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  • Microsoft’s Software Assurance Customers to Get New Tools

    Microsoft’s Software Assurance Customers to Get New Tools

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft plans to deliver a set of new software tools designed to remove some of the pain enterprises experience when deploying and managing desktops and applications. The software giant is bundling four of the technologies it has acquired over the past few months into an offering known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software… Read more

  • Avnet to Deliver JD Edwards-Microsoft Integration

    Avnet to Deliver JD Edwards-Microsoft Integration

    John Hazard

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    Distributor Avnet Technology Solutions and Microsoft announced a partnership Oct. 16 to deliver an integrated enterprise resource planning solution for midmarket customers of Oracle’s JD Edwards on Microsoft’s Windows/SQL Server platforms. The partnership allows VARs, many of which are already hitching the application to the platform, to benefit from the Avnet delivery model—building and integrating… Read more

  • Microsoft Removes Obstacle to Adoption of Its VHD Spec

    Microsoft Removes Obstacle to Adoption of Its VHD Spec

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft has decided to make its Virtual Hard Disk image format specification available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The VHD format will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise, which the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker… Read more

  • Medicare Explores How to Pay Doctors for More Effective Care

    Medicare Explores How to Pay Doctors for More Effective Care

    M.L. Baker

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    Under a new program from the Centers of Medicaid and Medicare, doctors in solo and small medical practices will soon be eligible for up to $10,000 more a year—if they can demonstrate that their performance is up to snuff. Among other criteria, doctors will be evaluated for the percentage of diabetic patients whose glucose is… Read more

  • ‘Vitriol’ Rootkit to Demo at MS Blue Hat Hacker Summit

    ‘Vitriol’ Rootkit to Demo at MS Blue Hat Hacker Summit

    Ryan Naraine

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    Microsoft’s twice-yearly Blue Hat hacker summit, running Oct. 26-27, will kick off later this week with a demo of a virtual machine rootkit that can potentially be used to defeat the controversial PatchGuard technology. Dino Dai Zovi, a principal at penetration-testing outfit Matasano Security, has been invited to Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus to showcase a… Read more

  • Big Blue Brings Web 2.0 to School

    Big Blue Brings Web 2.0 to School

    Deborah Rothberg

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    Designed to attract computer science students and build advanced skills for the next wave of IT jobs, IBM and the University of Arizona announced Oct. 17 a Web 2.0 classroom curriculum. Offered to the MIS (management information systems department) and marketing students at The Eller College of Management, the program hopes to equip students with… Read more