
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A widespread crash of Windows desktop systems threw the United Kingdom's Department of Work and Pensions into disarray for several days last week.
11/30/2004
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Microsoft earlier this month released a Community Technical Preview of "Avalon," the new presentation subsystem for Windows.
11/29/2004
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Another version of Sober is getting attention from the major security companies.
11/29/2004
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Security experts are warning users to lock down unused ports after an exploit surfaced for an unpatched flaw in Microsoft WINS.
11/29/2004
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Microsoft has killed its planned Windows 2000 Service Pack 5. Instead the company will release an Update Rollup for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 in the middle of next year.
11/29/2004
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Sonasoft has bundled its backup and recovery products for major Microsoft systems into a comprehensive suite.
11/29/2004
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Tidal Software is shipping an update to its performance and availability management software for SAP on Windows that takes advantage of just released Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005.
11/29/2004
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From the business wires this week: a solution to ease deployment of network devices, software that helps detect security risks in code, and a backup and recovery system.
11/26/2004
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From the business wires this week: HTTP compression solutions that enable faster Web browsing, server and workstation management software, and patch management programs.
11/19/2004
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Wise Solutions is shipping an update of its premier lifecycle management tool, Wise Package Studio. The latest release – version 5.5 – adds automated patch impact assessment and testing tools, as well as support for new features in Microsoft’s Windows Installer 3.0.
11/18/2004
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To coincide with the worldwide general availability of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 this week, Microsoft's IT department released a 32-page whitepaper detailing its internal deployment of the management software.
11/18/2004
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Microsoft this week delivered two long-promised feature packs for Systems Management Server 2003 -- an Operating System Deployment Feature Pack and a Device Management Feature Pack.
11/18/2004
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Microsoft extends "try before you buy" offer to its XP SP2 clinics and hands-on labs for deploying or developing in a Windows XP SP2 enviroment.
11/18/2004
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NetIQ this month will begin shipping a “connector” tool to enable systems management and security information to be displayed on the same console.
11/18/2004
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Maker of integration software for linking Unix and Linux systems with Microsoft infrastructures wins deepening commitment from Redmond.
11/17/2004
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Microsoft this week highlighted the first of its promised self-report cards on how well its 2005 generation of Windows Server System products are meeting the internally imposed Common Engineering Criteria.
11/17/2004
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Microsoft and Dell are pairing to develop free software for Dell server customers that will integrate Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 with Dell's OpenManage 4 Change Management tool.
11/16/2004
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To mark the occasion of the debut of Sun Solaris 10 this week, Web researchers at Netcraft released the results of their latest survey of Fortune 100 Web sites. Their finding: Sun Solaris still leads with 43 sites.
11/16/2004
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Windows Update Services, the follow-on to Microsoft's Software Update Services free patching tool, entered the public beta testing stage on Tuesday.
11/16/2004
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Microsoft on Monday formally opened a new software development campus in India that is Microsoft's largest campus after its Redmond, Wash. headquarters.
11/16/2004
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Microsoft opened a new round Tuesday in its public spat with Novell with the launch of a migration program to move Novell NetWare customers to Windows Server 2003.
11/16/2004
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Just days after a $536 million settlement with Microsoft over its NetWare operating system, Novell filed a federal lawsuit in Utah seeking damages from Microsoft for alleged efforts to eliminate competition in the office productivity applications market.
11/15/2004
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From the business wires this week: blade servers, a 1U autoloader and security appliances.
11/12/2004
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Microsoft on Thursday officially unveiled the new beta version of its MSN Search site, the company's hotly anticipated attempt to take on Google for Web searching.
11/11/2004
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Adds role-based “solutions” for small and mid-sized businesses.
11/11/2004
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Paul Otellini, the president and chief operating officer at Intel who led the introduction of the Pentium processor in 1993, was elected by Intel's board of directors as the next CEO, the chip giant announced Thursday.
11/11/2004
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Thanks to a thriving market for its virtual systems software, VMware is drastically cutting the cost of one of its flagship products. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company says that with double-digit growth in sales in recent quarters, VMware can afford to lower prices.
11/11/2004
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NEC Solutions began shipping blade servers based on the new Itanium 2 processors released by Intel this week.
11/10/2004