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	IBM wins most patents; Microsoft only other U.S. company in top 10 IBM retained its patent crown for 2011, topping the list of U.S. patent winners for the 19th year in a row. The only other U.S. company to make the top 10, Microsoft fell from third place to sixth place, according to data from IFI Claims Patent Services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Definitive Guide to Telework Ready to deploy telework in your organization? Follow the recommendations in this guide to ensure success. Read: • Overcoming the cost and complexity barriers to telework adoption • Network options and considerations • Top 10 requirements for a productive telework environment Read now! In this Issue Attack code published for serious ASP.NET DoS vulnerability Media Player, security bypass are focus of Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2012 Windows ultrabooks: What's Apple response? For Microsoft's last CES keynote, Ballmer hawks Windows 8, Kinect Reality bites Microsoft's earnings as well Microsoft sues Chinese electronics firms for software piracy Microsoft investigates worker protest at Foxconn factory in China Microsoft's Steve Ballmer talks Windows 8 Public attack code aimed at Windows Web servers works, says Symantec WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Top 2 Virtualization Challenges Virtualized data centers must become more highly available to ensure timely access to data. This paper examines the trends toward server consolidation and how WAN optimization technology can address application performance and information availability issues. Read now! Attack code published for serious ASP.NET DoS vulnerability Exploit code for a recently patched denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability that affects Microsoft's ASP.NET Web development platform has been published online, therefore increasing the risk of potential attacks. Read More Media Player, security bypass are focus of Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2012 Seven bulletins, one deemed critical, and a handful of new Microsoft security issues all arrived today as part of Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2012. Read More Windows ultrabooks: What's Apple response? With a glut of 'ultrabook' announcements slated at this week's CES, Apple watchers have one question: How will the Cupertino, Calif. company respond? Read More WHITE PAPER: Serena Software How To Transform IT with Process-Based ITSM IT organizations are looking for means to transform themselves into true service providers to the business. Forrester Research Principal Analyst Eveline Oehrlich discusses how a process-based approach to IT Service Management (ITSM) can help. Learn More For Microsoft's last CES keynote, Ballmer hawks Windows 8, Kinect Microsoft's motion-sensing Kinect technology will be available for Windows PCs in a few weeks and is destined for a lot more than just gaming, CEO Steve Ballmer said at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. Read More Reality bites Microsoft's earnings as well Microsoft on Tuesday admitted that fourth quarter earnings would take a hit due to a drop in PC sales as a result of the massive floods in Thailand. How these are all connected shows that the term "supply chain" isn't just a saying. Read More Microsoft sues Chinese electronics firms for software piracy Microsoft has filed lawsuits against two Chinese electronics retail chains for allegedly allowing computers installed with pirated Windows and Office products to be sold at their stores. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! Microsoft investigates worker protest at Foxconn factory in China Microsoft investigated a workers protest at its contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group, and found that the dispute in Wuhan, China had nothing to do with working conditions, and was related to staffing assignments and transfer policies, the company said Thursday. Read More Microsoft's Steve Ballmer talks Windows 8 Microsoft's keynote speech at CES 2012 may have been the company's last at the annual trade show, but CEO Steve Ballmer didn't make too much of the parting of ways. Microsoft has more often than not announced key products at their own shows in the fall rather than at CES. Still, Ballmer's keynote showed off a lot of the heavy-hitting items that Microsoft will depend on in the coming year, and that you'll look to buy. On the top of that list is the company's next major update to Windows. Read More Public attack code aimed at Windows Web servers works, says Symantec Researchers at Symantec confirmed that working attack code published Jan. 6 can cripple Web servers running Microsoft's ASP .Net. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS CES 2012 ultrabooks and tablets Ultrabooks! Ultrabooks! That's the official biggest buzzword for this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ultrabooks! In honor of these purportedly magical super-thin laptops, we've decided to make a compilation of some of the ultrabooks you'll see at CES next week. And for good measure, we've thrown in a tablet that will garner a lot of attention as well. Enjoy! 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 CES: Gigabit Wi-Fi takes center stage IPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 31 5 reasons Linux Mint is better than Ubuntu Cisco cranks up Internet TV volume at CES 4 sweet smartphones from CES 2012 The skinniest, thinnest, most emaciated products of CES 2012 Cisco gains SAN share as Brocade looks for buyer Father's attempt at parental control resulted in hacked German police system Will Microsoft's WiFi-NC set new network standard? Financial services firms try to scrimp on IT pay
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