Microsoft to require Windows piracy check

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Jan 26, 20052 mins

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Microsoft to require Windows piracy check, 01/26/05

Microsoft Tuesday said that in mid-2005 it will put a piracy lock on two of its download Web sites, requiring all Windows XP and Windows 2000 users to validate their copy of Windows as genuine before downloading software.

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CA CEO-to-be begins revamp, 01/24/05

Incoming Computer Associates CEO John Swainson made his first executive changes at the company last week by shuffling two of its top executives. Swainson placed company veteran Russell Artzt in charge of CA’s product portfolio and moved CA’s previous …

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Kavado unveils Defiance TMS for Web application protection, 01/24/05

Kavado, which for several years has offered its Web application security firewall InterDo that blocks attacks through intrusion prevention, is coming out with a new product called Defiance that also takes advantage of intrusion detection to passively …

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Blade vendors sharpen focus on management, 01/24/05

As companies in growing numbers consider blade servers to handle critical business workloads, they are looking beyond the power and space savings they can get and are demanding more when it comes to the tools to manage these compact systems.

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Vendor extends patch tools to Linux, Unix, 01/24/05

Patch management vendor New Boundary Technologies is expanding the range of its software beyond Windows to answer user demands for cross-platform support that will address vulnerabilities, regardless of where they exist on the network.

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