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Microsoft Updates BizTalk Server Roadmap

With three versions of BizTalk Server out the door, Microsoft recently began discussing versions four and five of the business integration server software.

"Exchange 12" Directions Revealed

For the next version of Exchange Server, code-named "Exchange 12," Microsoft is investing in unified messaging, improved search and 64-bit support among other things, company officials said during a press tour on Wednesday.

Study: 651 Million E-mail Users Worldwide

Worldwide e-mail usage boomed in 2004, according to a new study by the Radicati Group.

IDC: E-mail Archiving Coming to a Data Center Near You

As requirements demanding companies be able to find, retrieve and protect e-mail and other electronic records become coded into our legal and regulatory institutions, the market for e-mail archiving applications is exploding.

Microsoft Navision Gets New Leader

Microsoft hired a former IT consultant and IBM executive to run the Navision segment of Microsoft Business Solutions.

CompTIA Lets IT Academy Students Take A+ Exams for $99

Promotion is extension of program that's been available to Cisco Academy students.

IT Weekly Roundup, Jan. 14

From the business wires this week: security tool for finding info holes on Web sites, hosted messaging and collaboration solution and a blazingly fast SATA hard drive.

BMC Buys French ID Management Firm

BMC Software announced it is buying French identity management software developer Calendra for $33 million.

VMware Plays an ACE in the Virtual PC Game

VMware is shipping ACE, a PC virtualization product designed to protect corporate data and other electronic assets even when the work is being done offsite by outsiders.

Microsoft CFO Leaving

Longtime Microsoft executive John Connors is leaving the company to join a venture capital firm.

Microsoft to Expand Redmond Headquarters

Microsoft filed a development agreement this week with the city of Redmond, Wash., committing to expanding its corporate headquarters there.

LANDesk Debuts New and Updated Management Tools

Intel spin-off LANDesk announced this week that it is shipping Server Manager 8.5, which provides significant enhancements to the seven-year-old server management tool.

Malicious Software Removal Tool Makes Debut

Microsoft on Tuesday provided the first version of the malicious software removal tool that it first promised last week.

Bot the Likely Culprit for WINS Flaw Activity

There was a flurry of discussion regarding a possible WINS worm due to a spike in WINS port 42 traffic.

Patches Provided for Windows NT 4 Despite End of Support

Operating in the gray area between support and non-support, Microsoft chose to freely distribute the one new security bulletin that affected Windows NT Server 4.0 on Tuesday, 11 days after official support of the operating system expired.

Patch Tuesday: Three Security Bulletins, Two Critical

Microsoft released three security bulletins for Windows on Tuesday, its monthly date for patching security problems. Two of the security bulletins involve critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a user's system over the Internet. The patches are especially important because both critical vulnerabilities had already been publicly disclosed.

IT Weekly Roundup, Jan. 7

From the business wires this week: Microsoft's antispyware, Xbox 2, management solutions, developer tools and a portable magneto-optical drive.

Three Windows Security Bulletins Coming Jan. 11

Microsoft will post three security bulletins for flaws in Windows next Tuesday. At least one of the bulletins will cover a critical flaw.

ThinPrint Refocuses Desktop Printing on Microsoft RDP

ThinPrint is shipping its .print Remote Desktop Printing Engine for Microsoft Terminal Services 2003. The product is the newest in its line of printing solutions for Windows terminal services users.

When (If Ever) Is SA Right?

Call for Comments: Redmond wants to know what value you place on Software Assurance.

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