December 2004
COVER STORY
How Does Your Salary Stack Up?
Are your peers making more or less than you? Here are the answers.
Editors
Everything You Really Didn’t Want to Know About the Salary Statistics (and Weren’t About to Ask)
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FEATURES
Putting a Face on the IT Pro
Do you ever wonder whether you’re like other IT pros? Find out how typical or unique you are.
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How We Surveyed
Janet Robbins
Taking Care of Business
If our survey tells us anything, it's that IT professionals do it all.
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Education, Training, and Professional Memberships
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Hard Work—Is It Worth It?
Most IT pros tell us that they're underpaid but that they love the challenge of their work and would recommend an IT career to others.
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IT Outsourcing
Outsourcing has long been a standard in the manufacturing industry, but now the practice is taking hold in the IT industry. How do you feel about this trend?
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When is Outsourcing not Outsourcing?
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But Does It Work?
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The IT Pro After Hours
Okay, we've gone into great detail about your workplace opinions. Now let's see how you behave at home.
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He Said/She Said
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Does the IT Community Have Common Political Interests?
What political party best represents the interests of the IT community? What are the top political issues facing your country and how do those issues relate to IT? Compare your views with those of your fellow IT pros.
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Who Do You Love?
Find out which companies IT pros admire and why.
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Windows IT Pro Hall of Fame
The first Windows IT Pro Hall of Fame honors 34 inductees who helped launch the computer revolution. Find out who the recipients are and the roles they played in developing the IT industry that we know today.
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National Medal of Technology Laureates
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COLUMNS
What Is an IT Pro?
Join us in celebrating you—and others like you—in our inaugural survey issue.
Janet Robbins
What You Need to Know About Microsoft's Evolving Longhorn Plans
Microsoft has again revised its Longhorn rollout plans, removing one key technology and making others available to Windows 2003 and Windows XP users.
Paul Thurrott
Can MOM 2005 Help Small Businesses?
Microsoft's Michael Emanuel responds to readers' questions about MOM 2005's licensing, cost, and usefulness in small businesses.
Karen Forster
Microsoft Case Studies About MOM
Karen Forster
Conquering Challenges, Reaping Rewards
Do career-related concerns keep you up at night? Our new column helps you build, maintain, and advance your career.
Dianne Russell
How Good Is Your IT Staff?
What's the best use of a vulnerability assessment? The answer might surprise you.
Ben Smith
Pulling the Event Trigger
Use this command to configure your system to immediately and automatically respond to certain events.
Mark Minasi
Virtual PC 2004 Tips
Did you know you can run a Windows Server system or Linux on your virtual machines? Find that and 9 other must-know tips in this month's Top 10.
Michael Otey
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PRODUCTS AND REVIEWS
Vendor Briefings
Our editors share insights from their conversations with Microsoft, EMC, and LiveVault.
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What's Hot
Readers highlight favorite products: PassGo Technologies SSO Plus, GFI Software GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP, and VMware VMware Workstation
Carolyn Mader, et al.
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