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Dell Revives Itanium 4-way

Dell is taking a second crack at the four-way Itanium space.

Microsoft Appeals EU Decision

Microsoft this week formally delivered the appeal the company promised in March when the European Commission ruled against Microsoft in its five-year-old antitrust investigation.

IBM Announces Smallest Ever Desktop PCs

Big Blue expects a booming desktop replacement cycle, this year and next

Bad, Bad, BadMail

How to handle the growing problem that is the BadMail folder.

Crystal Security Flaw Affects Microsoft Products

A problem with Crystal Reports is one of two moderate vulnerabilities that Microsoft addressed in its monthly "Patch Tuesday" release.

Call for Users: SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Call for Users: Looking for Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 implementers with varying opinions.

Researchers Estimate Worst-Case Worm Damage at $50 Billion

A pair of security researchers has tried to assess the worst case scenario for a worm attack on the United States targeting commonly used services in the ubiquitous Windows platform. The figure they came up with is $50 billion.

Messaging and Spam

With some surveys showing almost 70 percent of corporate e-mail messages are spam, there is clearly no larger issue right now for the Exchange administrator than blocking spam.

Microsoft, SAP Talked About Merging

Microsoft confirmed on Monday that the company initiated merger talks late last year with enterprise software vendor SAP AG.

Windows NT, Exchange 5.5 Support Not Extended Under New Policy

Microsoft late Tuesday posted its updated list of product support deadlines in the wake of the announcement of a new 10-year product support lifecycle. The list confirms that Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange Server 5.5 aren't grandfathered into the new program.

Two More Microsoft BI Accelerators Hit

Microsoft on Wednesday released two more of its loss-leader business intelligence accelerator toolsets.

SUS Without the Space

Control software updates, even for remote workers.

All That JAAS

JAAS is based on the Pluggable Authentication Modules model and provides authentication and authorization services. Check out its many security benefits for Java applications.

Citrix’s Access Dreams

Citrix Systems released MetaFrame Access Suite, bundling MetaFrame Presentation Server with three products for managing access to enterprise applications.

Books: Write Customized .NET Add-Ins

Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio .NET helps you write an add-in customized to your needs. Les Smith walks you through the wizard and shows you how to develop your UI, trap IDE events, manipulate controls, and migrate your VB6 add-ins to the new platform.

Teach Your Apps to Trust

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the basis for creating applications that trust each other to perform their tasks.

Backing Up Small Business Server

As part of the June cover feature, "4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers," Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 also comes with a Backup Configuration Wizard. Here are two add-on products that offer help.

Trend: Companies Bundling Products

Companies like Desaware are enticing consumers by bundling their best sellers for a fraction of the cost of the products combined. And they're giving away the source code to boot.

Build Data-Driven Client Validation

Here's a design for creating data-driven validation rules for distributed apps. It lets you distribute the rules from to clients without modifying client-side application code.

Old NT Guys

Where do we go from here?

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