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    Dell Wades into Printer Market

    Dell this week formally announced the first four models in its long-expected entry into the printer market, where the company will use its direct sales approach to aggressively cut prices in targeting printer industry leader HP. 03/26/2003

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    VMWare Unveils Desktop Virtualization Upgrade

    Next week, VMWare will begin shipping the 4.0 version of its desktop virtualization software, VMWare Workstation. 03/25/2003

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    Unisys Updates Server Management Software

    Unisys this week introduced updated software for self-management and self-healing of its massive ES7000 Windows servers, and also showed off add-on modules for easing server consolidation and resource management. 03/25/2003

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    Microsoft Names Kevin Johnson Group VP for Sales

    Kevin Johnson took over the job of group vice president for Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services group. 03/25/2003

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    Finding the Right CTEC

    A CTEC's closing can affect many people, including students. Here are nine ways to protect yourself and your investment. 03/21/2003

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    What's Happening with Training Companies?

    Florida-based GTS is an extreme example of what's happened in the broader computer training industry, but some CTECs have managed to remain in business with reputations intact. 03/20/2003

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    Mobile Development Platform Launches

    Microsoft formally launched the .NET Compact Framework for supporting and creating mobile applications on Wednesday at the Microsoft Mobility Developers Conference. Redmond has been talking about the framework for a year, with beta releases in April and September and an official Release to Manufacturing in October. 03/20/2003

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    Sprint, Verizon Offer PocketPC Phones

    Verizon Wireless and Sprint launched Microsoft PocketPC Phone Edition offerings this week that open the data-intensive phone devices to a much broader market in the United States. 03/20/2003

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    Flaw Found in Microsoft Enterprise Firewall

    Microsoft's enterprise firewall contains a security hole that attackers could use to cause denial-of-service conditions in internal Domain Name Service servers. The security flaw with Internet Security & Acceleration Server rates as a "moderate" security risk, Microsoft security officials determined. 03/20/2003

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    Critical Flaw Affects All Supported Versions of Windows

    Microsoft late Wednesday alerted customers to a critical flaw affecting all versions of Windows since Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98. 03/20/2003

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    70-300 Exam Voucher Deadline Extended

    Microsoft last week extended the deadline for MCSD on .NET candidates to obtain the free voucher for Exam 70-300, Analyzing Requirements and Defining .NET Solution Architectures. 03/19/2003

  • SQL-BackTrack for SQL Server 3.0

    Back up the back end. 03/19/2003

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    Commentary: A Warped View of Monopoly

    Microsoft is waking and smelling the coffee -- and it isn’t Java. It's Linux. 03/19/2003

  • CodeSMART 2003 for VS .NET

    An add-in that makes VS.NET smarter. 03/19/2003

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    HP Unveils Low-end Server for $550

    Hewlett-Packard this week introduced an entry-level server starting at $550 for cost-sensitive, small- to medium-sized businesses. The server is part of the tc2100 series, which costs less than HP's flagship line of ProLiant industry-standard servers. 03/19/2003

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    Microsoft Preps Server Deployment and Administrative Tool for Large Enterprises

    While the Microsoft Management Summit this week was long on promises, with the far-off Microsoft System Center product taking center stage, Microsoft did announce one deliverable designed to make Windows server deployment and administration easier at very large enterprises. 03/19/2003

  • News

    A Pattern of Intentional Non-Payment

    Ex-employees were severely affected by the reported dubious business practices of Miami's Global Training Solutions, but ex-contract employees and vendors were no less immune. 03/19/2003

  • PE Explorer

    Poke around in the dangerous world of Portable EXEs. 03/19/2003

  • ActiveXplorer

    A unified look at ActiveX and COM components. 03/19/2003

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    No New Version of Application Center Coming

    Microsoft will not release a new version of Application Center, the server product introduced two years ago for deploying and managing high-availability Web applications. 03/18/2003

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    Critical New Flaw Found in IIS 5.0

    A critical, newly discovered flaw in Internet Information Services 5.0 could open Windows 2000-based Web servers, and other Windows 2000 systems that were installed with default settings, to a code execution vulnerability. 03/18/2003

  • News

    Outraged Ex-Employees of Training Company Allege Theft, Fraud

    First in a series: After more than 10 years of loyal service to the company, Tanya Prince figured she was due for some loyalty back. 03/18/2003

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    Next Version of MOM Coming in 2004

    Microsoft plans to release the next version of Microsoft Operations Manager in 2004 with ease of use, rapid deployment and better management packs being the top priorities for Microsoft's first full rewrite of the technology it bought from NetIQ. 03/18/2003

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    Microsoft Unveils Management Roadmap

    Microsoft will combine Systems Management Server and Microsoft Operations Manager into a unified product called Microsoft System Center over the next few years, the company revealed in a management roadmap keynote Tuesday in Las Vegas. 03/18/2003

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    AMD Explains Opteron Model Numbers

    AMD, continuing its quest to move the industry away from the clockspeed references in processor names that it argues are nearly meaningless, on Thursday announced a new model number strategy for its Opteron line of processors that launches April 22. 03/13/2003

