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eWEEK Labs recently put its finger to the wind to gauge how much IT organizations are spending and on what they are spending their budget dollars. Technology Editor Peter Coffee and Executive Editor Deb Donston spoke with members of eWEEKs Corporate Partner Advisory Board—senior IT professionals from a variety of industries and company sizes. The […]

Case Law states that an issued U.S. patent is presumed valid (Editorial, “Fixing the patent mess,” Jan. 16). Trial courts pay scant lip service to this presumption, and if the presumption was ever valid, no knowledgeable individual believes in it today. Even when Patent Office examiners have the necessary expertise to examine the most complicated […]

Googles “Big Daddy” infrastructure overhaul and the Microsofts Internet Explorer 7 Beta dominated the week. Of course, there was yet another killer worm on the way. Toss in a little eavesdropping and it was an interesting few days. Heres a look at the most popular stories for the week ending Feb. 3: Googles Rumored Big […]

Microsoft executives already are counting their Vista chickens before the next-generation Windows release has hatched. A Microsoft vice president on Feb. 1 detailed for attendees of the Merrill Lynch IT Services & Software Conference Microsofts reasons for its high expectations for Vista, the release of Windows client due to ship in the latter half of […]

Network Appliance is having a tough time keeping still these days. The storage company is proving in 2006 that it is not afraid to spread its wings in new technology areas, evidenced by the expected release next week of its new VTL (virtual tape library) technology and enhanced Decru DataFort storage security appliance. Recently, NetApp […]

Microsoft officials have been saying for quite some time that Windows Vista will ship with anti-spyware software built into the operating system. But for more than a year, Microsofts top dogs have been quite clear that Microsoft has no intentions to bundle anti-virus software into the product. Despite this seemingly straightforward (at least in our […]

Microsoft Corp.s Windows client development team is working hard to get Windows Vista out by the late 2006 holiday season. Jim Allchin, the co-president of Microsofts Platform Products and Services Division, sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli and David Coursey, an Editor-at-Large for Ziff Davis Internet, to discuss the timetable for the rest […]

Microsoft is moving ahead on its promise from late last year to release service packs for both its Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 tool suites in calendar 2006. Microsoft is planning to roll out Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Visual Studio 2003 (VS 2003) in the second quarter. Beta testing of that service […]

Customers and partners whove been holding their breath waiting for Beta 2 of Windows Vista before getting serious about testing Microsofts next-generation operating system can exhale. There will be no single, catchall Beta 2 of Vista, according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsofts Platform Products & Services Division, in Redmond, Wash. Instead, Microsoft is planning […]

JotSpot Increases Excels Usefulness Users who spend lots of time tracking information in Microsoft Excel will find much to like in JotSpot Tracker, essentially a spreadsheet wiki that allows users to collaborate by importing and exporting Excel data. Importing data into JotSpot Tracker is as easy as copying and pasting the information from any Excel […]

IBMs Lotus software unit launched a new version of its Sametime collaboration package that allows companies to integrate the communications system with some of the most popular free instant messaging applications. As expected, Lotus launched Sametime 7.5—which includes tools for Web conferencing and IM, as well as sharing and editing documents online—at Lotusphere in Orlando, […]

Responding to concerns from customers and partners, Novell is restructuring its corporate licensing framework to streamline the process and make license agreements more flexible. Beginning March 1, the Linux software company will no longer force users into CLAs (contract license agreements), which attached upgrades and maintenance agreements to the software deal. Customers will now purchase […]