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    Microsoft Plans New Search Products

    Windows Live Search, competitor to Google Search, offered as a free download. 05/17/2006

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    Software Makers Crack Down on Net Piracy

    Rivals Symantec and McAfee band together to bust eBay software pirates. 05/17/2006

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    Microsoft Launches Laptop Rebate Program for System Builders

    Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new laptop rebate program to encourage system builders in the Microsoft Partner Program to focus on mobile systems. 05/17/2006

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    Judge Agrees to Extend Microsoft Oversight

    DOJ to continue keeping an eye on Microsoft's business practices for two more years. 05/17/2006

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    Gates to CEOs: Here's to Another 10 Years

    Ten years ago, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told CEOs attending the keynote of his first CEO Summit that the exponential changes being brought about by technology would continue unabated. 05/17/2006

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    Gates Shows Off SharePoint Server 2007

    Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Monday touted the capabilities of the company's upcoming Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. 05/16/2006

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    Hewlett-Packard Profit Rises on Cost-Cutting, Higher Revenue

    HP bests Wall Street estimate of 49 cents per share by a nickel. 05/16/2006

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    Microsoft Releases First Preview of Expression Web Designer

    Microsoft has released the first community technology preview (CTP) of its Expression Web Designer tool targeted for designers producing professional Web sites. 05/16/2006

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    IBM Develops New Tape Storage Technology

    Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. say a new method for cramming data onto magnetic tape will increase storage capacity at least 15 times, enough to squeeze the text from 8 million books onto a cartridge half the size of a VHS tape. 05/16/2006

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    AMD To Unveil Power-Efficient Chips

    Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in personal computer microprocessors, plans to unveil chips Tuesday it says will lead to more power-efficient PCs that are smaller and more stylish. 05/16/2006

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    Partner Watch, May 15

    EMC Corp. acquires IT professional services firm Interlink. 05/15/2006

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    Microsoft Shifts Partner Executives

    Margo Day, the leader of the U.S. Partner Group since September 2001, is moving into an alternate role in the Small and Mid-Market Solutions and Partners organization. 05/15/2006

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    DOJ Wants to Extend Oversight of Microsoft to 2009

    Citing Microsoft Corp.'s lapses under part of a landmark antitrust settlement, the Justice Department said Friday it wants to extend by two years its oversight of some of the company's business practices until at least November 2009. 05/12/2006

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    ISO: OpenDoc Ratified as Standard

    In Europe on Monday, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the IEC jointly announced they have ratified the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a standard meant to enable documents from various desktop applications to be interchangeable. 05/11/2006

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    BlackBerry Coming to China

    The company behind the BlackBerry on Thursday said it will launch its mobile e-mail service in China, where it already has homegrown competition: the Redberry. 05/11/2006

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    Entry-Level SAN Tool Bows

    DataCore says it is shipping an entry-level version of its enterprise resource analysis, monitoring and reporting tool for Windows and storage area networks (SAN). 05/11/2006

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    HP Unveils New Notebooks

    Following in the footsteps of rivals, Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's second-largest computer maker, unveiled laptops with spiffier designs as well as more powerful processors. 05/10/2006

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    Cisco Forecast Concerns Analysts

    Cisco Systems Inc., a leading maker of networking gear, is working to temper Wall Street's expectations for its current quarter. 05/10/2006

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    Court: British Hacker Can Be Extradited to U.S

    A British court recommended Wednesday that a man be extradited to the United States to face charges in the largest attack on U.S. government computer networks -- including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems. 05/10/2006

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    Google Shows Off "Co-op"

    Google Inc. on Wednesday fired another salvo aimed at maintaining the lead in Internet search while making its software more accessible outside Web browsers in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. 05/10/2006

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    Speech Server 2007 Enters Beta Test

    Microsoft said this week that it's shipping the first beta test version of Speech Server 2007 on schedule, and plans to release the final code this fall. 05/10/2006

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    Microsoft Ships Prerelease of Compute Cluster Server

    Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping the first "release candidate" or RC for its long-awaited Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. 05/09/2006

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    WinHEC To Feature Hybrid Hard Drive, Vista and Longhorn Betas

    Samsung Electronics and Microsoft will introduce later this month a production-ready hybrid hard drive (HHD) that combines flash NAND memory with a large disk drive to dramatically speed system bootups, a Korean paper reports. 05/09/2006

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    Gates Touts Vista's Gaming Features at E3

    Gaming goes cross-platform, as Microsoft extends offerings to cell phones and upcoming Windows Vista. 05/09/2006

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    Microsoft Releases 3 Security Fixes for Windows, Exchange

    As expected, Microsoft Corp. today released three new security bulletins today as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday announcement, with two of the patches being rated as "critical." 05/09/2006

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    Microsoft Preps New Version of Windows CE

    While Microsoft Corp. has been beset by delays in its new operating system for personal computers, developers quietly have been working on a new version of another Windows, this one found in everything from sewing machines to sophisticated cell phones. 05/09/2006

