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Windows Insider
Bill looks at the pros (lots) and cons (few) of Microsoft's Automated Deployment Services tool.
03/01/2005
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News
Microsoft has brought in a heavy-hitter from AT&T Wireless and E*TRADE to take over management of the long-delayed Windows Longhorn client.
03/01/2005
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FirstDefense-ISR can be your first line of defense against disk failure and data loss.
03/01/2005
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News
Microsoft is finally providing specifics on the next version of Exchange.
03/01/2005
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In-Depth
As Longhorn looms, we examine Microsoft's track record in hitting product ship dates and offer advice for coping with the inevitable.
03/01/2005
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News
When it comes to predicting ship dates for its operating systems, Microsoft is about as accurate as your local weatherman. Keep that in mind when planning for its next-generation OS, code-named Longhorn.
03/01/2005
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In-Depth
This veteran penetration tester has seen some stupid security lapses in his time. Here are six of the worst.
03/01/2005
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PolyServe's Matrix Server flexes its muscle when it comes to running fast, efficient server clusters.
03/01/2005
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With ship dates becoming more important than ever thanks to Software Assurance, Doug urges Microsoft (once again) to rethink how it annouces future launches.
03/01/2005
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Security Advisor
Recommendations for reducing risk to your stored data, whatever its form.
03/01/2005
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The Altiris Management Suites give you complete control over every aspect of your network operations.
03/01/2005
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News
Microsoft to roll out simulation questions on certification exams.
03/01/2005
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News
Microsoft adds more resources and tools to its site for small-business customers.
03/01/2005
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In-Depth
These 10 anti-spam software solutions can help you stop spam in its tracks, restore lost productivity and save money and time.
03/01/2005
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With its public beta under way, WUS shows off more of its fine-tuned features.
03/01/2005
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In-Depth
With Microsoft animosity behind him, CEO Scott McNealy explains why Windows shops should consider his alternative desktop approach.
03/01/2005
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News
From the business wires this week: free online spyware detection, a mobile Exchange management tool, WinZip for Outlook, and more.
02/25/2005
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News
HP’s ProCurve networking division says it will ship in April its first two WAN routers aimed at SMBs and branch offices, as well as an access control module for its ProCurve 5300xl series switches.
02/24/2005
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News
Amid all the industry-shaking security moves Microsoft unveiled last week, the company also updated its progress on distributing Windows XP Service Pack 2 -- its most far-reaching effort to date to improve the security of the average computer on the Internet.
02/24/2005
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News
Microsoft pushed a rare non-security fix to Windows XP users through Automatic Update this week for a problem that can cause the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" in Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003.
02/24/2005
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News
Growing ranks of those with MCSE: Security offers some proof that security remains hot.
02/24/2005
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News
Microsoft will raise prices for SQL Server 2005 compared to SQL Server 2000, but SQL Server will continue to come in a free edition, a new low cost edition is being added and functionality previously reserved for the Enterprise Edition is working its way down to lower cost versions.
02/24/2005
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News
More competency exams available for Microsoft software licensing experts.
02/23/2005
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News
IBM will ship the first of its X3 32/64-bit, dual-core capable servers within 30 days, the company said this week. The eServer xSeries 366 (x366) is the first in a planned IBM family of dual-core-capable Intel-based server offerings.
02/23/2005
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News
Intel is shipping five 64-bit Pentium 4 processors for use in desktop computers. The release comes on the heels of the company’s shipment earlier this month of early production versions of its dual-core CPUs.
02/23/2005
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News
Some of Windows NT's oldest subsystem and protocol friends will be left behind when the codebase moves to x64.
02/23/2005
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News
Columnist Russ Cooper would have liked a few more specifics out of Bill Gates' much-anticipated keynote address at the RSA conference last week.
02/22/2005
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News
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the purchase of a third-party wizard for implementing Microsoft Axapta.
02/22/2005
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News
Microsoft this month started a blog dedicated to its Windows Server family. The Windows Server product team appears poised to use the blog as an information clearinghouse for minor product milestones, such as release candidates and other betas, to float trial balloons for potential features, and as a place to gather user input.
02/22/2005
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News
From the business wires this week: compliance and auditing tools, a security and antitheft tracking solution, and more.
02/18/2005
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News
Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 Enterprise Edition will be generally available in March, eight months after the Standard Edition of the firewall, VPN and Web caching server hit the market.
02/17/2005
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News
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD announced this week that it will ship two new Opteron processors within the next month, and also announced that Cambridge, England-based startup XenSource will port the Xen open-source system virtualization platform to run on Opteron-based systems.
02/17/2005
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News
Intel announced this week it is shipping upgraded versions of its 64-bit Xeon processors, and also said it will ship new multi-processor Xeons within three months.
02/17/2005
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News
Lucid8 is shipping version 3.1 of its GOexchange automated Exchange maintenance product.
02/16/2005
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News
Fresh on the heels of a security-related update of Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft is promising a second security-focused overhaul of the browser for Windows XP SP2 systems called Internet Explorer 7.0.
02/16/2005
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News
In a recent bout of stupidity, the U.S. Department of Energy apparently
accidentally published confidential Homeland Security Department
documents marked "For Official Use Only", and the documents remain
visible via Google's Web cache.
02/15/2005
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News
Windows "Longhorn" Beta 1 is on track for availability in the first half of this year, a Microsoft official said last week.
02/15/2005
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News
Microsoft is doubling the size of the group conducting private tests of the Windows Server 2003 "R2" release, but the test group remains tiny compared to the scope of Microsoft's public betas for operating systems.
02/15/2005
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News
Gates made the IE announcement during a wide-ranging keynote about Microsoft's security plans at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Gates also said Microsoft will develop its own anti-virus engine, its anti-spyware software will be free for consumer users of Windows, and Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 is released to manufacturing.
02/15/2005
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News
Two can take Microsoft's Exam 70-270 for the price of single exam; available for limited time.
02/15/2005
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News
From the business wires this week: an Oracle plug-in for .NET, a VPN client, a LAN management solution and more.
02/11/2005
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News
Intel announced this week it is already turning out trial production runs of two of its promised dual-core processor models, enabling creation of desktop PCs that can run four separate threads at once. Deliveries of production processors and supporting chipsets will come in the second quarter, a company spokeswoman says.
02/10/2005
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News
Intel is facing a challenger in multi-core processors from a surprising competitor -- a consortium that includes IBM, Sony and Toshiba.
02/10/2005
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News
Microsoft posted second release candidates on Wednesday night for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
02/09/2005
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Microsoft signed a definitive agreement to buy anti-virus and anti-spam vendor Sybari Software for an undisclosed sum, the companies said on Tuesday.
02/09/2005
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HP chairman and chief executive officer Carly Fiorina, the architect and champion of HP's controversial 2002 merger with fellow computer giant Compaq Computer, resigned Wednesday at the request of HP's Board of Directors.
02/09/2005
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News
Consider yourself a scripting expert? Prove it with this certification.
02/09/2005
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Microsoft on Tuesday delivered its promised heavy load of security bulletins, including two patches for critical flaws already in the public domain.
02/08/2005
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates used the company's first Office System Developer Conference to pitch Office as the obvious smart client for applications being built by the 800 partner developers in the audience.
02/08/2005
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From the business wires this week: AD tools; antispam solutions; tape appliances that compress, encrypt and sign data; and more.
02/04/2005