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	Easy XP-Windows 7 upgrades are over The easy upgrades from Windows XP are done, migration experts said, predicting that a sizeable number of large enterprises will still be running the aged OS even after Microsoft stops supporting it. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Corporation Simplifying Power Management in Virtualized Data Centers Few virtualization management tools, even the excellent VMware vCenter, have built-in power management. Eaton's Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) plug-in fills that gap with sophisticated power management features, accessed directly from the vCenter Server dashboard. Learn More In this Issue 12 ways Windows 8 dominates the OS competition Some Windows XP users just can't afford to upgrade What's your favorite enterprise IT product? The best Windows 8 machines you can buy today IT pro has a hair-raising hobby The Internet of Things: Coming to a network near you INSIDER Microsoft faces a loss of relevance Smaller Windows 8 tablets will be huge Microsoft DirectAccess impresses Office 365 subscriptions furnish 4% of Microsoft's Office division revenue WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation Analyst Whitepaper: Beyond Business as Usual Analyst report: Beyond Business as Usual: The Mega Shift Toward Social Communications Enterprise Social Software Integrated With Communications and Content Is Transforming How We Work, Engage and Generate Value Read Now 12 ways Windows 8 dominates the OS competition C'mon, folks, cut Microsoft some slack. Whipping Windows 8 might be all the rage, but Windows didn't grow to be, well, Windows -- the all-encompassing king of the desktop -- out of sheer luck. (No antitrust jokes, please.) Read More Some Windows XP users just can't afford to upgrade I've already written about what I consider the folly of Microsoft's 15% off discount for XP holdouts, but this past week it was driven home to me just how bad the problem is, at least in some quarters. Read More What's your favorite enterprise IT product? It's time for Fave Raves, our annual call for the best products, as chosen by readers. Do you have a favorite enterprise IT product you can't live without? Tell us about it and we'll share your raves with our readers. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee Low Hanging Fruit: Quick Wins with Data Loss Prevention How to get immediate benefits from a DLP solution as detailed in this report by Rich Mogull from Securosis. Read Now The best Windows 8 machines you can buy today We've had about six months to play with Windows 8 (like it or not) and with the first generation of hardware designed for the new OS. So now, with PCs based onA Intel's Haswell CPUA poised on the horizon, it's time to take stock of the best Windows 8 hardware available today. You may be able to snap one up for a bargain-basement price as the industry clears out inventory in anticipation of second-gen machines. Read More IT pro has a hair-raising hobby By day Chad Roberts, 35, is a Windows Server and Exchange administrator for Berkshire Hathaway Media Group. For play he's an award-winning competitive beardsmith and founder of the RVA Beard League in Richmond, Va. Read More The Internet of Things: Coming to a network near you When people talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), the most common examples are smart cars, IP-addressable washing machines and Internet-connected nanny cams. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel HP reference configuration for Premium OLTP This paper describes a hardware and software reference architecture for using HP hardware to deploy very large and highly transactional Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 OLTP database systems in tier 1 enterprise application environments. Learn More! INSIDER Microsoft faces a loss of relevance Microsoft took another hard knock this month when top tech researchers laid much of the blame for dwindling first-quarter PC sales at the feet of the beleaguered Windows 8 operating system. Insider (registration required) Read More Smaller Windows 8 tablets will be huge Microsoft has confirmed that smaller Windows 8 tablets will come to market in the near future. These will fill a gap in the Windows ecosystem and boost demand for Windows 8 by addressing key downsides to the early Surface tablets. Read More Microsoft DirectAccess impresses Available since Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsofts DirectAccess server role became fully integrated with the OS in Windows Server 2012. DirectAccess is designed to connect a VPN-type session automatically as soon as a compatible Windows client is connected to the Internet. Read More Office 365 subscriptions furnish 4% of Microsoft's Office division revenue Microsoft's Business division, which manages the company's Office cash cow, recorded a 5% revenue bump in the first quarter over the same period in 2012, an increase driven by a surge in enterprises signing long-term licensing agreements. Read More
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