FUSION: Microsoft touts Sharepoint 2.0

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LOS ANGELES MICROSOFT on Saturday offered a glimpse of the next version of Sharepoint Portal Server boasting improved collaboration capabilities.

Known as Sharepoint 2.0, the product will have close technical ties to Microsoft's Office 11, not due until mid-2003, as well as a new product called Small Business Server codenamed Bobcat, also due to ship next year.

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FUSION: Microsoft eyes wireless opportunities

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FOCUSED ON PURSUING wireless computing opportunities, Microsoft plans to expand its vertical industry offerings in the health care and finance industries over the next year, according to a company official.

Microsoft is positioning its Smartphone and PocketPC Phone 2002 platforms as key weapons in its wireless communications arsenal as part of its mobile drive, said Juha Christensen, corporate vice president of Microsoft's mobile devices division, speaking on Saturday at the Fusion 2002 partner conference. "This is a fantastic call to action," he said. 

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FUSION: Microsoft attempts to mend broken partner fences

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Microsoft on Sunday offered its partner community both an olive branch and carrot stick, reflecting a fundamental go-to-market shift occurring within its walls.

Predicting PCs sales will return and opportunities are rife as the company and its partners realign around packaged services based on its .Net strategy, Microsoft executives speaking here at the Fusion partner conference promised to repair broken links with its partners. 

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Microsoft details partner solution plans

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Determined to affirm support of its 81,000 strong partner community, Microsoft today kicked off its Fusion show here announcing new leadership and reinforcing commitment to fostering business opportunities based on its .Net infrastructure strategy.

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Microsoft fails to use own security product

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NETSCREEN TECHNOLOGIES, A company that makes firewall and virtual private network hardware and software, announced this week that it had gained a major customer: Microsoft.

Microsoft's SQL Labs, the part of the company that works on Microsoft's SQL Server, is using NetScreen's 500-series security appliance to defend its network against Code Red, Nimda and other worm attacks, according to a statement released by NetScreen. Apparently, the labs' choice was made despite the fact that Microsoft already sells its own security product touted as a defense against worms. 

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Microsoft's 'Corona' set to be rolled out

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MICROSOFT IS PREPARING to lob its latest weapon in the digital media war, announcing Monday the beta release timing of the next version of its Windows media platform, dubbed Corona.

After months of speculation, the details of Corona, including the product's official name, launch date and additional consumer device manufacturer support, will finally be unveiled, company sources said, providing a further glimpse into the software giant's digital media strategy.

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Microsoft to ship smart-phone software 'any day now'

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After repeated delays, Microsoft is finally ready to ship its Windows Powered Smartphone 2002 software, formerly code-named Stinger, in the coming weeks but mobile phones based on the software may not appear for up to six months after its release, a company executive said here Tuesday. 

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Redmond retirement ratchet spells doom for Win2k

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Windows 2000 has been given nine months to live, as far as OEMs are concerned, and Microsoft is pressuring the PC companies to stop offering dual install Win2k/WinXP systems immediately. Microsoft operating systems magically become more expensive and difficult to obtain as soon as there's a new rev out, but so long as the previous version is still available on new PCs via OEMs, business customers have a relatively simple way to stick with their current OS, rather than having to do an expensive rollout of the replacement.

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Windows Advanced Server, Limited Edition Version 1.2 For Intels Itanium 2

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Windows Advanced Server, Limited Edition Version 1.2 For Intel's Itanium 2 Ships to Manufacturers in July

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: Advanced Server, Limited Edition version 1.2 will be made available to server OEMs later this month. Windows Advanced Server, Limited Edition 1.2 is based on the same 64-bit code development that will be delivered in the Windows .NET Server family and is optimized to enable customers to take advantage of the performance enhancements in the new Intel:registered: Itanium:registered: 2 processor. Windows 64-bit operating systems provide science and enterprise customers with substantial scalability performance. Windows Advanced Server, Limited Edition 1.2 is a full-featured, fully supported, 64-bit server operating system suitable for memory- and computation-intensive applications such as those for large database analysis, online transaction processing, business intelligence, scientific computing and simulation models.

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Microsoft security chip open to discussion

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MICROSOFT would be prepared to license the intellectual property for its proposed Palladium security chip to any software manufacturer, but certification of that software would be essential if the system is to work, the company's U.K. chief security officer Stuart Okin said Wednesday.

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