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Gael Duval – the founder of Mandrake/Mandriva Linux and Ulteo declared about the release of new Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop (OVD) 2.0 version. It is Linux novelty based on Debian and Ubuntu. OVD allows starting up Linux and Windows applications through Web-browser with the help of Java. (more…)
Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) is a powerful tool for an enterprise computing environment, but there haven’t been many enterprise environments lining up to adopt it. According to February 2001 data from the Giga Information Group, Windows 2000 server licenses exceeded the 1 million copy mark, but only 10 to 15 percent have deployed AD in any way.
Many of the AD deployments have been relegated to lab testing or small, virgin Windows 2000 environments. (more…)
As Microsoft charges ahead toward delivering Office XP by midyear, it is falling a bit behind on meeting its Windows XP targets, according to testers.
Although it is common for software companies to miss their internal release schedules, many customers and business partners still look to these schedules for planning purposes. That’s particularly true in Microsoft’s case.
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It’s a maintenance release containing a number of bug fixes and improvements. One of the improvements is better integration with the SSL protocol. For example, the configuration of SSL is now much easier and the Browser is able to automatically detect the missing CA certificates of the server. Also, the DnD and the copy-and-paste interface was updated to allow copying of a DN of an entry into an attribute of another entry, thus, allowing for example, adding a user to a group, or even creating a v3 referral.