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Microsoft is battling the perception that there's little to get excited about in the long-awaited and much-ballyhooed Longhorn.
06/01/2005
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Windows management software heavyweight Quest Software will buy Vintela Inc., a newer firm specializing in integrating Unix and Linux systems into Active Directory, for
$56.5 million in cash, the companies announced this week. Quest expects the deal to close late in the second quarter or early in the third quarter, assuming regulators approve.
06/01/2005
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Factory revenues for Unix servers and Windows servers were equal for the first time ever in the first quarter of 2005, according to market researchers at IDC.
05/31/2005
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AMD released the complete specification of its “Pacifica” chip-level virtualization technology for its 64-bit processors this week, joining Intel in the rush to build chip support for running multiple operating systems simultaneously.
05/27/2005
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From the business wires this week: a bevy of anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-spam solutions to keep your computer clean and you sane.
05/27/2005
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IBM is shipping two new toolkits that combine technologies from two of its middleware businesses – Rational and Tivoli – to help developers and operators diagnose problems in production code while it’s running.
05/26/2005
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FullArmor is shipping the latest release of its IntelliPolicy user policy-enforcement client for Windows desktops.
05/25/2005
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Windows surged again in 2004 as a platform for new relational database management system licenses, but Linux is growing at an extremely rapid pace as Unix loses popularity, according to new research from Gartner Inc.
05/25/2005
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Microsoft updated its server software platform for speech-enabled applications this week with an R2 version of Microsoft Speech Server 2004.
05/25/2005
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This month: Wrapping up your deal—final negotiation and contract tips, and implementing for success.
05/25/2005
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Popular exam savings and retake offer extended through Microsoft Certfied Partners and Microsoft Business Solutions programs.
05/25/2005
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Windows OneCare service provides one-stop solution against malware and mucked-up computers.
05/25/2005
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Microsoft released more pre-release code for some core elements of the Longhorn operating system in advance of the general Longhorn Beta 1 scheduled for this summer.
05/24/2005
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From the business wires this week: a GPMC tool for change control, free network monitoring software, and Microsoft invests in LapLink.
05/20/2005
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Thursday offered his vision of the "New World of Work" for information workers during a keynote to 100 CEOs from the Global 1000 at the annual Microsoft CEO Summit. Microsoft also unveiled the timeline for Office 12 -- beta this fall with general availability in the second half of 2006.
05/19/2005
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Microsoft has distributed enough copies of Service Pack 1 to update nearly one-fifth of the installed base of Windows Server 2003, the company estimated on Thursday.
05/19/2005
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A year after Microsoft paid nearly $2 billion to Sun Microsystems to settle legal claims and license technologies in a 10-year technical collaboration, some undisclosed amount of money is starting to flow the other way.
05/19/2005
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As details trickle out on Microsoft's "Eiger" operating system for less powerful PCs, analysts at Gartner are offering usage recommendations for the enterprise.
05/19/2005
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Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing Service Pack 1 for Windows Small Business Server 2003.
05/19/2005
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Microsoft's exam retake promotion is coming to an end on May 31, which means just a sliver of time remains to take advantage of it.
05/19/2005
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Microsoft issues one of its first security advisories under a new program. Citing several mitigating factors, the company says the flaw is not considered a significant threat.
05/19/2005
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The battle with Linux gives both companies a vested interest, aside from benefits to customers, in better interoperability. Meanwhile, Sun's recent acquisition of Citrix competitor Tarantella goes a long way toward boosting Sun-Microsoft interoperability efforts.
05/19/2005
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NetIQ will ship this month a bundle of existing management tools that aims to help small and medium-sized businesses meet regulatory compliance requirements for recent laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA acts.
05/18/2005
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The Windows Server Roadmap, a handy document on Microsoft's Web site with rough delivery date guidance, got an update this month.
05/17/2005
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Internet Explorer 7.0 will include the tabbed browsing feature already present in several rival browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Netscape, Microsoft developers confirmed this week.
