More top picks from the week: Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack found in the wild Microsoft releases a slew of updates for its enterprise class security products Six Windows 7 Features Admins Will Actually Care About (and Four They Won't) Firefox Stays In The Game With Firefox 3.5 Sometimes Slower Can Be Better From our bloggers: Worst Microsoft Ads Ever Keith Shaw, Cool Tools Happy Blog: There was an old Saturday Night Live game show skit that parodied '80s stand-up comedians, and Adam Sandler kept spouting the line, "Who were the ad wizards who came up with that one?" I couldn't help but recall that line when reading about Microsoft's "puking ad" for Internet Explorer 8. Here are my picks for the all-time worst ads Microsoft has ever released. FullArmor's AppPortal/PolicyPortal and improving lives using technology Tyson Kopczynski, Hidden Microsoft: A couple of weeks ago, I learned about an interesting project in Africa. The Ethiopian government was trying to deploy about 250,000 laptops to all of their primary and secondary school teachers. But first, they needed to solve infrastructure and management problems. TeamSupport integrates CRM with ticket management to deliver improved customer service Alpa Agarwal, Microsoft Startups to Watch: TeamSupport is a web-based software-as-a-service that integrates a customer relationship management (CRM) solution with product development. When customers make requests for new features or identify bugs, they can be easily logged into the software, for review and action by the engineering teams. Ray Ozzie's inspiring talk is just as applicable to you Mitchell Ashley, Converging on Microsoft: On July 3rd, Ray Ozzie spoke to the 444 youthful competitors at the annual Imagine Cup competition held this year in Cairo, Egypt. Ozzie spoke about the people who inspired him and the ah-ha that set him on his mission to create Notes and Groove. Sometimes slower can be better Glenn Weadock, Windows Server 2008: A few years ago, I sprung for some 15,000 rpm SCSI drives to run my HP engineering workstation. That's still a high water mark in terms of spindle speed. So it was pretty interesting for me to notice that some mainstream hard drive vendors are actually slowing their drives down! Content-aware applications, the future is now Mitchell Ashley, Converging on Microsoft: I've been doing some R&D into content-aware applications lately. We often think of content-aware applications as location-aware apps, integrating GPS information into apps such as tracking delivery trucks. But context-aware is a lot more than just location-aware. Passing a Microsoft Exam: Ten sure-fire ways to increase your chances Bryan Sullins, Microsoft Cert and Training Zone: I can't tell you how many people I train who don't have a defined method for passing Microsoft Exams. With my background as a trainer and a Microsoft Test-taker (I've taken 17 total Microsoft Exams, over nine years), I have developed a method that I know can help anyone. Microsoft kills response point Alex Lewis, Windows into Silicon Valley: The sharks have been circling for awhile and now it looks like it's official. Response Point, Microsoft's SMB VoIP platform, is dead. Check this out: cool automated tools for designing and deploying SharePoint information architectures Susan Hanley, Essential SharePoint: Last week, I had a chance to get a demo of a cool product for designing and maintaining taxonomies for SharePoint sites called MetaVis Architect. July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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