ITworld.com, 4/25/02: Gartner: Watch out for flaky outsourcing providers
Joris Evers, IDG News Service, Amsterdam Bureau
Business process outsourcing, the fastest growing part of the European IT services and sourcing market, will attract all kinds of players and that could lead to high-profile failures, research firm Gartner Inc. warned Thursday.
European businesses looking to outsource activities like human resources, payment systems and inventory management because of the cost benefits, should watch out who they do business with because "there will be many companies jumping in with two feet without a serious commitment to the process delivery model," said Robert Brown, a Gartner senior analyst.
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IDG News Service, 4/25/02: Ballmer: Microsoft to launch security update tool
By JUAN CARLOS PEREZ, IDG NEWS SERVICE
Microsoft Corp. will launch a new tool this year called Microsoft Update that's designed to automate companies' process of publishing and distributing Microsoft security patches, Steve Ballmer, the company's CEO, said today.
The product will be modeled after the company's Windows Update tool, which automates the updating of features for Windows operating systems, Ballmer told attendees at the Microsoft Enterprise Solutions Conference 2002 for Latin America, being held in Boca Raton, Fla., this week.
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InternetNews, 4/25/02: Flaws Found In MS Office's HTML Tools
By Brian Morrissey
An Israeli software company has pointed out potential security flaws in a group of HTML tools for Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Office software.
GreyMagic Security posted advisories that the Office Web Components (OWC), which includes HTML tools for spreadsheets, charts, tables, and databases suite, is automatically downloaded with all Office products.
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ZDNet, 4/26/02: Microsoft to dump Windows? Good idea! Here's why
David Coursey, Executive Editor, AnchorDesk
Whenever I hear Microsoft execs--meaning Bill and Steve--say they'd take Windows off the market if the Nine States prevail in the antitrust case, I want to throw all my support behind the states.
Why? As any regular reader of this column could tell you, it's not that I hate Microsoft or Windows. It's just that I like the idea of starting over with a clean slate. Tossing out Windows would give Microsoft a chance to build a real OS for the 21st century, instead of an OS that is still, at its heart, the descendant of MS-DOS.
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InfoWorld, 4/25/02: Interview: Microsoft exec talks security
By Juan Carlos Perez
NEIL CHARNEY, DIRECTOR of Microsoft's .Net platform strategy group, talked to the IDG News Service on Wednesday about a variety of topics related to Microsoft's .Net architecture for Web services, including security, application development, the recasting of Hailstorm and the criticism that .Net will lock users into using Microsoft software. He spoke by phone from Microsoft's Latin America Enterprise Solutions Conference 2002 in Boca Raton, Florida, which ends Friday.
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