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Microsoft Delivers Pair of Internet Explorer Betas
Microsoft Corp. made available to beta testers on Wednesday two slightly different test versions of Internet Explorer 7.0, the next version of the company’s Web browser. Microsoft included IE 7.0 bits in the Beta 1 build of Windows Vista that the company began distributing, via download, to beta testers on Wednesday. It also released a…
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Intel Trickles Out Dual-Core Servers
Intel Corp. says its chips are better together when it comes to servers. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip giant has begun pitching new server platforms, which bundle processors such as its forthcoming dual-core Xeons, with other silicon bits and add special features such as virtualization, to businesses early. As expected, the chip maker got the…
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Gates Touts Advances in Security Tools
REDMOND, Wash.—Security remains one of the biggest concerns for Microsoft over the coming year and beyond. Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie, a Microsoft chief technology officer, spoke on a wide range of issues, but they singled out security as among the key focuses of the company. The two spoke…
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Microsoft’s Sights Set on New Windows, Office Versions
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. plans to introduce a number of new versions for Windows and Office, including an enterprise version of the upcoming Windows Vista and a premium version of Office 12, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at the company’s annual financial analyst meeting here on Thursday. Read more here about the first beta of Windows…
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Beta Testers Get First Look at Windows Vista
The long-awaited first beta for the Windows Vista client release, which was formerly known as Longhorn, officially goes live Wednesday, hitting some 20,000 technical beta testers. Microsoft also Wednesday released the first beta of the as-yet un-renamed Windows “Longhorn” Server to a limited number of participants in the technical beta program, including hardware manufacturers, OEMs,…
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Microsoft Delivers the ‘Other’ Longhorn Beta 1
While Vista Beta 1 is stealing most of the headlines this week, Microsoft also is delivering simultaneously on Wednesday to a select group of private testers the first beta of its Longhorn Server product. Microsoft has not yet decided on a final name for the next version of its Windows Server operating system (other than…
