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  • Special report: The best Windows tools

    Some of the most useful products for the Windows platform don't cost a dime. Others are inexpensive upgrades from freeware that are geared toward large enterprises. Whatever your needs, there's a wealth of tools that are just a download away. 

  • Audit tool works in harmony with SMS

    System Audit Manager, a tool that acts as a front end for Microsoft's Systems Management Server, helps companies reconcile software licenses ahead of a software audit. 

  • Windows, Linux mired in benchmarking cat fight

    Explaining how Windows stacks up against Linux in a high demand environment sounds like a simple exercise, but one expert says it's actually a complicated task, for several reasons. 

  • Product lifecycles get the Windows treatment

    Microsoft has forged an alliance with France's Dassault Systemes to integrate Windows and SQL Server with applications that manage a company's products from the design phase to distribution. 

  • NetWare holdouts courted by Microsoft, open source

    Microsoft is offering free tools to convince loyalists of the aging operating system to make the switch to Windows, but Linux vendors are eager to snare these customers as well. 

  • MS protection offer has its share of fine print

    As if managing IT resources isn't hard enough. Now, decision makers have to worry about their companies getting sued just because they bought a piece of software. It's enough to make you want to scream for a little indemnity. 

  • Microsoft indemnification move called strategic

    Some observers say the software maker's expansion of intellectual property protection for its customers is a welcome decision, though one it had to make. 

  • Microsoft boosts remote power of SMS

    New feature packs for Systems Management Server target desktop operating system deployments and management of Windows-based mobile devices, respectively. 

  • The folly of vulnerability seeking

    New vulnerabilities are discovered and disclosed with alarming frequency these days. Like clockwork, 10 vulnerabilities are found each day to augment the leaks in our already-sinking ships. And we welcome the news with masochistic greed. 

  • Ask Microsoft: When Windows crashes

    Microsoft support executive Gabriel Aul talks about the Windows Error Reporting service and how it interprets "crash patterns."