It's a sale, Windows 7 for $50, for two weeks only Starting Friday, Microsoft will pre-sell Windows 7 upgrades for as little as $50. Windows installs updates without permission, researchers say Windows is installing "surprise updates" against the wishes of some users, who have expressly set up the operating system not to deploy patches without permission, researchers charged today. NYSE shrinks time measurement to nanoseconds In the ultra-geek world of machine-to-machine trading, the New York Stock Exchange is now measuring some of its processes in nanoseconds, or one billionth of a second. Events in Iran prove Bradbury wrong Here's one of the more ironic juxtaposition of events in recent memory: Last week, famed science-fiction author (and anti-censorship advocate) Ray Bradbury came out against the Internet just as the 'Net's ability to evade censorship played a crucial role in advancing the cause of democracy in Iran. Fake Microsoft Update Email Scam - That almost looks professional! I do not know about you, but for the past couple of days my inbox has received several emails claiming to be from Microsoft while touting links to updates for Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. Naturally, I clicked on those links right-away and installed me some updates (not). RSA bolsters Cisco security gear Colleague Ellen Messmer has the scoop on Cisco adding data leak prevention capabilities to its IronPort e-mail security appliances. RSA will supply its DLP scanning technology to the Cisco products, Messmer writes. NYSE boosts 10G network Juniper Networks has landed perhaps its most significant enterprise customer to date, as the New York Stock Exchange plans to deploy hundreds of the company's switches for a time-sensitive, low-latency 10Gbps Ethernet network. Cloud is Internet's next generation, HP executive says "Cloud" has proliferated as the term for Internet-based computing resources because "everyone can draw one," according to Russ Daniels, the cloud services CTO at Hewlett-Packard, who just added CTO responsibilities at the company's Electronic Data Systems division. Nortel's problems were Bay-sic As Nortel goes through its last stages, there are a lot of people analyzing what went wrong, particularly in the time since the dot-com bust. But for me, the watershed moment was just before then, when Nortel bought Bay Networks. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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