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Microsoft is releasing an out-of-cycle patch Thursday for the Windows Meta File (WMF) vulnerability that attackers were already exploiting when the flaw was made public in the last week of December. Earlier this week, Microsoft had said it would not release a patch until its regular Patch Tuesday event next week.
01/05/2006
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At the very end of 2005, Microsoft quietly began shipping the first beta of IronPython, a release of the open source Python scripting language that functions within the .NET common language runtime (CLR).
01/04/2006
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser slowly but surely lost significant market share to Firefox over the past year, according to the latest monthly traffic report released Wednesday by Web metrics tool vendor Net Applications.
01/04/2006
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Symantec is acquiring instant messaging software maker IM Logic.
01/04/2006
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Intel kicked off the new year by updating its brand image to focus on the company’s emerging strategy of featuring itself as a platform company rather than just a chip giant.
01/03/2006
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Microsoft is nearly finished with a patch for a zero-day exploit discovered in malware last week, but the software giant doesn't plan to release the fix until next week.
01/03/2006
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The Semiconductor Industry Association announced Tuesday that global sales of semiconductors continued to set a record pace in November, up 7.2 percent over a year earlier.
01/03/2006
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Microsoft leads an industry-wide struggle to balance customer privacy and business value.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act poses a real compliance headache for businesses of every size, and Windows admins are feeling the heat. Fortunately, we’re here with a few handy shortcuts.
01/01/2006
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An industry alliance formally defines "spyware,"a move that should help companies combat insidious intrusions.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Users say Apache 2.0 is a robust, flexible and secure Web server that just plain works.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Virtualization has become a serious tool for production environments.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Software audits are a hassle, an embarrassment, and can result in hefty fines and worse. Here’s how to prepare for, and win, an audit.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Should you be a Microsoft reference account? A few hardy souls say yes, but many IT managers steer clear of the experience for good reasons.
01/01/2006
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Microsoft finally catches up with its competitors with features like tabbed browsing and integrated RSS feeds in Internet Explorer 7.
01/01/2006
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Sun's director of Web technologies talks about Microsoft's decision to go open source with an Office file format.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Blade servers from HP and IBM help you pack the maximum amount of storage into the least amount of space.
01/01/2006
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Microsoft and Massachusetts continue sparring over file formats.
01/01/2006
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The Sony BMG rootkit fiasco could be the worst retail marketing meltdown since the launch of New Coke.
01/01/2006
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In-Depth
Tom’s Hardware tests the highest-end desktop systems.
01/01/2006
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Gates and crew's new direction in offering Microsoft's products as Web services is being met with more confusion than mandate by the industry.
01/01/2006
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Foley on Microsoft
The hardware demands of the next Windows and Office System 2006 products may prove to be not worth the effort for vendors and customers.
01/01/2006
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Security Advisor
Keep your inboxes clean of spam and viruses with some new tools and enhancements in Exchange 2003.
01/01/2006
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The Enterprise Edition of ISA 2004 provides centralized management and unmatched scalability.
01/01/2006
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Take a large-scale view of your network traffic and topology.
01/01/2006
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The 11th annual salary survey from Redmond magazine shows pay going up. Is yours?
01/01/2006
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Security experts at F-Secure reported on Tuesday a zero-day exploit that exposes vulnerabilities in the Windows graphics handling engine to enable malware to take control of PCs running fully patched Windows XP SP2.
12/29/2005
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If your plans call for taking the new-generation MCP developer and SQL exams in the next few weeks, tell us how you plan to approach them and what steps you'll take to pass them.
12/29/2005
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Users of Microsoft’s upcoming Outlook “12” will be able to monitor Really Simply Syndication (RSS) feeds from within the e-mail client, according to a Microsoft official’s Weblog.
12/27/2005
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Twas the week before Christmas when Seagate Technology announced plans to acquire smaller rival Maxtor in an all stock deal worth an estimated $1.9 billion.
12/27/2005
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Just as the holiday weekend was about to start, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee got a special Christmas present -- an end to his legal problems surrounding his departure from Microsoft and his simultaneous recruitment by search competitor Google.
12/27/2005
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The European Commissioner for Competition warned Microsoft on Thursday that it is facing fines of nearly $2.4 million per day unless it immediately delivers complete documentation of its programming interfaces, particularly those for work group servers, to enable competitors to interoperate with Windows.
12/22/2005
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Microsoft reaffirmed this week that, with the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, Apple Mac versions of Internet Explorer will no longer be supported.
12/22/2005
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.NET-based exams 70-526 and 70-529 get their time in front of developers next month.
12/22/2005
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Research group IDC has upgraded its projections of global PC shipment growth for the fourth quarter of 2005 and calendar 2006. It seems that, even as growth slows, it’s nonetheless still continuing to grow, and more quickly than earlier estimates had predicted.
12/22/2005
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Get ready for more colorful graphics on Google pages. That may be one of the most visible outcomes of a deal between the king of search engines and America Online.
12/21/2005
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CommVault announced it is shipping version 6.1 of its QiNetix data management suite.
12/21/2005
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Microsoft said it and partner SAP will provide a technology preview of their jointly developed “Mendocino” product to 40 customers and 10 partners on Friday, right on schedule.
12/21/2005
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Billing mistakes for Microsoft software happen more often than you might think. And when things go wrong, it's not just the price -- compliance can be affected as well. Here's what to watch out for.
12/20/2005
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As promised, after skipping November, Microsoft began shipping the December Windows Vista community technology preview (CTP) to customers and partners this week. Among other features, the latest build debuts a slew of new security capabilities.
12/20/2005
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What do Bill and Melinda Gates have to do with 11 U.S. Presidents, and dozens of world leaders, great humanitarians, dictators, and just plain interesting people on a list that stretches back to 1927?
12/20/2005
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Microsoft announced Monday that it has snagged a leading user interface visionary to work in the company's research division.
12/20/2005
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A handful of individuals abused the Microsoft Action Pack program to obtain hundreds of the cheap software bundles and sell the software online and elsewhere, Microsoft has alleged in a flurry of recent lawsuits.
12/19/2005
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RPG development solutions provider ASNA announces support for Visual Studio.
12/19/2005
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From the business wires: Group Policy management software, a solution for migrating customer data into Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, and an 8GB USB flash drive.
12/16/2005
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Microsoft filed 10 lawsuits in federal court accusing three companies and nine individuals of illegally selling Microsoft software.
12/15/2005
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Quest Software is shipping version 2.5 of its Group Policy Manager tool for creating, testing and implementing Windows Group Policy.
12/15/2005
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Microsoft recently took another small step in its Trustworthy Computing initiative by obtaining security certification for a number of updated products.
12/15/2005
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Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Visto filed suit against Microsoft for patent infringement in connection with Windows Mobile 5, which introduces push e-mail technology similar to Visto’s offerings.
12/15/2005
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Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 will be generally available on Monday in the United States and Canada, Microsoft said.
12/15/2005