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Microsoft buys asset-tracking firm

Microsoft has acquired Canadian asset-tracking company AssetMetrix as part of its continued expansion of its management software. Founded in... Read more

27 April, 2006 by Ina Fried

US firms face up to Office patent nightmare

...XP and Office 2003 when they install the software on new machines. AssetMetrix said on Monday that its research shows that more than one in... Read more

7 February, 2006 by Ina Fried

Is your company habouring file-swappers?

...spanning 560 companies, ranging from 10 to 45,000 employees, Canadian company AssetMetrix found peer-to-peer software such as Kazaa and Morpheus installed at... Read more

16 July, 2003 by John Borland

Network monitoring reveals hidden P2P traffic

...several different means of approaching the problem. Monitoring and audit companies like AssetMetrix scan corporate networks for every piece of software located on PCs, finding... Read more

28 August, 2003 by John Borland

The new standard for software assets

...Microsoft's purchase on Wednesday of software asset tracking system supplier AssetMetrix indicates that interest in this sector is growing, and comes as the... Read more

27 April, 2006 by Colin Barker

Worm warfare rages on

The vast array of worms that emerged this week to exploit a Windows 2000 flaw seem to be in competition with each other, but experts can't agree on why Read more

18 August, 2005 by Joris Evers

Windows worms wreak havoc

Internal systems of several major media organisations have been hit by a wave of worms that exploit flaws in Windows 2000, but the Internet as a whole is largely unaffected Read more

17 August, 2005 by Joris Evers

Zotob worm makes little progress

...during the first quarter of 2005, according to a recent study by AssetMetrix. Users of Windows 2000 should be on guard, especially if they are... Read more

16 August, 2005 by Joris Evers

Zotob worm targets Windows 2000

...in use. According to a recent study published by asset management specialist Assetmetrix, Windows 2000 is still installed in more than 50 percent of computers... Read more

15 August, 2005 by Munir Kotadia

Mozilla: IE7 will boost Firefox take-up

...desktops are still using Windows 2000, according to a recent survey by AssetMetrix, meaning that there is a big market for the Mozilla Foundation to... Read more

19 July, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

The game's up for Windows 2000

...of all Windows-based business desktops, according to a recent survey by AssetMetrix Read more

29 June, 2005 by Ina Fried

The slow road to Windows XP

...still running the older Windows 2000. The study, released on Tuesday by AssetMetrix, underscores a recurring problem for Microsoft: While the company spends billions of... Read more

16 June, 2005 by Ina Fried

Businesses slow to move to SP2

...In a study of 136,000 corporate PCs, Canadian asset tracking firm AssetMetrix found that more than one-third of the computers were running Windows... Read more

4 April, 2005 by Ina Fried

Microsoft to step up SP2 downloads

...should, since they demanded it," said Steve O'Halloran, vice president of AssetMetrix in Ottawa, Canada. "It's that companies are planning the SP2 deployment... Read more

22 September, 2004 by Paul Festa

XP uptake 'too slow' - Microsoft

...were running either Windows 95 or Windows 98, according to technology consultant AssetMetrix. Even more troubling for Microsoft is the fact that many corporate buyers... Read more

13 April, 2004 by Ina Fried

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