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Becky Nagel
Becky Nagel is the executive editor of the 1105 Redmond Media Group's Web sites, including Redmondmag.com, RCPmag.com, RedDevNews.com and VisualStudioMagazine.com, among others.
Digital Government
Online training for AI and machine learning
Here are some great, no-cost resources that will help you transform your current programming skills to meet the AI and machine learning needs of the future.
- By Becky Nagel
Digital Government
New Microsoft small-biz server coming down the pipe
The new server, code named Breckenridge, "will be optimized for storage."
- By Becky Nagel
Digital Government
Federal appeals court upholds ban on Microsoft Word sales
Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling its Microsoft Word software starting Jan. 11.
- By Becky Nagel
Digital Government
Microsoft formally appeals Word patent ruling
Microsoft has formally appealed a judgment issued last week that would require the company to stop selling Microsoft Word within the United States.
- By Becky Nagel
Digital Government
Microsoft seeks stay in Word patent dispute
Microsoft has filed an emergency motion to stay last week's ruling ordering the company to stop selling Word in the U.S.
- By Becky Nagel
Digital Government
Dell now selling Microsoft software via download
Customers visiting Dell's Download Store can purchase and download Microsoft Office suites or individual Office applications such as Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Visio.
- By Becky Nagel
Emerging Tech
Windows 7 beta slips through cracks and onto Internet
The upcoming Windows 7 beta, scheduled to be released this month, found its way onto the Internet over the holidays.
- By Becky Nagel
Digital Government
Windows Server 2008 R2 previewed
Microsoft shows off a pre-beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
- By Becky Nagel
Digital Government
Microsoft's HPC 2008 now live
The software is the next generation of Microsoft's Computer Cluster Server 2003.
- By Becky Nagel
Digital Government
Adobe, Google, IBM challenge Microsoft Office
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if new'and free'word processing, spreadsheet and presentation apps take off.
- By Becky Nagel
Infrastructure
Microsoft releases ASP.NET MVC Preview 3
Microsoft has released the latest preview version of its model-view-controller architecture for Web application frameworks.
- By Becky Nagel
Digital Government
Excel patch causes miscalculations
Microsoft acknowledges that a patch it released last week is the culprit behind incorrect calculations in Excel 2003 spreadsheet program.
- By Becky Nagel
Cybersecurity
Critical MS Office patches coming
Microsoft will release four patches Tuesday, all rated critical because they allow remote-code execution.
- By Becky Nagel