05/17/2005
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A social engineering attack resulted in secure e-mail service provider
Hushmail having its Website redirected to a defaced site. According
to reports, Network Solutions, the Domain Name Service provider
behemoth, gave out information through a customer support line
sufficient to allow an attacker to alter DNS record information for
Hushmail.com.
05/17/2005
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As it launched a consumer search toolbar with desktop search capabilities on Monday, Microsoft revealed that it is working on a corporate version of desktop search.
05/16/2005
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It's not easy to turn years of animosity between two massive corporations into a working technical collaboration.
05/16/2005
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A U.S.-based carrier is onboard with Microsoft's MapPoint Location Server, providing a major boost to Microsoft's fledgling server software for real-time tracking and management of vehicle fleets and highly mobile employees.
05/16/2005
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From the business wires this week: data recovery software for Windows File Systems, a .NET tool for creating application skins, and a near-indestructible tablet PC.
05/13/2005
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In an effort to reduce the pain users face in combing through Licensing 6.0 documentation, Microsoft this week previewed a change coming in July to its massive Product Use Rights document.
05/12/2005
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Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.
05/12/2005
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PGP Corp. is shipping updates to both its desktop and server encryption products aimed at centralizing policy management and expanding enterprise management features.
05/12/2005
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A free download available from Microsoft on Thursday brings support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) to Windows XP Service Pack 2.
05/12/2005
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RSA Security announced Wednesday that it will ship in June a tool to help IT organizations that are already using the company’s event-logging software to comply with new rules required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA and other regulations.
05/12/2005
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Dell Inc. chairman and founder Michael Dell is investing $100 million in Red Hat, the Linux distributor that often stands in as a symbol for the open-source movement's challenge to Microsoft's OS dominance.
05/11/2005
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Microsoft unveiled "Maestro" this week and released a private beta of the server-based business performance management scorecard application.
05/11/2005
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IBM is readying two upcoming releases of its IBM Director systems management tool for Intel platforms, as well as a toolkit to enable third-parties to integrate their own tools with Director.
05/11/2005
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A year after publicly declaring an end to their longstanding feud, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft plan a news conference on Friday to discuss progress in their relationship.
05/11/2005
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Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.
05/11/2005
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As planned, Microsoft released only one security bulletin for May in its monthly Patch Tuesday event today. The bulletin patches an "important" flaw in Windows 2000 that can allow an attacker to take control of a vulnerable computer over the Internet.
05/10/2005
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Microsoft on Friday posted Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000, the first service pack update for the company's flagship database server since early 2003.
05/07/2005
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From the business wires this week: a .NET framework that supports ASP.NET; products and services that reduce your spam intake; and an online service that can help you recover Microsoft Access files.
05/06/2005
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May will be a light month for security bulletins from Microsoft. The software giant plans to release only one bulletin during its monthly Patch Tuesday next week.
05/05/2005
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Microsoft has a $12 upgrade program to encourage customers running 32-bit Windows XP Professional on machines with x64 processors to make the jump to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The software giant warns, however, that customers need to proceed carefully with respect to their hardware.
05/05/2005
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Microsoft will put some of the fruits of its $5-billion-per-year R&D operation on the auction block, offering to license the technologies to entrepreneurs for a fee and a cut of the profits.
05/05/2005
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Mixed signals in the United States and slower growth in Western Europe and Japan to slow IT spending growth through 2005, analyst firm says.
05/05/2005
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Stumped about how to prepare for 64-bit Windows now and in Longhorn? A Gartner analyst recently laid out a roadmap for organizations to follow in evaluating x64 versions of Microsoft Windows.
05/04/2005
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IBM announced late Wednesday a restructuring that will result in layoffs of as many as 13,000 workers, primarily in Europe, and a pre-tax charge of up to $1.7 billion.
05/04/2005
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IBM has released three new XML development tools for its Emerging Technologies Toolkit, a collection of free tools aimed at familiarizing developers with areas that the company sees as strategic to its vision of computing going forward.
05/03/2005