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Creating a test version of Software Update Services 2.0 is taking Microsoft longer than expected. There are signs, however, that Redmond is close to finishing work on the free patch management tool.
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IDC Brief - Thin clients: a cost-effective way to improve security
Has the down economy prevented your company from engaging in radical changes in IT philosophy that could save large amounts of money? If so, then read the latest IDC Executive Brief, Thin Clients: A Cost-Effective Way to Improve Security, to achieve two seemingly contradictory goals. Learn how thin clients are providing an alternative to PCs with equal or higher levels of computing power and increased security, for a lower overall cost.
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NEWS
Microsoft patch delay may contribute to early exploit (SearchSecurity.com)
After Microsoft released a patch this week for a critical Windows vulnerability discovered in July, the security community wants to know: What took so long?
NEWS
MS risks alienating users, Gartner says (vnunet)
The Software Assurance contracts of about 30% of Microsoft's largest customers will be up in the next three months, and the software maker risks losing many of them unless it can prove the value of the software-licensing program, according to Gartner Inc. The research firm says Microsoft could lose up to 10% of its share of the market for desktop software by 2008.
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EXPERT WEBCAST
Essential Windows certifications
Whether you are just getting started in IT or are a veteran network admin looking for a better job, you need to stay on top of the ever-changing certification landscape. This expert webcast, by Ed Tittel, will tell you everything you need to know about MS certifications.
Click here to watch and listen to this expert webcast.
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Free white paper: Continuous Windows uptime without complex failovers
Traditional technologies used to protect Windows-based servers from downtime are too costly and complex for widespread use. Learn about simple, affordable, fault and disaster tolerant software that keeps Windows servers running through faults, failures and disasters without a loss of performance or interruption in service.
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WINDOWS WORD CHALLENGE
A drive-by download to teach a lesson
Initially carried out to illustrate the problem of lax security, this was launched six months after Microsoft released a patch for the flaw. Like its malicious counterpart, it could propagate across networks exponentially and perform its tasks without user knowledge or consent, through a process sometimes called a drive-by download. According to some, such invasive behavior is warranted because many system administrators fail to install
appropriate patches and service packs, despite knowledge of vulnerabilities and available solutions.
Think you know the term? Click here to find out.
IT SURVIVAL KIT
Power to the user (well, just a little)
Windows 2000 users normally do not have the right to change the default power schemes that are set up on a PC. The only way to allow them to change power schemes is to grant them administrator access. This normally cannot happen for security reasons. But there is a solution to this problem that doesn't involve putting users into the administrator group.
Click here to learn how.
FEATURED TOPIC
Build an affordable test lab at home
A virtual IT training lab? SearchWin2000.com readers were intrigued by one member's suggestion to use virtual server software to help pass his MCSE exam. Find out more in this collection of advice and news, including a tip from certification guru Ed Tittel and readers' own, in-the-trenches recommendations.
READER POLL
Microsoft's attention to user groups
Do you think that Microsoft pays enough attention to its user groups?
Cast your vote in our current poll.
THE MISSING LINK
Survey links Midas touch and a woman's touch
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So much for it being a man's world -- unless maybe you're in IT. A nonprofit group that studies women in business found that companies with female higher-ups perform better than those with only men in charge. But in IT, the link between female executives and company success isn't as strong. Also, in IT, the number of women in top management positions is below the overall average.
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