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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…
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Getting Ready to Make the NT 4 Server Jump
NT 4 Server’s days are ending. On Dec. 31, Microsoft officially pulls the plug on NT Server support, so it’s time to start migrating your die-hard NT 4 to another server operating system. The question is: To what? If you believed Microsoft a while back, the answer to all your network resources and universal directory…
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Is XP SP2 Helping Windows Migration?
Warts and all, Windows XP SP2 is finally here, but has its arrival gotten users of older versions of Windows finally ready to upgrade? We put that question to Microsoft, an analyst and resellers, and here’s what we found. First, a Microsoft representative downplayed the importance of SP2 in getting users to migrate from older…
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PC, Laptop Upgrades Dominate IT Budget Plans
At this point in the year, laptop and PC upgrades are clocking in as the top priority for IT budgets, according to research from Forrester Research Inc. Forrester in June surveyed 1,377 North American and European businesses regarding their IT purchasing and spending plans for the rest of the year. During the second quarter, 89…
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Vonage to Bundle Service with Linksys, Netgear Routers
Vonage Holding Corp., the VOIP service provider with an early lead in subscriber lines at 235,000, announced an agreement Tuesday to sell its voice-over-net service bundled with adapter-equipped routers from Linksys and Netgear Inc., the two market leaders in home and home-office networking. Linksys-Vonage cobranded routers and add-on VOIP adapters will be sold immediately in…
