July 21, 2006
Microsoft has released the Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Management Pack, which monitors that health of the components key to ADFS....
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July 17, 2006
Novell released SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and Linux Enterprise Desktop calling the event “one of the most important product launches in our company's history. “...
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July 12, 2006
Microsoft on Wednesday made available to customers with Software Assurance maintenance contracts software designed to put new life in old PCs....
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July 11, 2006
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer on Tuesday said Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 R2, the next version of its all-in-one business platform for small and medium sized organizations, would be available in August. He also announced pricing reductions....
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July 06, 2006
Long an opponent of the XML-based OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft now plans to offer translators to support the file format....
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June 30, 2006
Last week, Goldman Sachs speculated that the ship date for Vista would slip, and now it appears they should have thrown in Office as well....
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June 27, 2006
Microsoft today opened up a free Web-based test drive for Office 2007, a cornerstone of its collaboration and unified messaging strategy going forward....
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June 23, 2006
Goldman Sachs has adjusted its outlook on Microsoft’s stock and one of the reasons is that it sees yet another slip in Vista....
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June 19, 2006
Stratus Technologies has added 64-bit Linux support to its high-availability ftServer models that previously were only available with Windows....
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June 08, 2006
Yeah, we know they have been out for about two weeks starting with the handouts at WinHec in Seattle the week of May 22, but now it is official....
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June 07, 2006
The Ubuntu project has released what it says in an enterprise version of its Linux distribution for both servers and desktops....
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June 05, 2006
Or hype depending on what you think of it. But next week, Microsoft kicks off the biggest show of its conference year, TechEd, on June 11. This year the five-day event is happening in Boston....
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May 31, 2006
Linux desktop and server vendor Xandros is now offering its wares with support for high-performance computing using 64-bit processors from Intel and AMD....
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May 25, 2006
Revenue for the worldwide server market fell off 1.9% in the first quarter of 2006, but Windows and Linux servers still showed strong growth, according to research firm IDC....
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May 19, 2006
Microsoft plans to use its annual WinHec show to roll out the Beta 2 versions of Vista, Longhorn and Office. Virtualization also promises to be a hot topic....
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May 17, 2006
Bill Gates had some choice words Monday during a keynote Q&A, but he didn't get the same chance at extra chin wags on Wednesday....
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May 16, 2006
A collection of open source companies has formed an organization in an effort to make it easier for corporate IT to use open-source management tools....
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May 11, 2006
Open source enthusiasts are planning their own event to begin the day after Microsoft’s annual WinHec (Hardware Engineering Conference), which runs May 23-25 in Seattle....
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May 09, 2006
Microsoft has shipped another final beta, this time for Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2. In addition, the company released the first beta of Microsoft Speech Server 2007....
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May 09, 2006
Microsoft has released the final beta of its Compute Cluster Edition, which is designed to move Windows into high performance computing....
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May 05, 2006
McAfee’s Avert Labs has released a study saying the number of malware attacks on Mac OS X is growing and that malware authors have their sites on the operating system....
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May 02, 2006
Last week, Jonathan Schwartz took over as CEO of Sun, taking the keys from Scott McNealy, but one of the most significant side developments worth watching is that Schwartz will continue to blog....
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May 01, 2006
It has been rumored many times that Google was coming to fight Microsoft, but those rumors focused on software and services available to consumers and business users....
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April 28, 2006
Microsoft making money isn’t news, but the way that the software giant is doing it is starting to play like a broken record....
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April 26, 2006
Microsoft plans to ship Beta 2 of Longhorn Server before the end of June and plans to provide an update on the timeline in the next few weeks....
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April 25, 2006
Xandros on Tuesday released its Xandros Server, a Linux server aimed at replacing Windows-based servers for a number of task. Earlier this month, Xandros first unveiled the server at LinuxWorld. Last month, the company was going after the European market...
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April 24, 2006
There will be a lot more news out of Microsoft on the management front this week as it hosts its annual Management Summit....
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April 20, 2006
The Free Standards Group next week plans to unveil a new version of the Linux Standard Base that covers servers and desktops....
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April 19, 2006
Microsoft plans next week to give users a glimpse of the new version of Windows Server Update Services, a free client and server tool for downloading and distributing patches....
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April 17, 2006
Concern over the effects of an IE patch are coming true, applications are breaking and users should be taking precautions while completing testing chores....
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April 13, 2006
Microsoft loses a lot of software revenue to pirates in China, but on Wednesday Microsoft signed a deal with a PC maker in that country that the software giant hopes cuts deeply into the problem, according to a story by...
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April 12, 2006
Microsoft has updated its tool that is a complement to the scanning tools its ships with System Management Server (SMS)....
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April 11, 2006
Book of Longhorn/Vista: That was Microsoft’s internal name for what is now available to partners, and users, as the Windows Vista Product Guide....
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April 10, 2006
Most people typically find the horse’s mouth a good place to go to and it’s no different when searching for advice on rolling out 64-bit Windows and Internet Information Services 6.0....
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April 07, 2006
Cue the fireworks! Microsoft has opened up a Web site called Port 25 to facilitate discussion about mixed environments of open source and Windows technology....
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April 03, 2006
From the never say never department, Emanuel Schleussinger the founder of Ngine Software has proven that Windows XP can be booted from a USB device....
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March 31, 2006
Nearly 10 years ago, I had an hour-long meeting with Cisco CEO John Chambers in a non-descript conference room near a municipal airport just outside Denver....
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March 28, 2006
With Vista and Office both slipping off their release cycles last week, the Windows Server team has one message for users: We are on time!...
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March 27, 2006
With Microsoft having delayed the consumer versions of Vista and Office but leaving the corporate versions available later this year to volume licensing customers the question is how many users are really concerned about these dates....
