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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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Microsoft, its partners, and the ‘last-mile problem’

Computerworld Vertical IT

For many years, there has been a bit of a demilitarized relationship between it and the software providers and the consultants that sell and implement software for Microsoft. Then, around 2003, Microsoft developed a product that bundled many of the items a small business might need.

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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

The Verge

That's why AVC, the predecessor to HEVC, still remains the more dominant standard, despite first releasing back in 2003. With VVC, Fraunhofer says you can get something far better than AVC and HEVC without any of the licensing headaches. VVC promises to use half the data as HEVC to stream a 90-minute 4K video.

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This could be the next big game for Microsoft’s Xbox platform

GeekWire

Bethesda Game Studios has primarily worked on games in the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series since it was spun off into its own division in 2001; its first project as Bethesda Game Studios was 2003’s Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Before then, Bethesda was all in on Elder Scrolls and the occasional licensed game.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

.” That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many of the software developers reading the book Writing Secure Code, by Microsoft security engineering leaders Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. And the security of Microsoft’s software is still falling well short of Gates’ vision.

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Unable to complete activation. Device not registered - Mick's IT Blogs

Mick's IT Blog

SMS 2003 WQL Compatibility in SCCM. VBScript Software Installation. SMS 2003 WQL Compatibility in SCCM. VBScript Software Installation. --> Mick's IT Blogs. If you got a hold of the ipsw file and installed it on your device without a developers license, then you are screwed.just kidding! Previous Posts.

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The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

In 2003 there were three major vendors of social networking platforms for the enterprise: Spoke , VisiblePath , and Contact Networks , while Interface Software integrated similar functionality into its CRM application InterAction (since bought by Lexis-Nexis). The companies took different paths from there.

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