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Microsoft Air Cover Arrives with Troops Already Ashore
The consumer and small business launch of Microsoft Windows Vista and Office on Jan. 30 meant very little for business customers, but for VARs and partners trying to sell it to them, it’s the air cover they’ve been waiting for. The first mass-market Vista marketing blitz hits the airwaves and billboards Feb. 1, with a…
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Command Line Makes a Comeback
Once upon a time, when DOS walked the earth, the command line was the primary user interface for most of our computers. Then, Windows came along, and Microsoft seemed set on leaving the command prompt to dry up and wither into obscurity. Fortunately, Microsoft has again turned its attention to the command line and, in…
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Ntirety, Tizor Partner to Offer Database Monitoring Service
Tizor Systems has agreed to allow its intelligent data auditing and protection product, Mantra, to be used by database administration company Ntirety in a new managed security service package. The new product, dubbed Remote DAS (Data Auditing Service), will provide Ntirety customers with compliance assurance, data monitoring and information theft detection by monitoring, auditing and…
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Toshiba Breaks New Tablet PC Ground
With Apple MacBook-like looks, a fantastic widescreen display and the kind of portability usually found in Lenovo ThinkPads, Toshiba’s Protégé R400 is the most groundbreaking Tablet PC eWEEK Labs has tested. Unfortunately, users will pay for the innovation—in terms of both price and performance. Announced at the International CES and set to begin shipping Jan.…
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Microsoft’s Mac Office 2008 Shows Plenty of Eye Candy
Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit on Jan. 9 unveiled an early version of Office 2008, the first update to Office for the Mac in nearly three years. It appears that the MacBU has put a lot of work into it. Whether all that work will make Office 2008 “better” than the current version—or, even, better than…
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Exchange Server 2007: Been There, Done That?
The newest version of Microsoft’s Exchange Server is as significant a leap forward as the two other major platforms Microsoft introduced in 2006—Office 2007 and Windows Vista. The changes to Exchange Server 2007, which became available in December, are numerous, including mobile support, integrated unified messaging, bundled anti-spam and anti-virus capabilities, a new Outlook Web…
