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New Software, New Scrutiny For Microsoft -  
              
                      Three years ago, Microsoft was preparing to introduce a new version of its Windows operating system. The personal computer industry was eagerly awaiting the new offering. But federal and state antitrust regulators worried that Windows 98 would tighten Microsoft's grip on the computer industry and inhibit competition in ways they believed were illegal.
                Federal and state regulators are again considering legal action to force Microsoft to alter a new system, Windows XP, which tightly integrates Internet services like music, instant messaging and shopping into this basic operating system.

They face the same troubling alternatives as before. As Microsoft gets ready to ship Windows XP, antitrust regulators fear that the new operating system represents a rerun of the company's tried-and-true tactics -- some of which a federal appeals court agreed in June were illegal.
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New Scrutiny for Enterprise Software Industry -       

                The industry report will provide in-depth descriptions and statistical analysis of the various segments of the enterprise software industry. A companion report that specifically covers the supply chain management software market is also available.
                     Individual reports on Buy and Outperform recommendations are also available, and include a discussion of the rationale for, and risks of, investing in these companies' stocks.

Voting Machines Under Scrutiny -     
          
            The scrutiny is likely to make California miss a Jan. 1 deadline set under the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002.

           "Anytime there's an issue that happens with a particular voting system, all vendors are painted with the same broad brush," said Michelle Shafer, a spokeswoman for Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. "There are differences from product to product. You need to look at the track record of particular companies.
          It would be much easier to simply use the camera of a mobile phone to take a picture of the document and send it as a desktop fax service.

Firefox's security coming under scrutiny Robert -
             
 The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox Web browser has made security a major part of its marketing, but a spate of vulnerabilities found over the last nine months had sullied that message.
               The security issues come as Firefox has rewritten the Cinderella story for the browser market by succeeding in gaining market share against the juggernaut of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.