Ever wonder about how CTRL-ALT-DEL came to be? In this short video clip, CTRL-ALT-DEL inventor David Bradley (yeah, there was an inventor — after all, someone had to code it), explains how this sequence came to be. Bill Gates was not entirely amused, as you’ll also see in the clip.

Corel has introduced a stand-alone version of WordPerfect MAIL, to compete directly with Microsoft’s Outlook email program. WordPerfect MAIL was first made available as part of the WordPerfect Small Business office suite earlier this year. The stand-alone version is aimed directly at the small business and home users at a price of $34.

Seattle Pacific University, a college with about 3,600 undergraduates, first implemented a 2 terabyte (TB) FC SAN as the storage backbone for Microsoft Exchange. Those 2 TBs seemed huge back then, but it’s been dwarfed by email volume, as email has become a core business application. This article from SearchStorage.com shows what the IT folks did to handle the problem.

Randy Morin at WebProNews has this rundown of all the RSS readers that he’s used over the years. He looks at programs such as Firefox and NewsGator and gives a little bit about what he likes and dislikes about each.

Microsoft released the first beta version of the Windows Vista operating system. It was being delivered to more than 10,000 developers and others who will test the software and provide feedback.

The Go Daddy Group announced today the release of Online Group Calendar. Online Group Calendar allows you to share your calendars, schedule meetings or events, send invitations, manage resources (like equipment and meeting rooms) and even share files with other group members anywhere, anytime, through any computer with an Internet connection. It works with popular email clients, including Microsoft Outlook.

CertifiedMail and EasyLink announce that they are partnering to deliver secure fax services. The system offers direct integration with email clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and GroupWise.

InfoWorld reports that John Wall, chief executive officer of custom application and services provider Vista, said his company is considering taking action to challenge Microsoft over the naming of the next version of the Windows operating system.

Microsoft is expected to roll out a program requiring customers to validate that they are running legitimate copies of Windows before they can use Microsoft’s download services. The Windows Genuine Advantage 1.0 program ensures that customers using Windows Update, Microsoft Update for Windows, and the Microsoft Download Center run a program that checks that their Windows operating system is genuine before they can download updates or new content from those services.

Suppliers of management software are jumping on regulatory compliance concerns by delivering tools that do everything from sound alerts when systems drift out of whack to automatically remediate problems and generate reports that can be used in audits.