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Websense Drills the Channel Home to Its Sales Force
Part of moving Websense from a direct to indirect channel has involved reorienting the salesforce to accept and work with the channel, channel chief Dave Roberts told The Channel Insider. About half of the salesforce is now working with partners in territory organizations, while the remaining force continues the old practice to “keep paying the…
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Microsoft: No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs
Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh, and will also be discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac, the company said. As Virtual PC for Mac was originally developed on the PowerPC platform, the amount of time that…
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Microsoft Wants Vista PCs to Pop
Microsoft wants PC buyers to recognize a machine running its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system from afar. The software giant has already set out the minimum hardware requirements for a PC to run the operating system. Now it’s begun sharing ideas on how to design a Vista PC as part of what it calls the…
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McAfee Revamps Security Risk Management Tools
McAfee expanded its array of compliance automation applications on Aug. 7, launching two new software offerings that promise to help companies test and report on their ability to fall in line with federal data security regulations. By adding McAfee Foundstone Enterprise 5.0 and McAfee Preventsys Compliance Auditor and Risk Analyzer have been added to its…
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Apple Unveils the Mac Pro
As its first order of business at Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple announced the new Mac Pro desktop with the Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 processor. With the announcement of the Mac Pro, Apple has completed its transition to Intel-based Macs. In addition to the new Dual-Core Intel processors, CEO Steve Jobs and Phil…
