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Active Directory Adoption in Full Swing

A key indicator of Windows 2000’s popularity in the enterprise, Active Directory adoption, is showing dramatic growth, according to a Web survey by ENTmag.com.

Prices Same or Lower for Windows Server 2003

Most editions of Windows Server 2003 will cost the same as their Windows 2000 counterparts, while the new Web Edition, which is designed to compete with Linux, will cost less than half as much as the Standard Edition, Microsoft revealed Monday.

Windows SharePoint Services Coming to Windows Server 2003

Microsoft will make collaboration services available for Windows Server 2003 customers sometime this year after the April ship of the base operating system.

30,000 Registrations for OneNote Beta

Microsoft is claiming a groundswell of user interest in the note-taking application it is planning to add to the Microsoft Office family later this year.

Guilty as Charged

Quick test: Have you ever used a "braindump" for exam preparation? The answer to that question may not be as simple as a "yes" or "no."

Certified Mail: March 2003

.NET track changes trigger waves of response; how paper MCSEs are a benefit to IT; and more reasons to like Microsoft.

Critical Patch Released for Windows Me

Microsoft issued a critical security patch for the Windows Me on Wednesday. The flaw in the Windows Me Help and Support Center could enable code execution.

New Deployment Tools Go Live for Windows XP, Office XP

From the trough between client operating system releases, Microsoft this week made public a comprehensive set of free enterprise desktop evaluation and deployment tools for Windows XP Professional and Office XP.

Rights Management Coming for Windows Server 2003

Microsoft is adding digital rights management services to Windows Server 2003. The technology will be available as an add-on sometime after Windows Server 2003 is released in April.

IDC: Asia/Pacific to Supplant North America as Developer Powerhouse

Huge growth in the number of application developers in China and India will lead the Asia/Pacific past North America by 2005 as the region with the most developers, according to recently published research from analyst firm IDC. Meanwhile, Microsoft's C languages still dominate among North American developers, but Java has momentum.

Intel Announces Price Cuts

Intel cut prices on some models of Xeon and Pentium 4 processors between 6 percent and 21 percent this week.

Lovegate Worm Makes the Rounds

A new variant of the LoveGate worm is posing a multi-layered threat to corporate networks this week.

Microsoft, NEC, Intel Return Massive Benchmark Result

Microsoft is finally beating Oracle and competing with Unix in the scale-up benchmarking game.

The Sounds of Security

Forget .NET. Sayonara, Web services. What Microsoft really wants you to know about its products these days is that you can trust them.

Support for NT 4.0 Extended One Year

Microsoft has decided not to extinguish all support for Windows NT 4.0 for another year.

Microsoft Addresses Exam Piracy

MCP Magazine interviewed Microsoft's Dan Truax regarding the "braindump" case's impact on other alleged braindump testing sites.

6 New Oracle Flaws Patched

Security researchers at CERT/CC underscored the importance of a group of newly patched vulnerabilities in Oracle Corp.'s enterprise software, including versions that run on Windows servers.

Microsoft Brings Virtualization in House

Microsoft rumbled into the virtual machine market on Wednesday with the purchase of desktop and server virtualization product assets from privately held Connectix Corp. The move is certain to make virtualization a more mainstream technology among Windows users, but it fogs the outlook for current market leader, VMWare.

VMWare Scales Up

VMWare has created a market for itself by providing software that slices and dices individual processors within Intel-based servers and workstations down to smaller partitions used by multiple instances of operating systems. Now VMWare is moving upmarket a bit, unveiling a product that will allow server administrators to create partitions out of groups of processors.

Microsoft Details MCSE on Windows Server 2003 Exams

The company has modified the requirements of its certification programs for the MCSE and MCSA on Windows Server 2003 and provided an upgrade path for people certified on Windows 2000.

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