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Study: 651 Million E-mail Users Worldwide

Worldwide e-mail usage boomed in 2004, according to a new study by the Radicati Group.

BMC Buys French ID Management Firm

BMC Software announced it is buying French identity management software developer Calendra for $33 million.

VMware Plays an ACE in the Virtual PC Game

VMware is shipping ACE, a PC virtualization product designed to protect corporate data and other electronic assets even when the work is being done offsite by outsiders.

Microsoft to Expand Redmond Headquarters

Microsoft filed a development agreement this week with the city of Redmond, Wash., committing to expanding its corporate headquarters there.

Microsoft CFO Leaving

Longtime Microsoft executive John Connors is leaving the company to join a venture capital firm.

LANDesk Debuts New and Updated Management Tools

Intel spin-off LANDesk announced this week that it is shipping Server Manager 8.5, which provides significant enhancements to the seven-year-old server management tool.

Patches Provided for Windows NT 4 Despite End of Support

Operating in the gray area between support and non-support, Microsoft chose to freely distribute the one new security bulletin that affected Windows NT Server 4.0 on Tuesday, 11 days after official support of the operating system expired.

Bot the Likely Culprit for WINS Flaw Activity

There was a flurry of discussion regarding a possible WINS worm due to a spike in WINS port 42 traffic.

Patch Tuesday: Three Security Bulletins, Two Critical

Microsoft released three security bulletins for Windows on Tuesday, its monthly date for patching security problems. Two of the security bulletins involve critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a user's system over the Internet. The patches are especially important because both critical vulnerabilities had already been publicly disclosed.

Malicious Software Removal Tool Makes Debut

Microsoft on Tuesday provided the first version of the malicious software removal tool that it first promised last week.

Microsoft Posts Beta of AntiSpyware Tool

Microsoft offered a widespread beta of a new anti-spyware tool for Windows users on Thursday. The availability of the software marked an extremely quick rebranding and rerelease of the anti-spyware technology Microsoft purchased last month from Giant Company Software.

Three Windows Security Bulletins Coming Jan. 11

Microsoft will post three security bulletins for flaws in Windows next Tuesday. At least one of the bulletins will cover a critical flaw.

ThinPrint Refocuses Desktop Printing on Microsoft RDP

ThinPrint is shipping its .print Remote Desktop Printing Engine for Microsoft Terminal Services 2003. The product is the newest in its line of printing solutions for Windows terminal services users.

Most Popular Stories of 2004

It's always interesting to look back and see which stories attracted the most attention from you over the last year in terms of clicks.

VMware Tests Major Update to Virtual Workstation Package

Over the holidays, VMware began beta testing Workstation 5, the latest update to the company’s five-year-old desktop virtualization platform.

Microsoft Drops Itanium Support for Workstation, Standard Server

Microsoft will no longer support Intel's high-end Itanium 2 processor in workstation and low-end server operating systems.

Time Running Out on California Class-Action Settlement Case

The clock is ticking for California businesses and consumers to make claims in the largest of the class-action lawsuit settlement agreements resulting from the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against Microsoft.

HP Hands Itanium Development off to Intel

Intel and HP announced this month that the chip manufacturer will take over all further development of the two companies’ Itantium family of processors. Though most terms of the deal were not disclosed, Intel will hire HP’s Itanium chip design team, which is located in Fort Collins, Colo.

Exchange Edge Services off 2005 Roadmap

Microsoft has scrapped plans for a 2005 delivery of Exchange Edge Services, a set of technologies for e-mail protection and spam management that builds on Exchange Server 2003.

Microsoft Loses First Appeal in EU Case

Microsoft's effort to delay European antitrust measures until the end of the appeals process failed with the release of an order Wednesday by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.