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	Firefox, Chrome lure business users from Microsoft IE Microsoft is still the king of the corporate desktop, but rivals Firefox and Google Chrome are making steady gains in the browser market and Apple is gaining OS share. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! In this Issue Microsoft warns of bug in 64-bit Windows 7 Microsoft counters Gmail with Hotmail overhaul IFixit lays bare Microsoft's Kin smartphone Black duck eggs and other secrets of Chinese hackers Microsoft sues Saleforce.com over 'crown jewel' patents Collaboration vendors join for interoperability Windows 7 helps Microsoft hit record customer satisfaction score Linux-based cloud app backs up Exchange e-mail Microsoft initiative invests in parallel computing WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More Microsoft warns of bug in 64-bit Windows 7 Microsoft warned users of a vulnerability in the 64-bit versions of Wndows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that could be used to hijack systems. Read More Microsoft counters Gmail with Hotmail overhaul Microsoft is overhauling Windows Live Hotmail with new online editing capabilities for Office documents and more than two dozen other enhancements for business and home users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart But Timely This video highlights the Oracle Accelerate program - a group of pre-configured, tested solutions that combine Oracle enterprise applications and rapid implementation tools with industry-specific bundles. The program reduces the time, complexity and cost of deploying Oracle and is implemented by highly trained partners. Learn More. IFixit lays bare Microsoft's Kin smartphone A disassembly of Microsoft's Kin Two shows the silicon and component decisions that went into creating Microsoft's youth-oriented, social networking smartphone. Read More Black duck eggs and other secrets of Chinese hackers Black duck eggs on the menu of a Chinese restaurant drew the suspicions of a security consultant reporting to renowned security expert Ira Winkler. The colleague, a former Russian security agent named Stan, was at a new Chinese restaurant in "the middle of nowhere" in the United States, but conspicuously near the R&D center of a Fortune 5 U.S. business. Read More Microsoft sues Saleforce.com over 'crown jewel' patents Microsoft sued Salesforce.com in federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the CRM vendor has violated nine of Microsoft's patents. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Troubleshooting Application Problems This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Click here! Collaboration vendors join for interoperability A number of unified communications vendors including Microsoft, Polycom and Hewlett-Packard have formed the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, a group to make sure all the pieces needed for collaboration will work together. Read More Windows 7 helps Microsoft hit record customer satisfaction score Windows 7 has fueled a surge of goodwill toward Microsoft, with the company's customer satisfaction ratings reaching a record high in Q1 2010, according to a new American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) survey. Read More Linux-based cloud app backs up Exchange e-mail Astaro's beta e-mail archiving product has all the right buzzwords: cloud, open source, Exchange/Outlook compatible. But it has something even more important, a happy U.S. customer. Richard Parrish, chief technology officer for Wood County, Texas, says that while the beta service is still a work in progress, it has been a breeze to implement and use. Read More Microsoft initiative invests in parallel computing Technical Computing initiative will also focus on the cloud and the development of powerful technical computing tools and apps. Read More
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