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Windows Server 2008 general availability is still months away, but Microsoft already has plans for a Windows Server 2008 R2 release in 2009.
05/17/2007
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SAP apparently reacts to competition from Oracle by inking a database integration deal with Redmond.
05/17/2007
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The next generation of wireless Internet products certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance is expected to hit shelves this summer, even though a final standard for the technology isn't due for another year, the industry group says.
05/16/2007
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Women and minority-owned businesses have a new technical training partner: Biz Tech-Connect.
05/16/2007
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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s second-quarter profit fell 7 percent despite a dramatic rise in sales of personal computers and servers, narrowly beating Wall Street's forecast.
05/16/2007
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In its latest technological leap, online search leader Google Inc. will begin showing videos on its main results page Wednesday along with photos, books and other content previously separated into different categories.
05/16/2007
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IBM Corp., one of the world's leading providers of encryption and other data-management technologies, is in the uncomfortable position of trying to solve its own mystery involving missing computer tapes with sensitive information about employees and records of customer transactions.
05/16/2007
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Microsoft's chairman debunks naysayers with sales figures.
05/16/2007
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Microsoft's unified communications picture is making one more push before seeing the light of day this summer in the form of deployable products.
05/15/2007
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When it comes to tackling integration, you'd be hard-pressed to find a company that does it better than FileEngine.
05/15/2007
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Bill Gates unveiled a system builder-focused version of the forthcoming Windows Home Server and detailed industry support for WHS.
05/15/2007
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The software development life cycle is enhanced by virtualization. An overview of what you should consider.
05/15/2007
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Despite a tumultuous 15 months, Borland's developer tools subsidiary CodeGear is cranking out products. Spun off as a subsidiary in November, CodeGear expects to ship a major revision of its C++ Builder integrated development environment (IDE) next month. A commercial Ruby on Rails IDE for enterprise Web development is slated for the second half of this year. Both products were announced this week.
05/15/2007
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The rate of global software piracy has remained static for three years, but the cost to companies that make the programs is rising, the Business Software Alliance said Tuesday.
05/15/2007
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Bill Gates confirmed that the next version of Windows Server, formerly code-named "Longhorn," will be called "Windows Server 2008."
05/15/2007
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said today that Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses for its Vista operating system in the first 100 days of release.
05/15/2007
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Microsoft says that the open source software community is infringing on its patents, and wants the community to pony up for what it considers theft of its intellectual property, in the form of royalties.
05/14/2007
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Microsoft and SanDisk team up to bring you better flash drives.
05/14/2007
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Internet agency set to approve new domain names for 2008.
05/14/2007
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A Longhorn by any other name...sounds really boring.
05/14/2007
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Microsoft tells open source community: Pay up!
05/14/2007
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Microsoft pares down Viridian to get it out the door.
05/14/2007
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Microsoft Corp. and SanDisk Corp. recently announced that they are partnering on the next generation of USB's flash drives and memory cards.
05/11/2007
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New Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet's key oversight agency announced Thursday.
05/11/2007
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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs defended the company's handling of its stock options-backdating scandal Thursday and suggested a former employee's accusations about his role in the matter were wrong.
05/11/2007
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Sun Microsystems commanded the spotlight at its annual JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco last week. The company announced a new JavaFX product line and Java SE development kit, along with an Ericsson partnership (see this week's news for full stories).
05/11/2007
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Readers predict how Linux will gain market share and allude to flying office furniture.
05/11/2007
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There's a whiff of burning cash in the air as Redmond execs hint at next spending moves. Meanwhile, a reader sounds off on SaaS.
05/11/2007
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Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of his original computers is going to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
05/10/2007
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In a sign that environmental sensibilities are informing business strategies, IBM Corp. is spending $1 billion to spread technologies and services that could make corporate computing centers more energy efficient.
05/10/2007
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Cisco Systems Inc. yesterday warned of multiple vulnerabilities in its IOS FTP server, an optional service that's disabled by default.
05/10/2007
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Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has acquired a minority stake in job-listings partner CareerBuilder.com and will use that job-search engine on MSN sites overseas in a bid to capture more of the classified advertising money migrating to the Web.
05/10/2007
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Windows Server virtualization, code-named "Viridian," is having some features stripped in order to meet its public beta shipping date in the second half of 2007 -- a ship date that recently slipped itself.
05/10/2007
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Microsoft may have slipped up Thursday afternoon and inadvertently posted the official name of its next server operating system, currently code-named "Longhorn."
05/10/2007
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Microsoft may have slipped up Thursday afternoon and inadvertently posted the official name of its next server operating system, currently codenamed 'Longhorn.'
05/10/2007
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Recent acquisitions by Microsoft, SAP and Oracle suggest that the big players may know what they're doing in the business intelligence segment -- but do they?
05/10/2007
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New product has added benefit of enabling companies to test Vista.
05/10/2007
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Business software maker SAP AG announced plans Tuesday to buy OutlookSoft Corp. and its line of technology products tailored for budgeting and financial forecasts, the latest development in SAP's duel with Oracle Corp.
05/09/2007
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Microsoft Corp. has signed deals with Volvo Car Corp. and whisky maker Chivas Brothers Ltd. to support two new Web-only video series from Reveille, the production company behind TV shows "The Office" and "Ugly Betty."
05/09/2007
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VMware announced today the release of VMware Workstation 6, the first of its virtualization products to offer support for Windows Vista.
05/09/2007
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Online retailer Amazon.com and IBM settled all their patent-infringement lawsuits and signed a long-term patent cross-license agreement, the companies said Tuesday.
05/09/2007
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VMware announced today the release of VMware Workstation 6, the first of its virtualization products to offer support for Windows Vista.
05/09/2007
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If you're taking your first MCP or Microsoft Dynamics exam, you're eligible for a 40 percent discount on your very first exam.
05/09/2007
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Microsoft kicked off its first-ever Business Intelligence (BI) Conference in Seattle with a keynote speech by Business Division President Jeff Raikes, who spoke in general terms about Microsoft’s efforts to integrate existing products into businesses processes, without offering much in the way of specifics.
05/09/2007
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Cisco Systems Inc.'s fiscal third-quarter profit surged 34 percent as widespread networking upgrades and consumers' thirst for more bandwidth continued to fuel the company's robust growth.
05/09/2007
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Research in Motion this week announced it is developing a Visual Studio plug-in for developing apps for BlackBerry devices, a move that follows its late-April announcement of software that will provide Windows Mobile 6-based phones with a "virtual" BlackBerry experience.
05/08/2007
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When Microsoft unveiled Silverlight at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas last week, the new cross-platform browser plug-in for rich media content lacked support for the popular Opera Web browser.
05/08/2007
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Sun Microsystems today unveiled a new product line at its annual JavaOne conference, underway this week in San Francisco. Built on and around Java, JavaFX is aimed at the growing market for rich Internet applications (RIA).
05/08/2007
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Computer and printer maker Hewlett Packard Co. lifted its second-quarter forecast on Tuesday, citing strong results in its personal computer and server businesses.
05/08/2007
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Shavlik Technologies is offering a free download of its network solution to detect security misconfigurations and missing critical updates in older installed Microsoft products.
05/08/2007