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Partner Watch, Dec. 19

RPG development solutions provider ASNA announces support for Visual Studio.

Action Pack Abusers

A handful of individuals abused the Microsoft Action Pack program to obtain hundreds of the cheap software bundles and sell the software online and elsewhere, Microsoft has alleged in a flurry of recent lawsuits.

IT Weekly Roundup, Dec. 16

From the business wires: Group Policy management software, a solution for migrating customer data into Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, and an 8GB USB flash drive.

Visto Sues Microsoft over Windows Mobile

Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Visto filed suit against Microsoft for patent infringement in connection with Windows Mobile 5, which introduces push e-mail technology similar to Visto’s offerings.

Microsoft Raises Dividend

Microsoft's board increased the company's quarterly dividend by a penny to $0.09 a share.

Flurry of Microsoft Lawsuits Allege Fraud

Microsoft filed 10 lawsuits in federal court accusing three companies and nine individuals of illegally selling Microsoft software.

Microsoft Dynamics SL Generally Available

Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 will be generally available on Monday in the United States and Canada, Microsoft said.

Quest Delivers Group Policy Manager Update

Quest Software is shipping version 2.5 of its Group Policy Manager tool for creating, testing and implementing Windows Group Policy.

Microsoft Products Get Security Certified

Microsoft recently took another small step in its Trustworthy Computing initiative by obtaining security certification for a number of updated products.

Whale To Bundle ISA 2004

Microsoft and Whale Communications announced a partnership that enables Whale to sell an integrated solution that combines Microsoft’s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 with the smaller firm’s Intelligent Application Gateway product.

Microsoft RTMs Communicator Web Access

Microsoft finished development this week on the Web access component of its Office Communicator client.

Microsoft Ships Exchange '12' Beta

Role-based administration is a major feature in the beta, which is limited to about 1,400 testers.

Newly Patched IE Flaw Already Being Exploited

Attackers are already exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer that Microsoft released a patch for Tuesday.

VMware's Secure Browser Appliance

VMware made a splash in November when it released the free VMware Player, which lets users run pre-built VMware virtual machine configurations on client PCs. Now the company has taken its efforts a step further, teaming with Mozilla and Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu Linux) to create a pre-built virtual machine for the Firefox Web browser.

Visual FoxPro 9 Service Pack 1 Ships

Microsoft shipped at the end of last week Service Pack 1 for Visual FoxPro 9.0, a quiet update that fixes 200 or so bugs but that adds no new features to the revered database development tool.