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March 27, 2006

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In This Edition

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1. Updated: IE Under Attack: Microsoft Ponders Emergency Patch

2. News: Panel: Java Will Endure

3. Blog: Reflections on the Anniversary of Mac OS X

4. News Analysis: Taking Care of Data: ILM Gets Down to Business

5. News: Microsoft Ends Week of Delays with New Vista Test Build

6. Opinion: Rating the Winners (and Losers) in the Latest Redmond

Shuffle

7. eWEEK Podcast Roundtable: Microsoft Shake-Up's Ripple Effect

8. Analysis: Ten Years of Testing Palms

9. News: Microsoft's Performance Evaluation System Roils Coders

10. eSeminars: An Alternative to Unix; Regulatory Compliance

and You; How SOAs Can Help

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News and Views

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1. Updated: IE Under Attack: Microsoft Ponders Emergency Patch

Microsoft confirms a wave of drive-by downloads targeting a

zero-day browser vulnerability and says Internet Explorer

users can expect a patch on April 11, if not sooner.

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2. News: Panel: Java Will Endure

A group of Java experts at TheServerSide Java Symposium in

Las Vegas say that despite its age, pressure from dynamic

languages and internal strife, Java will be just fine.

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3. Blog: Reflections on the Anniversary of Mac OS X

On this anniversary of Mac OS X, it's good to remember the

classic Mac and its legacy.

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4. News Analysis: Taking Care of Data: ILM Gets Down to Business

Information lifecycle management gives overloaded storage

managers a helping hand. And a slew of ILM products are on

tap from the likes of HP and Hitachi Data Systems.

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5. News: Microsoft Ends Week of Delays with New Vista Test Build

It's not the next CTP build, but Microsoft is releasing to

selected testers a brand-new build of Vista that testers hope

will bring more stability.

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6. Opinion: Rating the Winners (and Losers) in the Latest Redmond

Shuffle

Microsoft made some noteworthy tweaks to its platform group,

above and beyond naming a new Windows chief. Here's our

scorecard for keeping track of the changes.

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7. eWEEK Podcast Roundtable: Microsoft Shake-Up's Ripple Effect

To say it was a big news week for Microsoft would be an

understatement. Listen to the latest roundtable Podcast from

Mary Jo Foley, Peter Coffee, Jason Brooks, Steven J.

Vaughan-Nichols and Don Sears as they discuss in detail the

impact of the Vista and Office delays on the Windows community,

developers and enterprise buyers, and what it all means for

Linux.

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8. Analysis: Ten Years of Testing Palms

eWEEK Labs recounts what Palm did right--and wrong--as the

PDA platform celebrates its 10th anniversary.

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9. News: Microsoft's Performance Evaluation System Roils Coders

A labor union says that problems within Microsoft's performance

evaluation system have left employees disgruntled, their

salaries flat, and the company ripe for organization.

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10. eSeminars: An Alternative to Unix; Regulatory Compliance

and You; How SOAs Can Help

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landscape for e-mail, IM and electronic files. Sponsored by

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