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The Solution Architectures exam: Logical design
News In the study guide, you'll learn how to accomplish a variety of design tasks, including requirements gathering, technical architecture, conceptual and logical design, data modelling, user interface design and physical design, the Microsoft .Net way.
[February 5, 2003, 12:42]
Sun's StarOffice adds native Mac support
News A study, released on Friday, found Microsoft Word was used by about half of all internet users, while about five percent used OpenOffice. The study, by ClickStream Technologies, found about one percent used Google Docs.
[November 18, 2008, 9:50]
Virus is disguised as MSN Messenger beta
News And Microsoft's instant-messenger infrastructure is the most popular conduit for attack, IMlogic said in an October study. A November study by Akonix Systems identified 62 examples. A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft's MSN...
[December 28, 2005, 8:45]
Battle brews over Linux server share
News Miller told eWEEK that Microsoft had helped sponsor the study to see exactly who was using Linux, what the server deployments were and what operating system was running on it. The objective of the study was to "establish some solid data from which...
[June 12, 2001, 10:24]
Windows 'cheaper than Linux'
News While Linux proponents may cry foul at the study, citing it as another example of Microsoft's policy of creating FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt), the open-source operating system is gaining ground with mainstream makers.
[July 18, 2003, 9:26]
Businesses slow to move to SP2
News Microsoft has urged businesses running Windows XP to upgrade their machines to take advantage of added security features, but only a quarter of XP corporate machines have been upgraded to Service Pack 2, according to a new study.
[April 4, 2005, 9:10]
Denmark urges govt support for open source
News A coordinated plan for using open source could also give governments a stronger hand when the time comes to renegotiate contracts with Microsoft, the study said. While a number of governments in Europe and elsewhere are eyeing open source software...
[October 23, 2003, 18:15]
Linux servers 'attacked more often'
Talkback So this so-called study begins by discarding all the serious microsoft security issues, then focuses on what's left, which would by design, look mainly at non-microsoft systems. The problem here is the methodology of the study - a rather goofy...
[February 21, 2004, 1:33]
Microsoft makes desktop-management waves
News In a case study posted to its Web site last month, Microsoft characterised the Energizer effort as a work in progress. I have employees scattered all over the world, so even though we're a mid-size company, I have all the complexities associated...
[August 18, 2006, 13:00]
Server problems beleaguer Hotmail users
News Gmail has been a particular pain for Microsoft, according to a new study. About twice as many people abandoned Hotmail accounts than Yahoo ones in favour of Gmail in the last half of 2004, the study said.
[February 24, 2005, 8:40]
Terse markup for speed -- NOT
Talkback If you study the OOXML spec, it quickly becomes apparent that the drawing line between terse markup and verbose markup is between the portions Microsoft originally submitted to Ecma and the unique portions developed through the Ecma standard...
[February 28, 2008, 21:05]
Microsoft rubbishes school open source report
News But Microsoft -- which could lose considerable revenue if large numbers of schools embraced open source -- lost little time in attacking the study, which was commissioned and published by the British Educational Communications and Technology...
[May 13, 2005, 16:50]
The Web's 10 best IT certification sites, Part Three
News When it comes down to the nitty-gritty, I prefer sites that offer grassroots information about what's on an exam and how you can best study for it. Still, CramSession offers some of the best forums and study guides to be found on the Net.
[April 8, 2002, 15:55]
Linux firms rubbish Microsoft's customer win
News In an interview with ZDNet UK, Richard Carlson, the head of business systems at RICS, admitted that the company did not do a comparative study of Linux and Windows. As the customer has acknowledged that he didn't do a study on Linux, how can he say...
[March 22, 2005, 13:30]
IDC: 'Linux is now mainstream'
News About 17 million Linux PCs will be sold that year, bringing the total installed base to 42.6 million, according to the IDC study. The forecasts are from an IDC study of the overall Linux ecosystem, including sales of Linux PCs, servers and packaged...
[December 16, 2004, 7:40]
Linux vendors hit back at Ballmer's email
News Hogan also says that the study measured the time to fix a flaw from the time it is made public, which is different for Microsoft and open source. But according to Novell, the Yankee Group study also found that the relative TCO of Microsoft and...
[October 28, 2004, 15:54]
IDC sees IT rebound in Europe
News Microsoft sponsored the IDC study. Countries examined in the study included: the Czech Republic; Hungary; Israel; South Africa; Austria; Denmark; France; Germany and the UK among others. Vavra added that more than a third of 2004 tax revenues came...
[October 5, 2004, 15:05]
Pocket Flash Cards
Downloads Remove Individual Flash CardsWith Pocket Flash Cards we include utilities that allow you to: 1) Create unlimited number of new Flash Card Categories.2) Add Q&A to Existing Flash Card Categories .3) Remove unwanted or old Flash Cards and...
[July 3, 2003, 8:00]
Microsoft's subscription-like charges cost more
News Just under a third of those signing up for the plan saw their Microsoft licensing fees remain the same, according to the study. The Yankee/Sunbelt study revealed that for 10.5 percent of participants, licensing costs decreased 5 percent to 20 percent.
[March 21, 2003, 9:41]
Paris offered Microsoft discount
News The overhaul could well have prompted the city to look towards Munich, which, following a study from Unilog, decided in May 2003 to replace Windows and other Microsoft products with open-source software.
[June 30, 2004, 13:40]
