Microsoft sets Office 15 public beta for summer 2012

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	Microsoft sets Office 15 public beta for summer 2012 Microsoft announced it has kicked off a "technical preview" of the next version of its money-making Office suite and promised a public beta will ship this summer. Read More WEBCAST: HP, Microsoft & Intel Appliance video The first appliance in the industry which consolidates and manages thousands of databases, integrates hardware, software and support and is scalable to meet your changing business needs. Learn more In this Issue Dying Jobs kept letter from Gates at his bedside DMARC anti-phishing effort raises question about typo scammers Accused Kelihos botmaster proclaims innocence Microsoft Kinect motion-sensing technology coming to laptops, sources say Microsoft Windows Phone 7 app fights malaria Microsoft Imagine Cup grants awarded to four teams from around the globe Apple breaks Microsoft's 'lock' on enterprise workers, argues analyst Microsoft partner: Office 365 app dev model to change, expand Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerability in Windows Media Player WHITE PAPER: VMware & NetApp Building Savings with Storage Efficiency Read this success story to find out how ISG Technology, Inc., NetApp and VMware provided DCI with streamlined data protection, even higher levels of business continuity and the elasticity to support innovation and new ITaaS business opportunities. Learn More! Dying Jobs kept letter from Gates at his bedside Shortly before Steve Jobs died in October, he received a letter from longtime business adversary Bill Gates that moved him so much that he kept it by his bedside, according to the Apple founder's widow, as relayed by Gates to a British interviewer. Read More DMARC anti-phishing effort raises question about typo scammers There's essentially nothing but goodness in this latest anti-phishing effort -- called DMARC -- by the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Paypal and Bank of America. The idea is to increase public confidence in email received from household-name domains and others by preventing spoofed email from reaching customers at all. Read More Accused Kelihos botmaster proclaims innocence Andrey Sabelnikov, the Russian programmer accused by Microsoft of creating and operating the Kelihos spam botnet said he's innocent. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Case Study – Constangy Learn how to consolidate and virtualize many different servers, and eliminate the expense and difficulty of remotely managing the hardware and software. Read now! Microsoft Kinect motion-sensing technology coming to laptops, sources say Microsoft is working on implanting its Kinect technology into laptops, so you may soon be able to control programs with the wave of your hand. Read More Microsoft Windows Phone 7 app fights malaria Microsoft has awarded an Imagine Cup Grant to a team that developed a custom Windows Phone 7 and application that can diagnose malaria then upload the data to cloud servers that map the data to help track outbreaks. Read More Microsoft Imagine Cup grants awarded to four teams from around the globe When discussing Microsoft, we tend to focus on new product developments, financials, or forward-looking company strategies, but an entity with the size and influence of Microsoft tends to have a much farther reach than just consumable goods. Microsoft's Imagine Cup is a perfect example. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Best Practices for Implementing 2048-bit SSL Ready for 2048-bit SSL? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x faster 2048-bit SSL performance. Download the Citrix and Verisign 2048-bit Performance Kit. Learn More Apple breaks Microsoft's 'lock' on enterprise workers, argues analyst The iPhone may have opened the door for Apple in the enterprise, but it was the one-two punch of the iPad and revamped MacBook Air in 2010 that really did the trick, an analyst said today. Read More Microsoft partner: Office 365 app dev model to change, expand External developers will be able to build much more sophisticated applications and tools for Office 365 once Microsoft releases the next upgrade of that cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite, according to a Microsoft partner. Read More Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing. Read More Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerability in Windows Media Player Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have come across a Web-based attack that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows Media Player. Read More
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