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Microsoft-AOL Settle Netscape Lawsuit

Microsoft will pay AOL-Time Warner $750 million to settle the private antitrust lawsuit involving AOL's Netscape browser, the companies said Thursday afternoon.

Microsoft Cuts Office XP Prices

In a move to make its Office XP products more attractive to retail customers and small businesses, Microsoft cut prices for several suites and individual personal productivity applications on Wednesday.

Four New Flaws Found in IIS

Microsoft on Wednesday issued a cumulative patch for Internet Information Services that fixed four newly discovered flaws in the Web server. The most serious problem affects IIS 5.0 and 5.1 and is rated "important" by Microsoft. The Trustworthy Computing-scrubbed IIS 6.0, released as part of Windows Server 2003, is unaffected by any of the flaws.

Microsoft Instant Messaging Server Gets Another New Name

The definition of the Microsoft Office System on Tuesday grew to include the forthcoming Microsoft Real-Time Communications Server.

Microsoft Sweetens Licensing 6.0 Pot

Microsoft this week rolled out changes to the controversial Software Assurance component of Licensing 6.0 in an attempt to make the program more attractive to customers. The changes don't make Software Assurance any cheaper, but Microsoft has thrown in additional services for the same price.

IT Critical in Helping Iraqi War Effort

Federal Computer Week reporter reports on IT systems deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Microsoft Planning to Certify Half a Million in China

China is a potentially huge market for the IT industry. And, of course, Microsoft would never miss out on an opportunity like that.

Group Reports May Already Record Month for Overt Digital Attacks

Only 20 days in, May 2003 had already broken the record for the most overt digital attacks in one month, according to digital risk assessment firm mi2g.

Microsoft Pulls Together Promotional Mobile Admin Pack

Microsoft has assembled a bundle of third-party wireless products for a promotion next month to allow mid-market customers to administer Windows Server 2003 remotely from a handheld device.

Analysis: SCO Takes on Linux

The SCO Group (SCO) last week shifted gears in what it describes as an effort to assert its intellectual property (IP) rights, which SCO claims have been illegally incorporated into the open source Linux operating system.

Visio 2003 Hits Beta Phase

Microsoft released the first public beta this week of its Microsoft Office Visio 2003 business drawing and diagramming software.

Microsoft, Network Associates, Trend Micro Launch Alliance

Microsoft is stepping up to the plate a little more on virus response this week with the creation of the Virus Information Alliance, a partnership with Network Associates and Trend Micro.

Gartner: Database Market Contracted in 2002, SQL Server Grew

New research on the database market from Gartner on Wednesday quantifies in yet another area the case for arguing that 2002 was the worst year yet for IT. But the research also supports another trend -- no matter how bad things got, Microsoft kept growing and churning out profits.

TPC-C Benchmark Heats Up, Windows Back on Top

HP hoisted its Superdome-Itanium-Windows combination to the top of the premier OLTP scalability benchmark on Tuesday, about a month after originally gaining the top spot and little more than a week after IBM displaced the combo with a system based on its own AIX/RISC/DB2 stack.

Unisys Touts New Mainframe Systems

The new systems support Windows and Unix in mixed environments.

Windows 2003 Training: $249 (U.S. Offer Only)

Microsoft is offering $100 off the retail price for its Windows Server 2003 training; offer valid until Dec. 31, 2003.

Support@Microsoft.com Worm Makes the Rounds

A new mass mailing worm spoofs Microsoft's domain name to deliver a payload disguised as an attachment from Microsoft. The worm was discovered by anti-virus vendors over the weekend and it picked up momentum Monday as users fired up their mailboxes for the work week.

First Windows 2003 Core Exams Get Tested

Microsoft to test out 70-290, 70-291 exams with beta testers in June.

Newspaper: Microsoft Ran Slush Fund to Counter Linux

Microsoft created a slush fund to heavily discount or even give away Windows in cases where the software giant was about to lose large international deals to Linux, according to published reports.

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