5 smart and 5 dumb moves Microsoft made in 2011

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	Microsoft: 5 smart and 5 dumb moves the company made in 2011 Love it or hate it, Microsoft is a company that brings out strong emotions in just about every IT professional. With 2011 about to end, it is time for our picks of some of smartest moves this powerful software company made this year - and some of the moves we'd say were not so bright. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Eliminate Architectural Limitations of WLANs Reduce the cost and complexity of wireless networks with cloud-enabled, distributed Wi-Fi and routing. By removing the architectural limitations of traditional WLANs, you can support identity-based access and enable delivery of mission-critical applications and services to any user, on any device, at any time without a single point of failure. Read now! In this Issue Microsoft releases first Office app for iPad What's next with hypervisors? School shuns Apple servers for Windows Silverlight makes its last stand (maybe) Microsoft Azure hosts Hadoop, other open-source apps Microsoft, GE forming healthcare joint venture Microsoft, HP unveil joint cloud offering Microsoft gets into the premium online support business Google, Microsoft teams work to keep pace with privacy laws Microsoft ships Silverlight 5 Microsoft: We can remotely delete Windows 8 apps WEBCAST: Riverbed Analyze Multi-Terabyte Network Traffic Recordings See Cascade Shark in action. This Webcast demonstrates how the only network analysis software fully integrated with Wireshark, the world's most popular network protocol analyzer, is capable of sustained, multi-gigabit per second recording of network traffic without packet drops. See how easy this powerful tool is to use. Learn more! Microsoft releases first Office app for iPad Microsoft released an update to its OneNote application for iOS that it says has been tweaked for the iPad. Read More What's next with hypervisors? The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly. To get a handle on recent developments, Network World Editor in Chief John Dix corralled a panel of experts to assess where we are today and where we're going. The experts included Al Gillen, an analyst IDC who tracks virtualization developments, Kerry Kim, director of solutions marketing at SUSE, and Adam Jollans, program director of IBM's Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy. Read More School shuns Apple servers for Windows For a self-described "Mac person" working as a technology manager in a college preparatory school that had been a "Mac school" for as long as he could remember, it was a hard thing to have to face but he said it out loud: "Apple never took enterprise computing seriously," says a somewhat disillusioned Adam Gerson, co-director of technology at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Bloor Report: Sybase® IQ 15.3 In Detail Sybase® IQ is well positioned to compete with traditional and appliance vendors. While it has different advantages in dif¬ferent environments, it merits careful review by organisations investigating data warehousing, high-speed analytics and business intelligence options. Read now. Silverlight makes its last stand (maybe) With so much concern that Microsoft is going to axe Silverlight, its graphical library meant as a competitor to Flash, you'd think the company would want to make a definitive statement of support to show its commitment. So what should we read to them releasing it on a Microsoft blog with minimal fanfare? Read More Microsoft Azure hosts Hadoop, other open-source apps Making good on an announcement made earlier this year, Microsoft has installed a version of Apache Hadoop on its Azure cloud service. The company now offers a limited preview version of the open-source data analysis platform, often used for big data-style analysis. Read More Microsoft, GE forming healthcare joint venture Microsoft and General Electric's healthcare IT business are setting up a 50:50 joint venture to develop and market an open, interoperable technology platform and clinical applications for enabling better population health management. 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! Microsoft, HP unveil joint cloud offering Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, hardly strangers to joint product efforts, are now teaming up to sell cloud services. Read More Microsoft gets into the premium online support business Microsoft has stealthily launched a new premium tech help service called AnswerDesk.com with no hype or fanfare, an odd move given the potential for such a service. Read More Google, Microsoft teams work to keep pace with privacy laws Executives from Microsoft and Google gave a glimpse into the size of their privacy organizations, which are required for the companies to try to avoid running foul of complicated U.S. privacy regulations and prepare for changes coming to privacy laws around the globe. Read More Microsoft ships Silverlight 5 But the company's long-term commitment to its proprietary rich Internet plug-in platform remains in question. Read More Microsoft: We can remotely delete Windows 8 apps Microsoft will be able to throw a "kill switch" to disable or even remove an app from users' Windows 8 devices, the company revealed in documentation for its upcoming Windows Store. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 8 Free Wi-Fi security tools Here are several free programs you can use to do Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying on all the popular platforms - Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. You'll be able see all the nearby wireless access points (APs) and their details, including channels, signal levels, and MAC address. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES 8 free Wi-Fi security tools Surveillance industry objects to spying secrets & mass monitoring leaks Microsoft: 5 smart, 5 dumb moves the company made in 2011 Usenix: Google deploys IPv6 for internal networks The tech jobs hiring boom is real -- for these skills Security roundup What's really going on with Carrier IQ on your phone Private investment firm buys Blue Coat for $1.3 billion 10 most powerful cloud companies Cisco storms back in switching
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