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    Microsoft Debuts Windows CE Beta

    While Windows Vista gets all the attention, embedded version of Windows quietly being revamped. 05/09/2006

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    Partner Watch, May 8

    NaviSite offers hosted services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. 05/08/2006

  • 70-443: New Generation, New Database Designer

    You'll need to come fully prepared to take on exam 70-443, both as a developer and as a database designer. This one is tough. 05/08/2006

  • Linux Printing in a Microsoft World (and Vice-Versa)

    Need to get Linux to access the printers on your Windows server? Or Windows clients to access your Linux printers? Our expert walks you through both scenarios, using SUSE Linux and Windows 2000 Server as primary examples. 05/08/2006

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    Court Orders Spyware Operator to Pay $4 Million

    A federal court has ordered a man who was at the center of the nation's first "spyware" case to give up $4 million in ill-gotten gains. 05/08/2006

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    Calif. Man Pleads Guilty in Hospital Hack

    A man pleaded guilty to charges of launching an attack that hit tens of thousands of computers, including some that belonged to the Department of Defense, and crippled a hospital's network. 05/08/2006

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    Ballmer Boasts of Search Engine Progress

    Two years after conceding his company erred in not developing its own search engine, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer boasted Thursday of progress in fighting industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. 05/08/2006

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    Click Fraud Concerns Hound Google

    John Thys still hasn't figured out how much his company has paid Google Inc. for bogus sales referrals caused by "click fraud" -- a sham aimed at a perceived weakness in the Internet search leader's lucrative advertising network. 05/08/2006

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    Dell Warns 1Q Earnings Will Miss Mark

    Amid stiffening competition, computer maker Dell Inc. said Monday its fiscal first-quarter results will miss earnings targets, blaming the shortfall on "pricing decisions." 05/08/2006

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    Intel To Unveil Single Brand for New Chips

    Intel Corp. on Monday plans to unveil a single brand name for a new generation of chips for laptop PCs and desktop machines, calling them the Core 2 Duo. 05/08/2006

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    N.Y. Lawmaker Sues Google Over Child Porn

    A Long Island politician sued Google Inc. on Thursday claiming the search engine leader is profiting from illegal child pornography. 05/08/2006

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    IT Weekly Roundup, May 5

    From the business wires this week: a server password management app, .NET rules and Group Policy tools, an enterprise security report solution, and more. 05/05/2006

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    Spammer Targets Blue Frog Anti-Spam List

    One spammer has managed to identify e-mail addresses on a "do-not-spam" list touted as secure, taking advantage of an obvious flaw with such lists and prompting critics to wonder what took so long. 05/04/2006

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    U.S. Defends New Internet Wiretap Rules in Appeals Court

    The Bush administration is defending new federal rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. 05/04/2006

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    Gates Doesn't Like Being World's Richest Man

    Most people probably dream of being the world's richest person -- except, perhaps, the man himself. 05/04/2006

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    Wall Street Journal: Microsoft Considered Buying Yahoo

    In the past year, Microsoft held discussions with search engine competitor Yahoo regarding a possible buyout, or taking a stake in its rival, according to published reports this week. 05/04/2006

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    UGS and Microsoft To Collaborate on Product Lifecycle Management

    Product life-cycle management (PLM) applications vendor UGS and Microsoft announced this week a multi-year alliance through which they will collaborate to host the smaller company’s suite of products entirely on Windows -- a first, they say. 05/04/2006

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    ScriptLogic Ships Enterprise Security Reporter 3.0

    Network administration software vendor ScriptLogic announced this week it is shipping the latest revision of its security compliance and auditing solution. 05/03/2006

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    Two Ways to Save: Discount Exams + Second Shot

    Microsoft opens up exam discounts to registered members of its Partner program, allows discount to be combined with exam retake offer. 05/03/2006

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    Microsoft: ‘Mendocino’ on Track – Value Packs Planned

    Microsoft and partner SAP on Tuesday said they are still on schedule to ship their “Project Mendocino” integration product in June. 05/03/2006

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    Microsoft Seeks Edge in Online Advertising

    No one can quite agree on whether Microsoft Corp. held its first online advertising summit in a conference room or a cafeteria, but what everyone does remember is how little attention was paid to the field just seven years ago. 05/02/2006

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    Google Complains IE7 May Violate Antitrust Rules

    Google Inc. is hoping to pressure Microsoft Corp. into changing a new Internet Explorer browser feature that could direct more people to Microsoft's online search engine instead of Google's far more popular offering. 05/02/2006

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    Microsoft Settles Calif. Antitrust Suit

    Truce in lawsuit will have company paying out $70 million to California government agencies. 05/02/2006

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    Intel To Seed Developing Markets with $1 Billion

    Trying to increase demand for personal computers in India and other emerging markets, Intel Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years to promote the use of computers in schools, cafes and other public spots in developing countries. 05/02/2006

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