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March 24, 2006
From a build-it-yourself computer kit in 1976 to today’s carry-it-anywhere iPod, Apple is turning 30 and the company is looking as good as ever....
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March 22, 2006
On April 1, Microsoft will introduce an all-encompassing license for management software to replace the a la carte process that exists today....
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March 20, 2006
Novell’s annual Brainshare conference opened Monday and the company released SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 10, mobile software and a suite of workspace tools that includes GroupWise....
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March 17, 2006
We know our friends in Redmond get a lot of ink on their monthly parade of security patches, but they are not the only ones who patch (although some times it seems that way)....
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March 10, 2006
For those with the “enterprise version” of the Vista beta and those with the early Longhorn beta, Microsoft has posted information outlining how Quality of Service (QoS) features work in both operating systems....
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March 08, 2006
He has perhaps the best nickname in technology – John “Maddog” Hall – and he is speaking out later this month at IDG’s LinuxWorld conference....
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March 07, 2006
Microsoft is dead-set focused on making it easier to move to Vista than it ever has been to upgrade to a new Windows OS....
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March 06, 2006
The on-going project known as Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems, has just released its latest update....
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March 03, 2006
Users have heard a lot from Microsoft about Trustworthy Computing, but you can hear a lot more from the horse’s mouth if you plan to attend next week’s CeBit show in Germany....
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March 02, 2006
Microsoft has taken its Vista push overseas telling its European customers that plenty of help will be available in order to understand and migrate to the upcoming operating system....
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March 01, 2006
While Microsoft widened its Exchange Beta 1 program today to more than 200,000 users, it also released a tool Exchange shops can use today on their Exchange platforms....
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February 27, 2006
This just in from Microsoft; it will offer six versions of Vista including an Enterprise version available only to users who have Software Assurance maintenance contracts....
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February 24, 2006
Want to get a network up and running based on Apple’s Tiger server? Then you might want to take a look at the “Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book.”...
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February 24, 2006
Fault-tolerant software specialist Availigent is pointing its Duration 2.1 software at the corporate data center in hopes of untangling the mess of custom coding and other tasks often needed to achieve high availability....
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February 23, 2006
Microsoft has given out nearly $1 million in research and curriculum development grants to various universities that proposed creating course work and teaching modules....
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February 22, 2006
Microsoft has just published a white paper outlining the upcoming networking features of Longhorn Server and the Vista client operating system....
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February 21, 2006
If you are part of an organization that has an open source strategy, there is an interesting trend rising up that has larger commercial software companies snapping up open source start-ups....
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February 16, 2006
Sun is folding the capabilities of its Trusted Solaris Operating Environment into the standard Solaris operating system as a set of extensions....
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February 14, 2006
Much is made of the friction between open source and Microsoft, but the Redmond giant is finding more and more open source developers are turning to Windows as one platform of choice....
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February 13, 2006
On the heels of the four-year anniversary of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing (TC) initiative, and the company’s efforts to publicize it last week, comes this little nugget from our IDG News Service....
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February 10, 2006
Microsoft on Thursday released the first public beta of its ISA Server 2006 along with limited-release previews of new client protection and antivirus software for Exchange....
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February 07, 2006
After months of use by hundreds of thousands of testers, Microsoft said on Tuesday it will launch in June its OneCare Live subscription security and maintenance service for Windows XP SP2 (and later Vista)....
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February 06, 2006
VMWare might be in beta with the new free version of its virtualization software, but the move signals the fight is on....
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February 03, 2006
Reports are running rampant that Google again is marshalling its forces to take on Microsoft – this time in the desktop OS market....
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February 02, 2006
No doubt that Paris is a city where you can find love and Novell did just that getting a group hug at the Solutions Linux conference when it showed off its new Linux Desktop 10....
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February 01, 2006
Microsoft on Wednesday made generally available Windows Server R2 to users and partners and will make it available in the near future to volume licensing customers with Software Assurance maintenance contracts. See the full story here....
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February 01, 2006
A file-trashing worm that has been circulating for a few weeks has finally drawn a security advisory warning from Microsoft....
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January 31, 2006
Samba creator Andrew Tridgell last week released a preview of Samba 4, which focused on support for Active Directory log-on protocols used by Windows 2000 and above....
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January 26, 2006
The European Comminssion said Thursday that Microsoft may not have gone far enough in meeting the EU’s requirements with its offer to license portions of the its Windows source code, according to a report by the IDG News Service....
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January 17, 2006
The Microsoft focused Web site Bink.nu is reporting that Service Pack 3 for Windows XP (Home and Pro) will not be delivered until 2007, which will be after Vista ships....
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January 12, 2006
Earlier this week, Microsoft shuffled its product lifecycle support policies adding that the end of support would align with Patch Tuesday so users with older products would not miss out on patches for products that may have expired just days...
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January 10, 2006
Microsoft plans to ship all the bits for all the versions of Vista in a single package, according to a report on the Windows enthusiast site Bink.nu. Microsoft officials would not confirm the report....
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January 06, 2006
Microsoft this month plans to ship the beta of a tool that will help corporate IT deploy the Windows Vista client operating system when it ships later this year....
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January 05, 2006
Bill Gates on Wednesday delivered his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), including a demonstration of some of the more consumer focused features of Vista, the next version of the company's Windows operating system....
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December 12, 2005
Last week, Microsoft released Windows Server 2003 R2, an interim server release as part of the company’s plan to ship a major server operating system every four years with an interim release in between. After the release, Bob Muglia, the...
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December 05, 2005
Microsoft is likely to release Windows Server 2003 R2 on Tuesday as it has scheduled a Webcast for 9 am (PDT) to talk about its "Windows Server roadmap."...
