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	Microsoft details Silverlight upgrade plans Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application platform, which has been the subject of speculation lately about its future, will get a refresh next year when the company releases Silverlight 5. The upgrade will feature such capabilities as 64-bit support and improvements in areas like high-definition video and digital rights management. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Gartner: Prepare for Windows 7 in 3 Phases Many organizations have skipped Vista and are looking forward to Windows 7. Gartner recommends a carefully planned migration - one that last 12-18 months. Read their recommended steps and three key phases necessary for a smooth transition. Read more. In this Issue 11 great smartphones for $50 or less 31 "How To" resources you might have missed Microsoft to host e-mail for 120,000 USDA workers Google vs. Microsoft: A tale of two upgrades Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2010 service pack beta Microsoft routes around its own COICA damage Microsoft spells out anti-tracking tool in IE9 Reinstall Windows without losing your data Microsoft gains cloud security certification … six months after Google WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power A Framework to Visualize the Data Center Increasing rack density makes it critical to understand environmental characteristics around weight, heating, cooling and power. Flat-file data center planning and management tools can't Read Now 11 great smartphones for $50 or less Check out 11 of this year's hottest smartphones -- including new Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 devices on all major U.S. wireless carriers -- for less than $50 each. Read More 31 "How To" resources you might have missed Between Network World and its sister publications we've produced a dizzying number of "How To" articles this year. Here's a handy roundup of some of the most useful, featuring pieces on everything from Android smartphones to Windows 7 to full disk encryption. Read More Microsoft to host e-mail for 120,000 USDA workers As many as 120,000 federal workers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon start using hosted e-mail and other applications provided by Microsoft as part of a deal announced Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Effective Data Protection for Cloud Computing In Cloud Computing environments, applications reside in massively-scalable data centers where compute resources can be dynamically provisioned and shared to achieve significant economies of scale. Storage capacity scales with compute resources, and each needs to be effectively managed to gain the maximum benefits from Cloud. Read Now Google vs. Microsoft: A tale of two upgrades I am a brave man. I just want to put that out there. Why brave? Because, for no reason other than the sheer testes-shriveling terror of it, I decided to upgrade the operating systems on both my laptop and my smartphone at the same time. Read More Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2010 service pack beta Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2010 adds 64-bit support and includes Silverlight 4 capabilities. Read More Microsoft routes around its own COICA damage Open Kinect accepted by MS and we get a better 'Net. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Top 5 IT Budget Killers For businesses to be competitive today, they need to cut costs and improve their products and services. But how can businesses do more with less? This IBM® ebook introduces you to the 5 biggest IT budget killers: Storage expansion, system complexity, hardware sprawl, reliability and scalability. And reveals how you can eliminate them. Read Now Microsoft spells out anti-tracking tool in IE9 Microsoft said that the next major milestone of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will let users determine who tracks their movement and behavior online, its response to calls for more consumer control over the practice. Read More Reinstall Windows without losing your data How did things get this messed up? Windows has slowed to a crawl. Programs won't run. The free firewall you installed last year won't update or uninstall itself. Read More Microsoft gains cloud security certification … six months after Google Microsoft counters Google's cloud momentum in the government market with FISMA certification. Read More
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