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	Why Microsoft and HP need each other Robert Mullins: HP is developing with Microsoft a Windows Azure platform appliance to combine hardware, software, services and a sourcing solution for enterprise customers to get into cloud computing. 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 Happy Hackers' Heaven On The Horizon Microsoft to patch XP Help hole and four others on Tuesday Microsoft wants partners 'all in' on cloud, too PowerPivot DAX Microsoft employees report discontent Religious conversion in progress: I'm keeping my iPhone 4! Microsoft can thank Apple for Windows 7 popularity Slapped In The Facebook: Social Site Is Sued Over Privacy Missteps Microsoft goes through another small round of layoffs Microsoft beefs up MS Office Doc.com Facebook app Awardees of the Imagine Cup 2010 Competition! President of Microsoft Int'l Jean-Philippe Courtois @ the Imagine Cup Rogue Security Researchers vs Microsoft: Karma Is Brutal! How to create custom AD LDS attributes... WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper A New Look at Defragmenting While advanced storage infrastructures add additional layers of abstraction between applications and devices, they do not eliminate the need to solve fragmentation. This paper reviews different strategies for eliminating fragmentation and details a new approach that prevents fragmentation from occurring in the first place. Read Now Happy Hackers' Heaven On The Horizon Ms. Smith: After Tuesday, July 13th, happy attackers will take advantage of your procrastination and target millions of businesses and individuals still running Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000. Read More Microsoft to patch XP Help hole and four others on Tuesday Julie Bort: Microsoft has promised a patch for the contentious XP Windows Help hole among its July Patch Tuesday fixes. The company will issue four patches that fix a total of five holes, most requiring a restart. Read More Microsoft wants partners 'all in' on cloud, too Robert Mullins: Microsoft is hosting its Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 July 11-15 in the nation's capital with a focus on its cloud computing strategy. Read More PowerPivot DAX Brian Egler: When defining your PowerPivot model in Excel 2010, you define data sources and relationships. You can define your own expressions for calculations using a special new syntax called Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). Read More Microsoft employees report discontent Robert Mullins: After a spate of bad news about the Kin flop and trepidation about whether Microsoft's coming Phone 7 mobile OS will spark sales, the week ends for Microsoft with news of layoffs. A survey of employees, meanwhile, documents discontent in Redmond. 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! Religious conversion in progress: I'm keeping my iPhone 4! Susan Hanley: After many years as a BlackBerry user, switching to the iPhone 4 has not been as easy as I'd hoped - there are some significant differences that take a while to get used to. But this time, I'm not going back. Read More Microsoft can thank Apple for Windows 7 popularity Jon Brodkin: More than half of software developers are already building applications for Windows 7 and nearly 80% will do so within the next year, a new survey has found. And somewhat ironically, Microsoft might have Apple to thank. Read More Slapped In The Facebook: Social Site Is Sued Over Privacy Missteps Ms. Smith: You knew it had to happen sooner or later: Facebook is being sued over privacy. Read More Microsoft goes through another small round of layoffs Julie Bort: Microsoft has quietly laid off "hundreds" of workers this week, although the company has not yet made a formal announcement to the SEC or on its Investor Relations website. Read More Microsoft beefs up MS Office Doc.com Facebook app Julie Bort: Microsoft greatly expanded the capabilities of this app that allows Facebook users to upload and share Microsoft Office Web documents. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Reduce Disk Fragmentation by 85% We depend upon fast data access and efficient data management but file fragmentation is a well-known barrier. HOW it is solved deeply impacts budget efficiency. This white paper details the only known maintenance practices that increase efficiency while lowering operating costs. Read Now! Awardees of the Imagine Cup 2010 Competition! Rand Morimoto: After a year of intense qualifying rounds, regional and national finals, and onsite competition here in Poland, the Imagine Cup 2010 Competition FINALLY announced the awardees! Read More President of Microsoft Int'l Jean-Philippe Courtois @ the Imagine Cup Rand Morimoto: The Imagine Cup 2010 competition had its final presentations last night here in Poland and the Software Design Competition was keynoted by the President of Microsoft International, Jean-Philippe Courtois. Read More Rogue Security Researchers vs Microsoft: Karma Is Brutal! Ms. Smith: What happens when a giant software company ticks off a group of security researchers? Microsoft is finding out. Read More How to create custom AD LDS attributes... Tyson Kopczynski: A client of mine wanted to have an external application both use AD for authentication and as the direct source for some of the data displayed in the external application. Tough problem. Read More
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