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In my post on free software titles that can be used to make money in consulting, one product that came up from TechRepublic members in this discussion (and others) is FreeNAS. FreeNAS is a software storage operating system based on FreeBSD that supports all of the major storage networking protocols. Right there is the big […]

The Microsoft Knowledge Base (MSKB) is by far the most comprehensive resource for troubleshooting Microsoft products. It’s a database of support information that encompasses the entire range of Microsoft software and hardware. Love it or hate it, the MSKB is a masterpiece of documentation, and once you familiarize yourself with it, you can harness its […]

Microsoft should be concentrating on securing Windows instead of trying to challenge security software companies, according to research firm Gartner. Best online Microsoft MCTS Certification, Microsoft MCITP Certification at Actualkey.com Microsoft has bought two antivirus companies and an anti-spyware company–the latter acquisition has already produced an anti-spyware application for Windows–since Chairman Bill Gates launched the […]

So there I was trying my best to get a midlevel Microsoft manager to take the bait. “Does Microsoft now feel confident it’s found a way to slow the rise of Firefox–maybe even win back some lost customers?” Earlier in the day, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was onstage at the RSA Conference in San Francisco […]

Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft Dynamics AX is positioned as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for ERP for Product- Centric Midmarket Companies 2010, a research report published by Gartner Inc. In the same report, which this year evaluated global enterprise resource planning (ERP) products specifically tailored for companies with 100 to 999 employees, and […]

There’s a new IT career path at Microsoft Services for project management professionals, spelling potential for 150 new project management positions paying “in line with the industry,” according to Christian Jensen, worldwide PMO program manager at Microsoft. The new role, available to both internal and non-Microsoft employees, also indicates that project management expertise within the […]

In addition to the critical security threats from Microsoft that I covered in last week’s column, the Redmond software giant has also issued a flurry of medium-level security threats that Windows administrators need to be aware of. Details MS04-018, “Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express,” is caused by a failure of Outlook express to properly […]

A year ago, the author of the MSBlast computer worm taunted Microsoft with a message in the fast-spreading program: “billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!!” Bill Gates and company apparently took up the challenge. On Friday, Microsoft released to PC manufacturers Windows XP Service Pack 2, […]

2010 saw the release of version 7.3 of the Vim text processing editor. Vim was originally written by Brian Moolenaar in 1991. While it has not been around nearly as long as Berkeley vi — the model on which Vim was based — it is a venerable mainstay of many developers’ toolkits. Best Microsoft MCTS […]

I would like to side-step all pretenses about how and why software is flawed. And, instead, focus on what we can do to protect ourselves from the vulnerabilities caused by the flaws. Have you heard: “Make sure your software programs are up to date?” It’s becoming a tired mantra, but alludes to one of the […]