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December 05, 2005
Microsoft on Sunday released version 2.0 of its Windows Server System Reference Architecture, a lab tested architecture based on the Microsoft family of enterprise servers....
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November 29, 2005
Confused by Microsoft's CTP program, its plan to give developers and other interested parties early looks at the Vista code? Well, it appears Microsoft is also....
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November 28, 2005
Burton J. Smith, who is the co-founder and chief scientific officer at Cray, is jumping ship for a yet-to-be disclosed position at Microsoft....
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November 21, 2005
You may and not know it. Microsoft has released the User Profile Hive Cleanup service, which ensures user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off....
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November 21, 2005
Microsoft has added a tool, called the Microsoft Product Licensing Advisor, to its volume-licensing program that helps users sort through their options for acquiring Microsoft software....
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November 21, 2005
Microsoft last week released a study (that it funded) by Security Innovation, a computer security firm, that concludes Windows is more reliable than Linux. Would you guess that Novell took exception? Is there a greater waste of time than watching...
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November 14, 2005
Microsoft's Exchange 5.5 goes off the support cliff at the end of the year, and blogger Eileen Brown has put together a Blogcast to show you how to turn out the lights on the last 5.5 server....
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November 14, 2005
Microsoft has published a reviewer's guide for using the distributed file system in Windows Server 2003 R2, which is slated to ship by the end of the year. According to Microsoft, the guide includes system requirements, installation instructions, and step-by-step...
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November 14, 2005
Hubert Mantel, who was one of the co-founders of the SuSE Linux project and became a Novell employee in January 2004 when the company acquired the Linux vendors, resigned from the company last week. He’s not the first former Suse...
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November 14, 2005
IBM and Red Hat were among a group of vendors that have funded a venture called the Open Innovation Network. The network will acquire patents and offer they royalty free to promote Linux and open source operating systems. The web...
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November 07, 2005
Centeris, which plans to release in December software called Likewise that lets users manage Linux machines from Windows, is now open sourcing part of its technology. The company will put the Likewise Open Agent on SourceForge and it will be...
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November 07, 2005
Microsoft has released a fix for its Indexing Service in Windows Server 2003. The update enables clients to use the Windows Indexing Service when searching for a network-shared file on a Windows Server 2003-based computer. Previously, the service could not...
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November 07, 2005
Microsoft's patch release for November (the 7th to be exact) will contain one patch. Microsoft said the highest rating on the patch, which is for Windows, is critical and it will require a system restart. In addition, Microsoft will again...
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October 31, 2005
With a $5 million VC nest egg, formerly stealth Centeris last week released its public beta Likewise 1.0, which is software for managing Linux servers via Windows management tools....
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October 31, 2005
If you are keeping score on what is in and what is out of Microsoft’s Vista operating system (and for the record Microsoft says the feature list is not set) the newest addition in anti-spyware, the now standalone tool Microsoft...
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October 31, 2005
Author Tony Bove wants to help users kick the Microsoft habit and he has written a new book titled, "Just Say No To Microsoft."...
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October 24, 2005
Microsoft has released the Microsoft Windows Base Operating System Management Pack, which monitors the performance and availability of the Windows operating system....
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October 24, 2005
Last week at the Gartner Symposium, Microsoft chief executive and accused chair thrower Steve Ballmer admitted Microsoft is winning but one in four deals against Linux when Unix shops decide to switch operating systems....
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October 24, 2005
Now that Microsoft's Active Directory is finding its legs in corporate networks, it's getting time to drop down in the weeds in terms of administration. Microsoft's own IT department has put out a white paper describing its workflow process for...
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October 24, 2005
Microsoft has released System Management Server 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Updates, which is an add-on for SP1 of SMS 2003....
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October 17, 2005
IBM and Novell have combined their chassis and Linux software, respectively; to come up with a subscription option where users get a license for the OS tied to the IBM BladeCenter chassis, which holds 14 blade servers. The pair say...
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October 17, 2005
That's Australian for stinks: Australia's NSW Office of State Revenue (OSR) doesn't like one fact about Microsoft's planned 2006 release of the Vista Enterprise Edition client operating system, namely that it has to have Software Assurance maintenance contract to get...
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October 17, 2005
Microsoft has a pre-release version of its new Management Console (MMS) 3.0 ready for download. MMC will ship with Windows Server 2003 R2 , which is slated for release by the end of the year. The MMC hosts Active-X based...
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October 17, 2005
They are words Microsoft uses sparingly, heterogeneous environment. But the company has just released version 2.0 of its Microsoft Enterprise Services, which tackles issues such as data and messaging consistency across disparate platforms....
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October 11, 2005
Microsoft on Monday introduced its licensing for virtualization and virtual server technology, which allows users to run a certain number of VMs as part of the base licensing of the server operating system. Also, Microsoft will no longer charge users...
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October 11, 2005
While this item isn't exactly a bulls-eye for network operating systems, these Linux adoption stories provide another rollout worth watching to see if Linux can live up to its billing. The latest news has Chinese software vendor Sun Wah Linux...
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October 03, 2005
The Linux distribution with the African name (which means "I am what I am because of who we all are") recently released its latest preview version 5.10 and called Breezy Badger....
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October 03, 2005
Here's the newest add-on for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, the Microsoft Windows Base Operating System Management Pack....
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October 03, 2005
The Cyber Communications Laboratory Group of NTT Laboratories, the R&D affiliate of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, last week started the New Implementation of a Log-structured File System (NILSF) project to develop a log-structured file system for the Linux kernel...
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October 03, 2005
Version 3.0 is designed to simplify the process of restructuring an Active Directory environment. The tools will migrate users from NT to Active Directory, between AD domains in different directory forests and between domains in the same forest. It also...
