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Novell credits Microsoft for booming SUSE Linux sales

Novell reported a 243% jump in sales of its SUSE Linux operating system, crediting its alliance with Microsoft. Interesting development, after the initial teething issues the two companies have had with their relationship, and the open source community’s quick kneejerk reaction (not that it wasn’t expected… ) to it.

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Entourage 2008: OOFs coming to the Mac

With the release of Office 2008 for the Mac, Entourage users will be able to use Out of Office messages just like the rest of the world (i.e. Windows users with Microsoft Outlook) have been doing forever. Entourage 2008 supports Exchange Server 2007’s enhanced OOF functionality, including the ability to schedule OOF start and stop […]

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Exchange Server 2007 SP1: Take control of your Windows Mobile devices

Microsoft announced availability of SP1 Beta 2 as a community technology preview (read Exchange product group GM Terry Myerson’s post “Announcing Service Pack 1 Beta 2 for Exchange Server 2007“). Yes, the much awaited bag of goodies that SP1 promises to be is now within reach, if you’re a TechNet Plus or MSDN subscriber. SP1 […]

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NetCraft: IIS gaining ground on Apache

Internet research firm NetCraft reports Microsoft’s IIS web server is now gaining ground on its open-source rival Apache. Out of close to 128 million web sites surveyed this month, 34.2% use IIS – an increase of 1.4%. Apache’s marketshare slipped by 1.7%, to 48.4%. More in NetCraft’s August 2007 Web Server Survey. Update:Eric Lai reports […]

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FireFox 2.0.0.6: Mozilla fixes the IE security hole that wasn’t

You’ve probably heard about the FireFox patch that fixed a vulnerability caused by IE? Here’s more. July 10: Mozilla’s head of Security Strategy Window Snyder writes: “Today security firm Secunia released an advisory on a security issue found (apparently) simultaneously and independently by Greg MacManus and Billy Rios based on a previously reported issue in […]

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Microsoft’s “Creative Product Naming Dept” Does Exist

The “Creative Product Naming Dept” that I’ve talked about several times here [read a previous post “It’s Official – Exchange “12” is now Exchange Server 2007“] does in fact exist at Microsoft! CNET News.com cites recent product names such as Silverlight, Popfly, and Surface as evidence that Microsoft “has put in place a concerted effort […]

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Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise CALs: Let Microsoft do the filtering

Microsoft introduced the concept of Standard and Enterprise Client Access Licenses (CALs) for Exchange Server 2007. In previous versions, only the server part of Exchange came in Standard or Enterprise flavors, the latter allowing you the use of enterprise features like more number of Storage Groups and Stores, no limits on Store sizes, clustering, etc. […]

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Address Literals in Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

RFC 2821 allows the use of a literal form of a recipient’s address, which uses the destination system’s IP address enclosed by square brackets in the domain part, as an alternative to a domain name. Commonly known as address literals, this form of addressing helps in delivery of mail to a recipient when the recipient’s […]

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Exchange and Security MVP Chats on TechNet This Week

Microsoft is holding Exchange Server Q&A; with MVP experts twice this week. Exchange MVPs will be on hand to answer your questions about Exchange Server, Outlook, and Exchange for Small Business Server. So if you are thinking of upgrading to Exchange Server 2007 or have questions about Exchange Server 2003 we hope you can join […]

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Will Microsoft do a Linux?

The ever-so-opinionated John Dvorak in PC Mag: People are always looking for the be-all-end-all super-perfect Linux. It will never happen until Microsoft does Linux. Oops. Did I say that? Excerpt from the column: Has anyone besides me noticed that Linux has become the oddest “flavor of the day” product ever marketed to the computing community? […]

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