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    Microsoft wins big in appeals, shrugs off the antitrust police, and rides toward a new, stronger monopoly. Will Bill Gates lead the charge to victory, or straight back into the courts?

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    Instant messaging use is growing in offices and homes around the world, and the big players are being told by a standards board to work together.

  • MS Australia set to release corporate IM pricing

    Microsoft Australia is poised to announce pricing for its corporate instant messaging product, Live Communications Server 2003, and has assured ZDNet Australia the product will ship by the end of September.

  • Open IM fight all but dead

    Calls for opening instant messaging services are fading as the three biggest providers wage a protracted war for market share.

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    A new program to convert Lotus Notes/Domino users to the Microsoft platform stands on shaky ground in Australia and the rest of Asia-Pacific, and has the potential to fail miserably.

  • MS Australia set to release corporate IM pricing

    Microsoft Australia is poised to announce pricing for its corporate instant messaging product, Live Communications Server 2003, and has assured ZDNet Australia the product will ship by the end of September.

  • Test version of .Net Server on tap

    Microsoft is expected to issue the second release candidate for Windows .Net Server 2003, as the product slowly advances toward its scheduled April release date.

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    Tackling everything from security issues to open source, we put the tough questions to Paul Houghton, Managing Director of Microsoft Australia and New Zealand.

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    Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft recently released new versions of their groupware suites--Notes/Domino and Exchange--with an emphasis on collaboration. We take them both through their paces.

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  • Work together, IM giants told

    Instant messaging use is growing in offices and homes around the world, and the big players are being told by a standards board to work together.

  • MS and IBM get caring and sharing

    Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft have recently released new versions of their groupware suites--Notes/Domino and Exchange--with an emphasis on collaboration. We take them both through their paces.

  • Instant messaging for business: 3 packages tested

    The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?

  • Yahoo soups up IM for businesses

    The Web portal is set to announce an agreement to add WebEx online collaboration features into its enterprise instant messaging software.

  • Microsoft brings Office to business IM

    Microsoft has added the Office moniker to its upcoming enterprise instant-messaging software in a branding move intended to heighten the product's appeal to potential business buyers.

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