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  • News

    Microsoft Navision Gets New Leader

    Microsoft hired a former IT consultant and IBM executive to run the Navision segment of Microsoft Business Solutions. 01/18/2005

  • News

    IDC: E-mail Archiving Coming to a Data Center Near You

    As requirements demanding companies be able to find, retrieve and protect e-mail and other electronic records become coded into our legal and regulatory institutions, the market for e-mail archiving applications is exploding. 01/18/2005

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    CompTIA Lets IT Academy Students Take A+ Exams for $99

    Promotion is extension of program that's been available to Cisco Academy students. 01/17/2005

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    IT Weekly Roundup, Jan. 14

    From the business wires this week: security tool for finding info holes on Web sites, hosted messaging and collaboration solution and a blazingly fast SATA hard drive. 01/14/2005

  • News

    BMC Buys French ID Management Firm

    BMC Software announced it is buying French identity management software developer Calendra for $33 million. 01/13/2005

  • News

    VMware Plays an ACE in the Virtual PC Game

    VMware is shipping ACE, a PC virtualization product designed to protect corporate data and other electronic assets even when the work is being done offsite by outsiders. 01/13/2005

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    LANDesk Debuts New and Updated Management Tools

    Intel spin-off LANDesk announced this week that it is shipping Server Manager 8.5, which provides significant enhancements to the seven-year-old server management tool. 01/12/2005

  • News

    Microsoft to Expand Redmond Headquarters

    Microsoft filed a development agreement this week with the city of Redmond, Wash., committing to expanding its corporate headquarters there. 01/12/2005

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    Microsoft CFO Leaving

    Longtime Microsoft executive John Connors is leaving the company to join a venture capital firm. 01/12/2005

  • News

    Patches Provided for Windows NT 4 Despite End of Support

    Operating in the gray area between support and non-support, Microsoft chose to freely distribute the one new security bulletin that affected Windows NT Server 4.0 on Tuesday, 11 days after official support of the operating system expired. 01/11/2005

  • News

    Malicious Software Removal Tool Makes Debut

    Microsoft on Tuesday provided the first version of the malicious software removal tool that it first promised last week. 01/11/2005

  • News

    Bot the Likely Culprit for WINS Flaw Activity

    There was a flurry of discussion regarding a possible WINS worm due to a spike in WINS port 42 traffic. 01/11/2005

  • News

    Patch Tuesday: Three Security Bulletins, Two Critical

    Microsoft released three security bulletins for Windows on Tuesday, its monthly date for patching security problems. Two of the security bulletins involve critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a user's system over the Internet. The patches are especially important because both critical vulnerabilities had already been publicly disclosed. 01/11/2005

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, Jan. 7

    From the business wires this week: Microsoft's antispyware, Xbox 2, management solutions, developer tools and a portable magneto-optical drive. 01/07/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Posts Beta of AntiSpyware Tool

    Microsoft offered a widespread beta of a new anti-spyware tool for Windows users on Thursday. The availability of the software marked an extremely quick rebranding and rerelease of the anti-spyware technology Microsoft purchased last month from Giant Company Software. 01/06/2005

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    ThinPrint Refocuses Desktop Printing on Microsoft RDP

    ThinPrint is shipping its .print Remote Desktop Printing Engine for Microsoft Terminal Services 2003. The product is the newest in its line of printing solutions for Windows terminal services users. 01/06/2005

  • News

    When (If Ever) Is SA Right?

    Call for Comments: Redmond wants to know what value you place on Software Assurance. 01/06/2005

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    Three Windows Security Bulletins Coming Jan. 11

    Microsoft will post three security bulletins for flaws in Windows next Tuesday. At least one of the bulletins will cover a critical flaw. 01/06/2005

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    Microsoft Drops Itanium Support for Workstation, Standard Server

    Microsoft will no longer support Intel's high-end Itanium 2 processor in workstation and low-end server operating systems. 01/05/2005

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    VMware Tests Major Update to Virtual Workstation Package

    Over the holidays, VMware began beta testing Workstation 5, the latest update to the company’s five-year-old desktop virtualization platform. 01/05/2005

  • News

    Most Popular Stories of 2004

    It's always interesting to look back and see which stories attracted the most attention from you over the last year in terms of clicks. 01/05/2005

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    Time Running Out on California Class-Action Settlement Case

    The clock is ticking for California businesses and consumers to make claims in the largest of the class-action lawsuit settlement agreements resulting from the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against Microsoft. 01/05/2005

  • In-Depth

    Choose the Right Preventive Security Technologies

    Ensuring maximum asset availability requires multiple layers of security working in concert to protect against intrusions, enforce usage policies, and allow machines to remain resilient to attacks - even when patching is not an option. 01/01/2005

  • The PC Blues

    Doug Barney contemplates Microsoft's domination of PC design, its Passport technology and the new Acoona.com search engine. 01/01/2005

