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VoiceCon: Microsoft to offer first public beta of Office VoIP products, 03/07/07
Microsoft Wednesday will unveil the first public beta of its Office Communications Server and Office Communicator client, the heart of its unified communications strategy.
VoiceCon: Microsoft to the VoIP industry: we’re here, 03/07/07
Microsoft introduced the public beta version of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 at VoiceCon. Following the announcement, Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president, of Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group, discussed with Network World Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth how Microsoft’s SIP-based VoIP, messaging and collaboration server fits in, and competes, in the enterprise convergence market.
DOJ, states concerned about Vista docs, 03/07/07
The Department of Justice and state attorneys general are concerned that Microsoft is revising deadlines that it agreed to as part of its antitrust settlement. At issue are changes that Microsoft says it needs to make in the schedule for releasing documentation related to Vista, according to a court document filed Tuesday.
Microsoft hits Google over book search model, 03/06/07
A Microsoft attorney will attack Google’s book search service in a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers, saying Google is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business model.
Microsoft shows off telescopes, game-like tools, other research, 03/06/07
Microsoft Tuesday kicked off its annual TechFest show of research projects by highlighting Internet-based telescopes, game-like software development tools, and new search and collaboration techniques.
Vista activation crack a ‘joke,’ says hacker, 03/05/07
The unknown hacker who claimed last week that a tool he’d created could generate valid Windows Vista activation codes has admitted that the crack was cracked.
Novell ships translator for OpenXML as fruit of Microsoft partnership, 03/05/07
Amid the simmering debate over open file formats, Novell has released a translator that lets users open and save Microsoft’s OpenXML files in versions of the OpenOffice.org word processing program.
DOT gov’t department bans Microsoft upgrades for now, 03/05/07
The U.S. Department of Transportation has quietly put the kibosh on Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), banning upgrades to those Microsoft products — at least for now.
Tool cracks Vista activation for the ultrapatient, 03/02/07
A Web site posted a tool Thursday that can apparently crack Windows Vista’s activation process by applying brute force — and lots of time — to come up with valid product keys, circumventing one of Microsoft’s most important antipiracy methods.
Microsoft video gives first glimpse of Longhorn virtualization technology, 03/02/07
Despite the fact that the first public beta of Microsoft’s new Windows Server Virtualization technology is not due out until this summer, corporate users can get a glimpse of things to come via an online demo.
From Microsoft Subnet: Vista beta exam testers need to try harder next time
Getting the opportunity to play around with beta products is fun but is it fun to test out beta software exams? Not so for some testers of Microsoft’s beta Vista exams.
