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Desktop PCs that Mean (Small) Business
Small-business owners are the unsung heroes of the PC industry. While the big corporate accounts can mean large individual orders, it’s the mom-and-pop shops that make up the bulk of the PC market. So we challenged the leading business PC makers—Dell, Gateway, HP, and IBM—to send us their best small-office/home-office desktops, with an eye toward…
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SPF Group, Microsoft Work to Converge Anti-Spam Efforts
The author of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) specification has announced a proposal to converge the specification with aspects of Microsoft Corp.’s Caller-ID spec. Microsoft is expected to follow up with its own announcement soon. SPF and Caller-ID are two of the more prominent efforts to introduce authentication to the SMTP protocol, filling in holes…
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Microsoft Releases Exchange SP1, Updates Roadmap
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for its Exchange 2003 messaging server, offering updates for e-mail security and administration. Chief among the new features in this release is Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) for Exchange Server 2003, which uses the SmartScreen heuristics-based content-filtering technology deployed at Microsoft Corp.’s…
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TechEd’s Desktop Push: Deploying Windows XP SP2
Disclaimer: Microsoft, Transmeta, Intel and VIA are clients of mine. SAN DIEGO—TechEd is one of three important shows from Microsoft, the other two being the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, focused on hardware companies; and the Professional Developers Conference, focused on developers. For IT, TechEd is the most important because it focuses on the people who…
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Microsoft to Take Cross-Product Integration a Step Further
SAN DIEGO—If you thought Microsoft was tightly integrating its products before, wait until you see what it’s planning to do in the future. Taking the company’s “integrated innovation” charge a step further, Andy Lees, the Microsoft corporate VP in charge of server and tools marketing, focused his Tuesday morning TechEd 2004 keynote here on the…
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CA Takes WLAN Management Plunge
Computer Associates International is planning its strongest play yet to manage wireless LANs comprehensively with a new system that offers greater automation and streamlines deployment. The new Unicenter Wireless Site Management (WSM) system, due in beta this week from the Islandia, N.Y., company, is designed to help customers overcome some of the hurdles that have…
