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Microsoft executives highlighted the road maps for Windows Vista, Longhorn Server and Office 2007 at the upcoming annual hardware-engineering conference in Seattle. “Were turning the corner on all three of our core products. We are heading toward delivery,” said Mike Burk, product manager with the Windows group. That is the message that Microsoft will deliver […]

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SEATTLE—Microsoft executives are sharing publicly more details on the companys Windows Server roadmap, especially Windows Longhorn Server and follow-on releases. Despite the fact that Microsoft has been pushing out regular test builds of Longhorn Server, “prior to the Beta 2 release, we hadnt really talked a lot about the functionality in Longhorn Server,” acknowledged Jeff […]

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Tracy Ragan, CEO and co-founder of Chicago-based Catalyst Systems, launched the company in 1995 with the mission to “automate and simplify the build management process for all tools and all platforms.” That mission has gone unchanged for 11 years, with leading IDE (integrated development environment) makers supporting Catalysts Openmake build management tool. In an interview […]

The human population multiplies exponentially. Rabbits certainly do. And with regulatory compliance and digital imaging continually pushing the boundaries of online information archival, Gateway Health System found its IT storage needs growing by leaps and bounds as well. Gateway, a private health care organization that serves the needs of upper-middle Tennessee and south-central Kentucky, was […]

The Evils that Lurk in Idle Web Surfing The seemingly casual act of Web surfing was thrust into the spotlight in April when an administrative law judge in New York City argued that a city employee had been unfairly penalized for browsing travel and entertainment sites on company time. The judge likened Web surfing to […]

While Microsoft watchers continue to obsess over Microsofts plans to take on Google, few are paying attention to a family of products that could emerge as one of the main revenue generators for the company over the next few years. The SharePoint collaboration/workgroup software family could be one of Microsofts sleeper hits in the not-too–distant […]

As Mary Jo Foleys reporting reveals, theres renewed doubt as to whether Microsoft can manage to ship Vista—the companys long-delayed Windows client refresh—in time to make the product available for corporate customers before the start of 2007. I havent yet run the Vista build that Microsoft will release this week at WinHEC and brand Beta […]

Windows XP was barely out of the box in 2001 when Microsoft started talking about the next version of Windows, then code-named Longhorn. eWEEK first began writing about what was to become Vista in the fall of that year. Thats almost five years ago, a veritable eternity in the world of PC technology. It was […]