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	First Windows "Mango" phone unveiled The first smartphone based on the new "Mango" edition of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform was unveiled on Wednesday in Tokyo. 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! In this Issue Microsoft's gamble: Metro UI as the new face of Windows Microsoft extends SUSE Linux partnership Top tech industry news stories of 2011 -- so far Do Android and Windows really have 35% of the tablet market? Cisco rival Juniper lands Microsoft's Muglia 'IPv6 brokenness' problem appears fixed PC market downshifting, says Gartner Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion The new IT guys Mango ripens, gets sent to manufacturers WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Economics of Cooperative Control: Protocols are Free Inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. Aerohive's Cooperative Control controller-less WLAN architecture delivers an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease. This paper explores the expansive economic benefits of Aerohive's unique approach. Read now! Microsoft's gamble: Metro UI as the new face of Windows The tile-based Metro user interface that runs on Windows Phones will soon be the look and feel of all devices in Microsoft's ecosystem. Is this smart streamlining or a foolish consistency? Read More Microsoft extends SUSE Linux partnership Extending a partnership established in 2006, Microsoft has renewed a working agreement to resell SUSE Linux and help develop new Windows interoperability tools for the OS. Read More Top tech industry news stories of 2011 -- so far Apple, AT&T, Microsoft, Google and others are givens for being among the top newsmakers of 2011. Others will no doubt surprise us as we go along. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Protecting Exchange in a Virtual Environment Get best practices to help maximize messaging system availability and minimize disaster recovery time. Ensure your company has a well-documented disaster recovery plan in place. Read now. Do Android and Windows really have 35% of the tablet market? A new report seems to show Android and Windows making headway in the battle to topple Apple's iPad at the top of the tablet market. Read More Cisco rival Juniper lands Microsoft's Muglia It was a cleaner software foundation that attracted former Microsoft executive Bob Muglia to Cisco rival Juniper Networks. That, and the fact that he was familiar with many executives at Juniper from his days at Microsoft. Read More 'IPv6 brokenness' problem appears fixed The Internet's biggest content providers -- including Yahoo, Facebook and Google -- are reporting a significant decline in their measurements of "IPv6 brokenness," a term that describes end users with misconfigured systems that can't access websites supporting the next-generation Internet protocol called IPv6. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC One Size Does Not Fit All: The Case for the Custom Cloud When it comes to cloud services, "semi-custom" goes a long way. "The Case for the Custom Cloud," shows you how users can configure their own customized cloud services from choices you dictate – and how you can deliver the resulting cloud services quickly and affordably. Read More Today! PC market downshifting, says Gartner After a several years of strong growth, the PC market is downshifting to a slower, but hopefully steady, growth path, according to Gartner analysts. Read More Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion Microsoft last week confirmed that customers running Office for Mac will experience problems with the suite on Apple's new Lion operating system. Read More The new IT guys Here I am on the tail-end of my first large company talk ever. Sure, I've addressed business units, small groups, etc in meetings, but never before have I ever been called on to give a presentation to 100+ people in a company. And this brings up something I've been meaning to talk about for quite some time. The new age IT guy vs the old age IT guy. Read More Mango ripens, gets sent to manufacturers Microsoft on Tuesday announced it had shipped Mango, the codename for the next version of Windows Phone 7, to manufacturers to begin optimizing it for their specific phone and network. Translation: it's done. Cooked. Finished. Until the next rev, of course. Read More
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