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	Microsoft juices Visual Studio with secure coding tools Microsoft said it will deepen ties between its Visual Studio development tools and the secure applications development processes first developed inside the company and now available to outsiders. Read More WEBCAST: MainSoft Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Shops Lotus customers that have adopted Microsoft SharePoint are struggling to meet their collaboration goals. Mainsoft collaboration experts and featured guest Rob Koplowitz, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, discuss how to promote SharePoint adoption by integrating it with email and delivering a natural, contextual user experience. Register Now! In this Issue Microsoft could make the iPad a great business tool SharePoint 2010 and Social: It can only get better Black Hat: Researcher claims hack of processor used to secure Xbox 360, other products Microsoft SDL progresses Windows 7 adoption swells, as XP suffers record drop Microsoft probes Windows 7 battery problems Linux, Windows or both? Doesn't matter to virtual desktop vendor, Ulteo Desktop virtualization strategies: Citrix, Microsoft, VMware Microsoft Windows Azure cloud reaches general availability stage Windows 7 RC nears auto-shutdown deadline, Microsoft warns WHITE PAPER: HP Culture Change Considerations Due to UC IDC analyzes some of the key challenges for customers looking to adopt unified communications as the identification of which tools and features are most appropriate for their organization and, more importantly, which source they should turn to provide those selected features and tools . Read Now. Microsoft could make the iPad a great business tool Apple has made a bone-head play that damages the iPad's potential for business. But, Microsoft, believe it or not, could come to the rescue. Here's why. Read More SharePoint 2010 and Social: It can only get better Seems like Microsoft is determined to position SharePoint 2010 solidly in the "Enterprise 2.0" space. Check out this really cool story about Microsoft's invitation to extend the SharePoint 2010 social platform and the winner of the SocialFest competition. Read More Black Hat: Researcher claims hack of processor used to secure Xbox 360, other products A researcher with expertise in hacking hardware detailed at the Black Hat conference how it's possible to subvert the security of a processor used to protect computers, smartcards and even Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming system. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Inefficiencies Behind Exchange, SQL Server, More Discover four current Microsoft application infrastructure challenges and why recent changes in Microsoft infrastructures create a compelling opportunity to improve underlying storage infrastructures right now. Learn more! Microsoft SDL progresses Microsoft built upon its Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) this week with an announcement at the Black Hat conference in Washington DC. With this announcement, Microsoft will provide a simplified implementation of SDL. The goal here is to spread the goodness of SDL to smaller or less sophisticated development organizations. Read More Windows 7 adoption swells, as XP suffers record drop Microsoft's Windows 7 took just three months to reach a penetration benchmark that Vista needed almost a year to make, Web measurement firm NetApplications.com said today. Read More Microsoft probes Windows 7 battery problems Microsoft is looking into battery problems apparently affecting Windows 7 notebooks amid complaints from some users that the OS has crippled their batteries. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ultrium Best Practices for Long-Term Data Retention Disk-based solutions for data protection have opened up new storage options for organizations. The question should not be whether to choose disk or tape, but rather how to leverage both technologies to deploy a cost-effective tiered-storage architecture. This paper discusses the 5 best practices for backup and long-term data protection. Learn More Linux, Windows or both? Doesn't matter to virtual desktop vendor, Ulteo Ulteo is poised to offer commercial support for its free virtual desktop infrastructure software, which the open-source start-up says will cost companies a fraction of established offerings from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Read More Desktop virtualization strategies: Citrix, Microsoft, VMware If you're looking for documentation on desktop virtualization strategies from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware, have a quick look at the following links. It's the best public facing documentation I could find that didn't require a user registration. Read More Microsoft Windows Azure cloud reaches general availability stage The company advises users to upgrade to paid commercial subscriptions before the deadline for account deletion. Read More Windows 7 RC nears auto-shutdown deadline, Microsoft warns Last year's free preview of Windows 7 will start nagging users to pay for the operating system in two weeks, and begin automatically shutting down PCs in one month, Microsoft reminded customers today. Read More
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