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Windows Insider
VMware's Player tool can make architectures you used to only dream of a reality. Our new Windows Insider columnist, Greg Shields, walks you through the possibilities as well as tips for increasing performance.
02/01/2006
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In-Depth
Hardware troubleshooting can be difficult, but a methodical approach can do wonders. Here's how it's done at one of the world's largest IT services companies.
02/01/2006
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News
Microsoft announced this week that it is merging its Exchange Server group with its Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) group, as it begins to think of the two technologies comprising a "platform."
02/01/2006
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These tools can help you use Group Policy to restrict access to USB ports and various hardware devices.
02/01/2006
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News
BMC Software today announced the release of BMC Identity Management for .NET, an identity management solution for Microsoft .NET technologies.
02/01/2006
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News
Microsoft released a preview of Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 to the general public on Tuesday.
01/31/2006
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News
BMC releases an identity management solution for .NET.
01/31/2006
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News
As Windows Vista grinds ever closer to commercial release, Microsoft has begun converging its beta test program and its technology preview program for customers.
01/31/2006
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News
From the business wires this week: Windows/Mac inventory system, SQL Server tools and a developer contest.
01/27/2006
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News
Microsoft reported Thursday a 5 percent boost in profits for the financial quarter ended Dec. 31 compared to its second quarter a year ago. The company credited strong performance by its server and tools and Windows client products.
01/26/2006
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News
Adobe Systems delivered this week a 3D version of its popular Acrobat document design and authoring package.
01/26/2006
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News
Intel claimed this week it has become the first manufacturer to make chips using 45-nanometer technology.
01/26/2006
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News
Microsoft this week debuted an enhanced suite of online resources and tech support offerings designed for users of its Small Business line of products.
01/25/2006
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News
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it would license source code in the Windows Server operating system, in order to comply with a 2004 ruling from European Union regulators.
01/25/2006
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News
Stratus Technologies is poised to ship its first fault-tolerant server systems built on dual-core CPUs.
01/25/2006
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News
Microsoft has released Community Technology Previews (CTP) of two tools it is readying to help Web page and Windows applications designers more easily perform those tasks.
01/24/2006
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News
E-learning solution provider IntraLearn attains Front Runner status.
01/23/2006
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News
Microsoft confirmed Friday that it has changed the codename for the next version of Windows beyond Vista, though it revealed little else.
01/20/2006
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News
Microsoft has quietly moved the delivery date of the next service pack for Windows XP to the second half of next year.
01/20/2006
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News
From the business wires: SQL Server 2005-based e-learning solution provider gets Front Runner status, free CompTIA A+ study guides and more.
01/20/2006
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In a little-noticed move that promises to change the landscape for project portfolio management software vendors and consultants, Microsoft announced Thursday it has completed its acquisition of New York-based UMT.
01/19/2006
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News
NetPro Computing announced it is shipping a major upgrade to its distributed services management product for Active Directory.
01/19/2006
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News
Microsoft announced late Wednesday that it is shipping the latest version of its software solution for customer service centers.
01/19/2006
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Scott responds to a reader’s call to action against the “black shirts.”
01/18/2006
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News
Seagate Technology says it is shipping the first 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drive built on perpendicular recording technology, producing drives that can contain up to 160GB of storage.
01/18/2006
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News
Corel announced this week that it will ship the latest release of its graphics bundle in February.
01/18/2006
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Microsoft released to developers a previously promised community technology preview – or CTP – for a set of key technologies coming in Windows Vista.
01/18/2006
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News
Who said that only Apple does cool things? Microsoft recently had King Crimson co-founder Robert Fripp over to Microsoft Studios a few blocks from the company’s Redmond, Wash. campus, to record some sounds that may well end up being the startup music when you boot Windows Vista.
01/17/2006
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News
Microsoft announced yesterday that three manufacturers -- Casio, DigiPoS Systems Group and HP -- will sell point-of-sale terminals pre-loaded with Microsoft Point of Sale software.
01/17/2006
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News
Microsoft is rolling out new and updated tools to help customers migrate their Lotus Notes and Domino applications to its own collaboration platform based on Office and its SharePoint Services.
01/17/2006
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News
It may seem like Microsoft has scaled every peak, but the software giant is playing an important game of catch-up with Yahoo! and rival Google in the area of search engine advertising.
01/13/2006
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News
From the business wires: a tool pack for spotting security holes in software, a database query and reporting tool, and 10GbE Layer 4-7 switches.
01/13/2006
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News
Microsoft to waive MCT program fees for new candidates who join prior to start of 2006 program.
01/12/2006
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News
German utility developer 1-abc.net announced it is shipping a bundle containing four of its increasingly popular end-user Web tools.
01/12/2006
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News
A year after first disclosing its internal “Project Elixir,” Microsoft has begun releasing sample code and documentation so that developers can use it as a pattern to design their own integrated front-end and back-end systems around Outlook 2003.
01/12/2006
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News
ScriptLogic says it is shipping a tool meant to improve how desktop software is packaged for installation across an enterprise.
01/12/2006
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News
The same day that Apple trotted out the first in its line of Intel-based iMacs, Microsoft recommitted to supporting Apple going forward, the company said at this week’s MacWorld in San Francisco.
01/11/2006
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The Microsoft Partner Program got high marks from industry analysts at IDC in a recent survey comparing the channel programs of 25 top software vendors.
01/11/2006
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Microsoft plans to work more closely with nearly every Certified and Gold Certified partner in 2006 even as the software giant aims to dramatically increase the number of partners in those top two tiers of the Microsoft Partner Program, according to industry analysts familiar with Microsoft's plans.
01/11/2006
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Symantec this week announced it has completed its purchase of enterprise security compliance software maker BindView.
01/11/2006
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Microsoft has a formal new program to lure independent software vendors from Linux and Unix to Windows.
01/11/2006
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is slightly modifying its support lifecycle to provide what it calls “more predictability” for customers.
01/10/2006
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News
Remember that old gasoline ad about putting a “tiger in your tank?” How about Windows in your gas pump?
01/10/2006
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs debuted the first new iMacs based on Intel CPUs at the company’s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday -- two of them available immediately.
01/10/2006
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Microsoft looks to electronic musician Robert Fripp to create the sounds of the next Windows OS.
01/09/2006
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Storage maker EMC acquires IT services firm Internosis.
01/09/2006
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From the business wires: a Group Policy security extension, a load testing tool for Web apps, USB flash drives with LCD displays, and Windows Media Player 11.
01/06/2006
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News
The focus of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is, as you might expect, consumer electronics. But amid the smart watches, television-ready cell phones and movie download services were a few tidbits sure to impact IT in the coming year.
01/05/2006
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News
Spending on IT in the United States is set to grow by a modest 5 percent this year, according to new projections released by the technology market research firm IDC on Wednesday. The firm expressed unusual confidence about its numbers.
01/05/2006
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Microsoft showed off the newest additions to its growing Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, including an updated line of SPOT-enabled watches and a wireless weather forecasting center with an information link through MSN Direct.
01/05/2006