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September 28, 2005
Microsoft is planning a number of Webcasts next month to educate IT about the coming features in Windows Server 2003 R2, such as identity federation, branch office support and storage management. The Webcasts begin on Oct. 4 with a new...
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September 28, 2005
Novell has published 10 reasons why users should choose its Linux version over that of Red Hat (and I assume any other operating system regardless of logo)....
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September 28, 2005
Earlier this month, Microsoft made another round of changes to its Software Assurance program for software maintenance....
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September 28, 2005
O’Reilly has just published Windows Server 2003 Network Administration, a step-by-step guide to configuring and managing TCP/IP networking software on Windows server systems. The book is co-authored by Craig Hunt and Roberta Bragg and is targeted at experienced system administrators....
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September 13, 2005
Some aging moons are rediscovering their orbits around Sun namely Solaris and x86 as part of the vendor's Galaxy initiative. The folks over at Illuminata see the celestial good in all of it....
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September 06, 2005
Microsoft says given feedback from users of its beta 1 of Longhorn Server, due to ship in 2007, that the Intel Itanium-based version of the server will be optimized for databases, and customized and line-of-business applications....
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August 29, 2005
Microsoft is extending for six-months support for Software Update Services (SUS) 1.0, its free enterprise server for downloading patches....
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August 29, 2005
Novell is localizing its Suse Linux operating system in five Indian languages: Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali and Gujarati languages....
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August 29, 2005
Okay, here's a mouthful: Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005....
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August 29, 2005
Microsoft has issued an update that applies to XP Embedded SP2 database that is made up of five new or reissued security bulletins. They are: MS05-004, MS05-019, MS05-025, MS05-026, and MS05-027. The update also rolls in all previous SP2 database...
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August 22, 2005
Novell plans to release Service Pack 1 for its Open Enterprise Server on Aug. 31 and will host an online seminar to outline SP1 features designed to improve security and reliability....
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August 15, 2005
Red Hat isn't making any commitments, but after promising to develop directory and certificate management software, Netscape technology it obtained from AOL, the next in line could be messaging. What's that old saying that no one buys an operating system,...
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August 15, 2005
Sept.12, 2005, Sun is taking the wraps off "significant innovation," including, "record-breaking" servers for the datacenter and network driven desktop offering....
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August 08, 2005
Network World reviewer Tom Henderson has taken an IT perspective on the first beta for Microsoft Vista, the new client operating system formerly called Longhorn. This first beta is private and will be followed by a public beta early next...
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August 08, 2005
The details on the next version of Exchange are still being worked out but Microsoft says a future version of the messaging server will be integrated with its Speech Server....
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July 18, 2005
Windows system recovery and data protection vendor Winternals Software has released Winternals Recovery Manager, a centralized recovery solution....
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July 18, 2005
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Tibco and SAP have all earned those coveted little dots in the "Leaders" quadrant of Gartner's 2005 Magic Quadrant for Web Services Platforms. For those building out their networks in the image of a services world, this...
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July 11, 2005
The founders of the Ubuntu Linux-based operating system, Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Ltd, have created The Ubuntu Foundation and funded it with an initial commitment of $10 million....
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July 11, 2005
It will be July 26th before you know it and that is the date Microsoft will begin automatically delivering Windows Server 2003 SP1 via Automatic Updates, Windows Update and Microsoft Update....
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July 05, 2005
Microsoft today kicked off TechEd Europe, including much hype around the upcoming Nov. release of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, and the beta release of BizTalk Server 2006. Blogger Steven Bink is in Amsterdam and giving a blow-by-blow....
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June 27, 2005
What good is an OS without something to run on it? Microsoft is offering a set of learning tools to get up to speed on the forthcoming (and long anticipated) shipment of SQL Server 2005. Check out the collection of...
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June 20, 2005
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 2003 server R2 will ship before the end of the year, a slight slip from the "fall" timeframe Microsoft had originally announced. Active Directory Federation Services remains a highlights of the release....
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June 20, 2005
Paraglyph Press has released another book in its "degunking" series, this one titled "Degunking Linux." Authored by Roderick Smith, the book shows Linux users how save time setting up, configuring, customizing, and cleaning up a Linux OS installation....
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June 20, 2005
Theo de Raadt, open source pioneer and founder of the OpenBSD operating system, took a shot last week at Linux and its community of developers in a Forbes magazine interview calling the rival OS "terrible."...
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May 31, 2005
Network World tester Tom Henderson has reviewed the 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2003 and reports some of the best performance he’s seen on Intel/AMD architectures. But it’s not without a catch....
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May 23, 2005
With Red Hat expected to release to the open-source community its directory technology, acquired last year from AOL, a gap is being filled in the open source software stack. Red Hat also plans to offer a commercial version of the...
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May 17, 2005
Next week, May 24, Microsoft will hold a Web cast titled “Identity Management,” a look at where Microsoft products are today and where support for Web services protocols will take them in the future....
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May 17, 2005
MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte was out this week talking about a plan by the MIT Media Lab to produce a $100 Linux-based laptop that could be provided to school-aged children worldwide....
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May 09, 2005
Microsoft has made available for download the first public beta of the next release of its server OS, called Windows Server 2003 R2....
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May 09, 2005
Through its open source project and its commercial distribution, Red Hat could succeed in making its file system a de facto standard. The guys over at Illuminata give their take on the situation....
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May 04, 2005
The word "wave" is Microsoft's favorite these days to describe the rollout of new and inter-related products. But the company also thinks another type of wave is coming, which is a wave of IT shops adopting 64-bit technology. Microsoft thinks...
