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For some, migration to unified messaging is a key component of VoIP plans. For others, voice messaging replacement has a new urgency and is being addressed separately. Many factors lead to this renewed interest: obsolescence of legacy voicemail systems, e-discovery and compliance rules, and the need for new capabilities to support remote workers. Finally, enterprises are looking to reduce the cost of managing complex disparate systems assembled by distributed purchasing or acquisition of other businesses.

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Microsoft is now a major sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation and is putting its protocols and formats into a royalty-free license, all part of a larger open-source push.

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The Debian project’s maintainer Luk Claes said July 21 he will freeze “testing” the “Lenny” tree “next week” as he prepares for the stable release of Debian Linux in September.
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At OSCON, Microsoft announces support for the Ruby specification effort and says it will participate in the RubySpec project.
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The Yahoo Zimbra Beta allows all 263 million Yahoo Mail customers to access mail and calendars offline. Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3, available July 24, will let users run their Yahoo mail as desktop POP or IMAP mail client software.
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Any Yahoo acquisition plans Microsoft might have entertained are now dead, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft is moving on and looking to invest more in search, a business Ballmer categorizes as a "two-horse race" between Microsoft and Google.
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Johnson brings a new set of CEO skills from Microsoft to Juniper. Analysts say Juniper needs to be more aggressive in expanding its reach and growing its business. Johnson's Microsoft background matches those needs.
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Juniper Networks named senior Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson as its new chief executive, saying he will start work in September. Kevin Johnson replaces Juniper CEO Scott Kriens, who remains chairman of Juniper Network's board. Known as "KJ," Kevin Johnson was president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division, its largest business unit, and had spearheaded Microsoft's failed pursuit of Yahoo.
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At OSCON, a top software architect questions Microsoft’s relevance as Linux and open source march on into the enterprise and the overall computing landscape.
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Kevin Johnson led the charge on Yahoo, and headed the platform and services division. The new Windows division will include Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer. The new Online Services division will include search, MSN, advertising platforms, and e-commerce.
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The departure of business division president Kevin Johnson will lead to more changes at Microsoft.
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Microsoft Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is available for download and will start automatic rollouts by early August. The Microsoft Windows Home Server update includes support for home PCs running 64-bit Windows Vista and enhanced remote access.
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Yahoo will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board, settling a proxy battle and making an immediate transaction with Microsoft less likely. The settlement came just 11 days before Yahoo's Aug. 1 annual shareholders meeting, at which Icahn had originally sought to replace the entire board with his own nominees and oust Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang.
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Rebel shareholder, Eric Jackson, will on Monday, July 21, ask Yahoo to accept a mixed board of directors from company nominees and a rival line up backed by Carl Icahn. Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital and leader of Yahoo Plan B, said he would encourage the group to elect five Yahoo directors and four Icahn nominees.
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SCO Group must pay Novell $2.5 million after a judge rules that Novell, not SCO, owns the rights to the Unix operating system. Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO owes Novell for royalties it collected when it licensed Unix to Sun Microsystems.
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At the very least, the entrance of Microsoft and Hyper-V into a market in which Xen-based offerings are already giving VMware a run for its money means that the days of VMware as the no-brainer option for server consolidation and similar virtualization-based tasks are over.
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