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    Microsoft Launches Online Office Preview

    Company's online preview of its new Office business software is part of efforts to drum up more interest in the coming set of releases. 06/26/2006

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    Microsoft to Downsize Training Division

    Microsoft Corp. is eliminating 14 jobs in its Microsoft Learning division, and will instead have an outside vendor perform that work. 06/26/2006

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    Microsoft To Showcase Business Technology

    Microsoft Corp.'s best-known business software is for creating spreadsheets, documents and presentations, but the company is hoping to convince corporations that it also can be the one-stop shop for sophisticated communications technology. 06/26/2006

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    Audit Blames Funding, IT Priorities for University's Lax Security

    Ohio University's Computer Services department was running seven-figure surpluses and spending on generous benefits for employees while it was failing to make adequate investments in firewalls and other computer security measures, according to an outside consultant's report. 06/26/2006

  • Microsoft's Europroblems Just Won't Go Away

    Antitrust problems from the other side of the pond continue to vex the Redmond giant. 06/26/2006

  • Jimmy Buffett to Chip in Shaker of Salt, If He Can Find It

    A foundation doubles up its billionaire backing. 06/26/2006

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    Microsoft to Showcase Business Technology

    Microsoft throws off the shroud on its unified communication strategy. 06/25/2006

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    Microsoft To Downsize Training Division

    Microsoft Corp. is eliminating 14 jobs in its Microsoft Learning division, and will instead have an outside vendor perform that work. 06/23/2006

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    Microsoft Live Exec Quits Amid Live Messenger Launch

    VP Martin Taylor resigns abruptly just as Live gets off the ground. Also: search tools for Exchange and SharePoint, a BPEL .NET server and an analysis tool for monitoring servers. 06/23/2006

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    Exit Interview: A Q&A with outgoing U.S. Partner VP Margo Day.

    Margo Day, who has run the U.S. Partner Group for five years, and Robert Deshaies, U.S. V.P. for SMS&P, swap responsibilities, beginning in July. 06/23/2006

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    Anatomy of the Deal: EMC Buys Interlink, May 11, 2006

    Info storage leader goes deep with latest acquisition. 06/23/2006

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    Government Hit by Rash of Data Breaches

    The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive personal data, the latest in a series of breaches encompassing millions of people. 06/23/2006

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    EU: No Adobe Complaint Against Microsoft

    Adobe has made no complaints against Microsoft is shipping Office without Adobe's PDF file reader, and Adobe so far hasn't filed a complaint with the EU, says the Euro Commission. 06/22/2006

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    Hacker Breaks into U.S. Agriculture Dept.

    A hacker broke into the Agriculture Department's computer system and may have obtained names, Social Security identification numbers and photos of 26,000 Washington-area employees and contractors, the department said. 06/22/2006

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    Best Buy Tests Mac Sales

    The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer is testing the possibility of selling Apple Computer Inc.'s full line of computers in its stores. 06/22/2006

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    Microsoft Teams with Creative Commons

    Microsoft announced this week it has teamed up with nonprofit licensing organization Creative Commons to provide users with a copyright licensing tool that works in the Office productivity applications suite. 06/22/2006

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    Novell Dumps CEO, CFO

    Novell this morning announced that its Board of Directors has ousted the company's CEO and CFO. 06/22/2006

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    Adobe Signs Dist. Deal with Google

    Publishing software maker Adobe Systems Inc. said Wednesday it signed a multiyear distribution agreement with Web search engine Google Inc. 06/22/2006

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    Best Buy Dips into Macs -- Again

    The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer is testing the possibility of selling Apple Computer Inc.'s full line of computers in its stores. Currently, Best Buy carries only Apple's iPod music player and accessories. 06/22/2006

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    Updated Fortran for 64-bit Windows Bows

    Absoft Corp. announced it is shipping its Fortran compiler for 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. 06/22/2006

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    Windows Live Exec Leaves Suddenly

    Microsoft Corporate Vice President Martin Taylor, who was a key lieutenant of CEO Steve Ballmer’s and who was at the center of some of Microsoft’s most high-profile efforts, has left the company suddenly. 06/21/2006

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    Microsoft Rebrands WinFX

    Lost in the hubbub last week over the pending retirement of Chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft quietly changed the name of a key set of technologies coming with Windows Vista. 06/21/2006

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    New IBM, Georgia Tech Chip Shatters Speed Records

    Georgia Tech and IBM Corp. announced Tuesday they shattered a microchip speed record in a development that could lead to advances in cell phones, radar technology and space exploration. 06/21/2006

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    College Suspends IT Managers over Hacker Break-Ins

    Ohio University said Tuesday it has suspended two information technology supervisors over recent breaches by hackers who may have stolen 173,000 Social Security numbers from school computers. 06/21/2006

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    Major Web Browsers Getting Facelifts

    The major Web browsers are getting facelifts as they increasingly become the focal point for handling business transactions and running programs over the Internet rather than simply displaying Web sites. 06/20/2006

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    Microsoft Ships Robotics Studio CTP

