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	Sinofsky finally speaks on Windows 8 Some Microsoft bosses like to develop out in the open, letting us follow almost every move (IE team, anyone?). Then there's Steve Sinofsky, former head of the Office team and now leading up Windows. In addition to his penchant for dressing like Steve Jobs, he tends to operate as secretively as Jobs as well. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Managing Cloud Services from Request to Retirement This lifecycle is tailored to the needs of the business, with both the flexibility to deliver the full required software stacks and the management rigor to ensure the operational integrity of the cloud. Read More Today! In this Issue Why Microsoft won't buy hardware to compete with Googorola Microsoft's Office 365, SkyDrive down for some users World gone mad: Microsoft security praised again? MS researchers embracing GIMP? Red Hat RHEV freed from Windows fetters Whatever happened to Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection? 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Read now Why Microsoft won't buy hardware to compete with Googorola Chances are Microsoft will not retaliate against Google's 12.5 billion purchase of Motorola by acquiring a phone maker of its own, say industry analysts, mainly because of the company's rich history developing and licensing software and building an ecosystem of hardware partners. Read More Microsoft's Office 365, SkyDrive down for some users Microsoft's Office 365 and SkyDrive were hit by outages on Wednesday, with some customers saying they lost access to e-mail and other services for up to four hours. Read More World gone mad: Microsoft security praised again? MS researchers embracing GIMP? If you aren't sitting, you might do so, since hackers are praising Microsoft security, Kapersky Labs likes Microsoft's security, and now IE9 has been crowned with offering the best protection against drive-by-downloads. If that didn't shock you, how about Microsoft Research using the open-source graphic editor Gimp to build a prototype for tracking changes to binary files like images in a revision control system? Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Case study: Getting started with desktop virtualization The promise of virtualized desktops is widely recognized and desktop virtualization is topping most IT departments' priority lists. But while the "why" of desktop virtualization is clear, it's the "how" that is most challenging. Follow one customer's journey to a more agile and secure business environment. Learn more.>> Red Hat RHEV freed from Windows fetters With the next release of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) package, Red Hat has finally rid itself of one of its most notorious dependencies, namely the use of Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server. Read More Whatever happened to Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection? Back in 2007, Microsoft shook the security world when it entered the endpoint security market with what was then called Forefront Client Security (now Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection). Forefront was positioned as the endpoint security market for the commercial market while its sister product, OneCare, was aimed at the consumer market. This created a market fire storm, especially at companies like McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro that depended on PC security for the bulk of their 2007 revenue. Read More Google's Motorola buy may offer boost to Microsoft With most acquisitions, there are winners and losers. Google's buy of Motorola is no different, but in this case, neither of those companies comes out a winner, analysts say. " Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Importance of Permanent Link Testing This white paper is the joint effort of 2 industry leaders of high speed infrastructure cabling and testing, Panduit and Fluke Networks. This technical paper provides a thorough analysis and review of different testing techniques and their associated benefits for high speed permanent links. Learn More Today! Chrome improves anti-malware blocking score by 340% Google's Chrome blocked four times more malicious sites and malware than a year ago, but Firefox 4 was much less effective at warning users of danger than Mozilla's browser last year, according to a report from NSS Labs. Read More On Linux's 20th anniversary, recounting past slights from Microsoft On the 20th anniversary of Linux. the free operating system's biggest proponents threw a party to celebrate its success and scoff at attacks launched by Microsoft, its biggest rival. Read More Software pirate gets two years in prison for selling counterfeit Microsoft, Adobe, Intuit and Symantec software The US Department of Justice this week said a woman was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $441,035 in restitution for selling more than $400,000 worth of counterfeit software. Read More Dell expects Windows 8, Android to boost tablet market Dell expects both Windows 8 and Android to be credible options for tablet customers next year, and indicated it plans to offer products built around the two operating systems. Read More
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