Tag: Microsoft

  • Microsoft Tools to Combat Vista Piracy

    Microsoft Tools to Combat Vista Piracy

    Peter Galli

    Categories:

    Microsoft will unveil Oct. 4 a new software protection platform and accompanying technologies that it plans to incorporate into a variety of products, starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn, in hopes of combating piracy. The new technologies will be included in all of Vista versions, and over time every Microsoft product will use… Read more

  • End-users: Zero Tolerance for Microsoft Office

    Channel Insider Staff

    Categories:

    I read with interest Peter Coffee’s article “Zero Tolerance for Microsoft Office,” as we are midway through a transition away from that suite [Sept. 11]. However, as this is a transition not to another suite but to a [file] format, I was concerned about Coffee’s comment, “Open XML-based formats are years away from giving enterprise… Read more

  • Novell Continues to Go for SCO’s Throat

    Novell Continues to Go for SCO’s Throat

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

    Categories:

    On Sept. 25, IBM took its crack at ending its case with SCO by summary judgment. Now, it’s Novell’s turn, and the company appears to be attempting to cut off SCO’s lifeline to its cash reserves. On Sept. 29, Novell filed for “partial summary judgment as to its Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Claims for… Read more

  • McAfee Chides Microsoft Over Vista Security Policies

    McAfee Chides Microsoft Over Vista Security Policies

    Matt Hines

    Categories:

    Officials at security specialist McAfee said that Microsoft has flatly rejected a series of proposals meant to help ease integration between third-party software applications and the company’s next-generation Windows Vista operating system. High-ranking officials with McAfee, a provider of security applications and longtime partner of Microsoft’s, said that the software giant refused its suggestions for… Read more

  • Citrix Seems to Be Skating to the Puck in 2007

    Citrix Seems to Be Skating to the Puck in 2007

    Michael Vizard

    Categories:

    With the availability of the business edition of Vista for customers who have volume licensing deals in place with Microsoft about a month away, a lot of attention is soon going to find its way towards Citrix as customers begin to think through their Vista roll out strategy for 2007. Of course, the folks at… Read more

  • Microsoft Buys DesktopStandard

    Microsoft Buys DesktopStandard

    Peter Galli

    Categories:

    Microsoft has acquired DesktopStandard, a developer of group policy-based enterprise desktop management products, in a move designed help customers leverage the value of policy-based management and their investments in Active Directory, the two companies said Oct. 2. Larry Orecklin, general manager, Microsoft’s Windows Enterprise Management division, said that the acquisition enhances the company’s ability to… Read more