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What Else Is New in SP2?
While Microsoft and most customers equate Windows XP Service Pack 2 with security updates, SP2 includes refreshed versions of Microsoft’s Tablet PC and Media Center versions of Windows XP, too. And there are plenty of other non-security-specific features buried among the SP2 bits that have gotten far less publicity than the new firewall, pop-up blocker,…
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Microsoft Releases MOM 2005 to Manufacturing
Microsoft on Wednesday reached another milestone in its multiyear Dynamic Systems Initiative when it released to manufacturing the latest version of its Microsoft Operations Manager. The next major release of Microsoft’s server management software, four years in the making, continues to build on the goal of reducing software cost and operational complexity by making intrinsic…
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ACT 2005 Goes for Flexibility in Contact Management
Best Software on Tuesday released an update to its flagship ACT contact management application, offering separate versions for small teams and larger workgroups and more advanced salesforce automation features. The new version, ACT 2005, has been rearchitected on Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 database to support the database collaboration and network security required by larger workgroups,…
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Microsoft Preps for the Next SP2 Wave
Microsoft is bracing for the next phase of its rollout of its Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2), which kicks off Wednesday. Microsoft is set to begin pushing the service pack to Windows XP Professional users tomorrow via Windows Update/Automatic Update. A week ago, Microsoft began delivering SP2 to Windows XP Home users via its…
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Building a Super Tiny Home Server
I have a dark confession: I haven’t embraced the Mini-ITX revolution. There, I’ve said it. I feel better now. Up to now we’ve been lukewarm on VIA’s tiny motherboards. The concept is very cool—a standard, ultra-compact board. But the performance of the processors for it has been unimpressive, and that goes even more so for…
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IBM Brings NAS Gateway 500 to Entry Level
IBM introduced a new, entry-level configuration of its IBM TotalStorage NAS (network-attached storage) Gateway 500 on Tuesday to give customers running an NAS environment a less costly option to satisfy less-demanding performance requirements. Available by the end of this week, the slimmed-down configuration features a single microprocessor based on Power4+ and is priced at $31,850—about…
