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Beta Testers Get First Look at Windows Vista
The long-awaited first beta for the Windows Vista client release, which was formerly known as Longhorn, officially goes live Wednesday, hitting some 20,000 technical beta testers. Microsoft also Wednesday released the first beta of the as-yet un-renamed Windows “Longhorn” Server to a limited number of participants in the technical beta program, including hardware manufacturers, OEMs,…
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Microsoft Delivers the ‘Other’ Longhorn Beta 1
While Vista Beta 1 is stealing most of the headlines this week, Microsoft also is delivering simultaneously on Wednesday to a select group of private testers the first beta of its Longhorn Server product. Microsoft has not yet decided on a final name for the next version of its Windows Server operating system (other than…
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At First Glance, Vista Looks Like a Winner
Click here to view a slideshow of Windows Vista Beta 1. In the Windows world right now there are two types of people: Beta Ones and Beta Twos. Each group will have a different reaction to the Wednesday beta release of Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, formerly known as Longhorn. Developers and need-to-know IT professionals are…
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Cisco Tries to Quash Vulnerability Talk at Black Hat
A discussion of vulnerability in Cisco Systems Inc.’s IOS provoked controversy at this year’s Black Hat Briefings conference in Las Vegas, after the San Jose, Calif., networking vendor forced conference organizers to physically remove notes on the strategy for remotely exploiting IOS systems from conference proceedings. The researcher, Michael Lynn, ultimately presented information on the…
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Cisco Files Suit to Gag Researcher, Security Conference
Cisco Systems and Internet Security Systems have asked a U.S. District Court to issue a restraining order against a former ISS researcher and Black Hat over the leak of information about security holes in Cisco’s Internetwork Operating System. The two companies jointly filed an injunction and temporary restraining order Wednesday against researcher Michael Lynn and…
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Vista Beta Presents Clearer View of Data
Earlier today, Microsoft uncloaked the first beta release of Windows Vista, the next-generation version of its Windows client previously known as Longhorn. eWEEK Labs has been conducting early testing on a pre-beta 1 version of Vista, build 5098, and although a good deal of roughness remains to be smoothed out, the Vista release we’re running…
