Filling a gap in its strategy to make sure its business customers are paying for each installed copy of Windows XP, Microsoft yesterday announced the Get Genuine Windows Agreement (GGWA).
GGWA is aimed at increasing Windows XP licensing compliance among businesses. Microsoft apparently believes that some customers misunderstood their agreements, and were installing full copies of Windows XP on corporate computers, which is illegal, rather than upgrading the OS, which the license allows.
For those who have been frequently frustrated in the past when new versions of Windows did not support their hardware, the times, they are a-changing.
Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division and head of Windows development, announced on the Vista Team Blog on Friday that the Windows Vista distribution DVD will ship with 19,500 device drivers onboard. That is nearly double the 10,000 available when Windows XP began shipping in 2001.
When it comes to it security, here's a given: You have to get control of the PCs and other devices trying to access your networks. What's less clear is the best way to do it.
Juniper Networks last week sought to tip the scale in favor of an approach based on industry standards when it introduced the latest version of its Unified Access Control suite. UAC 2.0 provides access control security using networking components that adhere to the Trusted Network Connect standard from the Trusted Computing Group, a nonprofit organization formed in 2003. Juniper and Trusted Computing hope their use of standards-based technology will appeal to potential customers because of the flexibility it offers when buying the switches, policy-enforcement servers, and other components needed to improve network access control.
An obscure corner of the semiconductor industry became an international battleground Tuesday as Sony Corp. became the fifth company ensnared in a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust probe into the sales of a particular type of memory chip.