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	As Internet Explorer turns 15, we take a look back Microsoft Internet Explorer marks its 15th anniversary this week. The first version of the browser was launched back in the summer of 1995 and since then the browser -- now in its eighth rendition -- has undergone numerous updates, revisions and versions. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Setting Up a Seven-Figure IT Cost Avoidance at JEA Learn how storage acquisition costs are 67% lower, performance is faster, recovery takes minutes instead of days, and a seven figure cost avoidance lies ahead. Read Now In this Issue Mix and match Microsoft Office with Web apps: Three tips CEBP: How Microsoft will win the unified communications war Microsoft fields over 8,000 Windows Phone 7 phones. [Insert adjective of choice here] Microsoft to lead SMBs to the cloud with new Windows server Windows in the cloud: long boot times, other difficulties not seen with Linux Microsoft builds Facebook chat into MSN Messenger One year after controversy, Citrix beefs up VMworld presence Did Microsoft kill cross-platform Xbox 360 and Windows play? Has the mouse outlived its usefulness? WHITE PAPER: HP Virtualize your end-to-end IT infrastructure A virtual storage infrastructure available only from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half with innovations that unlock trapped capacity in individual servers or in enterprise disk arrays. Learn how. Read Now Mix and match Microsoft Office with Web apps: Three tips More companies are taking advantage of Web-based tools while hanging onto Microsoft Office. If you're going to mix and match, Forrester has three pieces of advice. Read More CEBP: How Microsoft will win the unified communications war The battle for the top solution in the unified communications (UC) marketplace is absolutely not a battle, it's a war! This is a war between ideals, concepts, innovation, and territory. We all know who the major players are and how long they've been there. Read More Microsoft fields over 8,000 Windows Phone 7 phones. [Insert adjective of choice here] Pocket-Lint's Stuart Miles reports that some sleuthing shows there are over 8,000 prototype Windows Phone 7 phones now in the field. Whether you think that's good, great, pathetic, or risable depends a lot on your perspective. 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 Microsoft to lead SMBs to the cloud with new Windows server I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Microsoft's newest Small Business Server, codenamed "Aurora" works great. If so, Microsoft will be doing a big service for the small and mid-sized business -- leading them gently to the cloud. A preview version of Aurora was released by Microsoft yesterday. Read More Windows in the cloud: long boot times, other difficulties not seen with Linux Running Windows servers in the Amazon cloud may have just gotten a lot easier, but a project by the management vendor RightScale to improve Windows support shows that people who use the Microsoft operating system in cloud networks face difficulties not seen in the Linux world. Read More Microsoft builds Facebook chat into MSN Messenger Microsoft is integrating Facebook chat with its MSN Messenger as part of an update to Windows Live Essentials 2011. 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. One year after controversy, Citrix beefs up VMworld presence Citrix has made amends with VMware one year after a controversy involving VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. Read More Did Microsoft kill cross-platform Xbox 360 and Windows play? Last month rumors circulated that Microsoft killed cross-platform Xbox 360 and Windows gameplay. Read More Has the mouse outlived its usefulness? A German retailer has prematurely posted (and very quickly taken down) details and product shots of the upcoming Microsoft Arc Touch mouse. The Microsoft peripheral is innovative more in its form than its function, but along with the Apple Magic Trackpad it hints at a future where the mouse may no longer have a role. Read More
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