Microsoft was once against software patents; One Identifier To Rule Your Life?

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	Microsoft was against software patents before it was for them Robert Mullins: The U.S. Supreme Court today basically put off for another day the issue of whether software applications are patentable in its ruling on the Bilski case. But Microsoft's position on software patents has changed drastically over the years. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Building Archiving Systems to Meet Compliance Demands For a viable archiving strategy, you need to know the regulatory landscape – and the key technologies that will help you comply using secure storage and quick data recovery. Read Now In this Issue Identity Ecosystem: One Identifier To Rule Your Life? White House cybersecurity plan needs Microsoft to work WS2008 machines register all IP addresses to DNS Why won't my BlackBerry synch with Outlook 2010? Microsoft, Salesforce suits are over who rules the cloud Windows 7 actually does sell 7 copies per second (7.086, to be exact) The Devil Is In The Details: DHS Monitoring Web & "Wrong" Words  The future of Video in Unified Communications Windows XP SP2 All Set For Retirement. XP SP3 or Windows 7? VeriSign SSL Hackable - Comodo Exposes, VeriSign Denies Understanding and using message classifications in Exchange Server 2010 - Part One Visit the Microsoft Subnet home page for more Microsoft news RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Identity Ecosystem: One Identifier To Rule Your Life? Ms. Smith: Do you like having many online usernames and passwords? The White House and Department of Homeland Security want to hear what you think about their plans regarding an Identity Ecosystem. Read More White House cybersecurity plan needs Microsoft to work Robert Mullins: The White House is seeking public comment on a draft plan released Friday to secure cyberspace with a trusted identities solution. Some of the early comments focus on the inherent vulnerability of Microsoft's software. Read More WS2008 machines register all IP addresses to DNS Tyson Kopczynski: Ran into this issue the other day when I was setting up a DirectAccess deployment. The customer wanted to stick the NLS instance on an existing Exchange Server 2007 CAS server. Let's add another IP address, create another Web site, and change the Web site bindings so that each site binds to a single IP address. Read More Why won't my BlackBerry synch with Outlook 2010? Susan Hanley: Microsoft upgrades are well known in advance, especially for solutions like Office.  So I really have to wonder why 8 weeks after Office 2010 has been available in final release I still can't synch my BlackBerry. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM BI for Business Users This white paper explores how today's advanced business intelligence solutions can put powerful, informative BI information into the hands of more users. Read More Microsoft, Salesforce suits are over who rules the cloud Robert Mullins: The lawsuits brought by Microsoft and Salesforce.com against each other will ultimately determine who owns the intellectual property (IP) rights to software once delivered on-premise that is now, increasingly, being delivered in the cloud. Read More Windows 7 actually does sell 7 copies per second (7.086, to be exact) Jon Brodkin: The headline just seems like utter nonsense, a made-up statistic churned out by Microsoft's hype machine: "Windows 7 sells 7 copies per second." Read More The Devil Is In The Details: DHS Monitoring Web & "Wrong" Words  Ms. Smith: The DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that in the future there will be "increased" Internet monitoring of U.S. citizens due to the dangers of homegrown terrorism. Read More The future of Video in Unified Communications Joe Schurman has developed an app in Silverlight and Flash and HTML5 and winds up supporting them all. He documents the process and the frustration. Read More WEBCAST: Nimsoft Reasons to Consider Cloud IT Monitoring Join this Webcast to learn the value of IT monitoring delivered via the cloud. You can monitor and manage all business applications, from the data center to the cloud, including SaaS, hosted, and virtualized environments—all with a single product, architecture, and console. There's even a 30-day free trial download. View Now Windows XP SP2 All Set For Retirement. XP SP3 or Windows 7? Mitchell Ashley: Windows XP SP2 has been our strong-hulled sunken submarine that's retained its structural integrity until Microsoft could send a rescue sub (a.k.a. Windows 7). Read More VeriSign SSL Hackable - Comodo Exposes, VeriSign Denies Ms. Smith: Comodo announced today that it requested an independent third-party to notify VeriSign of a security vulnerability affecting its customers' web sites, including a major financial institution. VeriSign says it isn't so. Read More Understanding and using message classifications in Exchange Server 2010 - Part One Tyson Kopczynski: Message classification is a feature that is found within Exchange Server 2007 / 2010 and Outlook 2007 / 2010. By using the classification feature, a message that has been classified will contain specific metadata that describes the intended use or audience of the message. 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