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SCO’s Resellers Focus on Unix
LAS VEGAS— As SCO opens SCOForum, its annual trade show, reseller partners appear to want to know about what SCO will be doing with its SCO’s Unix products, not necessarily with its current Linux litigation. SCO’s partners are, for the most part, resellers and system integrators. This powerful group has always had a strong pragmatic…
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Microsoft to Offer Free 64-Bit Windows Upgrade to Some Customers
Microsoft acknowledged earlier this week that it won’t ship its new 64-bit Windows serverversions until mid-2005. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft is content to leave the 64-bit market to Solaris and Unix customers, according to officials with the Redmond, Wash., software vendor. Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on what it’s calling the “x64 Technology…
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Sender ID Stirs Internet Controversy
The Sender ID anti-spam protocol is stirring up commotion in the Internet channel. Some ISPs and Web hosters are in favor of Sender ID, which is aimed at thwarting e-mail spoofing. Others, especially in the Linux community, loudly oppose the Microsoft-backed approach. Yet regardless of their views on Sender ID, people agree on one thing.…
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Financial Exec Says Microsoft’s Fiscal Picture Bright
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. officials said they felt good about the company’s absolute and relative performance over the past few years. The only company that had outperformed it on a compound annual growth rate basis was SAP AG. Taking the podium Thursday to address the financial analysts and media assembled here at the company’s campus headquarters,…
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Microsoft Reveals Product, Business Plans
Redmond, Wash.—Every year Microsoft Corp. holds its annual financial analyst meeting on its campus here. Hundreds of technology analysts gather to hear the brass pitch the company’s latest line as well as see some of the forthcoming technology, product plans and marketing campaigns. No surprise then that eWEEK and Microsoft Watch reporters were in attendance.…
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RFID Hack Could Allow Retail Fraud
LAS VEGAS—A German consultant has released a tool that its creator says will allow modifications of the code stored within RFID tags, theoretically allowing consumers to wreak havoc in future retail deployments. The RFDump software allows a user equipped with an RFID reader, a laptop or PDA, and a power supply to rewrite the data…