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May 04, 2005
With open source on its plate and cash in its bank account can Novell make a run at a comeback? My colleague Deni Connor writes about the momentum Novell has now and what it might mean for the future....
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May 04, 2005
Making the jump off the sunken NT ship? Microsoft on Friday, May 6 will host a Webcast entitled "How to Accomplish Familiar Windows NT 4.0 Tasks in Windows Server 2003." The Webcast includes topics such as adding users, changing passwords,...
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April 25, 2005
Microsoft at its WinHEC conference this week will formally release their 64-bit operating systems for the client and server. In addition, the company will release the first public beta of Windows Server 2003 R2 and a developer preview of the...
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April 25, 2005
Linux expert David Brickner has just released a guidebook for test driving Linux aimed at Windows users. In Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in 60 Seconds, Brickner says, “you’ll learn what Linux is, how it works, what it...
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April 13, 2005
If you used the registry key Microsoft provided last year to temporarily block Windows XP’s Automatic Update feature from downloading XP Service Pack 2 your time is up. Companies should have already made decisions on XP SP2 updates and those...
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April 13, 2005
Two independent studies last week expose IT attitudes toward Windows vs. Linux and the bottom line is that the Penguin must put up or shut-up when it comes to corporate evaluations/deployments....
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March 28, 2005
The Windows enthusiast and news web site Bink.nu has put together a nice list of available whitepapers from Microsoft on such topics as patch management, server consolidation, Windows NT migrations and identity integration. Certainly worth a click through for any...
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March 28, 2005
Network World’s Clear Choice Test conducted by Thomas Henderson takes a look at the Linux derivative of Solaris 10. Henderson loads the OS up on nearly a dozen servers and hammers away on everything from security to administration. Just like...
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March 14, 2005
Network World’s review of Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 is complete and the word is that it’s worth the price of admission based on running multiple instances of the Windows operating system and migration tools. Read the results to see how...
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March 14, 2005
More reports on the rising (red) tide on Linux in a recent report from IDC that shows sales of Linux in China were up 20% last year and are expected to grow another 13 percent this year with an annual...
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March 07, 2005
Is your IT shop chomping at the Windows 64-bit? If so, you might want to consider a visit to Microsoft’s annual WinHEC show April 25-27. The flavor is expected to be decidedly 64-bit....
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March 07, 2005
Microsoft’s Exchange team is evaluating the possibility of shipping the next version of the software on one DVD instead of multiple CDs. Let them know what you think about that idea....
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February 28, 2005
Microsoft is taking the team approach to its blogging. The Exchange team and Windows Server team have both started up new blogs to discuss the ins and out of their respective software and development work....
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February 21, 2005
Well Microsoft is giving anti-spyware away to consumers so said Bill Gates during his RSA keynote, but enterprise shops, who will want to manage this like anti-virus software, will have to pay for it....
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February 21, 2005
If you didn’t’ digest all of our LinuxWorld coverage last week, go here. Backup, virtualization, clustering, it is all there....
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February 21, 2005
Microsoft is reminding customers that the temporary block on delivering Windows XP SP2 via Automatic Update is set to expire on April 12th. That date might seem like a long way away, but users should make a decision on upgrades...
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February 14, 2005
This week all the big supporters of Linux, including IBM, Sun, HP, Novell and RedHat, will be going to bat for the open source operating system. This might be a good week to keep an eye on the latest updates...
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February 14, 2005
In the wake of its acquisition of Sybari, Microsoft has published a paper detailing its work to help IT thwart viruses and worms within their messaging and collaboration infrastructure....
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February 14, 2005
IBM last week began offering two low-end Unix servers, the P5 510 and 510 Express, priced at less than $5,000. The new one-way and two-way servers are based on IBM’s Power5 processor. Look for IBM, HP and Sun to price...
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January 24, 2005
Novell continues to ratchet up the Web seminars offering free advice on how to add its Linux Enterprise Server into your network. This week, Jan. 25, 26, 27, the company will present seminars on Adding Linux to your NetWare Environment,...
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January 24, 2005
First it was Windows and now it is Exchange. It appears Microsoft is sticking its configuration wizard anywhere it can....
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January 18, 2005
Well, probably not, but Microsoft last week did ship two patches for NT even though the software reached the end of its life Dec. 31. Microsoft said the patches were in the works when the NT death knell sounded so...
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January 10, 2005
Market-watcher Sageza Group in its latest Market Roundup newsletter wonders if Microsoft’s push into the security market with anti-virus and anti-spyware tools will have an impact in any meaningful way. It is a good question....
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January 10, 2005
One major issue for Microsoft this year will be virtualization technology (the vendor released Virtual Server late last year), according to Gartner....
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December 06, 2004
Another feather in the Linux cap, perhaps? The latest study from Osterman Research says that 40% of IT managers would consider switching their e-mail system to the Linux platform as long as it did not disrupt current operations and did...
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December 06, 2004
Want to know how Microsoft did it? The vendor published a paper detailing its upgrade from Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 SP1 to Microsoft Operations Manager 2005....
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December 06, 2004
Microsoft has made available WINS Replication Blocker Script version 1.0, which will protect users from remote hosts looking to exploit a vulnerability in the WINS Replication protocol operating over TCP or UDP port 42. The sample script can be used...
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December 06, 2004
Windows XP Starter Edition, a "stripped" down, low-cost version of the OS for foreign markets will be made available in Malaysia and Indonesia later this month and in India and Russia early next year, according to a report by Reuters....
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December 01, 2004
Microsoft says that it will not develop the planned Service Pack 5 for Windows 2000 Server but instead will offer a set of security updates early next year....
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November 09, 2004
Microsoft last week added a twist to its patch process and will now provide all users with three-days advanced notification before its regularly scheduled patch release....
