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The look is very similar to the current Windows Defender interface – the firewall and security umbrella app built into Vista – even using some of the same graphics.

NeoWin is certain that the screenshots are genuine and journalist and Microsoft expert Simon Bisson has tweeted us to say, “From what I understand it builds on Windows Defender – so unsurprising if the internal beta uses the same icons.”

Morro may spearhead Microsoft’s vision of a ‘software + services’ future, incorporating elements in the cloud to reduce the load on desktop processors, although Microsoft has yet to confirm this.

Microsoft admits that internal testing of Morro is underway and says that a beta version will be made available to the public ‘soon’.

Microsoft today let loose a new beta version of its flagship enterprise messaging software now called Exchange 2010. As Eric Lai reported for Computerworld, this is a big update and it looks to address some of the competition from Google.

Google Apps is a free, educational, or premium version of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google video and soon, hopefully, Google Voice. At $50 per user per year, it makes it very compelling alternative to Exchange especially for small to medium size companies.

I personally haven’t tinkered with Exchange in a few years, but know that Redmond has a lot to fear from Google’s Apps platform. One thing Exchange (or anything for that matter) doesn’t do as well as Google is scale. Lai reported that Exchange 2010 will continue to use the Jet database engine to store messages instead of SQL. Many think that the Jet database is not up to the task and things get cloudy in huge organizations. Although Microsoft says that they have done a ton of innovation on Jet for Exchange 2010, it remains to be seen if scaling improves.

Exchange is also offering support for grouping e-mails in conversations. Some people love this about Google, while others hate it. It does seem to be a trend, however. The latest versions of Apple’s Mail application have included the ability to group by conversation as well.

Microsoft is also following Google Voice’s ability to transcribe voice messages from VoIP and put them in the user’s inbox.

Redmond is also updating the OWA Web client to be on par with Outlook, but only for premium versions. You will, however, be able to log in via browsers besides Internet Explorer like Safari, Chrome and Firefox – Also a nod to Gmail. Previously, you needed IE to get the most robust version of OWA.

Microsoft is also adding archiving to the Exchange package. In Google Apps a free Postini account allows for online e-mail archiving (3 months free) as well as the ability to send and receive e-mails through an on-premise archival box. Microsoft’s solution will be more full featured than Google’s, but obviously it is directed at much larger organizations.

Microsoft is offering this Exchange 2010 preview with SharePoint server, Visio, Project and Office. The offering is matched by Google Sites and Docs which are free to try and $50 per user per year.

Microsoft Exchange won’t ever be able to touch that.

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The elastix core development team and much thanks to Alex Villacis, the first beta version of 64bit Elastix 1.5 have been made available for download. They are getting ready for the first RC but this beta will provide much better Elastix performance in 64 bits OS.

Elastix version 1.5 is now available for download in its 32-bit and 64-bit ISO versions. This release took a bit longer than normal because it has some major improvements. This release took a bit longer than normal because they have made some important improvements. elastix now use DAHDI instead of Zaptel which brings better support for telephony drivers. Here is a list of some of the changes:

• 32-bit and 64-bit ISO images generated
• Asterisk upgraded to 1.4.23.2-0
• FreePBX upgraded to 2.5.1
• Support for DAHDI 2.1.0.4
• Misdn upgraded to 1.1.8
• Native R2 support included through libopenr2 1.1

This release is the first one to have gone through our beta testers scrutiny using our beta testers mailing list . Thanks to this group of community members we have solved bugs ranging from the small and annoying to the serious and critical ones. Thanks go out to all our beta testers because without their work we could not have the even more stable version of Elastix that we are making available today. We would like to give our special thanks to the following hardworking members of our community: Fernando Villares, Bob Fryer, Tzafrir Cohen, Saleh Madi and Frank Danard.

Read the complete ChangeLog here.

Yahoo has re-launched IndexTools as Yahoo Web Analytics. IndexTools is a web analytics package which brought in April 2008. Yahoo Web Analytics is an enterprise site analytics tool that provides real time visitor behavior on website. With the powerful and flexible tools and dashboards, it able to provide the marketers and website designer with useful analysis reports that will enhance their visitor experience, increase sales, increase traffic and reduce marketing cost.

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