Startup Huddle wins Microsoft SharePoint contest; Microsoft pays ex-CFO $1.9M

	Microsoft gags ex-CFO Chris Liddel and pays him $1.9M | Calinda MindUp helps make email interactions more efficient
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	Startup Huddle wins Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 contest On Friday, Microsoft announced that Huddle was the winner of an invitational contest, in which seven startups were challenged to build a social app for SharePoint 2010 in just one week. 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 gags ex-CFO Chris Liddel and pays him $1.9M Calinda MindUp helps make email interactions more efficient How Sparse should Sparse columns be? SMB Signing and Security Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) in Windows 2008 R2 Unicode Compression helps in R2 A Better Windows World Tool Library Group Policy Enhancements in Windows 2008 R2 Microsoft posts record-breaking Q2, thanks to consumers, Windows 7 Uninstalling and Downgrading SMB 2.x 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 gags ex-CFO Chris Liddel and pays him $1.9M The Microsoft Subnet blog: Nothing like being paid almost two million bucks for leaving a job and keeping your mouth shut -- one $950,000 check a month after you've left and another $950,000 six months later. That's the sweet deal Microsoft gave Chris Liddell, the company's former chief financial officer who officially resigned on November 24. Read More Calinda MindUp helps make email interactions more efficient Alpa Agarwal: Calinda Software's MindUP is a software-as-a-service solution that helps workgroups collaborate more efficiently, within the email environment. Read More How Sparse should Sparse columns be? Brian Egler: There has always been an almost religious argument between DBA's over nullable columns. Should you use them or should you not? NULL means nothing is stored in a column. Not spaces, not zeroes, just nothing. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetScout Virtualization Simplified Industry analyst Jim Metzler helps identify how to overcome the challenges of managing virtualized server environments in this in-depth whitepaper. Read now. SMB Signing and Security Glenn Weadock: Server Message Block security has two main components: user-level and share-level. The first is for accessing servers, and the second is for accessing files, folders, and printers if share-level authentication has been configured on the server. Read More Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) in Windows 2008 R2 Rand Morimoto: One of the questions I get frequently is "What's the difference between the Windows SharePoint Services that comes with Windows Server and the Microsoft Office SharePoint Service (MOSS) that you pay extra for? Read More Unicode Compression helps in R2 Brian Egler: One new feature in SQL Server 2008 R2 is Unicode Compression. Unicode provides support for all the international character sets across the world including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese. The trade off is that unicode requires 2 bytes per character. Read More WEBCAST: HP Metzler: Virtualization and the Network Manager The networks manager's role has changed significantly over the years. This Webcast highlights survey results of 460 IT pros and their experiences with network management. Learn how network automation is helping to address the unique challenges of both physical and virtual environments. Learn more A Better Windows World Tool Library Here is the last library update which lists all 198 tools I have blogged about (good and bad) in the last 20 months. Read More Group Policy Enhancements in Windows 2008 R2 Rand Morimoto: Most of what is "new" in Group Policy enhancements in Windows 2008 R2 were actually in Windows 2008, however many organizations never migrated off Active Directory 2003 to Active Directory 2008. Read More Microsoft posts record-breaking Q2, thanks to consumers, Windows 7 The Microsoft Subnet blog: Microsoft on Thursday reported a record-breaking fourth quarter, which it laid at the feet of consumers adopting Windows 7. Its units that service the enterprise didn't fair as well. Read More Uninstalling and Downgrading SMB 2.x Glenn Weadock: We've been extolling the virtues of SMB 2.x for the past few posts, but sometimes you may want to disable SMB entirely, or perhaps downgrade it from 2.x to 1.x. Here are some suggestions to point you in the right direction. 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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