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Pragmatic Programming — Is It For You?

Strangled by the latest "methodology of the month"? The authors of <i>The Pragmatic Programmer</i> can help you wriggle out of the methodology straightjacket.

Step on Boot Problems

Knowing exactly how your Windows 2000 Server starts up can get you out of some tight spots.

Attracting Students to C# With FreeBSD

Microsoft is working with Corel to get C# running on FreeBSD. One industry observer says Microsoft's motivation is reclaiming students (i.e. future developers) from open source.

Appeals Court Revokes Jackson's Break-Up Order

The constantly spinning worm that is the Microsoft antitrust case turned in Microsoft's favor as a federal appeals court vacated the break-up order against Microsoft. The court didn't touch the lower court's finding that Microsoft violated antitrust laws.

Intel Speeding up Pentium 4

Intel will bring out a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 processor in July.

Weigh Your Training Options

You want a career in IT, but how do you get the skills? It's time to look at your IT training options.

Outlook 2001 Fleshes Out Microsoft's Cross-Platform Story

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday posted to its download Web site the final code of Outlook 2001, a version of its Outlook mail and collaboration client for Macintosh platforms.

RC1 for Windows XP Coming Within 10 Days

Microsoft will put out the first release candidate for Windows XP within 10 days, a Microsoft official says. The company expects a $1 billion marketing campaign for the new client OS.

Compaq, IBM Roll Out New Server Hardware

Compaq unveils ProLiants with memory protection features. IBM shows off servers built on Intel's Tualatin processors.

Exchange Service Pack Full of Features

With most products Microsoft is moving away from new features in service packs. The Exchange 2000 service pack bucks the trend, adding migration help, Outlook 2002 and support for a new anti-virus API, Mobile Information Server and Datacenter Server.

Limited LDAP Vulnerability Surfaces

Microsoft alerted customers Tuesday to the existence of a new vulnerability in Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server that affects the software giant's Active Directory enterprise directory services.

Covering Cover Letters

Does your resume need a cover letter? If you insist, what traits make for an effective, attention-getting one?

Stratus Ships Fault Tolerant W2K Box

Stratus Technologies brought its fault-tolerant hardware to Windows 2000 on Monday, nine months behind schedule and at a slightly higher price point than originally planned.

Compaq Bets Big on Itanium, Alpha Getting Phased Out

Compaq Computer Corp. solidified its commitment to Itanium Monday by handing over production of its high-end Alpha microprocessor to Intel Corp. and sentencing the chip to a phase-out ending in 2004.

Microsoft Patches Three More Bugs

Microsoft issued two new security bulletins this morning - and in the process updated an older security bulletin to reflect a new vulnerability - thus capping one of its busiest weeks on the security front in recent history.

SQL Server: Look How It's Grown

Revenues on SQL Server reached $1 billion in the recently ended fiscal year.

Tools for Keeping up with a Flood of Security Patches

Notice a lot of security patches out of Microsoft lately? Two tools vendors update their products at TechEd with different approaches to help enterprises keep up.

MOM Released to Manufacturing

Microsoft this week released to manufacturing its Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000, a consolidated management environment for data centers based on Microsoft Windows 2000 servers and .NET family applications.

Is it Time for a Mainframe Security Model?

The circumstances which attended the IIS vulnerability that Microsoft Corp. patched this week served to highlight the vast differences that still exist between Windows 2000 and the Big Iron mainframe, which to this day is viewed as a reference standard in most segments of enterprise computing.

Sun, Oracle Partner Against .NET

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Oracle Corp. fired a collective shot across Microsoft Corp.'s bow when the two companies took the wraps off of a new development services toolkit - dubbed Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) - that they hope will lure developers away from the software giant's competing .NET initiative.

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