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Sam Ramji: Why Microsoft contributed to the GPL

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.

Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Platform Strategy joins Mitchell Ashley to talk about Microsoft's recent open source code contribution to Linux. "During the podcast Sam Ramji and I dive into details about the GPL'd Linux drivers, talk about how Microsoft worked with members of the community during their development, discuss why Microsoft submitted the drivers under the GPLv2 license, and examine what it took to gain consensus within Microsoft to open source the drivers under the GPL."

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Susan Hanley: Microsoft has published some excellent resources to help site designers customize site navigation. Here's a guide to what's available.

MicroHoo Search - coming to a browser near you
Kerrie Meyler: Microsoft will have a 10-year license to Yahoo's core search technology, with the ability to integrate those technologies into its existing web search platforms. Yahoo is stopping R&D on their search engine and ad selling software.

How relevant is Windows 7 certification to your career?
Bryan Sullins: In my line of work as an enterprise-level training provider, we're already getting client requests for Windows 7 classes and certifications. And some of those are from large enterprises.

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool Is a PAL every Administrator needs
Ron Barrett: One of the most frustrating and time consuming tasks for an IT professional is the time spent analyzing and trying to make sense of performance counter log files. The Performance Analysis of Logs or PAL tool is a free offering from Microsoft's CodePlex site.

Delaying Startup Services
Glenn Weadock: In our ongoing discussion of process prioritization, I thought it might be interesting to discuss Longhorn's "Delayed Start" service type. It reminds me of an old Audi 200 I used to own, which needed to idle for a couple of minutes before being driven.

The Hidden Cost of Out-of-Cycle Security Patches
Mitchell Ashley: Last week we all had to deal with the emergency Microsoft security patches due to a critical exposure in the Active Template Library (templates used for COM+ development) that could result in local code execution by a hacker.

The Move-Mailbox cmdlet, a Cross-Forest move, and a complex password
Tyson Kopczynski: From time to time, I come across things that just frustrate the hell out of me... the Move-Mailbox cmdlet was dying with an error when objects on the target side were being merged.

Now use C#.NET in SSIS 2008 Scripting tasks...
Brian Egler: SSIS provides scalability, performance, debugging and a brand new architecture based on .NET for extensibility. So when we used the scripting task we could surely use any .NET language. Wrong!

Criteo allows advertisers to re-target users to increase sales.
Alpa Agarwal: Users visit a site up to 5 times on average before making a purchase, according to Criteo. Criteo serves targeted banner advertisements to users, goading them to go ahead and make that purchase. The banner can offer up a special prices or information.

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.

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