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Stories by John Fontana

Article | 16/08/2002 Groove adds integration with Lotus Notes

Groove Networks next week will add to its recent string of integration announcements this time joining up with Lotus Notes, another brainchild of Groo...

Article | 15/08/2002 Microsoft: SSL flaw is in OS not IE

Microsoft said Wednesday that the SSL flaw recently uncovered by an independent researcher is in multiple versions of the Windows operating system and...

Article | 7/01/2002 Panda introduces Exchange antivirus tool to the US

In the wake of a rash of nasty e-mail viruses over the past year, European antivirus tools vendor Panda Software this week made the first U.S. release...

Article | 19/12/2001 Excel's dirty little secret

Microsoft Excel, the predominant spreadsheet in use today, contains a feature that could expose sensitive corporate data once the document is distribu...

Article | 3/09/2001 Microsoft casts a watchful eye on LinuxWorld

As the Linux faithful unveiled their enterprise wares at last week's LinuxWorld, Microsoft Corp. openly cast a critical eye on the proceedings.

Article | 3/08/2000 Microsoft Releases Beta of Cluster Mgmt. Server

Microsoft has released the first public beta of Application Center 2000, a server to manage and monitor large Web-server farms running applications bu...

Article | 15/06/2000 Finally, a Reliable patch for Outlook

Microsoft Outlook users hoping to shore up their client software against virus attacks now have another option to the patch Microsoft released last we...

Article | 24/04/2000 Second Thoughts on Windows ME

Microsoft reconsiders features omitted from consumer update of operating system.

Article | 7/04/2000 Bug knocks Active Directory for a loop

Users have uncovered a bug in Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system that could leave them without the ability to access or manage Active Directory...

Article | 20/01/2000 Notes client creates training hurdle for customers

While Lotus blames the Y2K scare and last year's tardy release of Domino for the slow adoption rate of R5, there is another issue that is giving netwo...

Article | 22/06/1999 MS/DoJ: Microsoft witness claims no harm done

Microsoft's defence in its antitrust trial today revisited the argument that it has not hurt consumers by giving away its browser software and integra...