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	Microsoft wins 18,000-seat cloud contract with University of Arizona Score one for Microsoft in the cloud. The University of Arizona is moving 18,000 faculty and staff members to Microsoft's online e-mail and collaboration system, the university said. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue Steve Ballmer as emoticons Is Microsoft an open source company? Microsoft's mobile shakeup: Will it unleash Windows Phone? Apple tops Microsoft as world's most valuable tech firm Licensing changes in SQL Server 2008 R2 Ballmer: Robbie Bach just wanted to retire Remains of the Day: Bach, Allard bid Microsoft bye-bye Salesforce.com CEO says Microsoft is a 'patent troll' Businesses lag in moving away from IE6 and its vulnerabilities, study says WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Minimize Datacenter Costs with Server Offload This technical guide helps you learn how to reduce your server costs up to 60%. You'll gain valuable information on how Citrix NetScaler helps reduce datacetner costs with server and infrastructure offload. Read More! Steve Ballmer as emoticons It's not often hard to guess what Steve Ballmer is feeling. The Microsoft CEO has one of the most recognized, and photographed, faces in the IT industry -- and it's also one of the most expressive. Read More Is Microsoft an open source company? When thinking about open source, most people immediately think Linux, Apache, Mozilla to name a few of the many projects currently being developed. Of course, there are thousands of open source projects and I wanted to see what platform these projects were running on. To my surprise, I found a great deal of Windows open source projects and was even shocked by my search of the most popular open source projects on SourceForge. Read More Microsoft's mobile shakeup: Will it unleash Windows Phone? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced some major changes in the company's entertainment and mobile device businesses. Veteran Robbie Balch, who oversaw a combined group, is retiring and won't be replaced. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! Apple tops Microsoft as world's most valuable tech firm Apple passed a major milestone, becoming the world's largest technology company as measured by the total value of its shares. Read More Licensing changes in SQL Server 2008 R2 I am a techie, so I am interested in technology. I love to evaluate new features, new gadgets, new technology. I am less interested in actually paying for it, mainly because I am cheap. I am even less interested in Software licensing agreements mostly because they change like the wind. The word arbitrary comes to mind. As soon as you think you have mastered the latest licensing model, it changes. Read More Ballmer: Robbie Bach just wanted to retire The management shakeup at Microsoft doesn't reflect dissatisfaction with the company's mobile and game console strategies, company CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell File Management Suite Better track and understand storage patterns, allocate and manage storage based on its relevance and value to the business, while saving money in the administration and procurement of storage resources. Learn to get a handle on the unchecked proliferation of data. Read Now Remains of the Day: Bach, Allard bid Microsoft bye-bye Microsoft may be losing two of its shining stars but not everything is looking bleak: the European Parliament is all getting new iPads! And the New York Mets trump their crosstown rivals a second time this week. It's all in the remainders for May 25, 2010. Read More Salesforce.com CEO says Microsoft is a 'patent troll' Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff declined to comment on the patent lawsuit brought against his company by Microsoft, but that didn't stop him from calling his rival names. Read More Businesses lag in moving away from IE6 and its vulnerabilities, study says Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to dominate corporate browser use more so than it does private use, with its nearest rival, Mozilla's Firefox, lagging far behind with one in seven businesses opting for it, according to data collected by Internet-based security service Zscaler. Read More
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