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	Will the iPad increase your Microsoft licensing fees? Microsoft gives itself the wiggle room to come down on any Apple-using customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat The Economics of Scale-Out Storage Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solution. Learn More In this Issue Hackers exploit new IE zero-day vulnerability 5 free open source alternatives to Microsoft Office Google to drop support for IE8 on Nov. 15 Windows 8 Update: Ballmer redefines the PC Windows Phone 8 has 'baked-in cybersecurity goodness' What Office for RT lacks Microsoft takes down another botnet, Nitol Acme Packet announces offerings to accelerate Microsoft Lync deployments Intel reverses course, bringing Android to Clover Trail chips for tablets Windows Store opens worldwide with a modest stock of apps WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corporation) Optimize Your Storage Volume for Better Performance Managing a windows network? This brief discusses 5 technical proof-points clearly showing how the Windows Built-in Disk Defragmenter is not adequate for the enterprise. New innovations in Diskeeper® and V-locity® meet today's demands for optimal storage and system performance. Read Now! Hackers exploit new IE zero-day vulnerability Attackers are exploiting a "zero-day" vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and hijacking Windows PCs that cruise to malicious or compromised websites, security experts said today. Read More 5 free open source alternatives to Microsoft Office Small businesses don't always need Microsoft Office software for word processing, spreadsheets, email, database and publishing tools. We look at five free, open source alternatives to Microsoft Office. Read More Google to drop support for IE8 on Nov. 15 Google will drop support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) for its online apps and services in mid-November, effectively ending support for many users of Windows XP. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Applications Oracle Tuxedo is cost-effective, reliable, and extremely scalable (up to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second). Finally, Tuxedo protects mainframe investments through reuse of existing IT assets in modern service-oriented architecture while significantly reducing operational costs. Read More Today! Windows 8 Update: Ballmer redefines the PC Just as the world is coming to grips with the post-PC era the CEO of PC software behemoth Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, seems to be trying to prolong the age by redefining the iconic business machine to include tablets. Read More Windows Phone 8 has 'baked-in cybersecurity goodness' Now that Windows Phone 8 has officially gone gold, meaning the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) has been confirmed, it seems like a good time to mention that Microsoft's new smartphone has been stamped with "baked-in cybersecurity goodness" approval. Read More What Office for RT lacks Microsoft is bundling a subset of Office applications with its power-pinching Windows 8 on ARM devices known as Windows RT, but the apps don't do everything they can do on traditional PCs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Verizon Protect Your Data in the Cloud Security, in an environment that demands instant access, is a balance between risk and opportunity. Learn More Microsoft takes down another botnet, Nitol For the fifth time in three years Microsoft has stepped in to take down a botnet, this time malware called Nitol that was infecting new machines bought in China. Read More Acme Packet announces offerings to accelerate Microsoft Lync deployments Acme Packet has announced new offers intended to accelerate Microsoft Lync deployments for customers who want to take advantage of Lync's enterprise voice capabilities. The offers target customers who need combined Session Border Control (SBC), session management, and trunk-side application server functions. Read More Intel reverses course, bringing Android to Clover Trail chips for tablets Tablets running on Intel's upcoming Atom chip code-named Clover Trail could come with the Android OS, adding another OS option for the processor platform in addition to Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows 8 OS, Intel said on Monday. Read More Windows Store opens worldwide with a modest stock of apps Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its app store for Windows 8/RT, known as the Windows Store, is now open to all developers worldwide who wish to submit apps. The company is taking the wraps off now to begin the process of certifying applications so it has a bit more of a stock by the October 26 launch for Windows 8/RT. Read More
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