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  • News

    Microsoft Releases 10 Security Bulletins

    Microsoft's monthly bundle of patches for June is one of the biggest since the company switched to a monthly patching cycle, and it brings fixes for 12 vulnerabilities, including three critical issues. 06/14/2005

  • News

    The Sum of All Security Guidance

    During a presentation at Microsoft TechEd 2005 this month, the Microsoft Security Response Center summarized all of the most important Microsoft security resources available to IT and consumers. 06/13/2005

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, June 10

    From the business wires this week: a mail merge solution for Microsoft Outlook, a plug-in that can speed up file transfers, and network monitoring solutions. 06/10/2005

  • News

    VMware Launches User Service Network

    VMware debuted its new VMware Technology Network (VMTN). The service includes pre-built virtual machines from leading software vendors, a subscription to a VMware’s products for software development and testing, and a Web site that provides a raft of technical resources. 06/09/2005

  • News

    Veritas Upgrades High Availability Storage Package

    Veritas Software said it will ship next month the latest version of its high availability storage management solution for Windows. 06/09/2005

  • News

    Huge Patch Tuesday Coming

    Microsoft put IT departments on alert Thursday that its monthly patch bundle, scheduled for next Tuesday, will be a monster. 06/09/2005

  • News

    BRIEF: Altiris To Support VS 2005/SQL Server 2005

    Life cycle management tool vendor Altiris says it will support Visual Studio 2005 Team System and SQL Server 2005 in its future products. 06/09/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Certified Architect Program Ahead of Pace with New MCAs

    Update: Dozens of newly minted Microsoft Certified Architects announced as program begins "pilot phase." 06/09/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Previews RFID Infrastructure

    Microsoft this week followed IBM and Oracle in publicly committing to delivering infrastructure software to support radio frequency identification (RFID) scenarios. 06/09/2005

  • News

    Unisys Rolls Out Computing on Demand for Intel-Based Servers

    How would you like to pay for a four-processor server that really has eight chips inside? How about if you won't have to pay for those extra chips unless and until you use them? Talk to Unisys. 06/09/2005

  • News

    EC-Ordered Edition of Windows XP to Debut this Month

    The versions of Windows XP stripped of Windows Media Player to comply with a European Commission order will start shipping this month, Microsoft said this week. 06/09/2005

  • News

    BRIEF: TNT Updates ELM Enterprise Manager

    TNT Software says it will ship this month version 4.0 of its ELM Enterprise Manager. 06/09/2005

  • News

    Exchange SP2 to Bring a Mobility Boost

    ORLANDO, Fla. -- Microsoft this week announced an extension for its mobile platform that will more tightly integrate with Exchange Server 2003, adding new features and beefing up security for mobile devices. 06/08/2005

  • News

    HP Benchmarks SQL Server 2005 Scalability on TPC

    SQL Server 2005 got its first independently audited public scalability test this week when Hewlett-Packard posted results of a run of the database against the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C and TPC-H benchmarks. 06/08/2005

  • News

    Microsoft's First, Best Customer

    Welcome to the world's largest beta program. Microsoft is the ultimate "dogfood" company, testing its products on its own network, a global information system encompassing approximately 300,000 devices, 104,000 e-mail accounts and 89,000 end users spread out over 83 countries. 06/08/2005

  • News

    Third Parties Feature New/Upgraded Tools at TechEd

    A crowd of third-party software firms – including Borland and IBM Tivoli -- announced new and updated products on the first day of Microsoft’s annual TechEd 2005 conference in Orlando. 06/08/2005

  • News

    Yukon, Whidbey to Launch in November

    ORLANDO, Fla. -- SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 will launch the week of Nov. 7, Microsoft senior vice president Paul Flessner said Tuesday. 06/07/2005

  • News

    Borland Requirements Management To Work Inside VS Team System

    At Microsoft’s TechEd 2005 in Orlando this week, Borland announced it will integrate its CaliberRM requirements management product to work inside of Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS 2005). The CaliberRM plug-in for VSTS will ship in the first quarter of 2006, according to company officials. 06/07/2005

  • News

    Field Report from Microsoft TechEd Orlando

    New tools for Exchange, GPO management, and storage among IT-leaning products showcased on TechEd exhibit floor. 06/07/2005

  • News

    Windows Server Update Services Generally Available

    Microsoft on Monday began shipping Windows Server Update Services, its second-generation technology for patching systems in medium-sized organizations and enterprises. 06/06/2005

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    Architect Program Taking Shape

    Ten years of verifiable experience is one of many challenges to face candidates who plan to tackle Microsoft's architecting certification. 06/03/2005

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, June 3

    From the business wires this week: software for keeping an eye on where and what your users are going and doing on their computers. 06/03/2005

