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...playing along. The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, has been delayed so much that it has acquired the nickname Long Wait. Gates recently warned that we would have to cool our heels until 2006 before we would see it--five years after the release of Windows XP--and even that date isn't certain. "We'll ship it when it's ready," says Neil Charney, director of product management for Windows. One reason for the delay is that Gates' "trustworthy computing" plan has pulled programmers off Longhorn to work on fixing Windows XP, patching the kinds of security...
Computers running Windows 2000 or XP are vulnerable until they receive the Microsoft virus update download, available to Harvard staff and students on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services (FASCS) website. Macs and earlier versions of Windows are safe...
Davis strongly encourages all students and staff running Windows 2000 or XP to download the patch from the FASCS website...
...because no technology story is complete without IBM or Microsoft, rest assured that both companies are muscling in on the competition to provide a platform for application development around IP telephony--IBM through its Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing product, and Microsoft through Windows XP on the desktop, Windows CE for wireless and its Windows and Live Communications Servers. Many analysts believe that when the dust clears, VOIP hardware will become a commodity, made by a firm like Dell, while a few communications companies will have their hand in the software pie--and that Microsoft...
...notebook that has a built-in wireless card and is running Windows XP or Mac OS X should immediately detect the presence of your network and, if all goes well, configure itself. My iBook was connected in less than a minute. The Dell 600m I borrowed required a bit more fiddling but was pretty straightforward...