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  • VMM Is on Its Second Rev -- And It Hasn't Even Shipped Yet!

    Now, to catch VMware. 05/01/2007

  • MS Comes Clean on SaaS

    The company spells out its plan -- sort of. 05/01/2007

  • News

    Court Favors Microsoft in Patent Fight

    The Supreme Court sided with Microsoft Corp. on Monday in a case that restricts the reach of U.S. patents overseas. 04/30/2007

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    Silverlight Will Include CLR, Support for Dynamic Languages

    Capability will allow developers to program against Silverlight for both Windows and Mac environments using any .NET-supported languages 04/30/2007

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    .NET Entity Framework Slips Beyond Orcas

    On April 28, Microsoft confirmed in a blog posting that the ADO.NET Entity Framework is now officially out of the next version of Visual Studio codenamed Orcas. 04/30/2007

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    Microsoft Unveils Silverlight Streaming

    Microsoft today announced Silverlight Streaming, a media-hosting service the company says will allow developers to stream into their Silverlight apps high-quality video and other media stored for free on Redmond's servers. 04/30/2007

  • Here Are Those Record Profits I Promised You

    This time, Microsoft blows Google out of the water. 04/30/2007

  • Print Isn't Dead -- Take Two

    A magazine gets the brush-off -- and then bites back. 04/30/2007

  • Should He Stay or Should He Go Now?

    A U.K. mag proposes giving Ballmer the boot. 04/30/2007

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    Virtual Machine Manager Completely Revamped for Beta 2

    New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers. 04/27/2007

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    Lawsuit Targets 'Spam Harvesters'

    An anti-spam organization filed a federal lawsuit Thursday targeting so-called spam harvesters, who facilitate the mass distribution of junk e-mail by trolling the Internet and collecting millions of e-mail addresses. 04/27/2007

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    Telerik Already Prepping Silverlight Tools

    Component vendor Telerik announced this week that it is readying a set of tools for creating applications with Microsoft's Silverlight rich media plug-in, formerly code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E). 04/27/2007

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    Data Theft Scam Targets Google Ads

    Google Inc. yanked paid advertisements linked to some 20 search terms that online criminals had hijacked to steal banking and other personal information from Web surfers looking for the Better Business Bureau and other sites. 04/27/2007

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    Open Source Slowly Gains Momentum on Wall Street

    A growing number of financial services firms are embarking on open source projects, but they are moving cautiously when it comes to mission-critical applications. 04/27/2007

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    '$100 Laptops' To Cost $175

    The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface. 04/27/2007

  • This Week in Reader E-Mails

    Readers write to say that cheap Windows is great. Also, Apple's exec woes may run deep. 04/27/2007

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    South Korean Watchdog Drops Chip Probe

    South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday it has decided to drop a probe into whether four global computer memory chip manufacturers violated the country's fair trade law, citing insufficient evidence. 04/26/2007

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    Study: SharePoint Poorly Suited for Traditional Web Publishing

    The latest semi-annual release of "The Web CMS Report" examines Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and concludes that despite its strengths in managing documents in a collaborative environment, the software isn't a smart choice for managing traditional Web sites. 04/26/2007

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    OpenDNS Aims for Consistent Web Browsing

    A provider of Internet addressing services hopes to unify how you navigate the Web when using different browsers and computers. 04/26/2007

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    Indian Software Firms See Profits Surge

    100,000. That's the number of new jobs that India's top five software companies plan to add this fiscal year, riding a boom in outsourcing that's fattened profits. That's on top of a record 76,500 new employees who joined these companies last year. 04/26/2007

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    Vista, Office Sales Give Microsoft a Strong Q3

    Microsoft released solid earnings figures for the third quarter that included debuts of the retail version of Windows Vista and 2007 Office System. 04/26/2007

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    Adobe Takes Flex SDK Open Source

    In a major salvo that ups the stakes in the emerging battle for mindshare among developers and architects building Rich Internet Applications, Adobe today said it is releasing its Flex SDK into the open source community. 04/26/2007

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    Acer Recalls 27,000 Laptop Batteries

    Acer Inc., one of the largest computer makers in the world, launched a recall Wednesday of about 27,000 laptop batteries, becoming the latest company to warn of faulty Sony-made lithium-ion batteries that could overheat and cause a fire. 04/26/2007

  • An EPIC Battle Against Google

    The Google-DoubleClick deal draws more criticism. 04/26/2007

  • Sun Still Back on Track

    The company postsa $67M quarter. 04/26/2007

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    Researchers Break Internet Speed Records

    A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken Internet speed records -- twice in two days. Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. 04/25/2007