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November 09, 2004
Novell had a bit of a swagger going with its Linux wares, infrastructure software, IBM and Dell partnerships and strong rebuke of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for his public Linux bashing, along comes another bump in the road – the...
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November 01, 2004
Keep an eye out this week for InfiniPath Interconnect, a new clustering technology for Linux designed to increase performance, scalability and throughput of Linux clusters and move them into the realm of high-performance computing....
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November 01, 2004
Starting on Nov. 3, Novell and IBM are launching a 23 city tour to education people on Novell’s Open Enterprise Server, which is based on Novell’s Suse Linux....
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October 11, 2004
Microsoft put up on its TechNet Web site last week Interoperability and Migration Center for IT. The site includes help with integrating Windows server and client operating systems with or migrating away from other operating systems: Apple, IBM, Linux, NetWare...
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October 11, 2004
Last week the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) reported to the NTBugTraq mailing list that it has a new PGP key that it will use to sign all security bulletin notifications. The MSRC is encouraging those who send sensitive information...
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October 11, 2004
Next month Novell will release SUSE Linux Professional 9.2, a consumer desktop and a preview of what Novell plans to offer corporations in the next 18-24 months for desktop Linux computing. The OS includes both the GNOME 2.6 and KDE...
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October 04, 2004
There have been plenty of rants about the financial implications of Microsoft’s Software Assurance program for software maintenance, which can be evidenced by the number of tweaks Microsoft has made to the program....
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October 04, 2004
With Zombie-spoof flick Shaun of the Dead now in theaters it must be that time of the year again. Not wanting to be left out, high-tech has this little tidbit from Gartner predicting that some 80% of the PCs with...
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September 27, 2004
What do NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, four of the leading Department of Energy National Labs, and the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) have in commom? They all run Linux-based clusters that were optimized...
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September 27, 2004
While Microsoft never promised to back port XP SP2 security features to other desktop operating systems or Internet Explorer, last week it became official that it won’t happen. And by sheer coincidence, I think, Microsoft also released a white paper...
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September 20, 2004
By Microsoft’s own admission the release last week of Service Pack 1 for Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 was not that big, mostly a rollup of engineering software updates....
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September 20, 2004
Think Novell isn’t gunning for a rematch with Microsoft, check out last weeks quotes from Jack Messman, Novell CEO and chairman of the board, who took the stump for Linux at Novell Brainshare Europe....
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September 13, 2004
Novell is providing a 30-day evaluation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, including free installation support and upgrade protection. The server features the 2.6 Linux kernel, enhanced system management and developer tools. The 2.6 kernel features NUMA and hypterthreading, while...
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September 13, 2004
The UserLinux Project has released its first beta CD. UserLinux is based on Debian and variants for the server and desktop will be made available in both source and ISO formats. The UserLinux mission is to “provide businesses with freely...
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September 06, 2004
Microsoft has released a spreadsheet that lists the full set of Group Policy settings that shipped with Windows XP SP2. Group Policy supports the configuration of clients, servers and users within Active Directory. The Group Policy spreadsheet, which can be...
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September 01, 2004
Microsoft has updated its Windows XP Service Pack 2 support tools with seven new tools. The tools are for support personnel and will help in diagnosing and resolving problems with XP SP2. The tools are not for upgrading NT or...
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August 30, 2004
With the imminent extinction of (support for) NT and the proliferation of directory-based applications, especially those in the identity management realm, Microsoft has scheduled a murder’s row of 15 Webcasts in five days on everything from Active Directory’s basic fundamentals...
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August 30, 2004
Linspire, the San Diego company working like dogs to bite the heels of Windows on the desktop, has developed an open source version of the Internet dialer software for AOL, which has some 90 million plus users. The software will...
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August 24, 2004
PatchManagement.org, an independent mailing list, has a new list dedicated exclusively to issues surrounding the management and deployment of Windows XP SP2....
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August 24, 2004
Reports from Steven Bink’s Microsoft insider Web-site say that Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, a performance and monitoring tool and one of the cornerstones of Microsoft’s management strategy for the Windows platform, will be sent to manufacturing on Sept. 13....
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August 18, 2004
Microsoft last week unveiled an extension to its Windows XP Starter Edition program, a "stripped" down, low-cost version of the OS for foreign markets feeling the lure of Linux....
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August 18, 2004
Installed Windows XP SP2 or thinking about it? Check this list from Microsoft about known applications, including a host from Microsoft itself, that “may behave differently after you install Windows XP SP2.”...
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August 09, 2004
Now that Windows XP Service Pack 2 is released, it seems like a good time to remind people that the software could break applications. Microsoft even admitted last week that it broke its own CRM application and posted a work...
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August 09, 2004
It’s like a maddening refrain for IT people, when they hear “it’s not the technology holding us back, it’s the politics.” Well in this case, it’s the legalities that have forced the city of Munich’s 14,000 desktop migration to Linux...
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August 03, 2004
It's no secret that users have been advised to thoroughly test Windows XP SP2 before rolling it out, but the real trick might be getting the final software in your hands when it ships later this month....
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August 03, 2004
A report posted on a Windows enthusiast site this week says Microsoft is delaying the release of Windows Server R2 until the first quarter of 2006. Microsoft officials say the ship date has not changed from its announced release in...
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July 27, 2004
The second beta has been released for the much anticipated, and often delayed, SQL Server first introduced with the code name Yukon. Microsoft said Beta 2, which will go to nearly one million testers as compared to the roughly 3,000...
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July 19, 2004
The Washington Post reported last week that Microsoft is delighted by a recent memorandum from the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that says government agencies making technology purchase decisions must remain vendor neutral. Read: we won’t mandate the...
