| From Microsoft Subnet
This is Network World's Microsoft Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Microsoft Subnet, your daily source for Microsoft news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more. The Browser Ballot
Kerrie Meyler: In response to the EU's concerns about Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer in Windows, Microsoft has offered to provide a "browser ballot" with the newest version of its operating system software. Use the Loopback adapter in Virtual Server 2005
Brian Egler: Teaching Microsoft classes means using virtualization for education and testing. Nowadays we can set up a virtual cluster and test out a failover cluster using a rinky dink laptop. I discovered a neat feature with Virtual Server recently - the loopback adapter. Microsoft pays for test that shows IE8 is most secure
Microsoft Subnet: In a test of Internet Explorer 8's malware-blocking abilities, IE8 significantly bested the competitors. But then again, Microsoft paid for the test. Microsoft's unified modeling platform, Oslo, faces another overhaul
Microsoft Subnet: Microsoft altered course again with Oslo, by merging its Oslo team with its data programmability team. Here's hoping this change brings to fruition the long-promised "modeling tools for the masses." Using RegEdit with WinRE
Glenn Weadock: Some of you may have had occasion to use the Windows Recovery Environment, or Windows RE, or WinRE – for example, when you have a Server 2008 machine that refuses to boot. I ran into just such a situation a week ago when I was installing a USB monitoring tool that totally locked up my system. Grid Dynamics' Livschitz defies conventional wisdom to blaze a profitable trail
Alpa Agarwal: I spent an afternoon with Victoria Livschitz, CEO of Grid Dynamics and a chess master, at the offices of Mirantis, a company Grid Dynamics recently merged with. Livschitz, a confident, tell-it-like-it-is woman has studied mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering, and has worked at Ford Motor Company and Sun Microsystems. Microsoft/Nokia: Good Deal For SharePoint and Exchange
Mitchell Ashley: Reactions to the Microsoft / Nokia partnership are interesting and the hint of what is behind this deal is in the "collaboration and Office experiences" comments mentioned by Microsoft. Windows Server 2008 R2 final release out
John Fontana: Microsoft released the final bits on Windows Server 2008 R2 to volume licensing customers nearly a week ahead of the time promised. August Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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