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From the business wires: a patch management system, remote management tools and software that prevents online fraud.
11/18/2005
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The catch: You must be enrolled in an IT Academy. Also, exam retakes to be revived for IT Academy students.
11/17/2005
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Several third-party vendors announced management packs and other products that support Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 at Microsoft’s IT Forum event this week in Barcelona, Spain.
11/17/2005
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Microsoft announced the long-awaited debut of the Office "12" technical beta, a limited release that will go out to 10,000 selected customers and partners globally.
11/17/2005
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Microsoft is shipping Dynamics GP 9.0, an update to its Great Plains accounting package and the first of its rebranded business solutions to appear under the Microsoft Dynamics logo.
11/17/2005
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Microsoft has seen the future and it is 64-bits. That’s the message coming out of the company’s European IT Forum 2005 this week in Barcelona, Spain.
11/16/2005
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The changes to the Microsoft Partner Program that the company originally outlined in July got a soft launch this week in preparation for the full rollout in January.
11/16/2005
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Microsoft this week released its Windows Desktop Search tool for enterprise users at its annual IT Forum event in Barcelona, Spain. Not surprisingly, in the face of competition for the search space with Google, it’s a free download.
11/16/2005
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SEATTLE – Not satisfied with a place in the data center, Microsoft is making a play for the laboratory, too. Chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates told a standing room only audience at the Supercomputing 2005 conference held here this week that it has released the second beta test version of its upcoming high-performance computing (HPC) edition of Windows.
11/16/2005
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Network Instruments this month released Observer 11, the latest version of its network traffic analysis software.
11/16/2005
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A tool Microsoft posted on its Website this week to make licensing choices more transparent for IT end users should help partners engage with customers at a higher, more productive level, a senior Microsoft executive said.
11/16/2005
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In-Depth
Is the Massachusetts open-standards debate the beginning of a national battle?
11/15/2005
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SWsoft this week began shipping version 3.5 of its Virtuozzo server virtualization software for Windows.
11/15/2005
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Intel said this week that some PC manufacturers have started delivering desktop PCs based on the first CPUs that implement its Virtualization Technology (VT). The vendors identified by Intel include Acer and Lenovo.
11/15/2005
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Microsoft and content management vendor Open Text announced a strategic relationship this week that they say will foster closer cooperation between the two firms’ products.
11/15/2005
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In-Depth
Splunk takes data-center management lessons from the Web.
11/15/2005
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Winternals to present on dealing with malware at InnoTech conference.
11/14/2005
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From the business wires this week: hosting solutions and other tools for SQL Server 2005.
11/11/2005
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HP this week rolled out new and updated items in its print management portfolio aimed at simplifying life for IT administrators, including a universal printer driver and an updated Web-based administration tool.
11/10/2005
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Anti-virus firms have discovered the first known trojan horse program to hide inside the Sony digital rights management (DRM) software that critics say is downloaded without consent to users' PCs.
11/10/2005
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Microsoft and Cisco have announced they plan to support Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE), a method for delivering Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and streaming media through Network Address Translation (NAT) filters on firewalls.
11/10/2005
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Every five years or so, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates has an attack of paranoia that the company has just missed the boat on the latest technology trend, and subsequently issues a memo to rally the troops in the new direction.
11/09/2005
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Although formally launched on Monday, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 won't be generally available until Dec. 1.
11/09/2005
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Microsoft's beta antispyware program will be called Windows Defender in its final version and will include protection against rootkits and keystroke loggers, a company official said.
11/09/2005
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Lucid8 is shipping DigiVault, a new continuous data protection product for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003.
11/09/2005
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ScriptLogic Corp. is shipping version 7.0 of its Desktop Authority system management package, adding desktop hardware and software inventory, role-based administration and power management capabilities.
11/09/2005
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Borland Software has named former Microsoft executive Tod Nielsen as the company’s new president and CEO, and has also appointed him a member of the Cupertino, Calif. company’s board. Nielsen replaces previous CEO Dale Fuller who left Borland in July.
11/08/2005
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A new Microsoft security bulletin includes patches for three Windows flaws, two of them critical problems that can permit attackers to take control of a system over the Internet.
11/08/2005
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Microsoft Learning releases training tools to coincide with launch of the company's relational database and software development suites.
11/08/2005
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NetIQ is shipping Change Guardian 1.0 for Active Directory, a monitoring and auditing tool for risk and compliance management, and change control, within Microsoft Active Directory environments.
11/08/2005
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Merido announces support for Office “12” in its ECM solution.
11/07/2005
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Microsoft on Monday held its highly-touted launch event to deliver SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, release a community technology preview (CTP) of BizTalk Server 2006 and make available version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.
11/07/2005
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With the launch of SQL Server 2005 today in San Francisco, Microsoft has unveiled a new program that will allow registered independent software vendors (ISVs) to earn a "Front Runner" designation as well as a chance to receive up to $5,000 to promote their custom SQL applications.
11/07/2005
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Oracle Chief Financial Officer and Co-President Greg Maffei resigned late Thursday after just four months on the job, making him the third CFO to leave the post during the past two years.
11/04/2005
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Registration has opened for beta versions of exams required for MCTS and MCPD certifications.
11/03/2005
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Microsoft is planning to post one patch next week as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletin release cycle. The patch will fix a flaw in Windows with a maximum severity rating of critical.
11/03/2005
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Quest Software this week announced a new product that is designed to increase e-mail availability for Exchange users.
11/03/2005
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In the wake of this week’s announcement of Windows Live and Office Live, Microsoft announced the acquisition Thursday of an online service with a technology that dovetails with those plans.
11/03/2005
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From the business wires this week: an event log monitoring tool, Active Directory troubleshooting tool, code generator for .NET and a hacking contest.
11/03/2005
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Sun Microsystems announced this week that it is working on two new on-demand services, both targeted at users who need to convert text files to other formats.
11/02/2005
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The U.S. Supreme Court isn't hearing Microsoft's arguments that any eventual penalty in the Eolas Technologies patent case involving Internet Explorer be cut by about two-thirds.
11/01/2005
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In-Depth
Office users say Microsoft's electronic forms tool is a hidden gem -- easy to use but lacking certain scanning, security and Web features.
11/01/2005
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Microsoft’s version of a totally integrated world where computing power surrounds and works with people seamlessly is taking a giant step closer to reality. At least, that was the pitch from chief software architect and chairman Bill Gates and chief technical officer Ray Ozzie Tuesday as they rolled out a new batch of services, some already in beta testing, dubbed Windows Live and Office Live.
11/01/2005
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Remote system configuration gets visual with WMI Explorer.
11/01/2005
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Security Advisor
If you're really concerned about securing your systems, start with the physical.
11/01/2005
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Oracle says it has begun beta testing a free, although limited, version of its 10g database designed for developers and students.
11/01/2005
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Do that thing you do.
11/01/2005
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In-Depth
When platform zealots attack, it can threaten everything from productivity to profits.
11/01/2005
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In-Depth
Microsoft is betting big on smart cards for its own employees while working to make the technology more palatable for the masses.
11/01/2005
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Microsoft executive shuffle has ramifications for customers.
11/01/2005