Today's News: Will Longhorn include WinFS after all?

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Published by SearchWin2000.com   September 24, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  SearchWin2000.com Career Center: Looking for a new job?  Top News of the Week  >>  WUS FAQs, an old security friend, IT morale morass SPONSORED BY: SearchWin2000.com Career Center Looking for a new job? Visit the SearchWin2000.com Career Center powered by Dice and find over 37,000 tech positions to choose from. And get the career resources you need to set yourself apart from other job seekers. Find training and certification resources, get help with your resume and more. Visit today! Click here to visit the Career Center today!  Headline  Will Longhorn include WinFS after all? By Brien M. Posey, Contributor Microsoft's official position is that its next-generation operating system, Longhorn, will ship in 2006 without some anticipated features like WinFS. But a pre-beta version of Longhorn and sources inside Microsoft say otherwise. When Microsoft announced in August that it will ship the next desktop version of Windows in two years, it also said its new file system, WinFS, would be a casualty of the timetable to release Longhorn. However, the early Longhorn build that I have includes WinFS, and my sources in the Windows development group tell me that WinFS will indeed ship with Longhorn's initial release. Click here to read more about what's in the early build of Longhorn. More on this topic: >  Microsoft answers admins' WUS questions >  MBSA: Revisiting an old friend >  Job satisfaction takes a dive in salary survey >  Security threats growing increasingly malicious >  Checklist: Effective software license management  Survival Tips for the Windows Manager   The search is on for Products of the Year! The editors of SearchWindows2000.com, SearchExchange.com and SearchWindowsSecurity.com. are conducting the second annual Products of the Year for the Windows marketplace. The deadline for submissions is October 6, so please don't delay and send in your nominees now! For a description of eligibility requirements, criteria and an on-line submission form, click here. We will announce the winners in a special feature on SearchWindows2000.com in January. Featured Topic: Windows Management -- 10 tips in 10 minutes Here are 10 tips for the future of Windows management. Look for a new Microsoft Operations Manager, Systems Management Server service, feature packs and Software Update Services. Chapter of the Week: 'Planning, implementing and maintaining a security infrastructure' Good security begins with careful planning, followed by careful implementation, and it stays current by vigilant maintenance. Fail any of these three steps and you're asking for serious trouble. Is your system as safe as you think it is? Follow the walk-through in this chapter from the book "MCSE Planning a Windows Server 2003 Network Study Guide," by Diana Huggins, to find out. TRUE IT BLOOPERS Oops! True IT Blooper #153: A knock-out first impression! When two Dublin Insurance companies merged, the technical marriage was less than perfect, but the two companies made good headway ... Until one of the admins really goofed.  Vent!  What do you think of Sender ID now that it's been rejected by the open source community and the IETF disbanded its related working group? Take our latest poll and sound off. Member Surveys Enter your e-mail and start receiving Member Surveys. E-mail    Not a member? We'll activate your membership with your subscription.   Contact Us   SENIOR 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 SALES MANAGER Mike Kelly [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 Contact us: SearchWin2000 Member Services 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 800 Needham, MA 02494 This e-newsletter is published by SearchWin2000.com, a targeted Web site from TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. TechTarget offers magazines, Web sites, e-newsletters, Webcasts and conferences for enterprise IT professionals. Copyright 2004 TechTarget. All rights reserved. To unsubscribe from "Today's News": Go to unsubscribe: http://searchWin2000.techtarget.com/unsubscribe?track=NL-118&ad=492755 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.