  • News

    VIA Debuts Low Power Mobile CPU

    VIA Technologies showed off the latest iteration of its x86-compatible CPU for notebook computers at the Computex 2005 trade show in Taiwan this week, touting the chip’s low power requirements. 06/02/2005

  • News

    Microsoft to Support RAW Photo Format in XP, Longhorn

    Microsoft will add support for the RAW digital photo format in Windows. It will be provided as an add-on to Windows XP and natively in the Longhorn release of Windows. 06/02/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Recommits to XML-based File Formats in Office 12

    Microsoft will make XML-based file formats the default for its forthcoming "Office 12" version of Office, which is scheduled for release late in 2006. While Microsoft supported XML file formats in Office 2003, the formats weren't the defaults and XML functionality was only available in certain high-end versions of the Office suite. 06/02/2005

  • News

    Coming Soon: Patch Management for Smartphones

    With the advent of cell phone viruses and Bluetooth worms, it was bound to happen. PatchLink is readying an upgrade to its eponymous flagship patch management tool aimed at adding patch support for smartphones and wireless PDAs. 06/02/2005

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    Microsoft Adopts XML for Next Office

    The open standard for Web documents will be the default file format for the next version of Microsoft Office. 06/02/2005

  • News

    Office Communicator Released to Manufacturing

    Microsoft on Wednesday released to manufacturing its Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, the real-time communications client formerly known by the code-name "Istanbul." 06/02/2005

  • News

    Reprieve on MCP Retake Offer

    Microsoft extends "second-shot" exam promotion three more months. 06/02/2005

  • Loving to Hate

    Doug talks about this month's cover story, "The Microsoft Survey," and how Microsoft should interpret our readers' opinions. 06/01/2005

  • Security Advisor

    Secure Network Access Control

    Protect your corporate network by controlling which users and computers can access it at all. 06/01/2005

  • Extend Group Policy Further

    The new PolicyMaker adds more extensions to give you greater control over your desktop landscape. 06/01/2005

  • Lock Down AD

    While SecurityManager won't actively fix your problems for you, it does make finding them fairly simple. 06/01/2005

  • Windows Insider

    The Security Configuration Wizard

    With Windows 2003 SP1, you get a single, authoritative source of lockdown settings you can deploy with a single stroke that are fully supported by Microsoft. 06/01/2005

  • News

    AMD Ships First Dual-Core, 64-bit Desktop CPU

    AMD announced this week it is shipping the first dual-core 64-bit Athlon CPU for desktops right on schedule. The company had said in late April that it would ship them in June and beat that by a day. 06/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    The Microsoft Survey

    Love Microsoft? Hate it? Somewhere in between? It's all of the above in the Redmond magazine survey of your attitudes toward the world's most important computer company. 06/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    Enter the Longhorn PC

    System requirements proving hard to nail down; breakthroughs for some scenarios. 06/01/2005

  • News

    Meet the Patch Man

    Shavlik's Eric Schultze sounds off on WSUS, hackers and more. 06/01/2005

  • Extraordinary Places to Work

    Perk-filled, dangerous and beyond the call of the duty -- how does your company match up? 06/01/2005

  • News

    Vintela's Winding Road to Windows

    From the fat bank account of a sworn enemy of Microsoft emerged a company that today is one of Redmond's best pals -- Vintela. 06/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    Patching Made Simple

    Patching your servers is an art that takes time to master. Here's a paint-by-numbers kit to help you get started. 06/01/2005

  • News

    HP Readies New Thin Clients

    HP will ship by mid-June three new additions to its t5000 line of thin clients, finally answering customers’ questions as to what the company will do now that Transmeta is exiting the thin client processor business, and taking aim at low-priced competitors. 06/01/2005

  • Scripting Without Really Scripting

    Desktop Authority helps you automate desktop management, even if you don't know the finer points of scripting. 06/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    NetMeeting: Still Going Strong

    Besides Web conferencing, readers have found many other uses for Microsoft's NetMeeting. 06/01/2005

  • A Feather in Your MCAP

    Comparing the MCAP to a PhD is a bit lofty, and, well, wrong. 06/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    How Does X64 Measure Up?

    What works on 64 bits will always work faster, but early adopters will have to accept some limitations. Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest put X64 through its paces. 06/01/2005

  • News

    A Big, Beautiful Number

    Windows servers now support up to 1TB of memory -- more than you're likely to need. 06/01/2005

  • News

    Opinion: Are We Winning the Battle Against E-Crime?

    A recent survey of security and law enforcement executives shows that the fight against electronic crimes (e-crimes) continues to be an uphill battle. 06/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    Desktop Linux: Ready for Prime Time?

    Several popular Linux distributions are poised to take on Windows on the corporate desktop. 06/01/2005

  • WMI eXposed!

    More than just a browser, WMIX packs more bang than fluff. 06/01/2005

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