  • News

    Resist This NT Security Blanket

    Microsoft once again extends custom support contract provisions for large NT 4.0 Server users and throws an unintended bone to smaller shops. 01/01/2005

  • Security Advisor

    Keys to the Domain

    Available now, DomainKeys is one promising entry into the fight against spam. 01/01/2005

  • Going Hyper-Active

    Build scripts that work more like applications so you can monitor progress and display results in a formatted manner. 01/01/2005

  • News

    For Windows Server, a Busy 2005

    Rapid-fire releases to include SP1, x64, R2 and the Longhorn Beta. 01/01/2005

  • Windows Insider

    Linux-Windows Single Sign-On

    Follow these steps and have your users logging on at their Linux/Unix desktops with their Windows accounts. 01/01/2005

  • Encryption All Around

    With Windows 2003, you can use the Encryption File Systems to give multiple users access to the same encrypted files. 01/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    Q&A: Protect Users From Phishing Scams

    Just because something "appears" to be from a legitimate sender doesn't make it so. 01/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    Users Latch on to SQL Reporting Tool

    SQL Server Reporting Services earns solid if not stellar marks from early adopters—and you can't beat the price. 01/01/2005

  • Bill Gates' New Year's Resolutions

    A little humor for the holiday season. 01/01/2005

  • New Command-Line Option

    MSH offers a powerful new approach to Windows command-line scripting. 01/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    Best of the Best

    2005 Redmond Magazine Readers' Choice Survey: Find out how your favorite tool fared as nearly 2,200 readers pick their favorites in more than 40 product categories. 01/01/2005

  • Keep a Close Eye on Your Servers

    The newest version of MOM not only tracks all sorts of performance data, but also helps you put it in perspective. 01/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    Intrusion Interrupted

    We test three software-based intrusion detection systems that can help alert you when you've got barbarians at the gate. 01/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    Valid ID Required

    Fighting spam requires authenticating e-mail addresses on the fly. Despite igniting a battle of its own, the Microsoft-backed Sender ID spec is shaping up as the best option. 01/01/2005

  • News

    HP Hands Itanium Development off to Intel

    Intel and HP announced this month that the chip manufacturer will take over all further development of the two companies’ Itantium family of processors. Though most terms of the deal were not disclosed, Intel will hire HP’s Itanium chip design team, which is located in Fort Collins, Colo. 12/23/2004

  • News

    Exchange Edge Services off 2005 Roadmap

    Microsoft has scrapped plans for a 2005 delivery of Exchange Edge Services, a set of technologies for e-mail protection and spam management that builds on Exchange Server 2003. 12/22/2004

  • News

    Microsoft, Citrix Extend Source Code Sharing Deal

    Citrix Systems and Microsoft announced this week a new technology cross-licensing deal meant to assure the continued enhancement of Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite for Microsoft Windows Terminal Services. 12/22/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Loses First Appeal in EU Case

    Microsoft's effort to delay European antitrust measures until the end of the appeals process failed with the release of an order Wednesday by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. 12/22/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Schedules Office Developer Conference

    Developers for Microsoft Office are getting their first dedicated conference from Microsoft early next year. 12/21/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Drops Ball on Patch Notification

    Microsoft released six new security patches in December, but only five official Security Bulletins. For some strange reason a patch released on the same day as the normal monthly patches -- for Windows XP SP2 only -- didn't rate a full Security Bulletin. 12/21/2004

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, Dec. 17

    From the business wires this week: anti-spyware solutions, Power over Ethernet media converters, and updated virtual machine software. 12/17/2004

  • News

    Oracle, VMware Team to Support Virtualized Database Environments

    Oracle and VMware announced this week that they will work together to market solutions that combine the two companies’ products. Under the agreement, Oracle will develop, test and support its 10g database and applications products to run on VMware’s operating environment virtualization products. 12/16/2004

  • News

    The Bill Gates FAQ

    In a Q&A on the Microsoft Web site, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates tackled a handful of questions that Microsoft says are the ones he is most commonly asked. 12/16/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Issues 5 Important Security Bulletins

    For its "Patch Tuesday" this month, Microsoft delivered five security bulletins for what it called "important" security flaws, including one publicly known flaw in the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS). 12/15/2004

  • News

    Unisys Teams with Oracle and Microsoft in Plan to Outflank RISC Boxes in the Data Center

    Despite the long-standing animosity between Oracle and Microsoft, the database giant clearly demonstrated its understanding of the need to more strongly support Windows at last week’s Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. 12/15/2004

  • News

    Vintela’s Upgraded SMS Snap-in Offers Improved Non-Windows Client Support

    Vintela just shipped version 1.0 of its Vintela Management Extensions in August, but the Lindon, Utah company is on a roll – it shipped version 1.1 this week. The new release expands on version 1.0’s ability to enable Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to manage non-Windows environments. 12/15/2004

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