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Regarding “Microsoft Needs to Overhaul Prerelease Cycle,” Aug. 8) Ive always thought an annual release with one or two new features priced at about $25 would make upgrading a lot simpler. If you skipped a year, the upgrade price would be $50, but you would still get the features you missed in the year you […]

Wyse Technology debuted a compact yet powerful Linux-based thin client at LinuxWorld on Tuesday and announced a 1,900 unit deployment of the device by a major European health insurance provider. The compact Winterm V50 boasts a 1GHz x86 processor and measures just 7.9 x 7.1 x 1.8 inches (201 x 180 x 46 mm). The […]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for “Why So Shy About Locking Down Systems?” (July 25). Of all the articles that Ive seen about spyware, viruses, general security and so on, yours is the first that addresses this issue. Since I started using and recommending Windows XP a couple of years ago, Ive had all […]

Last weeks round of incorrect reports about the existence of the “first Vista virus” should have sent a loud and clear message to the Windows team: Its time to come clean. Sure, every company hopes for an element of surprise when it is poised to launch a new product. But with an operating system that […]

ClearContext Plug-In Prioritizes E-mails Ive been spending a couple of months working with ClearContexts $30 ClearContext Inbox Manager plug-in for Microsoft Outlook. Although ClearContext Inbox Manager isnt a substitute for proactive e-mail management, it does make a little effort result in larger time savings for those who get high volumes of e-mail. The main feature […]

At this weeks LinuxWorld conference, Microsoft officials are planning to play up the Windows-Unix interoperability and cross-platform application-portability strategies that will be enabled Microsofts pending Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system release. Bill Hilf, the head of Microsofts Linux lab, is planning to talk up during his LinuxWorld session on Wednesday the elements of Microsofts […]

Web reports claiming that the first Windows Vista virus has surfaced are misleading. On Thursday a report on the F-Secure Web site claimed the “first Vista virus” had been found. According to the posting, an Austrian virus writer had published five proof-of-concept viruses that, in theory, could target Microsofts scripting shell, code-named Monad, and also […]

Microsoft Corp. is planning to reissue the Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Update rollup that it first launched in late June. While the company did not specify a reason for the planned reissue, a number of Windows 2000 users who have installed the download have complained of a variety of problems, ranging from incompatibility with […]

While the final hardware requirements for Microsofts Windows Vista operating system wont be made public until next summer, testers say the first beta release of the operating system is performing moderately well on existing PC hardware. Microsoft released to testers the first beta of Vista one week ago. As it has been doing for the […]

On Tuesday, Microsoft quietly rolled out 30 free, downloadable applications that build on top of the companys SharePoint Services collaboration/workflow technology that is built into Windows Server. Among the plethora new applications are horizontal and vertical applets both. Schedule-management, consumer-financing, employee-training, event-management, travel-request, classroom-management, campaign-management and other similar types of offerings are available immediately. Microsoft […]

AirMagnet Finds Sources of Static Anyone managing a wireless network will tell you theres a lot of interference mucking up the signal, particularly in the 2.4GHz band. Aside from the massive proliferation of Wi-Fi devices, interference from cordless phones, microwave ovens and Bluetooth devices can all sabotage a wireless networks performance and stability. To get […]

Sterling Commerce, in Dublin, Ohio, was involved in electronic commerce when transactions took place on closed, proprietary systems using the electronic data interchange format. In its more than 30 years of existence, the company has seen the emergence of the World Wide Web, the Internet bubble and its own corporate changes. The company became an […]