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c|net, 10/29/03: Why IT does--and does not--matter
"A screaming comes across the sky..."
--Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
A singular event in May churned the information technology community, and the ripples continue to spread outwards to its distant shores.
The Harvard Business Review that month published an article by Nicholas G. Carr with the title, "IT Doesn't Matter." Carr posited that some parts of information technology are destined to go the way of electricity and locomotives. He wasn't really breaking any news, but he was caught writing down what many knew in their hearts to be true but didn't dare say aloud.
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Outsourcing
Internetnews.com, 10/28/03: Big Blue Asks: Do You Comply?
By Clint Boulton
Storage vendors such as EMC (Quote, Chart) and Hitachi Data Systems have been pounding the tables of late, proclaiming that they have the answer to the compliance bugbear that many corporations have been faced with in the past couple of years with the passage -- or pending passage -- of federal regulations that require documents to be saved for a definitive period of time.
While many of these vendors are treating compliance with software solutions under broader information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies, IBM (Quote, Chart) is taking a different tack. The company already had enough of the technology pieces in place to create such solutions, but officially put them to use at a time when concern over meeting regulations has perhaps reached its pinnacle; with so many new rules in place, enterprises want to steer clear of fines for non-compliance.
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Microsoft
Infoworld, 10/28/03: Microsoft will turn off Messenger, turn on firewall
To better secure PCs, company will disable Windows Messenger Service, activate Internet Connection Firewall by default
By Paul Roberts
Microsoft Corp. will detail plans to disable the Windows Messenger Service and activate the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) by default on Windows XP machines in an effort to protect computers from malicious attacks, a company executive said Tuesday.
The changes will be described at an informal lunchtime presentation during Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles by Jason Garms, an architect in Microsoft's Security Business Unit (SBU), and are targeted for release in Windows XP Service Pack 2, according to Amy Carroll, director of product management in SBU.
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Microsoft Developer’s Network, 10/27/03: Living La Vida Longhorn
Chris Sells
Summary: Chris Sells kicks off his inaugural installment of the Longhorn Foghorn column by defining the pillars of "Longhorn," the next generation of the Windows operating system, and providing an overview of each pillar.
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