Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Windows Phone 7 earns praise; Microsoft downplays BitLocker hack

Microsoft guffaws at the severity of Black Hat BitLocker/TPM hack | Microsoft yanks patch causing XP PCs to crash

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Windows Phone 7: Microsoft's mobile strategy finally takes off
John Cox: Microsoft today announced the new version of its phone operating system, Windows Phone 7. It's a sweeping redesign, coupled with an aggressive new partnership with handset makers and mobile carriers. Initial reviews are not only positive but actually excited. With the unveiling today of Microsoft's next mobile phone platform, Windows Phone 7, it's now official: the phone is not a PC. Read More


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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

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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 guffaws at the severity of Black Hat BitLocker/TPM hack
Microsoft Subnet: Microsoft on Friday downplayed the risk of using Trusted Platform Module chips after Black Hat researchers demonstrated a hack of them last week. Read More

Microsoft yanks patch causing XP PCs to crash
Microsoft Subnet: Hundreds of users posted messages on a Microsoft support forum complaining that Patch Tuesday's updates were crashing their XP computers. Microsoft responded on Thursday by removing the offending patch from for consumers but not for enterprises. Read More


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WAN Design – Don't Buy More than You Need
This Gartner research note examines the methodology organizations should employ when designing a WAN. It offers advice on how to ensure that important applications are networked with sufficient performance and that there is not an "overspend" on less important applications and provides guidance on meeting unique network needs. Read Now.

Startup Liaise helps Transform Email into Actionable Interactions
Alpa Agarwal: Most of us manage projects in email. I certainly do. Liaise works with Microsoft Outlook to annotate text in email messages. Read More

Installing PerformancePoint 2010 Dashboard Designer
Ola Ekdahl: PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer is a design tool you can use to build key performance indicators (KPIs), indicators, scorecards, reports, filters, data sources, and dashboards. Read More


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Make IT Data a Strategic Asset
This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More!

Microsoft warns on unpatched multi-vendor SSL vulnerability
As expected, February's Patch Tuesday was a doozie. Microsoft also issued a security advisory (977377) over a publicly-known vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. Read More

Re-Thinking the Search Engine
Alpa Agarwal: I'm a sucker for Fodors, having become used to the well-organized information in their hard-copy travel guides. But there are features about Microsoft Bing that I've come to know and love. Read More

Cumulative Update for OpsMgr 2007 R2 XPlat available
Kerrie Meyler: Microsoft released a new set of patches for OpsMgr. Read More

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