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July 19, 2004
Microsoft is expecting a big year this (fiscal) year (which started July1) for migrations off of NT. Of course, that optimism may be due in part to the fact that NT support is going away at the end of the...
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July 12, 2004
Or is it? You can never be certain with Microsoft. But the company said on Monday that the long-awaited, long-hyped Windows XP SP 2 would ship in August, just a few days (or weeks perhaps) beyond the “end of July”...
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July 12, 2004
Reports are that Microsoft plans to include its Services for Unix (SFU), which supports the integration of Unix and Windows environments, as part of the Longhorn operating system slated to ship in 2007. Currently, SFU is a free add-on for...
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July 05, 2004
There is a lot of talk about server consolidation these days, especially from Microsoft with Windows Server 2003 and its Virtual Server 2005, which went into final beta testing last month. Now the software giant plans to disclose how it...
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July 05, 2004
This week Dell introduced its first line of Linux-based desktop computers in Europe as part of a partnership with Questar. The computers, shipped by Dell, are pre-installed with the English or Italian version of the Linspire OS, formerly Lindows, and...
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June 21, 2004
There's no doubt that Linux has gotten the attention of the folks in Redmond, but with the latest news out of Munich, Germany, last week (14,000 Linux desktops to replace Windows) it should be getting the attention of IT shops....
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June 21, 2004
Critics have said Windows XP Service Pack 2 may be just the software to jump start Microsoft's Group Policy Object (GPO) technology. IT can use GPO to lock down desktops are ensure users don't add software or change anything. XP's...
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June 14, 2004
Here is a novel new way to automatically receive Microsoft security bulletins - RSS feeds. Last week the company started making available its bulletins via the syndication software that is popular with bloggers (another hot topic at Microsoft). Microsoft has...
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June 14, 2004
Redmond's Bill Gates is getting a new neighbor. Portland's Oregonian newspaper reported that Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, is moving to Beaverton, Ore., from his home in California to oversee the Open Source Development Labs, which are just over...
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June 07, 2004
If Harry Potter can do it so can Microsoft (you hope). The company last month published its Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide, which looks to be a worthwhile offering for IT folks. The paper provides an overview of different types of malicious...
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June 07, 2004
It may be beneficial to keep an eye on Sun's open source initiative for Solaris. In fact, it may be beneficial to offer Sun your opinion. The company says it is soliciting feedback from customers on the proposal for the...
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May 24, 2004
Speaking at Microsoft's government leaders forum last week CEO Steve Ballmer told the audience, "I guarantee you our company will have the most secure software in the world." Although Ballmer said computer security in general would not get better in...
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May 17, 2004
Microsoft last week released the first comprehensive roadmap for Windows Server going forward. A stake in the ground on the ship date for Longhorn Server highlights the five-year plan, but under the covers Microsoft has set up its delivery of...
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May 17, 2004
Want to know how Microsoft secures its own IT environment, check out this presentation published last week by the company . The white paper cover security strategy, risk management, threat vectors and a host of other topics that walk through...
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May 17, 2004
Microsoft's annual Tech Ed confab is sold out for May23-28 in San Diego. If you aren't signed up, follow the most important IT announcements on our site during the week....
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May 11, 2004
The Microsoft offensive on Linux desktop vendor Linspire, formerly called Lindows, rolls on. Microsoft filed a new complaint this week against Linspire in Dutch courts....
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May 11, 2004
Last week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, Bill Gates, Microsoft's chief software architect, read the eulogy for the floppy disk and ushered in the era of the flash device....
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May 03, 2004
Research firm Illuminata writes about what many in the media already know: cross the open source faithful and reap the hate mail. But what impact does that have on attitudes toward open source, Illuminata asks. The basic conclusion is it's...
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May 03, 2004
It's no wonder that given the licensing issues Microsoft has faced over the past couple of years that someone would finally get a support group together. So mark your calendars for June 10th if you live within or close to...
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April 26, 2004
SpecOps Laboratories, a privately held Philippine corporation chartered in June 2002, is developing what it says is a next generation OS platform called David. If that sounds a bit Biblical (read vs. Goliath), the whole project has religious overtones with...
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April 26, 2004
Search engine. Gmail. Operating System. The original Saturday Night Live troupe had a skit that turned on the argument as to whether a product called Shimmer was a desert topping or a floor wax. As it turns out, it was...
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April 26, 2004
There has never been a service pack for Windows 98 SE until Alper Coskun. Since January, Coskun has been making available a service pack for the aging Windows OS that he put together using all the 98 SE updates Microsoft...
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April 19, 2004
Don't want to load up a machine, and a licensing contract, with Microsoft's Virtual Server, VMware or any other virtual server software?, Well, cruise on over to the Cooperative Linux (coLinux) project and check out the early beta of its...
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April 19, 2004
You've done the beta testing for free so why not volunteer to become part of the Windows Server development team. Hit this link for an online survey and to submit your ideas for future features that could end up in...
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April 19, 2004
Microsoft is visiting 20 cities (five down already) with its Security Summit that runs until June 22. The event is not so much to tell IT types what is new but what is already available that Microsoft feels is not...
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April 12, 2004
If tending to Microsoft's operating system keeps the food on the table, you'll want to be in San Diego at the end of May for Microsoft's annual TechEd conference (plus MEC, for you Exchange admins). The thrifty will sign up...
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April 05, 2004
It's been a few years since Microsoft's Active Directory first hit the scene, which generated a database worth of critique on its ability to serve enterprise networks. Now four years later, an upcoming survey shows that the directory is finding...
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April 05, 2004
Cats and dogs living together. Sun and Microsoft working together. If asked which statement was true before last Friday's love feat, most would have gone with the feline/canine thing. But the shake of hands between McNealy and Ballmer could really...
