Microsoft Trustworthy Computing finally pays off in a big way

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	Microsoft Trustworthy Computing finally pays off in a big way Antimalware vendor Kaspersky has released its latest IT Threat Evolution report with some very interesting information. Some products are hotbeds of insecurities and vulnerabilities, but Microsoft products aren't among them. Java, Acrobat and iTunes are far worse. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee Blueprint to Secure Cloud-Based Communications Secure cloud-based communications with a risk-based approach that helps businesses to safely use web and email channels, protect against data leakage and intellectual property loss, and reduce support and audit costs. Download the technology blueprint now. Learn more. In this Issue 7 things we love/hate about Microsoft Office 2013 for Windows RT Microsoft Surface: Estimated cost shows priority for profits Developers praise Windows Phone 8 SDK, but virtualization and upgrades rankle Microsoft provides fusion center technology & funding for surveillance New tablets spark trade-in frenzy Windows 8 faces a slow road to the enterprise What's the price of a new Windows 8 zero-day vulnerability? Ballmer sees quick growth for Windows Phone Microsoft launches hosted ALM service 20 must-know Windows 8 tips and tricks Vupen claims 'remote code execution' on Windows 8 Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills 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! 7 things we love/hate about Microsoft Office 2013 for Windows RT Microsoft has released its new Surface tablet running the Windows RT operating system that has been designed specifically for mobile-device-friendly ARM processors. OEMs are expected to start shipping their own Windows RT-based tablets soon. These products come with a different version of Microsoft Office; one that's tailored to ARM-based devices. Here's how Office 2013 for Windows RT stacks up against the traditional Microsoft Office for x86/x64-based systems that we know and love. Read More Microsoft Surface: Estimated cost shows priority for profits At $500 and up, Microsoft's Surface isn't a dirt-cheap tablet, but an estimate of build costs shows that it could have been. Read More Developers praise Windows Phone 8 SDK, but virtualization and upgrades rankle Tools vendors like greater capabilities SDK brings to smartphone apps, even if new PCs are needed to test code. Read More Microsoft provides fusion center technology & funding for surveillance The ACLU's Privacy SOS presented a great article about why "it's time to pull the plug on fusion centers!" While it's well-known that Microsoft has a great and long-standing relationship with government, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies, Privacy SOS pointed out the interesting tidbit that Microsoft helps pay for fusions centers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec The CIO's Guide to Building an MDM Strategy The incredible success of mobile communications is plain to see. Anywhere you go people are on mobile devices. This trend has helped drive the evolution of the enterprise computing platform from fixed PCs to mobile devices. Read Now! New tablets spark trade-in frenzy Consumers are trading in their iPads and other tablets at an "unprecedented rate" to buy the newest offerings from Apple, Google and Microsoft, according to SellCell, an electronics trade-in website. Read More Windows 8 faces a slow road to the enterprise Having finally launched its next-generation operating system, Windows 8, Microsoft now faces what may be its most daunting marketing challenge ever. Read More What's the price of a new Windows 8 zero-day vulnerability? It's not exactly the type of advertisement most people would understand. Read More Ballmer sees quick growth for Windows Phone Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Windows Phone will grow quickly in the global smartphone market. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Modernize Backup to Accelerate the Journey to Virtualization Backup and recovery processes can be modernized simultaneously with a company's journey to virtualization. In this paper, IDC examines the solutions and explains how they speed the benefits of virtualization while modernizing the backup and recovery process. Learn more. Microsoft launches hosted ALM service After a year in beta, Microsoft has launched its Team Foundation Service, a hosted version of its application lifecycle management (ALM) software. Its usage, for the time being, has been limited to five or fewer users, however. Read More 20 must-know Windows 8 tips and tricks Windows 8 is rife with features and behaviors that conspire to perplex even the most experienced PC users. Not all of them are bad, per se, but few of them are immediately intuitive. Making matters worse, the OS was primarily designed for touch control, and as a result, many mouse and keyboard commands feel like tacked-on afterthoughts. Read More Vupen claims 'remote code execution' on Windows 8 Reminds the industry that Windows is unlikely to ever be bulletproof, says one security expert. Read More Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows "reimagined," and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the operating system's use across a range of touchscreen devices, Microsoft radically redesigned the look and feel of the OS. Read More
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