Monthly Archives: October 2003
Shooting for Space
The promise of anytime, anywhere communications via satellite was wildly hyped in the late 1990s, but it fell flat when the reality of pricey...
Microsoft Turns to Small Needs
As Microsoft Corp. prepares to release its Windows Small Business Server 2003 this week, company officials are acknowledging that they probably havent done the...
Bandwidth: The Sequel
While my computer is busy pulling down the latest Microsoft patches, Id like to share new information about the amount of bandwidth these downloads...
Remotely Possible
Hunkered before his TV, Spence felt more like a circus performer than a couch potato, as he juggled three remotes, a brewski and his...
States Score in Tax Battle
Due to the increasingly heated debate over expanded Internet sales taxes, e-commerce merchants are no longer one big, happy family.Many of the largest online...
H-1B Visa Limit Dropped
With skyrocketing it unemployment as a backdrop, the U.S. Congress last week let the H-1B visa limit drop back to 65,000.In 2000, the limit...
Microsoft, Lindows Trade Shots in Ongoing Dispute
The war of words between Lindows.com and Microsoft last week escalated as the two companies disputed Lindows.coms efforts to process consumers claims in a...
Wait and See—Or Just Wait?
Two years after many enterprises decided to pass on Office XP, IT managers running Microsoft Corp.s Office 2003 through its paces said the new...
InfoPath, OneNote Have Select Appeal
In addition to its Office 2003 suite, slated for rollout next week, Microsoft Corp. has a pair of notable new applications in the works:...
Microsoft Hones Server Management
Microsoft Corp. has made significant improvements in the SBS 2003 release, reducing the complexity of server setup and simplifying server management tasks with easy-to-use...