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	Office 2010 sales are lagging, says NPD | Microsoft confirms Russian spy was employee
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	IE8 and Chrome are killing Firefox I used to love Firefox. I'm an old Linux user who ran Mozilla on the Red Hat Linux desktop that kept me efficient while I was working for a dot-com before the bust. Back then I had to manage a Windows and Linux network with some AIX thrown in, so being able to run Linux was a life-saver, and having a decent browser like Mozilla didn't hurt. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP ESG: Business Value of Reservationless Storage Capacity This report explores the value of some exciting new storage technologies which are collectively known as "reservationless storage." ESG Lab hands-on testing of the HP StorageWorks product line and analysis are used to quantify the business value of reservationless storage. Read Now In this Issue Office 2010 sales are lagging, says NPD Microsoft confirms Russian spy was employee Windows XP SP2 and 7 other things Microsoft has killed this year Microsoft exec mocks iPhone 4, dubs it Apple's Vista Outlook evolves beyond e-mail with Social Connectors Microsoft fixes buggy patch for Windows Server 2008 With fix now out, Microsoft sees jump in XP attacks If Windows XP survives another decade, we have failed as a society 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 Office 2010 sales are lagging, says NPD Microsoft Office 2010 is off to a slow start following its launch in May, says market research firm The NPD Group, but not for the reasons you might suspect. Read More Microsoft confirms Russian spy was employee Microsoft has reportedly confirmed that the "12th alleged member" of the recently exposed Russian spy ring worked for Microsoft. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Implementing Tiered Storage: IDC: Enterprises that are investigating deploying a tiered storage architecture should consider using an external services provider to assist with the migration. Of critical importance is the ability to offer a range of services from the initial planning all the way through to ongoing support and management. Read Now Windows XP SP2 and 7 other things Microsoft has killed this year Microsoft's official curtailing this week of support and patches for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 marks the latest in a string of moves by the company to kill off products and technologies that either outlived their usefulness or never became useful in the first place. Read More Microsoft exec mocks iPhone 4, dubs it Apple's Vista Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, today compared Apple's iPhone 4 to his own company's problem-plagued Vista operating system. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP HP Business Value of EVA Storage Virtualization This Edison Group report is an independent assessment of the architecture and business benefits of HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). Learn how EVA enables access to the storage in a single array by numerous hosts, tiered storage within the array to different types of drives and better performance than non-virtualized systems. Read Now. Outlook evolves beyond e-mail with Social Connectors Microsoft has established Outlook as one of the leading applications for reading, writing, and managing e-mail. With Outlook 2010 and Outlook Social Connectors, though, Microsoft is breaking that mold and adapting the software as a communications hub rather than an e-mail utility by incorporating social networks like LinkedIn, MySpace, and now Facebook. Read More Microsoft fixes buggy patch for Windows Server 2008 As part of its routine Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft re-released patch MS10-024 for Windows Server 2008 and R2 that was itself causing problems. The revised patch was not mentioned in the company's heads-up alerts issued on Thursday. Read More With fix now out, Microsoft sees jump in XP attacks Microsoft urged Windows users to update their software Tuesday, saying it's now seen more than 25,000 attacks leveraging one of the critical bugs fixed in July's monthly security patches. Read More If Windows XP survives another decade, we have failed as a society Attention technology-obsessed American public: Put down that Apple iPad. Throw away your Droid Incredible. Cancel that pre-order of the Nintendo 3DS. And for the love of Bill Gates, don't you dare buy a Windows 7 computer. That's right: all those newfangled devices are irrelevant. Let's clear them off the agenda and focus on a real problem: Will we be able to use Windows XP in the year 2020? Read More
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