Today's News: Pumping up Microsoft's extended warranty

[SearchWin2000.com]

Title: Windows Week that Was

A newsletter published by TechTarget   November 14, 2003 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  Microsoft: Empower Your Future >>  The Desktop Deployment Info Center: Everything you need to know about managing business desktops  Top News of the Week  >>  Patches, patents and the EU's demands SPONSORED BY: Microsoft Empower Your Future The Microsoft Empower Program for ISVs is designed to help you succeed both in developing your product and growing your business. Benefits include five MSDN Universal subscriptions; internal use licenses; on-line newsgroups; Concierge; resource guides; sales & marketing materials to help you promote your software products are also included. Empower your development, testing & marketing. Click here to learn more.  Week In Review  Pumping up Microsoft's extended warranty by John Hogan, News Editor If Microsoft's Software Assurance offering is such a good deal, why do so few customers sign up for it? In a word, fear. Customers are apparently afraid that Software Assurance -- the maintenance aspect of Microsoft's Licensing 6.0 program -- will end up costing, rather than saving, precious IT dollars. To turn that fear into comfort, Microsoft is taking a two-pronged approach: incentives and education. Click here to read more about John Hogan's take on Microsoft's Software Assurance and other top stories of the week. More on this topic: >  Software Assurance deserves a second look, analysts say >  Patches for critical IE, Windows flaws issued >  Microsoft slow with critical patch >  Patent office to re-examine Eolas patent >  Microsoft to EU: Windows may be damaged SPONSORED BY: The Desktop Deployment Info Center Visit the Desktop Deployment Info Center for tips, webcasts, expert advice and other key resources focused on all aspects of managing Windows desktops -- direct from SearchWin2000.com and Microsoft. Topics covered include desktop deployment and migration strategies, performance, disk management, hardware administration, application management, security -- and much more! Click here to explore your one-stop desktop shop.  Survival Tips for the Windows Manager   Chapter of the Week: Managing a Windows XP system Leverage the power of Windows XP, and fully satisfy your business needs with help from this practical guide. This chapter from the book Windows XP Professional: A Beginner's Guide, by Martin Matthews, covers Windows XP data storage on CDs and DVDs, printing and faxing, transferring files, connecting to and using a local area network, using a modem, setting up and using an Internet connection and much more. Webcast: More control ... with Windows 2003, Windows XP and group policy Did you know there are roughly 200 new group policy settings in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP? At this webcast on Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. EST, group policy Guru Jeremy Moskowitz teach you how to take advantage of these new settings to gain more granular control of your network systems and desktops. Click here to register for this live webcast, where you'll be able to ask Jeremy your own group policy questions. Holiday Product Review Guide: Calling all gadget geeks! Are you a gadget person? Gadget people can't resist the latest and greatest. And that's what we have assembled in our Gadgets & Gizmos '03 guide. See how high-tech translates into high-tech fun with this assortment of the newest and greatest in high-tech gizmos. TRUE IT BLOOPERS Oops! True IT blooper #119: No escape When Senior Network Technician Terry Johnson connected the vice president's computer to the Internet, Johnson thought everything went well. But it wasn't long before the VP's secretary called the Help Desk and accused him of breaking the VP's desktop. In his own words, Johnson describes the blooper that happened next.  Vent!  Take our reader poll. Will Microsoft's reward money help catch hackers? Click here to weigh in. Use our one-click signup and get the latest technical white papers delivered right to your inbox! Enter your e-mail and start receiving White Paper Alerts. E-mail    Not a member? We'll activate your membership with your subscription.   Contact Us   NEWS EDITOR John Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your news, press releases and product announcements. SENIOR SITE EDITOR Marilyn Cohodas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your original articles and best practices. SITE EDITOR Catherine Ketcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your bloopers and Featured Topic ideas. SENIOR NEWS WRITER Margie Semilof [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your news and story ideas. ASSOCIATE EDITOR Christine Polewarczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your ideas for webcasts and discussion day topics. ASSISTANT EDITOR Jennifer Luscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your favorite Web sites and white papers. ASSISTANT EDITOR Vandana Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your tips and your true IT bloopers. ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Gabrielle DeRussy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact me to sponsor this or any other TechTarget newsletter. A B O U T   T H I S   N E W S L E T T E R This newsletter is published by TechTarget, the most targeted IT media. Copyright 2003 TechTarget. All rights reserved. To unsubscribe from "Windows Week that Was":   -  Reply to this e-mail with REMOVE in the Subject line OR   -  Go to unsubscribe and enter your e-mail address to cancel your subscription Please note, unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed.