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Putting Windows Vista PCs to the Test
Windows Vista is here. The long-awaited operating system is set to grace current and future builds of desktop and laptop manufacturers as of the end of January. PC Magazine managed to get our hands on some of the first systems releasing with the Vista OS, and what we found may surprise you. For starters, Vista…
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Microsoft Answers ‘Vista OEM’ Questions
A Microsoft representative confirmed that users may buy an OEM copy of Windows Vista at a substantial discount, provided they adhere to the terms of the license—which, incidentally, may mean providing support for family members. In addition, users should still be subject to the same familiar re-activation restrictions as users of a retail Vista license…
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Adobe, AIIM Make ISO Push for PDF
People with differing definitions of what makes an open standard truly “open” will still be able to argue about PDF until they’re blue in the face, but moves made Jan. 29 by Adobe Systems and the Association for Information and Image Management will make PDF more closely resemble an open standard. With Adobe’s blessing, the…
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Red Hat Signs New Enterprise Client
Red Hat, facing increased competition from the Novell/Microsoft alliance and Oracle, has won a new enterprise customer: Union Bank of California. Union Bank, which is one of the 25 largest banks in the country and has 320 branch offices in California, Washington and Oregon, will standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a…
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Perimeter Acquires Fellow MSP Message Secure
Managed security service provider Perimeter Internetworking acquired smaller rival, Message Secure, thereby adding finance clients and regional presence, both firms announced Jan. 29. The purchase, Perimeter’s ninth in three years, gives the MSP 200 new financial clients, bringing its total in the space to 1,900 customers and improves the Milford, Conn. firm’s coverage in California…
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Big Tech Firms’ Sales Up 16% in Q4
Most enterprise technology companies had strong growth in the fourth quarter, with IBM and Microsoft benefiting from strong sales of software, and EMC and Citrix from acquisitions. The average sales growth among technology companies was 16 percent, according to an analysis by Baseline. The magazine looked at 17 companies with market capitalizations in excess of…
