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	Microsoft has sold 1.5 million Surface tablets since launch Getting into the tablet game late, Microsoft new they were facing an uphill battle. They knew they had to come to the market with something just a little bit different than the iPad and an assortment of Android-based tablets. The result? The Microsoft Surface tablet. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology ADCs and APM Solutions Will Combine to Optimize Delivery As applications are consumed with different types of devices and via different types of connectivity the monitoring of end-user experiences is critical to gauging the satisfaction of the delivery of the application to the user. Read Report Now In this Issue Security blogger's latest whodunit comes with a twist Inside Office 365 Home Premium End is in sight for free Microsoft Office 2013 Preview Samsung torpedoing Windows Phone? Preposterous. Microsoft: Botched firmware update set off Outlook.com outage How to downgrade from Windows 8 (Hint: the first step is to know your rights) Microsoft to sunset Windows Phone 8 support in July 2014 Security pros pan and praise Microsoft's plans on updating Modern apps in Windows 8, RT Startup brings digital rights mgmt. to iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone Microsoft starts auto-installing Windows 7 SP1 on consumer PCs Tuesday WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel On the Fast Track to Data The ongoing data explosion puts organizations in a unique situation. Not only do they operate in a world where information is power, the number of sources and volume of relevant data continues to multiply at unprecedented levels. Read Now! Security blogger's latest whodunit comes with a twist Security blogger Brian Krebs is used to helping journalists explain the latest hack attack, and there have been plenty lately affecting the likes of Evernote, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. He isn't used to being the story himself. Read More Inside Office 365 Home Premium Office 365 Home Premium includes all essential Office 2013 applications, making it more complete, and often better value, compared to purchasing the low-end Office suite bundles. After all, Home Premium costs $99.99 a year and can be deployed on up to five machines. Read More End is in sight for free Microsoft Office 2013 Preview The party will soon be over for anyone enjoying the free Office 365/Office 2013 Preview, and Microsoft is getting serious about convincing people to buy or subscribe to the new productivity suite before the trial ends. Read More WEBCAST: Meraki How MIT faced the challenges of campus wireless After struggling to support a flood of mobile devices in a complex physical structure, MIT used Meraki to increase wireless coverage and reliability while maintaining the same rigorous security policies in place on the wired network. Read Now! Samsung torpedoing Windows Phone? Preposterous. I try to give analysts the benefit of the doubt and assume that they know what they are talking about, but every now and then I get a report that's pure entertainment. A report by analyst Jeff Johnston of Detwiler Fenton definitely falls into that category. Read More Microsoft: Botched firmware update set off Outlook.com outage The Outlook.com partial outage lasting 16 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday morning was caused by a firmware update gone awry that triggered a temperature spike in a Microsoft data center, resulting in automatic safeguards that made a large number of servers inaccessible. Read More How to downgrade from Windows 8 (Hint: the first step is to know your rights) For a variety of reasons, some businesses are looking to downgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 7. The good news is that Microsoft's business licenses come with downgrade rights, but the catch is that the rules can be tricky and compliance could become an issue. Here are some clarifications on your rights when downgrading from Windows 8 or standardizing on noncurrent Microsoft software. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps Enabling Efficient Data Center Monitoring Enabling Efficient Data Center Monitoring -- How IT Organizations See the Big Picture of Their Infrastructure Using AccelOps' Unified SIEM, Performance and Availability Monitoring Software. Read Now Microsoft to sunset Windows Phone 8 support in July 2014 Microsoft's support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 will end in the second half of 2014, according to the software maker. Read More Security pros pan and praise Microsoft's plans on updating Modern apps in Windows 8, RT Microsoft will issue security fixes for its Windows Store apps on the fly, not just on the familiar monthly Patch Tuesday, the company said this week. Read More Startup brings digital rights mgmt. to iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone Startup Watchful Software says it's reviving the technology known as digital rights management (DRM) by expanding it beyond traditional platforms like Microsoft Windows PCs and bringing it to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone. Read More Microsoft starts auto-installing Windows 7 SP1 on consumer PCs Tuesday Microsoft will start automatically pushing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to customers on Tuesday as a last-ditch move before it drops the original 2009 edition of Windows 7 from support next month. Read More
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