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  • News

    HP to Buy Storage Virtualization Company

    Hewlett-Packard Co. bought storage company StorageApps in a stock-for-stock deal valued at $350 million. 07/25/2001

  • News

    Column/Microsoft Stays As One – Maybe That’s Too Bad

    Columnist Joseph McKendrick asks "what if?" as the possibility of a Microsoft breakup in the antitrust case recedes. 07/25/2001

  • News

    Maxtor Ships Windows-Powered NAS Filer

    Maxtor Corp. launched a 400-GB, 1U file server this week based on Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server Appliance Kit. 07/25/2001

  • News

    Microsoft Intros Academic Version of Visual Studio

    The .NET generation of Visual Studio gained a third flavor this week with the introduction of Visual Studio .NET Academic. 07/24/2001

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    Kernel-Mode Caching Should Add Speed in IIS 6.0

    Internet Information Services 6.0 boasts a new kernel-mode caching capability that could greatly enhance the Web server's performance. 07/24/2001

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    VMWare Unveils Virtual Machine for NT/W2K

    VMWare Inc. unveiled a new version of its virtual machine application software – dubbed GSX Server – for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 platforms. 07/24/2001

  • News

    Senator Calls for Hearings on Windows XP

    U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is calling for senate hearings on Windows XP, and is urging antitrust officials to delay the client OS's release unless PC manufacturers and consumers can choose their media player, messenger service and other software in addition to the browser. 07/24/2001

  • News

    Microsoft Credits W2K, Enterprise Servers for Record Revenues

    Microsoft attributed its ability to rake in money during a financial quarter when many companies struggled to the growing acceptance of its business software. 07/20/2001

  • News

    MCSE Exams Discount Extended One More Month

    Selected MCSE core and electives exams available for 25-percent until end of September. 07/20/2001

  • News

    Active Directory Guides Available

    "Best practices" papers now available on Microsoft's Windows 2000 resources site. 07/20/2001

  • News

    Microsoft Petitions Appeals Court for Rehearing

    Even as the government tries to hurry the antitrust case back into U.S. District Court, Microsoft Corp. moved to keep the action in the U.S. Court of Appeals for a little while longer. 07/20/2001

  • News

    Oracle Highlights Content Management in 9i

    Oracle this week formally signalled its intentions to wade into what it calls "content management." 07/20/2001

  • News

    Windows XP Gives Java the Boot

    Microsoft is stripping Java support from its forthcoming Windows XP operating system. 07/18/2001

  • News

    MOM Goes Into General Availability

    Microsoft Operations Manager hit general availability Wednesday. The NetIQ-licensed technology complements Systems Management Server and the Active Directory for managing Microsoft environments. 07/18/2001

  • News

    IIS Web servers Hacked over the Weekend

    Over the weekend, Web sites running Microsoft Corp.’s IIS Web server platform became the targets of widespread Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. 07/17/2001

  • News

    DOJ Wants Fast Track; New Mexico Settles

    The Department of Justice won't appeal the U.S. Court of Appeals decision in the Microsoft antitrust case. Instead prosecutors want the case fast tracked in the District Court. Meanwhile, New Mexico settles with Microsoft. 07/17/2001

  • News

    Securing Redmond: Microsoft Turns to Lumeta for Network Map

    In order to improve its network security, Microsoft turned to Lumeta Corp., a security startup headed by Bill Cheswick, former Bell Labs security researcher. Lumeta had created a process for comprehensive mapping of an intranet. 07/16/2001

  • News

    Microsoft Preps New Tracks for Systems Admins, Developers

    Redmond examining exam matrices for new tracks, which candidates may attain as early as first quarter 2002. 07/15/2001

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    Windows XP Exam to Debut in Q4 2001

    Windows XP/.NET Server exams outlined at Microsoft Fusion. 07/14/2001

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    Cert Group May Add New Titles

    Microsoft's Certification and Skills Assessment group plans to announce new tracks for systems administrators and developers. 07/13/2001

  • News

    Microsoft Bows to Pressure, Revises OEM Licensing Agreements

    Microsoft Corp. today changed its Windows XP licensing agreements to give OEM manufacturers the freedom to remove some icons and other shortcuts from Windows XP’s desktop and “Start” menu. 07/12/2001

  • News

    Unisys Takes Home Still Another Benchmark Trophy

    Unisys Corp. used its ES7000 platform to notch yet another benchmark record today, registering the world’s best results in the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s (TPC) TPC-W benchmark. 07/12/2001

  • News

    Magistr Remains Atop Virus List

    The Magistr-A virus is still hitting the enterprise hard. Sophos recently released its top 10 virus list for June, based on customer reports to its antivirus center. 07/11/2001

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    EMC, Avanade Enter Consulting Alliance

    EMC entered a global alliance this week with Avanade, the joint venture consulting organization between Microsoft and Accenture. 07/11/2001

  • News

    Gartner: Vacationers Addicted to E-mail

    A Gartner survey finds 42 percent of users check business e-mail on vacation. 07/11/2001

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    Meta Puts a Rule of Thumb on Enterprise Vendors' Sales Claims

