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Microsoft is 2006 takeover titan
News Among Microsoft's acquisitions were Canadian asset-tracking company AssetMetrix and a reported $75m deal for remote-access and firewall company Whale Communications. Microsoft racked up the largest number of global... [15 Jan 2007]
Microsoft buys into asset-tracking tech
News Microsoft has acquired Canadian asset-tracking company AssetMetrix as part of its continued expansion of its management software. Founded in March 2000, AssetMetrix helps businesses manage their fleet of... [27 Apr 2006]
Office update 'will cause more hassle than you think'
News AssetMetrix said on Monday that its research shows that more than one in five corporate computers running Office use the version that Microsoft was forced to update. AssetMetrix CEO Jeff Campbell said in... [07 Feb 2006]
Zotob worm fails to wreak havoc
News The operating system ran on 48 per cent of business PCs during the first quarter of 2005, according to a recent study by AssetMetrix. A new worm that was unleashed over the weekend affects only a limited group of Windows... [16 Aug 2005]
Virus alert: Zotob worm hits Windows 2000
News According to a recent study published by asset management specialist Assetmetrix, Windows 2000 is still installed in more than 50 per cent of computers used by large corporations worldwide. Antivirus firms have urged... [15 Aug 2005]
Windows 2000 gets its final update
News It still accounts for nearly half of all Windows-based business desktops, according to a recent survey by AssetMetrix. Microsoft has issued what is expected to be its last significant revision of Windows 2000. [29 Jun 2005]
SP2: Businesses slowly accepting Windows update
News In a study of 136,000 corporate PCs, Canadian asset tracking firm AssetMetrix found that more than one-third of the computers were running Windows XP but only 24 per cent had installed the security-oriented Service Pack... [04 Apr 2005]
Microsoft misses XP SP2 target by 80 million
News It's not that companies aren't accepting SP2 - they should, since they demanded it," said Steve O'Halloran, VP of AssetMetrix in Ottawa, Canada. Microsoft will speed up Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) distribution to... [22 Sep 2004]
One in 10 PCs will come to grief with XP SP2
News Network auditor AssetMetrix Research Labs conducted research with 340 companies with more than 44,000 desktops and found just over one in 10 of them had compatibility issues after they'd installed XP SP2. [02 Sep 2004]
Microsoft users addicted to older Windows
News AssetMetrix, which is in the business of helping companies move to new operating systems, said it recommends that all Internet-connected computers be upgraded from Windows 98 to a more modern and still fully supported OS. [15 Dec 2003]
