Recent Articles
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Microsoft Gives a Heads-Up on Security Fixes
In its first use of a new policy on security-update disclosure, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that next week’s scheduled security updates for the month of November will consist of a single fix for ISA Server. The new Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification is the first example of a new monthly practice the company announced Thursday.…
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MS Office 12’s Competition: Its Older Versions and Linux Suites
As Microsoft preps another version of its Office productivity suite, a small group of software vendors waits for an opening in the competitive landscape. However, analysts suggest that the greatest competition to Microsoft’s updated software remains older versions of Office. According to sources, Microsoft Corp. is briefing selected partners and customers about the forthcoming family…
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For Sale: Cisco Firewall Source Code
A group that earlier this year offered for sale the source code of a popular intrusion detection system now is selling what it says is a copy of the source code for a recent version of Cisco Systems Inc.’s PIX firewall. A member of the Source Code Club, which first surfaced in July, posted a…
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MS Office 12’s Secrets Begin to Trickle Out
Microsoft still isn’t ready to talk publicly about Office 12, its next major release of its information-worker family of products. But the company is briefing selected partners and customers about the forthcoming family of Office desktop and server products. According to partner sources who requested anonymity, Microsoft has established an internal Office 12 ship calendar…
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Wanted: Wi-Fi Channels
Perhaps the organizers of the Wireless World Summit in London were a bit overambitious but they did, honestly, try to attract the people who mattered. So who do you think was missing? It wasn’t the mobile operators. They were there: T-Mobile, Hutchison “3,” mmO2, and BT Mobile, for example—and we’re talking CEO-level delegates. Nor were…
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HP, Brocade Integrate SAN Switching, Blade Architecture
IT managers concerned about deploying blade technology into heterogeneous environments may have an easier time of it with the recent announcement that Brocade’s SAN (storage area network) switching capabilities will be integrated into the Hewlett-Packard BladeSystem architecture. The integrated offering embeds a 4 Gbit-per-second Brocade Fibre Channel fabric switch into the HP BladeSystem, which itself…
