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Why No Opteron for Dell?

The revelation that Dell is phasing out Intels Itanium processors in favor of its more-standard Xeon processors highlights the difficulty Intel has had with...

Microsoft Launches Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Beta

LOS ANGELES—Microsoft Corp. this week released the first public beta for its Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition, which is designed to address the...

Open Source Code Finds Way into Microsoft Product

LOS ANGELES—In a move that shows just how far Microsoft Corp. has come, and how pervasive open-source software is in certain areas, the software...

Sparkle Vs. Flash

Flash has been spreading across the Internet like animated kudzu in recent years, powering dynamic applications in everything from traditionally staid banking sites to...

Indonesia Adopts JDS on Linux as National Desktop

Indonesias Ministry of Research and Technology Thursday said it will implement a Java Desktop System (JDS) on Linux as a national-standard desktop, customed-designed for...

Sun to Fire Up New Servers

Sun is adding more spark to its Sun Fire servers. Beginning next week, the San Jose, Calif.-based hardware maker will add its UltraSPARC VI+ processor...

Microsoft Scraps Old Encryption in New Code

Microsoft is banning certain cryptographic functions from new computer code, citing increasingly sophisticated attacks that make them less secure, according to a company executive. The...

Microsoft Gets the Open-Source Religion

One of technologys dirty little not-so-secret secrets is that Microsoft has been using open-source software since the early 90s in its TCP/IP network stack. Now,...

Microsoft Drops More Hints on Its Office 12 Server Plans

LOS ANGELES—While declining to talk packaging specifics, Microsoft executives offered more hints on its Office 12 server plans here at the Microsoft PDC this...

Hacking Your Own System Helps Assess Vulnerabilities

Much as home invasion experts do a house tour to look for open windows and broken locks, network security professionals should be called in...