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Microsoft's Software Assurance Customers On the Fence, Forrester Says
by Alex Woodie
If a recent survey by Forrester Research is accurate, Microsoft could be facing a customer exodus from Software Assurance, the multi-year software maintenance program that has stirred controversy in recent years. A report released by the analyst group this week suggests more than three quarters of current Software Assurance contracts will end this year, but less than one quarter of customers plan to renew the contracts at the same level. READ MORE >
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Microsoft's GPL v3 Stance Puts Future of Novell Pact in Doubt
by Alex Woodie
Microsoft issued a statement last week that it does not consider itself bound by GPL v3, the new open source license that was designed, in part, to put a kibosh on the types of partnerships Microsoft has signed with Novell and other Linux distributors. With Novell intent on supporting GPL v3, it appears to put important elements of the Microsoft-Novell deal on a collision course. READ MORE >
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A Potpourri of Fixes Marks A Slow Patch Tuesday
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It was a relatively quiet Patch Tuesday yesterday as Microsoft issued six patches for 11 vulnerabilities affecting products ranging from clients to servers and from the .NET runtime to Excel and the Vista firewall. None of the fixes for the July Patch Tuesday addressed so-called zero-day problems, in stark contrast to the array of zero-day patches Microsoft issued earlier this year. But it's still a good idea to get the patches loaded up quickly. READ MORE >
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Hype Machine Prepped for Windows Server 2008 Launch
by Alex Woodie
Microsoft will officially launch Windows Server 2008 in Los Angeles on February 27, 2008, the software giant announced this week from its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Colorado. In addition to launching the product once codenamed "Longhorn" server, Microsoft will introduce SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 in a triple-launch event that Microsoft is already calling "the most important enterprise launch in company history." READ MORE >
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MKS Takes Risk Out of
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