Microsoft patents portable applications; Disclosure laws improve security

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	Microsoft patents portable applications Microsoft Subnet blog: On Tuesday, Microsoft was awarded a U.S. patent for "portable applications." The description of this innovative technology? Running an executable file from a flash device. Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Cloud-Managed WiFi Learn how cloud-managed wireless access points can be self-configured and centrally managed over the web, provide secured access for employees and guests, be scalable for networks of all sizes, and provide a cost savings of up to 50% over traditional solutions. Click here. In this Issue Disclosure laws push companies to improve security Business Etiquette: Is that an oxymoron? Everything you need to know about Office 2010 Unified Communications Summit 2010 - La Jolla, California Virginia is for data centers Legal disclaimers in Exchange 2010: letting the lawyers insert themselves Microsoft goes small for next week's Patch Tuesday Does Open Source Indemnification Matter? Enterprises Say Hell Yes. Microsoft to end support for Windows 2000, XP SP2 on July 13 Microsoft news and blogs on Microsoft Subnet 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! Disclosure laws push companies to improve security Robert Mullins: Lawmakers calling for open government have a saying that "sunlight is the greatest disinfectant," arguing that when government has to disclose what it's doing, voters can better hold it accountable. It seems the same holds true for disclosure of enterprise security breaches. Read More Business Etiquette: Is that an oxymoron? Susan Hanley: Is business etiquette an oxymoron? My seat-mate on a recent flight asked me this question as I pulled out the book Business Etiquette: 101 Ways to Conduct Business with Charm and Savvy by Ann Marie Sabath. Read More Everything you need to know about Office 2010 Robert Mullins: Here is a link to one of the most thorough reviews yet of what's in the coming Office 2010 suite from Microsoft. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk 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! Unified Communications Summit 2010 - La Jolla, California Joe Schurman: The Unified Communications Summit which occurred the week of April 26th was a very well planned and strategic business event hosted by UC strategies and sponsored by the likes of Avaya, Cisco, IBM, NET, and others. Microsoft, however, was a no-show. Read More Virginia is for data centers Robert Mullins: As the IT industry moves to cloud computing one fact remains unmistakable: the cloud, while somewhat abstract to end users, still has to exist in the physical world as a data center full of heavy iron and humming like the factory that it is -- a factory manufacturing compute cycles. Read More Legal disclaimers in Exchange 2010: letting the lawyers insert themselves Tyson Kopczynski: Let's talk about how to manage disclaimers in Exchange 2010. Disclaimers (aka lawyer-speak) are normally used to denote some form of limit or scope for the rights and obligations for parties in a legally-recognized relationship. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Quadruple VMs without Increasing NICs IDC: As companies roll out blade-based virtualization deployments, many find that they have limited choices for network I/O. Virtual machines not only help bring more applications onto each server but also place additional demand on network I/O. Learn to adress these challenges. Read now. Microsoft goes small for next week's Patch Tuesday Microsoft today said it would patch two critical vulnerabilities with two updates to Windows and Office next week. Read More Does Open Source Indemnification Matter? Enterprises Say Hell Yes. Kim Weins: As I talk with these large enterprises, almost all of them want indemnification around open source software to provide financial protection in the case of IP lawsuits. Read More Microsoft to end support for Windows 2000, XP SP2 on July 13 Windows XP users can extend support at no cost by upgrading to SP3, but Windows 2000 users have no such option Read More Microsoft news and blogs on Microsoft Subnet The Microsoft Subnet community features industry-expert bloggers, giveaways and all the top news of interest to network professionals. . http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft Subscribe to our bloggers via RSS http://www.networkworld.com/community/blogs/microsoft/feed Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/microsoftsubnet Read More
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