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Microsoft is releasing SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing after several delays. Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will help Microsoft compete with Oracle and its 11g database, and IBM and its DB2 9.5 database. SQL Server 2008 will be generally available within two weeks.
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VersionOne and Danube roll out tools for agile software development. VersionOne is integrating its V1: Agile technology with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 and is supporting Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Danube unveiled ScrumCore, a new services unit devoted to agile development.
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The microkernel concept that was once theoretically cool but impractical may now be a more reasonable real-world solution. With Microsoft working on Windows 7 and reportedly Midori, have hardware performance improvements finally made the microkernel practical?
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The slow adoption of Vista is giving IBM and Linux distributors an opportunity to convince enterprises that there are good desktop software alternatives to Windows. IBM, Canonical, Novell and Red Hat will work with hardware makers to market custom-designed PCs preloaded with Linux and Lotus word processing and collaboration software.
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Symantec's virtual workspace offering will let enterprise users take their business desktops with them wherever they go. The technology comes from nSuite, which Symantec is buying.
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VirtualBox is an able hypervisor for running guest OSes with a minimum of fuss and even less money.
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Mobile Linux will outsell Microsoft Windows Mobile and other rival OS makers in the mobile Internet device market by 2013, says ABI Research. Moblin, LiMo and Maemo will be the leading Linux mobile providers.
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Ideally, the cloud versus on-premises debate should fade away. Can Microsoft's Exchange Online strategy fulfill cloud computing's platform-agnostic promise?
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New and ever-changing Web-borne threats necessitate a change in practices and technology.
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Results of a recent poll show that the stagnant economy may be leading more organizations to adopt open-source software to save on licensing fees, according ot the Open Solutions Alliance. Customers also are concerned about interoperability between open-source software and Microsoft Windows.
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Microsoft is now a major sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation and is putting its protocols and formats into a royalty-free license, all part of a larger open-source push.
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The Debian project’s maintainer Luk Claes said July 21 he will freeze “testing” the “Lenny” tree “next week” as he prepares for the stable release of Debian Linux in September.
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At OSCON, Microsoft announces support for the Ruby specification effort and says it will participate in the RubySpec project.
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The Yahoo Zimbra Beta allows all 263 million Yahoo Mail customers to access mail and calendars offline. Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3, available July 24, will let users run their Yahoo mail as desktop POP or IMAP mail client software.
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Any Yahoo acquisition plans Microsoft might have entertained are now dead, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft is moving on and looking to invest more in search, a business Ballmer categorizes as a "two-horse race" between Microsoft and Google.
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Review: During eWEEK Labs' tests, conversions using the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack show file fidelity.
Review: Version 2.2 is worth evaluating as an alternative to Microsoft Office.
Review: Microsoft makes strides while decreasing the server's number of vulnerable areas.
Review: New tools allow IT organizations to upgrade with less fuss than with XP.
Review: Microsoft's Expression Web—which rivals leader Dreamweaver on many levels—could be a more significant release than even Vista and Office 2007.
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