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	IE9 follows Firefox 4's lead on 'Do Not Track' Microsoft followed Mozilla's lead by adding support to IE9 for the same "Do Not Track" technology used by Firefox 4. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Polycom Win a 360º unified conference station It's a chance to win the Polycom® CX5000, featuring a 360 degree panoramic view. Easily add group video collaboration to Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Bring a whole new perspective to your meetings. Enter the sweepstakes today! In this Issue First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Group push-to-talk comes to BlackBerry, Windows smartphones Add-on lets IE6 apps live forever Microsoft and Google collaborate to bring HTML5 video to IE9 Internet Explorer 9 speeds past competition MMS 2011 -- sold out! Oracle goes after Microsoft SQL Server with MySQL Sunshine Week: Shining FOIA light on government secrecy Microsoft adds customization to Visual Studio LightSwitch LibreOffice gets free software stamp of approval in fight against Oracle and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks ROI of Application Delivery in Virtualized Environments Learn how load balancing Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) can substantially reduce expenses in traditional and virtualized architectures with a fast ROI. Maximize results by deploying server off-loading technology to gain even more significant advantages and cost savings. Learn more! First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft's IE9 provides a browsing experience that even Chrome and Firefox users may find compelling. Read More Group push-to-talk comes to BlackBerry, Windows smartphones Smartphone users can almost instantly create push-to-talk groups for instant voice communications, no matter what cellular carrier they use, thanks to a new hosted service, Wave Connections, from Twisted Pair Solutions. Read More Add-on lets IE6 apps live forever I'll bet that many Microsoft customers noted the launch of Internet Explorer 9 wistfully, wishing they could have joined the party at SXSW but couldn't because they're still stuck in IE6. One company is offering to build a bridge for them so they can migrate with their IE6-engineered Web apps to the Windows 7 operating system and at least IE8, and soon IE9. Read More WHITE PAPER: Siemens Finding the Value in Unified Communications This paper examines the four stages of return companies can see from their UC investments: Lower communications costs are followed by lower operational costs, then better productivity, and finally a true competitive advantage. Read More Microsoft and Google collaborate to bring HTML5 video to IE9 Not long ago, Microsoft and Google were trading insults over HTML5 video. Microsoft was backing the H.264 video codec over Google's new WebM technology. The vendors are still sticking by their preferred codecs, but they've apparently made amends and are cooperating in bringing WebM to Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of what is still the world's most widely used Web browser. Read More Internet Explorer 9 speeds past competition Throw away what you think you know about Internet Explorer -- because the just-released IE9 will turn it all on its ear. Think IE is sluggish? Think again, because according to SunSpider tests, it rivals or beats the speed demons Chrome and Opera. Believe that IE sports a tired-looking interface? No longer --- it now has the same type of stripped-down look that Chrome originated, and that the latest version of Firefox uses as well. Read More MMS 2011 -- sold out! That's right, Microsoft's premier management conference is officially sold out. This hasn't happened for several years. Between the recession and the Icelandic volcano in 2010, attendance has lagged a bit recently. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More Oracle goes after Microsoft SQL Server with MySQL Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft's SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90% cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing performance on Windows. Read More Sunshine Week: Shining FOIA light on government secrecy Happy Sunshine Week -- a week devoted to "the public's right to know what its government is doing, and why." The best way to accomplish that is to shine a huge Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) light on the shady shroud of secrecy surrounding some government tactics and hold those officials accountable for their actions. Read More Microsoft adds customization to Visual Studio LightSwitch The second beta of the development tool geared toward nonprogrammers also features Windows Azure cloud integration. Read More LibreOffice gets free software stamp of approval in fight against Oracle and Microsoft Software rights activist Richard Stallman is backing LibreOffice in the quest to provide a free software alternative to Microsoft Office. Read More
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