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>>  LEAD STORY:  Microsoft won't force unified management on customers
>>  NEWS:  Latest Bagle worm both nasty and sneaky
>>  TIP OF THE DAY:  Bad bosses, and how to deal with them
>>  THE MISSING LINK:  'Just play along Ma' -- hackers rig survey
 News and Top Stories  

LEAD STORY
Microsoft won't force unified management on customers  (SearchWin2000.com)
Client and server administrators will continue to have independent management options, says Microsoft manageability executive Kirill Tatarinov.
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MS compromises on unified management platform
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NEWS
Latest Bagle worm both nasty and sneaky (SearchSecurity.com)
A new variant of Bagle has a unique way of worming through computer systems.

NEWS
Tough choices in saturated provisioning market (SearchWebServices.com)
Burton Group analyzes the state of the provisioning market and offers advice on buying and deploying provisioning tools, a product market that has at least one Active Directory user scrambling to find the right solution.

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TIP OF THE DAY
Bad bosses, and how to deal with them
In this tip, management consultant Esther Derby, president of Esther Derby & Associates Inc. shares her cheat sheet for dealing with different types of difficult bosses.

EXPERT WEBCAST
Five reasons for a PC replacement cycle
There are thousands of aging PCs in offices around the world. In this expert webcast Rob Enderle, Research Fellow at Forrester Research, discusses why this could be a risk to productivity and business-process continuity.
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FEATURED TOPIC
Secrets of the Windows registry
The registry is the heart of the Windows operating system, making troubleshooting and fine-tuning skills a must. This week we offer tips, advice and little-known tricks.

READER POLL
XP "reloaded?"
What does Windows XP "reloaded" sound like to you? Do you think it will really be a significant upgrade? Or is more likely to be a bad Matrix sequel or a glorified service pack?
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THE MISSING LINK
'Just play along Ma' -- hackers rig survey

OK, so maybe what these people did was wrong, but you have to give them points for ingenuity. At least a dozen employees of Southern California Edison hacked into the utility's customer database and changed a few phone numbers. They weren't just any numbers -- they were the numbers of people who were to be called for a customer satisfaction survey. So whom did the pollsters end up calling? The hackers' friends and family, which explains why the electric company got nothing but glowing reviews.



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