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Microsoft extends NT, Exchange support, 12/13/04
Corporations that have yet to migrate or finish migrations from Windows NT were thrown a bone last week by Microsoft , which extended fee-based custom support for the expiring NT and Exchange 5.5 platforms.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304extensions.html?nl
Desktop search avalanche set to hit, 12/10/04
Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves are all set to jump into the desktop search space, two months after Internet search leader Google offered a test version of a tool that lets users search for information stored on their desktop computers.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1210desktsearc.html?nl
Longhorn Server to have one version for many roles, 12/10/04
Microsoft will let customers configure the next major release of Windows Server for specific server tasks, rather than selling a host of different Windows Server Longhorn editions tailored to those tasks, a company executive said Friday.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1210longhserve.html?nl
Microsoft readies Windows Server 2003 R2 beta, 12/09/04
Microsoft has started recruiting testers for the first beta of Windows Server 2003 R2, an update to Windows Server that the vendor plans to ship in October next year.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1209updat-mic.html?nl
Newsletter: The three laws of identity, 12/08/04
If Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s architect of directory services, had been a physicist, there might be one or two fewer buildings in Redmond today, and more holes in the …
https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/dir/2004/1206id2.html?nl
Microsoft in final testing on Windows Server 2003 SP1, 12/07/04
Microsoft Tuesday made available to beta testers a nearly finalized version of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1207msws03.html?nl
Opinion: Gates spam problem not quite as bad as first reported, 12/07/04
Remember that story about Bill Gates getting 4 million spam messages a day? The source was Steve Ballmer. Seems he misstated the problem just a wee bit: Gates gets 4 million spam e-mails A YEAR . Still a lot, to be sure, but honestly, does anybody …
https://www.nwfusion.com/compendium/2004/006956.html?nl
Industry group formed to track and thwart IM threats, 12/07/04
A group of Internet security and instant messaging providers Tuesday said they have teamed up to detect and thwart the growing threat of IM and peer-to-peer viruses and worms.