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    Vonage Injunction Stayed in Patent Case

    Internet phone carrier Vonage Holdings Corp. won relief Tuesday from a potentially crippling court order that would have barred it from signing up new customers as punishment for infringing on patents held by Verizon Communications Inc. 04/25/2007

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    Options Troubles Aren't Over for Apple

    Apple Inc., on a tear with its popular iPod players and Macintosh computers, is expected to report strong quarterly results Wednesday but will face lingering worries over the role its iconic CEO played in its stock options backdating troubles. 04/25/2007

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    Sun Microsystems Rings Up 3Q Profit

    Sun Microsystems Inc. put together its first back-to-back profitable quarters since the dot-com bust, but its shares plunged on fears its core server business is slowing. 04/25/2007

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    'Longhorn' Server Public Beta Arrives

    The next generation Windows Server took the biggest step yet on its long and winding road toward commercial availability when Microsoft announced the release of "Longhorn" Beta 3 Wednesday night. 04/25/2007

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    Pre-Release Vista Versions To Expire in May

    If you're still using a pre-release version of Windows Vista, you have a little more than a month to upgrade to a commercial version before you start risking data loss. 04/25/2007

  • CrackBerry Software Can't Be Stopped

    RIM shares software with rivals. 04/25/2007

  • .NET .NOT .NEW?

    More legal troubles for Microsoft, this time over a possible .NET patent infringement. 04/25/2007

  • Windows Mobile With a BlackBerry Twist

    WM6 gets the BlackBerry treatment. 04/25/2007

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    Data Startup Wins GE, Reveals Hot Online Backup Market

    A 25-employee startup in Utah has snared a multimillion-dollar contract to provide massive General Electric Co. with software that automatically backs up files on office computers, jolting a market that appears to be getting hot. 04/24/2007

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    BioPassword: Authentication Approach Going from Low-Key to Keystone?

    As keystroke dynamics-based authentication finally begins to gain market traction, one company is poised to make a successful run with it. 04/24/2007

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    IAMCP Kicks Off 'Great Americas' Initiative

    The International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP) has launched an ambitious effort to expand its presence in Latin America. 04/24/2007

  • News

    Sophos Goes 100 Percent Channel

    Security vendor shelves the idea of selling from retail shelves. 04/24/2007

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    Setting the U.S. Partner Stage for FY '08

    Excerpts from a conversation with Microsoft's U.S. channel chief Robert Deshaies. 04/24/2007

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    WM6 Devices To Gain 'Virtual BlackBerry' Support

    Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 platform got a boost on Monday when Research in Motion announced a new software suite that will provide phones running on WM6 with a "virtual" BlackBerry experience. 04/24/2007

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    Gold Club List

    AVICode, Kyocera among latest companies to achieve the gold standard. 04/24/2007

  • Unwinding the Ribbon

    ToolbarToggle might help ease those ribbon interface frustrations. 04/24/2007

  • Cheeseburger, Fries and a Large Google, Please

    Google brands its way to the top. 04/24/2007

  • News

    BlackBerry Maker Announces Software for Rival Devices

    BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. is introducing a software application that can make Palm Treos and other Windows-based mobile devices made by rivals work like a BlackBerry 04/23/2007

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    Company Says .NET Violates Its Patent

    Fort Worth, Texas-based application system developer Vertical Computer Systems Inc. announced Friday that last week it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft. 04/23/2007

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    Microsoft's Carraro Gives Multitenant SaaS Demo at SaaScon

    Microsoft's director for SaaS architecture, Gianpaolo Carraro, wasn't talking miracles in his April SaaScon 2007 presentation, "Anatomy of a SaaS Application." 04/23/2007

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    Infragistics Ships WPF Tools

    Component vendor Infragistics on Monday, April 23 released NetAdvantage for WPF 2007 Volume 1, a set of tools that take advantage of the capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the graphical subsystem built into the .NET Framework 3.0. 04/23/2007

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    SWsoft To Offer Entry-Level Virtualization Bundle

    Hoping to appeal to corporate IT shops looking to do their first implementation of virtualization technology, SWsoft on Wednesday will introduce an entry-level turnkey solution of its flagship product that will be priced below $1,200. 04/23/2007

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    Google-DoubleClick Deal Complaint Filed

    A consumer group asked the Federal Trade Commission Friday to investigate and block Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. unless the companies improve consumer privacy protections. 04/23/2007

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    Microsoft Asks EU How Much To Charge Rivals

    Microsoft responded Monday to European Union allegations that it is overcharging rivals for information that would make their products work better with Windows. The software maker also repeated its request for more guidance on what regulators consider to be an acceptable price. 04/23/2007

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