    Anyone who has been responsible for purchasing enterprise software doesn't need to be told that salespeople understate the costs for installing and customizing that software. Analyst firm Meta Group has come up with a rule-of-thumb multiplier for those claims. 07/11/2001

  • News

    W3C Releases SOAP Draft

    The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) yesterday released a public working draft of version 1.2 of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Although it features several new enhancements to the SOAP 1.1 draft that preceded it, SOAP 1.2 is for the most part a maintenance release. 07/10/2001

  • News

    Reader Survey: Web Services Taking Off

    Cautious about the hype but hopeful for the model, ENT readers indicate a growing support for XML-based Web services. 07/09/2001

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    Enterprise Customers to Get First Crack at 64-bit Advanced Server

    Microsoft Corp. plans to market a pre-release version of its forthcoming Windows .NET Advanced Server - dubbed, appropriately enough, Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition - as part of an overall effort to ratchet-up Advanced Server adoption rates among its customers. 07/09/2001

  • News

    Does .NET Equal Web Services or Not?

    Industry observers disagree about whether the Web services model needs to succeed for .NET to have an impact. 07/09/2001

  • News

    Column: Deja-vu All Over Again

    DEC veteran Greg Scott draws parallels from the OpenVMS-Unix days to the current Windows-Linux wars. 07/09/2001

  • News

    2003: The Year of .NET?

    Microsoft's roadmap for .NET calls for much .NET integration to be done by early 2002. Redmond, and others, expect the technology to really take off in terms of widespread adoption around 2003. 07/09/2001

  • News

    Meta: Users Should Expect Business as Usual from Microsoft

    In the wake of the U.S. Appeals Court decision in the Microsoft antitrust case, users should expect business as usual from Redmond, according to a recent analysis from Meta Group. 07/09/2001

  • News

    Visual Studio .NET Beta Has Time-Bomb Bug

    A "time bomb" bug in Visual Studio .NET Beta 2 will cause problems with the design-time environment after July 31. Microsoft is sending testers an upgrade to the Visual Studio Enterprise Architect beta software. 07/06/2001

  • News

    Default Vulnerability Discovered in W2K SMTP Service

    Problem allows user-level access, giving spammers a chance to use other organizations' systems for bulk mailings. Microsoft issued a patch. 07/06/2001

  • News

    NetIQ Packages its Security Products

    NetIQ this week moved to roll its security products together into a complete security solution. The strategy incorporates some products from its recent acquisition, WebTrends. 07/05/2001

  • News

    Microsoft Unveils Word Processing & E-mail Package for Mac Clients

    Microsoft announced a lower-cost word processor and e-mail package for Mac users on Thursday. 07/05/2001

  • News

    IDC: Worsening European Economy Could Drive Down IT Market

    IDC is signaling that its current projections for global IT spending may be as much as $150 billion too high, based on recent economic problems in Europe. 07/05/2001

  • News

    A Bundle of Trouble? Implications Persist for XP, .NET

    Court's findings on product tying mean Microsoft could face more than the usual technical obstacles to getting Windows XP out the door Oct. 25, some industry observers say. 07/03/2001

  • News

    Tea Leaf Time: What's Next in the Antitrust Case?

    Although the outcome of the antitrust proceedings against Microsoft Corp. may appear to be anything but certain, legal experts concur that in the near term, at least, events in the case should for the most part be predictable. 07/03/2001

  • News

    Users Greet Antitrust Decision with a Yawn

    While a federal appeals court’s decision to vacate Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s ordered break up of Microsoft Corp. may have surprised some industry watchers, many IT managers say that they saw it coming. 07/03/2001

  • News

    Windows XP RC1 Out

    The first Release Candidate for Windows XP is available. The milestone marks the first look at Microsoft's next-generation client operating system in its feature-complete form. 07/03/2001

  • It's a Reference! No, It's an Exam Prep!

    The truth is, O'Reilly's MCSE guide works well as either. 07/01/2001

  • Is the thought of migrating your NT network to AD giving you sleepless nights? This tool can help you rest easier.

    Aspirin for Your Active Directory Headaches

    Is the thought of migrating your NT network to AD giving you sleepless nights? This tool can help you rest easier. 07/01/2001

  • This replacement adds thread and window management.

    A Better Task Manager?

    This replacement adds thread and window management. 07/01/2001

  • Windows Insider

    Respecting Authority

    CAs play a vital role in managing identity between networks and aren’t difficult to install—as long as you plan wisely. 07/01/2001

  • XPerience the Delays

    Hey, Redmond! When it comes to the latest, take the time to make sure it’s the greatest. 07/01/2001

  • Administrative Tools Folder Exposed

    These Windows 2000 administration tools will help you get through the day more quickly. 07/01/2001

  • Syncsort’s Backup Express is a powerful package, but that strength comes at a price.

    Enterprising Backup

    Syncsort’s Backup Express is a powerful package, but that strength comes at a price. 07/01/2001

  • In-Depth

    Sonic Boom! Windows 2002 Smashes the Barrier

    The next version of Windows is a worthy upgrade from Windows 2000, addressing several weaknesses and adding needed functionality. A Windows expert briefs you on the features and the limitations. 07/01/2001

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