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2008

"Why computers fail," Robin Harris, ZDNet Blog, July 1, 2008
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"Study: 637 million Google users surfing with insecure browser," Ryan Naraine, ZDNet Blog, July 1, 2008
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"No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30," Mary-Jo Foley, ZDNet Blog, June 30, 2008
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"As Windows XP Deadline Looms, OEMs Turn To Vista Downgrade Rights," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, April 23, 2008
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"Fast ways to cut costs: prune back underutilized software," Amrit Williams, SC Magazines, May 20, 2008
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"Firms 'neglecting' IT governance: Only 12 per cent of companies take technology risk seriously enough to operate board-level oversight of their IT resources, new research has indicated," As reported by Centennial Software, 2008
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"IDC and BSA release latest study on global software piracy," May 20, 2008
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"Survey: IT Struggling Over Security, Compliance Issues," Jabulani Leffall, ENTNews, May 12, 2008
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"The key to Windows success? It’s all about the drivers," Blog Posting by Ed Bott, ZDNet Blogs, May 13, 2008
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"Microsoft Talks Pricing On SMB, Midmarket Servers," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, May 13, 2008
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"Judge Slaps Down Recording Industry In Copyright Suit," Jennifer Bosavage, CRN Magazine, May 1, 2008
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"Software Compliance: Finding the Tools to Get Clean, Stay Clean and Save Money," John Frame, Computer Technology Review Magazine, April 28, 2008
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"Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time," Blog Posting by Ed Bott, ZDNet Blogs, April 21, 2008
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"SPLA: A New Way To License Software: Microsoft's Michael van Dijken explains in the Q&A," Michael Domingo, Redmond Channel Partner, April 21, 2008
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"Microsoft eyes management as key to virtualization," Elizabeth Montalbano, InfoWorld, April 22, 2008
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"Microsoft Increases Small Business Financing," Paul Thurrott, Windows IT Pro (citing article from the Wall Street Journal), April 16, 2008
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"Montana to pay Attachmate $920K [for license compliance settlement]," Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle), April 8, 2008
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"Making sense of Windows' irrational pricing and licensing," Ed Bott, ZDNet blogs, April 14, 2008
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"Microsoft Exec Rages Against Vista Upgrade 'Hack' ," Kevin McLaughlin , CRN Magazine , April 14, 2008
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"Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your options," Larry Dignan, ZDNet blogs, April 11, 2008
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"Microsoft: June 30 Windows XP cut-off set in stone," Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet blogs, April 3, 2008
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"Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows," Cade Metz, Channel Register UK, March 26, 2008
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"Software company says it can still resell Microsoft licences: Discount-Licensing.com,"Channel Register, February 29, 2008
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"Electronic gadgets latest sources of computer viruses,"Associated Press, March 13, 2008
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"Licence to cut down IT bills Fast says licensing complexity can lead to significant waste ,", David Neal, IT Week, March 10, 2008
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"Consumer group slams 'unfair' software licenses," John Oates, Channel Register UK, February 19, 2008
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"Impact of SAM on the auditor,", Arpinder Singh, KPMG, The Hindu Business Onlnie, March 6, 2008
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"Microsoft Gives 8-Month Evaluation For Server 2008," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, February 13, 2008
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"Microsoft service desk delayed until 2010," Christina Torode, SearchWinIT, February 11, 2008
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"Remote Workers Still Living Dangerously, Cisco Study Says: False sense of security leads many users to break company policies," Tim Wilson, Dark Reading, February 5, 2008
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"Donate Your PC," TechNet Magazine, February 2008
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"Firms 'neglecting' IT governance," IT Governance Limited, February 7, 2008
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"Cisco Study on Remote Workers Reveals Need for Greater Diligence Toward Security," Cisco, February 5, 2008
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"No More Giving Away the Master Key," Caroline Marwitz, Windows IT Pro Magazine, February 1, 2008
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"Microsoft System Center: Online Services Help Simplify Software Inventory," Paul Bourgeau, Microsoft TechNet Magazine, January, 2008
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"Microsoft Partners: UC Licensing Too Complex," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, January 31, 2008
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"Symantec Report Shows IT Risk Management Lacking," Stefanie Hoffman Galli, CRN Magazine, January 31, 2008
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"Businesses plan for upgrades as Windows server software release nears," Cliff Saran, Computer Weekly Magazine, January 30, 2008
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"Inventory of applications 'helpful to CIOs'," Andy Kyte (Gartner), CIO Magazine, January 28, 2008
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"The problem with traditional application management practices," Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest, TechTarget, January 28, 2008
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"Security - plugging and avoiding data leakage," Rob Bamforth (Principal Analyst, Quocirca), IT Analysis, January 25, 2008
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"IT compliance documentation: Do it now," Rebecca Herold, TechTarget, January 24, 2008
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"Windows change management on a budget," Russell Olsen, TechTarget, January 21, 2008
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Virtualization

