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	How big is Microsoft gambling with Windows 8? Analysts parsing what Microsoft revealed of Windows 8 this week are split on how big the company is gambling with its operating system cash cow. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Avaya Virtual Services Platform 9000 A high performance modular routing switch for core deployments. Core network infrastructure needs to be able to handle increased load without packet loss, while providing quick recovery times in case of a component failure. Learn More In this Issue Microsoft pursues botnet herders via Russian newspapers The 7 worst tech merger ideas ever Windows forecast shows XP's one-of-a-kind dominance HP, Microsoft take joint aim at Oracle Free antivirus programs rise in popularity, new survey shows The top hidden features in Windows 8 Microsoft upgrades Bing webmaster tools Study shows need for infrastructure plus application performance views Scrollbars missing on iPad 2 in SharePoint (problem solved!) WHITE PAPER: Avaya Video Collaboration: Lights, Camera, User Adoption Video deployment has been slow. Today, barriers are dissolving. Price points are dropping. CIOs are more engaged in driving the business forward with process and technology. Learn More Microsoft pursues botnet herders via Russian newspapers Microsoft has placed quarter-page notifications in two Russian newspapers, a legal formality required as part of its ongoing lawsuit in the U.S. against operators of Rustock, a defunct botnet used to send prolific amounts of pharmaceutical spam. Read More The 7 worst tech merger ideas ever These unlucky seven mergers – involving everyone from Apple to Microsoft to Google -- will hopefully never see the light of day. Read More Windows forecast shows XP's one-of-a-kind dominance Windows 7's market share is expected to pass XP in the third quarter 2012, just when Windows 8 is expected to arrive. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Independent Lab Comparative Review MierConsulting engineers conducted an hands-on, comparative review of three leading contact center packages, focusing on these products' multimedia, mixed voice and text-based contacts - capabilities. Read Now HP, Microsoft take joint aim at Oracle Hewlett-Packard says that its customers run more Oracle databases and applications on HP hardware than any other vendor out there. But if you are at HP's big user conference this week and interested in talking to Oracle, you wont find the company listed as an exhibitor on the expo floor. Read More Free antivirus programs rise in popularity, new survey shows Free antivirus programs such as Microsoft's Security Essentials (MSE) have now supplanted more complex paid software as the antimalware defense of choice for millions of consumers, figures from certification company OPSWAT have suggested. Read More The top hidden features in Windows 8 Windows 8 is coming in 2012; here's an early look at some major new features and areas of improvement. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Networks in Motion Download this whitepaper today and discover how you can cost-effectively optimize your network for the mobile demands of today's business. Examine how IT can provide: * Personalization and intelligence. * Ease of operation. * Seamless quality of user experience. * Secure on-the-go access to public and private networks. Read now! Microsoft upgrades Bing webmaster tools Microsoft has improved the tools it provides for webmasters to track their sites' visibility on Bing search engine results, so that they can make any necessary adjustments to improve how Bing crawls their content and ranks their pages. Read More Study shows need for infrastructure plus application performance views Many enterprises zero in on watching either infrastructure or application performance. Based on results from NetForecast's latest application performance management benchmarking survey, we can unequivocally say that those with a "stereoscopic" view of infrastructure as well as application performance achieve dramatically better results than those with a "monoscopic" view of just one or the other. Read More Scrollbars missing on iPad 2 in SharePoint (problem solved!) I was just asked how one can scroll around on a Webpage in SharePoint using an Apple iPad 2? The problem is that when you go to a SharePoint site that is optimized for a screen size greater than what the iPad screen provides, or if the document library or whatever is just long and you want to "scroll down" to the rest of the content in the library (or list), Safari on the iPad doesn't give you the scrollbars on the side of the screen to scroll around. Read More
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