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	8 amazing things you'll do with Windows 8 Windows 8 is still a couple of years away, but Microsoft is already telling partners what to expect in the next generation operating system. Luckily for the public, Microsoft planning documents shared with HP and other OEM partners were leaked this week, providing a wholly unexpected Windows 8 sneak preview. 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 In this Issue You want Microsoft product tests? We've got loads of them SharePoint 2010: Four big-name social networking rivals Only Microsoft and Red Hat have all the pieces to build clouds, Red Hat says Is Microsoft's U-Prove the answer to better online privacy? Novell's de Icaza: 'People are scared of installing software on Windows' Five reasons to give Windows 7 a second look The pros and cons of Windows 7 security Do I want 3TB on my desktop? Hell yeah! RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue You want Microsoft product tests? We've got loads of them We've put together a nifty package of all of our product tests of critical new Microsoft software. All of it is freely available to you and you have two choices for access: 1) click through and read each individual story on our site; 2) Download a 10-page PDF with all the tests bundled together, though for the effort of creating the PDF for you, we ask for registration before we hand it over (just the stuff on your business card.) Read More SharePoint 2010: Four big-name social networking rivals IBM, Cisco, Google and Salesforce all aim to beat Microsoft SharePoint 2010 at the high-stakes enterprise social networking game -- and have recently made some smart plays. Here's a look at how the rivals currently stack up. Read More E-BOOK: AMD Virtualization Server Report Card Virtualization servers are designed to deliver more of the capacity that VMs need to run optimally. VMs crave lots of RAM and dedicated CPU resources. This eBook includes InfoWorld's report card on ratings for virtualization servers, tips to optimize virtualization performance, and cutting-edge virtualization implementations. Click To Continue. Only Microsoft and Red Hat have all the pieces to build clouds, Red Hat says Red Hat claims only itself and Microsoft have every piece of software required to build an entire cloud, and allow workloads to move from one cloud to another. Read More Is Microsoft's U-Prove the answer to better online privacy? Microsoft's identity management tokens, known as U-Prove, are worth a real look -- and a pat on the back. We want to be able to securely make transactions without allowing a website to track us or to combine various pieces of information which enable that site to learn more about us than we care to share with it. Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Take Your WiFi to the Cloud Learn how to bring simplicity, security and scalability to your wireless network by leveraging the cloud. This Webcast demonstrates how cloud-controlled WiFi delivers: • Security • Reliability • Performance View now! Novell's de Icaza: 'People are scared of installing software on Windows' Open source icon Miguel de Icaza says Microsoft's plan to build an App Store for Windows won't solve a larger problem faced by Microsoft: "Everyone is scared of installing applications on Windows." Read More Five reasons to give Windows 7 a second look Microsoft has sold 150 million copies of Windows 7 in nine months -- that is, seven copies per second. It's the fastest-selling operating system in history. Vista, by contrast, was such a flop that users couldn't wait to get rid of it. Read More The pros and cons of Windows 7 security Businesses are eyeing a transition to Microsoft Windows 7, and with a wealth of security features that are part of it, it's worth figuring out the good and bad about each of them, says Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald, who notes in some cases, third-party security products might be the better fit. Read More Do I want 3TB on my desktop? Hell yeah! Seagate keeps the storage capacity coming – today the company announced its 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk external hard drive. The $250 drive is available immediately with a USB 2.0 interface, and since it's in the GoFlex line, it also supports the other cables such as USB 3.0 and FireWire 800, for future-proofing cable interface technology. It works with Windows and Mac computers. Read More
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