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Although Microsoft Corp. began shipping Windows XP last week, the software giant has already released several updates for its flagship desktop operating system.
10/31/2001
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Microsoft's new Windows XP desktop operating system appears to be getting quite a boost from an industry starved for new momentum.
10/30/2001
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The results of a recent survey by ComponentSource, an established marketplace for reusable software components, show Microsoft is beating Sun Microsystems in the early stages of a battle for mindshare in the Web services community.
10/30/2001
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Microsoft timed the release of a “critical update” package to coincide with the launch of its new Windows XP operating system launch on Thursday.
10/29/2001
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Microsoft Corp. provided specifics of its plans to extend .NET to the Pocket PC and other smart mobile devices, including PDAs and cell phones, during the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week.
10/25/2001
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Oracle began shipping Oracle9i for Windows this month, about three-and-a-half months after the database became available for Unix and Linux platforms.
10/25/2001
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Live from New York, it's Bill Gates and Windows XP.
10/25/2001
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Microsoft acknowledges tidbits of information on three new developer exams at Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles.
10/25/2001
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Attendees of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference walked away with release candidate versions of Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework -- proving that Microsoft is close to delivering key .NET building blocks by year-end as promised.
10/25/2001
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NEW YORK -- Microsoft Corp. formally launched its Windows XP client operating system for consumers and businesses on Thursday with worldwide ballyhoo.
10/25/2001
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ENT reviewer Stephen Swoyer evaluates Windows XP on a wide range of client hardware to give you solid intelligence about how Microsoft's new OS will perform on the existing hardware in your enterprise network. Swoyer also offers configuration tips to improve performance on older hardware. Swoyer concludes that XP is a solid upgrade over Windows 9x or NT 4.0 with some good networking enhancement for mobile Windows 2000 users.
10/25/2001
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SSH Communications Security has introduced an enterprise VPN that mixes hardware and software to help ISPs or ASPs manage thousands of VPN connections.
10/24/2001
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Sun Microsystems offered its first structured public explanation of its Sun Open Net Environment initiative and Web services vision on Tuesday at its inaugural Services on Demand Summit.
10/24/2001
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Compaq Computer Corp. launched two new storage systems this week at Storage Networking World in Orlando Fla. The devices are the first to use Compaq’s long-awaited Versastor technology.
10/24/2001
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Microsoft's certification and skills assessment group rewrites exam policy, allowing MCSE on Windows 2000 candidates to count formerly retired exams as valid electives.
10/24/2001
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First exam for newest operating system now available.
10/23/2001
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Unisys posted the top result Monday on the SAP benchmark for SAP's own e-business application using the Unisys ES7000 server with 32 Intel processors and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
10/23/2001
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ENTmag.com: Gartner predicts follow-up to Windows .NET Server may arrive on shelves after 2003.
10/23/2001
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Dell Computer Corp. reached an agreement with storage giant EMC Corp. to resell EMC's Clariion midrange storage systems.
10/23/2001
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Enter MCP Magazine’s “Guess-The-Number-Of-MCSEs” contest, and you could win seven exam vouchers to achieve your next certification!
10/23/2001
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The Code Red virus, which did a Tony Soprano on Microsoft Internet Server boxes around the world, may actually end up doing more good than harm.
10/23/2001
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In a sign of the growing demand for scalable Windows-based storage solutions, Computer Associates Tuesday demonstrated the scalability of its new enterprise backup software on a Windows platform.
10/23/2001
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Need any proof that security issues are getting out of hand? Check the CERT Coordination Center's tally of incident reports through the third quarter of 2001.
10/22/2001
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Market research firm Cahners In-Stat finds that the September 11 attacks provided a definite boost to the security industry and projects booming firewall revenues through 2005.
10/22/2001
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Redmond to start giving IT more guidance as to the importance and applicability of individual security bulletins.