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March 29, 2004
The name NetWare may be going away, but Novell surely isn't. Invigorated by its investments and strategy around the open-source software, Novell is planning to turn a corner and launch a strike. Of course, the age-old question Novell always faces...
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March 29, 2004
It's no secret Microsoft has been toying with the search engine concept recently, but CEO Steve Ballmer says the fact the company hasn't done anything with the technology is a grave mistake. Read what he had to say at the...
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March 29, 2004
It took a month but EV1Servers.Net (EV1), the hosting division of Everyones Internet and the first company to announce it had paid SCO to license its Linux intellectual property, now says it wouldn't make the same decision today....
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March 22, 2004
Want to test Microsoft's theory on its commitment to make its software more secure? Those that do should wander over to the Microsoft Web site and get a copy of Windows XP service pack 2. It is posted here. Microsoft...
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March 22, 2004
Linux vendor Lindows is finding it difficult to use its chosen name in smaller countries due to the strong arm tactics of Microsoft. So the company is looking for suggestions to find a new name to hang its hat on...
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March 15, 2004
The issue of patch management is on the lips of nearly every IT manager and this week Microsoft is expected to discuss updates for its patch management roadmap. Microsoft has Software Update Services 2.0, which is finally going to reach...
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March 08, 2004
Gordon Haff, senior analyst and IT advisor at research firm Illuminata, has put together his take on Linux 2.6. He says the new 2.6 features aren't a revolution but are significant including scalability upgrades. He says, "collectively, they define an...
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March 08, 2004
If you haven't dived into Windows Server 2003 but are thinking about how it might support a portal infrastructure, Microsoft has recently released an overview and a set of architectural guidelines for its Windows SharePoint Services. Microsoft has been jumping...
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March 01, 2004
Talk has gone back and forth on whether Microsoft's leaked source code could present a playground for hackers. With the jury being out until vulnerabilities show up (and a few have), research firm Gartner says its better to be protected...
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March 01, 2004
Retread may be more like it. Microsoft isn't quite owning up to an add-on kit for Windows XP, but it is saying that something called XP Reloaded is a range of options "to add value to XP." Corporate types don't...
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February 23, 2004
Every IT guy knows that you can't keep your Windows software up and running without a little help from Microsoft, that's why the company designed its TechNet Web site. Well, now the site is being redesigned and Microsoft is seeking...
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February 23, 2004
Help is on the way for company's stuck with applications on Windows NT 4.0. Support for the well-aged operating system is over at the end of this year, but before that date Microsoft will release its Virtual Server 2004. The...
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February 16, 2004
Novell fresh off a $210 million acquisition of SuSE Linux and a $50 million infusion of capital from IBM is ready to mount its big foray into the Linux world. The company is planning a Webinar next week (2/25) called...
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February 16, 2004
Keeping your NOS, and your other network servers, patched and healthy is a hot button topic these days. Microsoft has been routinely criticized for its mish-mash of tools and techniques for keeping its systems healthy. New tools are slated for...
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February 10, 2004
Michael Robertson, CEO of Lindows.com, and a tireless advocate for the Linux desktop in favor of Windows, is gearing up for the "windows" trademark lawsuit that begins in Seattle on March 1st. Lindows, which plans to introduce 504 "exhibits" at...
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February 10, 2004
Blogger Dana Epp says it is time for Microsoft to break backward compatibility and it should start with Longhorn. Epp, a computer security software architect, says sections of Microsoft's code should be rewritten to remove "dead weight" and make the...
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October 20, 2003
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stands up in front of a convention full of business partners one week to again reiterate that security is job No. 1 at Microsoft and backs it up with a rehash of plans for 2004 to...
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September 16, 2003
First it was Munich, Germany, now its Japan, China and South Korea. Later this month, the trio will hammer out the details on developing an open-source operating system, likely based on Linux, as a challenger to Windows. Japan plans to...
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September 08, 2003
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a vocal critic of Microsoft, is urging the Department of Homeland Security to reconsider its decision to outfit its desktops and server room with Microsoft software. The group cites "major security failures" as...
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August 18, 2003
Linux continues its march forward toward respectability, this time at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is building a 256-node, 64-bit Infiniband cluster, the largest such cluster to date, the Lab says. The Linux-based cluster, named Orange, will become part...
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August 11, 2003
It didn't take long for The SCO Group lawsuit to grab center stage at the LinuxWorld conference this week as Red Hat revealed it had filed a formal complaint against SCO as a means to hold "SCO accountable for its...
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June 23, 2003
In another move that should get a twitch out of Microsoft, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has joined Open Source Development Labs, a consortium focused on developing the Linux operating system for corporate use. The addition of Torvalds could help accelerate...
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May 26, 2003
The SCO story continues its weirdness with Microsoft jumping into the fray by licensing the company's technology. It doesn't look like much more than an effort to validate SCO's claims that Linux is infringing on SCO's intellectual property rights regarding...
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May 19, 2003
There may be more cannons rolling around loose on the deck of ship SCO than originally thought, experts are saying up and down discussion lists on the Web....
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May 05, 2003
Is Windows Server 2003 more secure than any other Windows operating system? You be the judge. Check out a couple of guides that Microsoft has released in conjunction with the sever: Windows Server 2003 Security Guide and Threats and Countermeasures:...
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April 21, 2003
It took three years, and three name changes but Microsoft on April 24th will release the next version of its operating system - Windows Server 2003. While companies may not rush out the door to get it, Microsoft said last...
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April 14, 2003
In the next few weeks, Microsoft customers will have another OS at their disposal but what might be more interesting is how the software giant is delivering Windows Server 2003 and all its capabilities. Some of the highly touted features,...
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