Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing (Campus Technology)

Microsoft today announced that Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 were released to manufacturing (RTM), marking a dual milestone in the history of both products. It also means that Windows 2008 will be officially shipping by the "Global Launch Wave" of enterprise products on Feb. 27.

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Wireless whiz weighs in on pervasive computing, muni Wi-Fi, RFID and 802.11n (Network World)

Dipankar "Ray" Raychaudhuri, a professor at Rutgers University and director of its Wireless Information Network Laboratory, is excited about cognitive radio, and frustrated by too many buzzwords.

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Microsoft-Yahoo Faces an Approval Gauntlet (BusinessWeek)

U.S. and EU authorities will inspect the proposed acquisition, but thanks to Google's dominance, the merger should get a green light.

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Abracadabra! Bush Makes Privacy Board Vanish (Wired)

The Bush administration has failed to nominate any candidates to a newly empowered privacy and civil-liberties commission. This leaves the board without any members, even as Congress prepares to give the Bush administration extraordinary powers to wiretap without warrants inside the United States.

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