"Adventures in managing virtualization," Laurianne McLaughlin, InfoWorld (as cited on CIO.com), April 25, 2008
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"What Hyper-V brings to Windows Server,"Jonathan Hassell, SearchSystemsChannel.com, April 7, 2008
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"Going Virtual? Stay True to Software Licensing Rules: Virtualization has opened up an entirely new world of possibilities for organizations that choose to adopt it, yet it is one that is not without old world legal risk," Jeff Kelsey, ITBusinessNet, April 22, 2008
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"The desktop ain’t dead: Researcher IDC, for instance, estimates that the number of virtual servers deployed will rise 41 percent annually through 2010, resulting in 7.9 million virtual servers implemented on 1.7 million new physical servers," Yuval Shavit, CRN, April 15, 2008
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"Advantages and disadvantages of server virtualization," Yuval Shavit, SearchSystemsChannel.com, March 26, 2008
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"Top 5 compliance challenges in a virtualized world," Chris Farrow, Fortisphere, News.com, March 11, 2008
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"Application virtualization: a conversation with Symantec/Altiris: Speaking to Infoworld, Scott Jones, product manager at Symantec, said that application virtualisation is 'the future' and the current model for software management is 'fundamentally broken,'" David Marshall, InfoWorld, March 2, 2008
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"Application virtualization gains momentum," Colleen Frye, SearchSoftwareQuality.com, February 27, 2008
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"It is time to end hidden software costs: Server virtualization is changing the way companies think about and manage their server hardware purchases," CIO Magazine, February 2, 2008
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"10 MORE things you should know about virtualization," Rick Vanover, ZDNet blogs, February 25, 2008
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"Desktop virtualization: What Windows managers should know," TechTarget, March 2008
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"Licensing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 to Run with Virtualization Technologies (MS Word document)," Microsoft, March 2008
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"Microsoft's Turner: Our Virtualization Is More Versatile," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, March 4, 2008
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"All-in-One Guides: Server Virtualization Project Guide," SearchSystemsChannel.com, January 2008
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"Microsoft Allows All Vista SKUs to Be Virtualized," Peter Galli, DevSource, January 23, 2008
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"Virtualization in the Enterprise Survey: Your Virtualized State in 2008," Laurianne McLaughlin, CIO Magazine, January 2, 2008
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"Virtualization - savings not without threats," Dan Kaplan, SecureComputing, December 3, 2007
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"Forrester Report: Preparing For The New IT Ecosystem," Forrester Consulting, Forrester Research, Inc., November 2007
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"Virtualization of Desktop PCs on the Rise," Laurianne McLaughlin, CIO.com, November 27, 2007
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"To Virtualization and Beyond VMware's Diane Greene is on a quest to make server virtualization ubiquitous," Ed Scannel, Redmond Magazine, November 2007
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"Personal Devices Create a Dilemma for Corporate IT," Stan Gibson, eWeek Magazine, January 12, 2008
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"The new Microsoft System Center: What happened to SMS and MOM?," Gary Olsen, TechTarget, January 4, 2008
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"Microsoft: Office 2003 SP3 Blocks Older Files," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, January 3, 2008
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"Microsoft Removes Licensing Restrictions From Windows Server 2008," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, January 3, 2008
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"Microsoft To Offer SMBs Subscription Based Volume Licensing," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, January 2, 2008
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2007

"Software companies struggle with user compliance: KPMG," As Reported by Martin Callinan in the Centennial Software Blog, December 24, 2007
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"Microsoft's Piracy Fight Gains Momentum In China," Reuters, December 21, 2007
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"Standards For IT Governance ITIL, COBIT, and ISO 17799 provide a blueprint for managing IT services," Dave Greenfield, Information Week Magazine, December 8, 2007
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"Microsoft Axes Vista Reduced Functionality Mode," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, December 4, 2007
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"Apple QuickTime Player Vulnerability Could Lead to Exploits," Stefanie Hoffman, CRN Magazine, December 3, 2007
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"Microsoft Removes Windows Vista 'Kill Switch'," Thomas Claburn, Information Week Magazine, December 4, 2007
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"Microsoft Partners: Use Of Downgrade Rights Is Surging," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, December 3, 2007
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"SAM and Core IO: A Dynamic Duo," David Yashar, Redmond Channel Partner (RCP) Magazine, December 2007
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"Microsoft Offers Roadmap For Avoiding Software Piracy Woes," Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Magazine, November 27, 2007
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"Piracy Wars: What Role Should Partners Play? Business Software Alliance targets small business," Lee Pender, Redmond Channel Partner Magazine Blogs, November 27, 2007
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"Software Group Targets Small Business," Brian Bergstein, AP Technology Writer, AP, November 2007
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"How the BSA Nets Piracy Suspects," Brian Bergstein, AP Technology Writer, AP, November 2007
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"Anti-copying programs may slow piracy," Brian Bergstein, AP Technology Writer, AP, November 2007
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"New Microsoft Program Allows Windows on Resold PCs: Microsoft has launched a program to help ensure sellers of refurbished PCs will run legal copies of Windows," Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service, PC World, November 10, 2007
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"Update: Maxtor drives contain password-stealing Trojans: Seagate confirms infection during drive assembly, but says no indication of spying by Chinese authorities," Gregg Keizer, ComputerWorld, November 12, 2007
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"Is my network costing me money I'm not accounting for?," Paul Cronin, Mass High Tech, November 16, 2007
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Going "Green"

"Manage Your Carbon Footprint The growing importance of energy efficiency gives IT a leadership role in the enterprise," Peter Varhol, Redmond Magazine, November 2007
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"To Virtualization and Beyond VMware's Diane Greene is on a quest to make server virtualization ubiquitous," Ed Scannel, Redmond Magazine, November 2007
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"Tech Firms Tap Into the 'Green' Movement," Associated Press, July 5, 2007
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"Michael Dell: Going Green Is Key To Industry's Fu