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	Microsoft alum: Windows 8 "a much deadlier assault weapon" than Windows 7 Windows 8 is just what Microsoft needs to take advantage of the ongoing irreversible shift from PCs to handheld devices including iPads, iPhones and other form factors yet to be designed, according to the company's former OEM chief. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Storage for the Next Era of IT This paper discusses these dynamics and explains how you can leverage technology to better capitalize on information in the context of your business. Read Now! In this Issue Cybercriminals show Skype more love as Microsoft warms to it Is Microsoft Dead Man Walking? Report: Microsoft could lay out $3B to help Dell go private How a big financial services firm faced BYOD iPads Microsoft Office Web Apps v. Google Docs Windows Phone 7.8 update expected this month Microsoft's Azure-based video streaming service goes live Google's earning call offers 5 hints on the future NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V Microsoft to ship Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet on Feb. 9 WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Adopt SDNs without Losing Network Control Riverbed Technology and VMware have joined forces to help address these problems and make it easy to deploy and manage VXLAN overlay networks in highly virtualized data centers. Learn more. Cybercriminals show Skype more love as Microsoft warms to it As Skype becomes a vital piece within Microsoft software, the amount of malware targeted at the Internet telephony platform will surely rise, opening up new avenues for infecting corporate PCs. Read More Is Microsoft Dead Man Walking? An article by Adam Hartung in Forbes paints a pretty bleak picture for Microsoft. Basically Hartung looks at the past quarter and holiday season to conclude that Windows 8 has been a dismal failure, the Microsoft Surface accounted for only something like 5% of tablet sales, and PC sales continue to decline. Read More Report: Microsoft could lay out $3B to help Dell go private Microsoft may be planning to invest between $1 billion and $3 billion as part of a leveraged buyout of Dell, according to a report from CNBC. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Aberdeen TCO Benchmarking Study on Unified Communications Total cost of ownership is a key metric for assessing costs, benefits and risks of a Unified Communications solution. Aberdeen Research analyzed the TCO associated with IP and legacy telephony systems in 236 different corporate environments. Download this research report to learn the findings. Learn more. How a big financial services firm faced BYOD iPads With BYOD iPad security under control, financial services firm Blackstone looks toward tough challenges ahead, including the possibility of company-owned iPads and opening up its BYOD program to Android and Windows 8 devices. Read More Microsoft Office Web Apps v. Google Docs 5 reasons why Google Docs is better/5 reasons why Web Apps is better. Read More Windows Phone 7.8 update expected this month Microsoft has released the software development kit for Windows Phone 7.8, and the company is expected to roll out the update to users at the end of January. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies CA APM and CA APM Cloud Monitor CA Technologies Application Performance Management (CA APM) provides advanced application and infrastructure monitoring to ensure optimal business service performance. Watch this flash demo to see how CA APM enables IT operations and line of business owners to reduce revenue risks and keep customers loyal. Learn More Microsoft's Azure-based video streaming service goes live Microsoft continues to expand its cloud offerings with the general availability of Windows Azure Media Services, which lets enterprises skip building their own infrastructure for streaming on-demand video. Read More Google's earning call offers 5 hints on the future The quarterly corporate earnings period has rolled around, and it's time once again to listen in on analysts' calls with companies such as Apple, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Samsung for clues about the future of some of the world's tech giants. Read More NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V NEC this week unveiled a virtual switch for Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hypervisor which is designed to bring OpenFlow-based software-defined networking and network virtualization to those Microsoft environments. Read More Microsoft to ship Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet on Feb. 9 Microsoft will ship the Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet with an Intel Core i5 processor on Feb. 9, with prices starting at US$899. Read More
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