10/22/2001
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Microsoft issues a stern self-admonishment over the weekend for a botched security patch that contained errors leading to Windows 2000 system instabilities. The tone reflects Microsoft's awareness of the tense and critical atmosphere among customers and analysts about the software company's security practices.
10/22/2001
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Microsoft rethinks Windows Activation Procedure feature in Windows XP.
10/21/2001
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Microsoft on Thursday issued a hotfix to patch a new vulnerability that could render Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 systems susceptible to denial of service (DoS) attacks. Microsoft ranks the vulnerability as a low risk over the Internet and a moderate risk for intranets. The hotfix was temporarily pulled from Microsoft's Web site Thursday night.
10/19/2001
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In a weak economy, Microsoft reports strong earnings, largely on the back of growth in its server products.
10/19/2001
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Analysts at Gartner issued a new round of Microsoft licensing advice to customers in the wake of Redmond's decision to ease up on the transition to 6.0 licensing.
10/18/2001
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Microsoft this week created a Developer and Platform Evangelism Division under Jim Allchin to integrate developer tools and evangelism efforts across the company.
10/18/2001
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In the week before the Windows XP launch, several vendors moved ahead with Windows environment-related product announcements, including MKS, AMD, Micro Design International, Network Instruments, SmartLine, Northern and e-business technology inc.
10/18/2001
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The worldwide PC market weathered a double-digit decline in the third quarter, according to market research firm IDC. Dell alone among major PC makers managed to increase shipments and grow market share. Compaq took a particularly hard hit.
10/18/2001
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NetIQ extended its firewall monitoring capabilities to the enterprise level this week with the release of the WebTrends Firewall Reporting Center.
10/17/2001
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Marathon Technologies hardened its fault-tolerant offerings for Windows this week with an option for separating redundant machines by up to 10 kilometers.
10/17/2001
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HP and Dell both have begun shipping business PCs with Windows XP installed.
10/17/2001
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NEC and Microsoft will work together on testing and development of fault-tolerant and scalable server technology, the companies announced Tuesday in Tokyo. NEC is close to delivering a greater-than-eight-way Itanium server.
10/16/2001
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At the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Monday disclosed details about its next-generation 64-bit microprocessor, code-named "Hammer."
10/16/2001
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Microsoft this week released the first service pack for the centerpiece of its scale-out strategy -- Application Center 2000.
10/16/2001
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Intel Corp. on Sunday made modest cuts to the prices of its Celeron line of economy desktop processors to accommodate the price of a 0.13-micron version introduced this month.
10/15/2001
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Dell this week introduced a series of high-availability packages built on clusters of PowerEdge servers running Windows 2000.
10/11/2001
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Microsoft issued a software hotfix to patch several new vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer Web browser.
10/11/2001
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Heroix extended a cross-platform infrastructure management suite to monitor new databases, a Web server and an operating system.
10/11/2001
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Microsoft publicly backed off a plan to revoke Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE) titles from anyone who hadn't upgraded to a Windows 2000 version of the certification by the end of this year.
10/11/2001
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In a significant announcement made late Wednesday, Microsoft is no longer retiring the certifications of those who obtained their MCSE title under the NT 4.0 track.
10/10/2001
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In a significant announcement made late Wednesday, Microsoft is no longer retiring the certifications of those who obtained their MCSE title under the NT 4.0 track.
10/10/2001
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Microsoft hired accounting heavyweight Deloitte & Touche LLP to conduct an independent audit of its controversial product-activation process in Windows XP and Office XP.
10/10/2001
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Microsoft on Wednesday released a beta version of a development tool that allows Java-language developers to target the .NET platform.
10/10/2001
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Certification aimed at identifying specific job skills of systems administrators finally unveiled, to no surprise. However, CompTIA's exams play a big part.
10/10/2001
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The United States Supreme Court today declined without comment a request from Microsoft Corp. that it overturn a lower court’s order which found that the software giant had violated sections of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
10/09/2001