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Microsoft: Software Assurance stays optional
News Software giant has "no plans" to make its maintenance program mandatory, but it is including features that it hopes will entice customers to sign up.
Tags: Customer support, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Software licensing, Help desk
Microsoft adds licensing option for businesses
News The "Select Plus" option, which becomes available this fall, is targeted at midsize firms that may have found the "Select" program too restrictive.
Tags: Software licensing, Microsoft Corp., Option, software company, Server, software, financial, blog, vice president, industry
Kevin Turner: No longer the new guy
Insight Microsoft's COO hasn't been around as long as Gates or Ballmer, but he's learning the ropes and promoting online services. Are partners listening?
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista, Microsoft Server 2003
Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case?
News YouTube's internal e-mail indicate employees and managers knew about copyright content, sources say, but chose to leave the material on the site. What are the DMCA ramifications?
Tags: Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., Viacom Inc., Web 2.0, Matz, TV, Entertainment Company, Entertainment Industry, Video
Stunned film, music sectors react to Veoh decision
News There's no disputing that a federal court's decision to offer safe-harbor protection for sites such as Veoh is a blow to the entertainment industry. But will it bring change?
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Video, Web 2.0, Web sites, Viacom Inc., Universal Music Group, attorney, entertainment, YouTube Inc.
Veoh wins copyright case; YouTube wins, too?
News Accused by the largest music label of violating its copyright, Veoh wins court decision that says such sites are protected under Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Viacom Inc., Universal Music Group, Safe Harbor, Video, copyright violation, YouTube Inc., Web Site
Microsoft repackages its software licenses
News Company announces two ways for small and midsize business to pay for application and server software usage, which aims to save customers up to 40 percent.
Tags: Software licensing, Software, New Orleans, software license, Environment, Server, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, IT Governance, IT investment
ICANN wins round in Internet suit
News A federal judge hands VeriSign a preliminary setback in its dispute with the Net regulators over proposed new features in .com and .net addresses.
VeriSign's antitrust suit against ICANN dismissed
News Judge rejects argument that the manager the Internet's infrastructure violated antitrust law.
Tags: Domain names
Microsoft: Software Assurance stays optional
Techguide Software giant has "no plans" to make its maintenance program mandatory, but it is including features that it hopes will entice customers to sign up.
Kicking off with Ruby
Techguide What is Ruby and why is it useful? Here are reasons to take a closer look at the programming language.
Tags: Programming languages, Object-oriented programming, Java
