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	Microsoft security patches include fixes for Word, Office, Windows Microsoft has fixed 23 vulnerabilities in its software products, including several considered critical, the company said on Tuesday in its monthly security patch report. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed Optimizing your web page loading time is essential for retaining your website visitors. Download Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed to learn how front-end optimization can improve Time to Action for your web and mobile content, and how it can be done in front of your existing CDN with minimal integration required. Learn More! In this Issue Is Azure a dirty word because it means cloud? 25 geeky gifts for Mother's Day Windows 8 privacy worry overblown, says Microsoft analyst Android Trojan copies PC drive-by malware attack Microsoft pledges to be carbon neutral from July Can Google Apps unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? 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So, for example, Windows Azure Storage will appear simply as Storage on the bills, according to a ZDNet story about the change. Read More 25 geeky gifts for Mother's Day Just in time for Mother's Day shopping, check out 25 science- and tech-inspired gift ideas, including Morse Code jewelry, a touchscreen watch and customized maps. Read More Windows 8 privacy worry overblown, says Microsoft analyst It sounds like a privacy hole big enough for a truckload of your personal information to be leaked to the world, but experts say a recently disclosed Windows 8 privacy issue is really a non-issue. Read More Android Trojan copies PC drive-by malware attack Researchers have noticed one of the first examples of Android "drive-by" malware from an ordinary website, a dangerous type of automatic attack more commonly used to infect Windows PCs. 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Read More Microsoft revamps chkdsk tool in Windows 8 to minimize downtime In a recent post on the Building Windows 8 Blog, Kiran Bangalore discusses a new NTFS health model and redesigned chkdsk (check disk) tool coming with Windows 8 that can detect and fix data corruption issues much more quickly than Windows 7, and presumably older versions of Windows. Read More Security of industrial control systems questioned at DHS conference Operators of America's vital power, water and manufacturing facilities use industrial control systems (ICS) to manage them, and the security of these systems, increasingly linked with Microsoft Windows and the Internet, is now under intense scrutiny because of growing awareness that they could be attacked and cause massive disruptions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Migrating Your Legacy IBM Database Environment Download this guide to ensure a seamless migration and take advantage of reduced costs associated with extremely efficient day-to-day database administration. Learn More! Microsoft pitches SkyDrive over iCloud to Mac Office users Microsoft is pitching its SkyDrive online storage service to Office for Mac users, calling Apple's iCloud offering "not enough" for collaboration, file sharing and anywhere-access to documents. Read More Lenovo to add New Windows 8 tablet-laptop hybrids to its ThinkPad line Lenovo plans to add business-friendly Windows 8 hybrid laptops to its ThinkPad line that will be similar to the convertible, flippable IdeaPad Yoga. Read More Microsoft opens two more stores, one right in Apple's backyard Over the last couple of weeks, Microsoft opened a pair of new Microsoft Stores, one in Palo Alto, California and the other in Austin, Texas. Although the official announcement of the grand openings was just posted to the company website today, the stores have been open to the public since mid-to-late April. Read More Epicor moving its applications to Microsoft's Azure cloud Epicor is planning to work with Microsoft to bring Epicor's ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications to the Azure cloud service, the companies announced Tuesday during Epicor's Insights conference in Las Vegas. Read More
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