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Curbing Retail Shrinkage with the Help of a Shrink
In retail IT circles today, no issue generates as much concern—if not outright panic—as does security. You name it, we’re scared of it. That’s true when the topic is hackers trying to break in and steal credit card info, terrorists wanting to poison the apples, gun-toting bandits with their eyes on cash-register cash or the…
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WinFS Axed from Longhorn Client, Server
Microsoft announced on Friday, as expected, that it is cutting some of its planned Longhorn features in order to get the desktop version of the product out the door by 2006. The Windows File System (WinFS)—technology that was set to simplify information storage and retrieval—won’t make it into the final, shipping versions of Longhorn client,…
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Longhorn’s New Schedule: Winners and Losers
Microsoft’s decision on Friday to “gut” Longhorn in order to get something—really, anything—out on schedule reminds me of something that Borland founder Philippe Kahn once told me. “Shipping,” he said, “is also a feature.” He didn’t add, though he might have, that ultimately, it’s the most important one. Late Friday, Microsoft informed press and analysts…
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Impaled on the Longhorns of a Dilemma
With Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) done, it was high time for the Windows team to make a choice. It could push the delivery date out (yet again) so as to incorporate all the new features it has been promising for the past few years. Or it could scale back the feature list and…
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Windows XP SP2 Has a Dangerous Hole
Windows XP Service Pack 2 promises to raise the security bar for the sometimes beleaguered operating system. Unfortunately, one of the new features could be spoofed so that it reports misleading information about system security, or worse, lets a malicious program watch for an opportunity to do damage without being detected. The feature is the…
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Server Sales Continue to Soar
Server sales and shipments jumped again in the second quarter, with IBM topping the revenue chart and Hewlett-Packard Co. shipping the most units, according to a report issued Wednesday by analyst firm Gartner Inc. Worldwide server revenue grew to more than $11.5 billion in the quarter, a 7.7 percent increase over the same period in…