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    CERT Warns of Windows Shares Vulnerability

    Enterprise IT needs to get tough on remote users to make sure broadband connections are secure, a new bulletin from the CERT/CC shows. The security researchers at CERT are finding an increase in reports of Windows 2000 and Windows XP system compromises due to poorly protected file shares. Attackers are exploiting weak or missing passwords on Administrator accounts on Server Message Block (SMB) file shares. 03/12/2003

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    iSCSI Driver Coming to Windows in June

    Microsoft will deliver Internet SCSI (iSCSI) support in June as an add-in for Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional. The driver will be free and available as a download, Microsoft said Wednesday. 03/12/2003

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    Analyst Survey Finds IT Downgrades Estimated Spending Growth

    A new survey of CIOs by analysts at Aberdeen Group finds that the IT executives are downgrading the amount that they expect to increase their technology budgets. In the current survey, conducted in January, enterprises executives expected to increase technology budgets by 2.7 percent over the next six to 12 months. A similar Aberdeen survey in September had CIOs projecting their overall budgets growing 3.7 percent over the next six to 12 months. 03/12/2003

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    Momentum Building for Exchange 2003

    Microsoft claims to have distributed 45,000 Beta 2 copies of Exchange Server 2003, the incremental release of Exchange 2000 Server that is expected to ship at about the same time as Microsoft Office 2003. 03/11/2003

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    Beta 2 of Office 2003 Released

    Microsoft released the Beta 2 version of Microsoft Office 2003 to customers and partners on Sunday in preparation for a mid-year release. About 500,000 copies are being distributed. 03/11/2003

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    Next Generation of MOM to be Unveiled

    Microsoft is set to unveil its plans for the next version of Microsoft Operations Manager next week. The venue will be the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. 03/11/2003

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    Greenwich Reaches Beta Testing Stage

    Microsoft put its server technology for real-time communications, such as instant messaging, out for a broad public beta test on Thursday. Code-named Greenwich, the technology was originally planned to be a part of Windows Server 2003. Last year, Microsoft pulled the technology out of the base server and announced that it would ship later. 03/06/2003

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    Corel Close to Release of WordPerfect Office 11

    Corel Corp. this week said the next version of its flagship office suite, WordPerfect Office 11, will be available in late April. That would put Corel's worker productivity suite in users' hands a few months ahead of Microsoft's next version of Office, which is slated for release in early June. 03/06/2003

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    Sonic Mobility Extends NetIQ

    Sonic Mobility, which makes software for remotely administering Windows servers from PDAs, extended its solution this week to support remote access to the NetIQ AppManager Suite. 03/06/2003

  • Visual UML

    Drag-and-drop UML diagramming. 03/05/2003

  • Quick Look: AppScan

    Keep security in mind during the development process. 03/05/2003

  • Beta Preview: AutoCAD 2004

    Design tool adds new tool palettes and other UI enhancements. 03/05/2003

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    A Tool for a Mature Active Directory

    Aelita Software this week introduced an infrastructure tool to help deal with the problems facing enterprises with mature Active Directories. 03/05/2003

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    GFI Offers Freeware Enterprise Anti-Spam Tool for Exchange

    Is spam becoming a serious problem on your Exchange servers? Messaging tools vendor GFI is offering a way for enterprises to back into anti-spamming tools without committing money up front. 03/05/2003

  • NewsGator

    Rounding up the best news via RSS. 03/05/2003

  • ANTS Profiler

    A low-overhead, non-intrusive code optimizer. 03/05/2003

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    Shavlik Updates Patch Management Product

    Next week, Shavlik Technologies will begin shipping the new version of HFNetChkPro, its product for automated, real-time management of Microsoft patches. 03/05/2003

  • WSDL Editor

    Cape Clear's excellent—and free—Web Services editor. 03/05/2003

  • ORM.NET

    The road map for your .NET object development. 03/05/2003

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    Active Directory Adoption in Full Swing

    A key indicator of Windows 2000’s popularity in the enterprise, Active Directory adoption, is showing dramatic growth, according to a Web survey by ENTmag.com. 03/04/2003

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    30,000 Registrations for OneNote Beta

    Microsoft is claiming a groundswell of user interest in the note-taking application it is planning to add to the Microsoft Office family later this year. 03/04/2003

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    Prices Same or Lower for Windows Server 2003

    Most editions of Windows Server 2003 will cost the same as their Windows 2000 counterparts, while the new Web Edition, which is designed to compete with Linux, will cost less than half as much as the Standard Edition, Microsoft revealed Monday. 03/04/2003

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    Windows SharePoint Services Coming to Windows Server 2003

    Microsoft will make collaboration services available for Windows Server 2003 customers sometime this year after the April ship of the base operating system. 03/04/2003

  • Compliance Made Simple

    Ease administration with Enterprise Configuration Manager. 03/01/2003

  • Keep Current

    Exchange updates with Discus Data’s ActiveDL 4.1. 03/01/2003

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