Dueling SQL Server versions; Microsoft disses Google book project

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	SQL Server 2005 SP4 vs. SQL Server 2008 SP2 Brian Egler: Recently, because of customer requests, Microsoft announced that SP4 for SQL Server 2005 would be released by the end of the calendar year 2010. It was also announced that SP2 for SQL Server 2008 would be released earlier in Q3 2010. To Microsoft's credit, all is going according to plan. Which one should you choose? Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. In this Issue Microsoft disses Google book project it failed to do on its own Microsoft publishes Outlook PST files, but uses funky patent language Microsoft releases Microsoft's Data Protection Manager 2010 RC Confer Simplifies Micro-Blogging, Chat and Social Networking for Enterprises Military seeks up-armored speech translator Microsoft confirms rootkit to blame for Windows crashes after patch is installed PerformancePoint 2010 Data Sources From Microsoft Subnet WHITE PAPER: Compuware The Definitive Guide to APM In this Application Performance Management eBook, get hands-on, practical insight into industry best practices for managing your critical applications from an end-to-end perspective. Find out how to manage performance from the distributed front-end of IT operations to the mainframe back-end, while keeping the end-user experience in mind. Read Now. Microsoft disses Google book project it failed to do on its own Robert Mullins: A lawyer for Microsoft was among the witnesses at a U.S. District Court hearing in New York City yesterday on rival Google's project to scan millions of books and monetize them for Google online. Read More Microsoft publishes Outlook PST files, but uses funky patent language The Microsoft Subnet blog: Microsoft today published the technical specifications for its Outlook 2010PST files. Microsoft had promised in October that it would do so. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipanema How WAN Governance Improves Business Performance WAN Governance is an innovative concept that allows organizations to combine traditional WAN optimization techniques and performance management capabilities to ensure optimal speed and availability of business-critical applications. Read More Microsoft releases Microsoft's Data Protection Manager 2010 RC Tyson Kopczynski was pleasantly surprised when he upgraded from the beta version of Microsoft's Data Protection Manager 2010 to the RC version Read More Confer Simplifies Micro-Blogging, Chat and Social Networking for Enterprises Alpa Agarwal: Based in North-East Ohio, Confer's is the quintessential startup story. Read More WHITE PAPER: Force10 Three Steps to Saving with Cloud Computing Discover how cloud computing dynamically streamlines your infrastructure, delivering freely scalable application service levels; dramatic capital and operational cost savings; flexibility and agility without new hardware; and more. Read Now! Military seeks up-armored speech translator Robert Mullins: The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this month publicized an invitation for someone, anyone, to develop technology that does Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech, or RATS. Read More Microsoft confirms rootkit to blame for Windows crashes after patch is installed Microsoft Subnet: Microsoft today confirmed what a security researcher had discovered about the patch that was said to be causing Windows to crash. Read More PerformancePoint 2010 Data Sources Ola Ekdahl: As the foundation for key performance indicators (KPIs), data sources are the most important part of business intelligence (BI) solutions. It is not an exaggeration to say that a BI solution is only as good as its underlying data. Read More 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. Read More
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