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- 01 May 2007
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News: Longhorn Server becomes Windows Server 2007
Microsoft will tag its next server software, now codenamed Longhorn, with the prosaic ‘Windows Server 2007’, according to a document on the company's site.
- 30 April 2007
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News: Dell to dump direct sales model?
Dell CEO Michael Dell has dropped his biggest hint yet that the PC vendor is looking at an indirect channel.
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News: 5 ways to tackle cyberstalkers & blog trolls
Anyone who has participated in the blogosphere in the past two months knows the troubling story of Kathy Sierra, a prominent blogger who was the victim of online threats that included violent sexual acts and murder. When the harassment spread beyond her own blog to two others that were affiliated with other prominent bloggers, Sierra became so terrified that she cancelled an upcoming speaking engagement and took a hiatus from blogging.
- 27 April 2007
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News: Vista & Office 2007 drive Microsoft profits
Microsoft said Windows Vista and Office 2007 shipments exceeded its expectations over the past three months and helped it post a record 65 percent third-quarter profit gain in its most recent quarter.
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News: $1 billion spam lawsuit could benefit us all
A $1 billion lawsuit filed promises to open up a new front in the battle against spam. It targets not just spammers, but - for the first time - also those responsible for harvesting email addresses on behalf of spammers.
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News: Open-source boost for Adobe's Flex
Adobe has launched a new version of its Flex SDK development tool set, code-named Moxie, along with plans to provide its code to the open-source community.
- 26 April 2007
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News: UK IT staff shortage is easing
The shortage of IT staff seems to be easing, with employers noticing an improvement in labour supply, research from the E-Skills UK learning and skills council has revealed.
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News: Acer recalls 27,000 laptop batteries
Just six months after saying Acer laptop PC users would not need to replace any batteries amid a massive global recall, a company subsidiary announced a recall for 27,000 batteries in the US.
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News: Dell adds first flash-based laptop
Dell has followed Sony’s lead by releasing SSD (solid-state drive) technology for its Latitude D420 and D620 notebooks in the US.
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News: Final Windows Longhorn Server beta available
Microsoft has posting the final beta and first publicly available and feature-complete version of Windows Server ‘Longhorn’, marking the final time the product will be available for testing and feedback before the long-awaited server update is available later this year.
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News: IBM puts Google Gadgets into WebSphere
IBM is offering a free portal component, which IBM calls a portlet, that lets business users link nearly 4,000 Google Gadgets to their WebSphere Portal environments.
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News: Windows Live Search exec abandons Microsoft
Another executive is leaving Microsoft's internet search group, as the company continues to struggle to compete with web search leader Google.
- 25 April 2007
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News: Windows Vista beta shutdown looming
The clock is ticking for users of Windows Vista preview versions - including Vista RC1 and RC2 - with Microsoft stepping up attempts to force them to upgrade to a full version of Vista, or revert back to XP
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News: Microsoft Forefront Client Security to launch
The business client security product Microsoft has been working on since 2003 will finally make its debut in May, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed.
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News: MP reveals London Olympic IT challenges
Britain's IT industry is likely to see business surge as London prepares to spend at least £1 billion on security when it hosts the 2012 Olympics
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News: Microsoft backed on first Vista bugs
Microsoft Windows Vista operating system took some of its first punches when a dangerous vulnerability was disclosed earlier this month, but the OS held strong, a security analyst said at the InfoSecurity Europe (Infosec) conference in London.
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News: Red Hat slams Oracle's Linux efforts
Oracle's venture into the Linux market was called "a bit disingenuous" by a Red Hat executive speaking at the MySQL Conference & Expo in California yesterday.
- 24 April 2007
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News: Met police plans Olympic IT lockdown
London's Metropolitan Police is set to make a series of key IT spending decisions over the next three years, before a "lockdown" to prevent disruption close to the 2012 Olympics, analysts have predicted.
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News: Encryption shame of UK businesses
Just 9 percent of UK firms have an enterprise-wide encryption strategy, research has revealed.
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News: Business iPhone planned by Apple partner
AT&T plans to market the iPhone to business users in addition to consumers but analysts aren't recommending that enterprises supply workers with Apple’s new handset.
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