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Microsoft Removes Obstacle to Adoption of Its VHD Spec
Microsoft has decided to make its Virtual Hard Disk image format specification available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The VHD format will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise, which the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker…
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EMC Revenue Growing, but Margins Falling
EMC, the world leader in several data storage markets and the world’s sixth-largest software company, is being forced to tighten its belt and lose some weight—in the form of extra employees—after 36 months of digesting other companies in order to fill out its product offerings. The Hopkinton, Mass., company reported its third-quarter financials Oct. 17,…
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Medicare Explores How to Pay Doctors for More Effective Care
Under a new program from the Centers of Medicaid and Medicare, doctors in solo and small medical practices will soon be eligible for up to $10,000 more a year—if they can demonstrate that their performance is up to snuff. Among other criteria, doctors will be evaluated for the percentage of diabetic patients whose glucose is…
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Security Suite Smackdown, Part I
Fall and winter are a great time for malware purveyors. All those pure, innocent, uncorrupted new PCs being unboxed, set up and connected to that font of all that is dangerous, filthy and malevolent: the Internet. Okay, maybe you don’t believe the information superhighway is quite that tainted, and maybe it isn’t. But if you…
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LSB Developer Network: An MSDN for Linux
One major advantage Microsoft developers have over their Linux counterparts is that they have access to MSDN (Microsoft Software Developer Network), a magnificent online developer resource. Linux has had nothing to compare. Until now. The FSG (Free Standards Group), a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and promoting open-source software standards, announced Oct. 17 that it…
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‘Vitriol’ Rootkit to Demo at MS Blue Hat Hacker Summit
Microsoft’s twice-yearly Blue Hat hacker summit, running Oct. 26-27, will kick off later this week with a demo of a virtual machine rootkit that can potentially be used to defeat the controversial PatchGuard technology. Dino Dai Zovi, a principal at penetration-testing outfit Matasano Security, has been invited to Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus to showcase a…
