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Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it has released a number of 64-bit operating systems to manufacturing, including Windows XP Professional, in time for a scheduled release in late April. Specifically, Microsoft said that Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter x64 Edition, and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
ScanIT, an Internet security consultancy, reports Microsoft's Internet Explorer was unsafe 98 percent of the time, during 2004. The data were collected from 195,000 internet users who used ScanIT's online security checker. The reported 98 percent unsafe rating is based on security holes being found in fully-patched installations of Internet Explorer on every day of the year 2004, except the week between October 12 and 19.
Following last year's European Commission’s antitrust ruling against them, Microsoft agreed to create a server interoperability licence that would allow rival makers of server software to write applications that can "achieve full interoperability" with Windows client and server operating systems on "reasonable and non-discriminatory terms". Well it seems the EC does not think that Microsoft has lived up to it’s end of the bargain. The European Commission has rejected Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence, saying that it contained a number of serious flaws including unjustifiably high royalty fees and the exclusion of open source vendors.
For your info, Linspire has released version 5.0 of it’s Linux based operating system.
From Microsoft Watch, Microsoft has been keeping details on Internet Explorer 7.0, code-named “Rincon” to themselves, but Microsoft Watch has found some information from their partners. There will be tabs, PNG support, possibly a built-in News Aggregator, and IDN support. Here’s what they said about security enhancements.
We all have heard of the linux distributions that could be booted from a CD, now we can do the same thing with Windows. It's called BartPE (BART Pre-installed Enviroment). It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing
From Microsoft's Partner Newsletter; Sales Quick Reference: Tips for Discussing Portal Solutions Use the Sales Quick Reference Guide to present the benefits of integrated portal solutions to your customers during sales calls. This resource provides a Microsoft key value proposition and helps you market portal solutions effectively. Deliver Remote Monitoring and Management Services: Learn how to effectively market, sell, and
We are all familiar with Window's BSOD, (Blue Screen of Death). Well IBM developed their own personal jumper cable to counter the BSOD. It was first shown at the IBM Partnerworld 2005 in Vegas. IBM developed Linux technology which would change a personal device into a rescue and recovery device. You can read the story on the kernalthread blog. Here
We have discussed the problem of older operating systems and security here many times, now it's great to see that Microsoft has released two critical updates for Windows 98 and WinMe users. You can learn more about the patches at Informationweek, but to get the new patches and install them, go to the Windows update website.
Linuxense.com has started a new server break-in challenge to begin tomorrow, March 9th. If you can keep a server up for 48 hours without interruption, you win an active shell account to play with. No big bucks, or prizes, just a simple challenge for the Linux geek in all of us. Here’s a few details, but the full list of rules can be found at the link above.
Microsoft announced last year that there were four major parts of Longhorn that will make it worth the upgrade, since Longhorn will not be released for at another year or two, Microsoft thought it better make as many of these available to WinXP system users as possible. WinFS is the latest Longhorn feature to be ported to WinXP. Tom Rizzo, Microsoft's director of product management for SQL Server said Microsoft is busily back-porting the WinFS file-system technology to Windows XP. The question is now, will there be any reason to upgrade to Longhorn when, or if, it ever sees the light of day?
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