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Microsoft Corp. this week shipped the long-awaited update to its customer relationship management (CRM) software. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 marks the first key enhancement to the CRM tool the Redmond, Wash.-based vendor initially launched three years ago. The new

Sybase Inc. is considering how it could make some parts of its database software available under an open-source license to customers and developers in China, a company executive said Wednesday.

Hackers have given system administrators two more reasons to update users' Windows PCs. Over the past two days, they have published two more samples of software that could be used to attack an unpatched Windows system, bringing the tally of new Windows attacks released into circulation this week to four.

Microsoft Corp. has invited consumers to test the latest beta version of its Windows OneCare Live security service. OneCare Live is intended to protect PCs running Windows XP from viruses and hackers, and to keep important documents backed up. The software client which runs the service will automatically download updates to deal with new Internet threats, Microsoft said.

To the players it is fun and games, but there's a great deal of very complex "behind-the-scenes" technology at work in today's global online gaming environment. The network architecture for online gaming is growing increasingly sophisticated as the genre evolves.

While employees and competitors are putting pressure on companies to deploy Linux on desktops, a lack of applications remains the biggest hurdle for the operating system, according to a survey from Linux development consortium Open Software Development Labs Inc. (OSDL) released.

Microsoft Corp. tried to have references to free software removed from a document approved at the United Nations-sponsored Internet summit in Tunis two weeks ago, a blog discussion has revealed. But the attempt failed.

Microsoft Corp. fleshed out its roadmap for transitioning customers to 64-bit computing and unveiled updates to several of its management and server products at its IT Forum 2005 conference in Barcelona this month.