Microsoft 11867 Published by Bob 0

Scott Mitchell provides a quick examination of AVL trees and red-black trees, which are two different self-balancing binary search tree data structures. He also covers skip lists, an ingenious data structure that turns a linked list into a data structure that offers the same running time as the more complex self-balancing tree data structures.

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Microsoft 11867 Published by Bob 0

The Yankee Group recently profiled several organizations—among them a media and entertainment conglomerate, an Ivy League university, and a law firm—to discover how each has lowered its total cost of ownership (TCO) and derived immediate return on investment (ROI) from its purchase of Microsoft Software Assurance. This document explains the results of the Yankee Groupâ€:tm:s research.

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Microsoft 11867 Published by Bob 0

Reversing a longstanding Microsoft policy, the company will ship an update to its Internet Explorer browser separately from the next version of Windows. The move acknowledges that the browser has become the target of virus and spyware writers. Some analysts attribute Microsoft's change of heart to the progress of the Firefox browser. Is the company reacting to growing concerns about browser security, or does Firefox have Microsoft on the run?

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