    At the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition 2006 in Pittsburgh this week, Microsoft announced it is shipping the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of its Windows-based robotics development platform. 06/20/2006

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    Microsoft Upgrades Instant Messenger

    Microsoft Corp.'s latest instant messaging program is ready for prime time, the company said Monday. 06/20/2006

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    Adesso Releases Beta of New Dev Platform

    Adesso Systems has delivered a beta version of an integrated development environment that allows programmers to create and deploy applications that inherently have distributed and mobile capabilities. 06/19/2006

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    D.C. Workers' Stolen Data Lacked Security, Encryption

    A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal data of 13,000 District of Columbia employees and retirees has been stolen, officials said. 06/19/2006

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    Researchers Look at Data Mining Privacy Techniques

    As new disclosures mount about government surveillance programs, computer science researchers hope to wade into the fray by enabling data mining that also protects individual privacy. 06/19/2006

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    Microsoft Upgrades Instant Messenger

    Microsoft Corp.'s latest instant messaging program is ready for prime time, the company said Monday. 06/19/2006

  • It Had to Happen Sometime: Gates (Slowly) Passes the Torch

    Bill Gates gives two-year retirement hand off. 06/19/2006

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    TechEd Showcases SQL, SharePoint Tools; Plus, Gates Hands Reins to Ozzie

    From the business wires this week: mobile SQL Server monitor/manager, storage management solution, and Bill Gates' new role at Microsoft. 06/16/2006

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    Gates Departure: Will the Wizardry of 'Oz' Be Enough?

    Bill Gates says he is going to cut the umbilical and let Microsoft take its own course -- beginning two years from now. Though momentous news, nobody really seemed surprised. 06/16/2006

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    Council of Customers To Advise Microsoft on Interop

    In yet another sign that Microsoft clearly understands its products still need to integrate better with others' -- even fierce competitors' -- applications, the company announced this week that it has formed a council on interoperability with members drawn from among its biggest customers. 06/15/2006

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    UPDATED: Gates To Retire in 2008

    Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder, largest stockholder and chairman, announced on Thursday he plans to retire in July 2008. He passed his responsibilities and job title of chief software architect effective immediately to Ray Ozzie who was, until now, one of three chief technical officers. 06/15/2006

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    Compuware To Ship Development Tool for Visual Studio

    Compuware will begin shipping an updated development tool next week that aims to help application development groups produce better code and achieve higher productivity, the company announced at Microsoft’s TechEd 2006 conference in Boston. 06/15/2006

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    HP Unveils C-Class Blade Servers

    Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday unveiled a line of servers that the company claims will reduce by half the cost of maintaining corporate data centers. 06/14/2006

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    Study: Slow Job Growth in Tech Sector

    New report says job growth is weaker than IT industry claims. 06/14/2006

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    Microsoft Ships Beta of Operations Manager 2007

    At its annual TechEd conference in Boston Tuesday, Microsoft announced the beginning of the beta test cycle for System Center Operations Manager 2007, an update to Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. 06/14/2006

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    Third Parties Demo Visual Studio 2005 Tools

    Two third-party firms showcased new development tools designed to work with Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System at the company's annual TechEd conference being held this week in Boston. 06/14/2006

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    Microsoft Releases 8 'Critical' Security Patches

    The Redmond software giant released 12 patches -- eight of which are deemed "critical" -- as part of its regularly scheduled monthly security update. 06/13/2006

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    Yahoo Says E-Mail Worm Contained

    Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has contained a malicious program aimed at the millions of people who use its e-mail service, which ranks as the world's largest. 06/13/2006

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    Microsoft Certified Architect Program Now Live

    Microsoft plans to open up senior-level certification to 250 applicants in its first year. 06/13/2006

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    CDW Battles Dell, Slowing Industry Growth

    CDW Corp. has long fashioned itself as David to Dell Inc.'s Goliath -- a role CEO John Edwardson embraced when he took a sledgehammer to a Dell laptop at a gathering of senior managers on his very first day. 06/13/2006

  • Defining Integration

    If you think of interop as simply getting Windows and Linux to talk to each other, then you're missing the true potential of both technologies. 06/12/2006

  • In-Depth

    Integrate an LDAP Server Into Your System

    Distinguished Names (DNs) are one of the least-understood LDAP server components. Get an introduction to them, and see how a virtual directory can help with DN management. 06/12/2006

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    Microsoft Previews LOBi at TechEd

    Looking to establish more pipelines between its Office 2007 suite of desktop applications and several of its server-based applications, Microsoft on Monday at its TechEd 2006 showed off an early version of a technology that would deeply embed processes and data into Office clients. 06/12/2006

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    Blogger Scoble To Leave Microsoft

    A prominent Microsoft Corp. blogger who sometimes bluntly bashed the software behemoth is leaving the company to join PodTech.net, a Silicon Valley video blogging startup. 06/12/2006

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    Quest, Azaleos, Zenprise Unveil Updated Products at TechEd

    Quest Software, Azaleos Corp. and Zenprise took advantage of Microsoft’s TechEd 2006 conference in Boston this week to roll out new and updated products that build on Windows infrastructures 06/12/2006

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