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• Microsoft AU retracts XP SP2 manufacturing release

  A red-faced Microsoft Australia has backflipped on a statement issued earlier today that said Windows XP Service Pack 2 had been released to manufacturing.

• Reversal: Next IE update divorced from Windows

  Reversing a longstanding Microsoft policy, Bill Gates said on Tuesday that the company will ship an update to its browser separately from the next version of Windows.

• Gates: I'm going to make life easy for IT managers

  Bill Gates used his keynote at the Microsoft IT Forum in Copenhagen to say that complexity needs to be removed from IT to free up budgets and help companies move forward. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, he said that software was the answer.

• Microsoft Australia launches security blitz

  Microsoft's campaign to place security front and centre of its business is poised to take off in Australia just days after chairman Bill Gates announced a raft of initiatives at a security company's conference in San Francisco.

• Gates unveils security initiatives

  Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a forthcoming update to Windows designed to make the operating system more secure and proposed a caller ID-like system for e-mail that could help curtail the growing spam problem.

Features and Case Studies (12)

• Microsoft AU retracts XP SP2 manufacturing release

  A red-faced Microsoft Australia has backflipped on a statement issued earlier today that said Windows XP Service Pack 2 had been released to manufacturing.

• The long march to Longhorn

  There's been no end to potholes and detours with Longhorn, the future version of Windows. Will Microsoft finally accept that it has bitten more than it can chew?

• Gates on Vista, Linux and more

  Microsoft's chairman discusses his favourite Vista feature, why he'll keep pushing for a new file system and open source's role.

• Microsoft launches new Aust security effort

  Microsoft is gearing up to hold another series of security summits in Australia amid concern over a serious IE flaw and criticism of the time taken to deal with security issues.

• Bill Gates goes to college

  Microsoft's chairman says that despite today's outsourcing trend, the United States needs to refocus on leading in computer science -- starting at its universities.

Reviews (2)

• First Take: Internet Explorer 7 for XP SP2 Beta 2

  Microsoft has changed the look and feel of its venerable browser, while adding some much-needed security features.

• Antivirus software must be free. Here's why.

  One big reason viruses are still rampant on the Net: Too many people don't use antivirus software. The way to get them to change their ways is to make that software free.

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