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	Windows 8: How to solve the Start Button dilemma The top complaint about Windows 8 is that Microsoft got rid of the Start Menu and even the Start Button, and innovators have stepped in to provide a wealth of ways to restore it. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Forrester - Turn Big Data Inward With IT Analytics Big data promises to manage your complex business to make better decisions. But the technology services that run your business are also complex. This Forrester report helps leaders prepare for IT analytics that turn big data efforts inward to manage the technology services that run your business. Register now to get the full report. 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Microsoft fixes Hotmail, Outlook.com glitches that caused outage Microsoft has fixed a problem that caused an outage for many users of Hotmail and the service that is replacing it, Outlook.com. Maintenance work continued to affect the calendaring component of Hotmail, however. Read More Twitter for Windows 8 released Twitter has released an app for Windows 8, with several features designed specifically for the new operating system from Microsoft. Read More Microsoft patch stops attackers from owning PC via USB flash drive hack Yesterday Microsoft issued seven updates, four of them critical, to address 20 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, SharePoint (Server Tools) and Silverlight. MS13-021 resolves nine issues in Internet Explorer. "The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Solution Brief Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option. Read now. Microsoft to roll out Windows Store app patches quickly Microsoft will release security updates for applications in its Windows Store as those patches are available in order to speed up the updating process. Read More Apple's Steve Jobs: Stanford commencement speech transcript I'm on the hunt for 2013's techiest college commencement address speakers, with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak being among the first to show up on my radar. Melinda Gates and Alex Kipman, both with Microsoft backgrounds, are two others on the list this year (here's what Bill Gates had to say at Harvard back in 2007). Are you aware of others? Read More Microsoft's TEALS program: Facilitating computer science education, coding at a younger age A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a video posted to YouTube by the Microsoft Citizenship group titled "Woolly worms to worlds of opportunities: Jeremy's story." The video tells a story of a high school student from Beaytyville, Kentucky, named Jeremy who wants to be a software engineer, or more specifically, a game designer. 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 Hotmail, Outlook, SkyDrive problems could hurt customer confidence Microsoft paints a rosy picture of customers storing documents and other data in the cloud so they are accessible from any Internet-connected device, but yesterday's outage of its mail and storage services should make anybody rethink the proposition. These services are potentially great if the technology delivers on the features Microsoft promises, but availability is key. Read More Java's security problems unlikely to be resolved soon, researchers say Since the start of the year, hackers have been exploiting vulnerabilities in Java to carry out a string of attacks against companies including Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Twitter, as well as home users. Oracle has made an effort to respond faster to the threats and to strengthen its Java software, but security experts say the attacks are unlikely to let up any time soon. Read More IDC: Android, iOS benefit from tablet sales surge -- but not Windows 8 Improving Windows 8 is Microsoft's best bet for grabbing a larger share of tablet sales over the next four years, but there doesn't seem much it can do to accelerate the projected slow growth of Windows RT over the same time period, IDC says. Read More Cross-platform malware that hit tech giants had specific targets Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter acknowledge finding the Trojan in employee computers, but provide little information to security firms. Read More
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