| iPhone, Android and Storm Impact RIM's Subscriber Growth
Mitchell Ashley, Converging on Microsoft: Blackberry maker, RIM, just reported it's first drop in subscriber growth since 2006 back when they were in patent litigation. RIM likely has the iPhone, and to a lesser degree, Google's Android phones to thank. But while RIM might point the finger at Apple or Google, there's more fingers in that hand pointing back at themselves. The failure of the Storm. Solid-State Disks and Server 2008, Part II
Glenn Weadock, Windows Server 2008: Last posting we started looking into using Solid-State Disks (SSDs) in server systems. SSDs still cost in the ballpark of four to five times more than traditional spinning disks, but you can use them in lower-size applications such as system disks, e.g. to reduce reboot times. And the costs are coming down at about 50% per gigabyte per year. Microsoft free anti-malware software "Morro" to be available June 23
Microsoft confirmed that the beta version of its freebie anti-mailware software, code-named "Morro" will be available for download on June 23. The company has officially named the product Microsoft Security Essentials. Twitter and LinkedIn - Valuable Social Media Tools For Contracting and Locating Jobs
Mitchell Ashley, Converging on Microsoft: Sometimes losing a job can become a great opportunity. A recession makes job hunting that much more difficult but you might consider other alternatives like consulting, contracting, or expanding the types of work you do Using Windows 7 to do Good: Taking a closer look at AppLocker - Part One
Tyson Kopczynski, Hidden Microsoft: Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP had "Software Restriction Policies. Windows 7 has AppLocker and it is a lot easier to use. Bacula: Backup files from any platform
Ron Barrett, A Better Windows World: In the world of cross-platform environments the challenge of backing up Linux, Unix, Mac and Windows data to a single solution can be costly or downright impossible. Enter an open source project called Bacula. EasyBCD: Edit Vista's boot loader with this simple tool
Ron Barrett, A Better Windows World: Remember the boot.ini text file? that we used in order to change boot order and the timeout settings. At was easy to use it insecure. Thanks to the folks at NeoSmart Technologies we can manipulate the boot record easily with a tool called EasyBCD. XP lives on even when buying Windows 7
Users who buy Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate editions and downgrade to XP will have up to 18 months to upgrade back to Windows 7 without incurring additional license fees. Sifting the facts about IE from the lies
Microsoft's Windows Internet Explorer Get the Facts website is just about as truthful as any other campaign that falls somewhere between PR and propaganda. And it's causing the kind of backlash that can't be helpful in increasing the browser's reputation. June Giveaways
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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