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Users Delay SP2 Rollouts
Many enterprise IT managers are delaying for months any rollout of Microsoft Corp.’s long-awaited and often-delayed Windows XP Service Pack 2, saying it is breaking too many of their applications. As a result of the customer push back, Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., last week delayed the automatic delivery of SP2 through Windows Update/Automatic Update until…
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Software Integrates Cisco VOIP with Microsoft CRM
Cisco on Monday announced the release of the Cisco CRM Communications Connector for Microsoft Business Solutions CRM. This new software program, which is available at no cost to qualified Cisco Systems Inc. channel partners, integrates Cisco IP Communications—Cisco’s suite of VOIP (voice over IP) technologies—with Microsoft CRM. Its target audience is SMBs (small and midsized…
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Channel Tapped to Jump-Start Home VOIP
Voice over IP has been a slow starter in the residential/small office market. “The VOIP-in-the-home market hasn’t been much of a business,” acknowledged Dan Schwab, vice president of marketing at D&H Distributing Co. Inc. He said VOIP primarily has gained traction among large enterprises with the appropriate infrastructure to roll out the technology. Click here…
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When VOIP Projects Slip
When VOIP vendors and service providers land contracts with big-name enterprises, their marketing departments push hard to get customer clearance to announce the win. Clearance obtained, they kick their keyboards into high gear, issuing news releases. When those same contracts suffer untimely termination, it takes someone with fine hearing and an unusually long industry memory…
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Microsoft Devising Tech Support Program To Battle Linux
NEW YORK—Microsoft Corp. is quietly working on a new initiative, internally code-named Mission Critical Microsoft, to help fight the rising specter of Linux running on enterprise mainframes. “Mission Critical Microsoft is an internal initiative, but it will probably result in a new program announcement from Microsoft within the next year,” Paul Corriveau, group product manager…
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Bugs, Exploits Dog XP SP2
Microsoft Corp. has issued a hotfix for Windows XP Service Pack 2 to solve a problem about which many users have complained: programs that attempt to connect to loopback addresses other than 127.0.0.1 get error messages. The problem—one of several that have appeared in the newly released SP 2—has been reported by many VPN users…
