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	Which SaaS vendor just passed the billion dollar mark? Microsoft Despite a lot of confusion around how it works, Microsoft's cloud-based version of the flagship Office suite has pretty quickly grown into a sizable business. According to the most recent financials from Redmond, Office 365 is now on a billion-dollar run rate and continuing to grow at a brisk pace. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Five Tips for Outsmarting the Information Age Adversary Today's attackers vigilantly wait for you to slip up before they strike your information systems and compromise your data. Learn five actions you can take to improve your information risk management and security strategy and stay one step ahead of the information age adversary. Read More In this Issue Who are tech's highest paid CEOs? Review: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 narrows the gap Microsoft re-releases 'Blue Screen of Death' patch Virtualization showdown: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 vs. VMware vSphere 5.1 'Good enough' Microsoft Hyper-V starts turning more heads Microsoft says Office 365 adoption accelerating, but questions remain 10 nifty Windows 8 apps -- all free Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamoring for enterprise customers Windows 8 Update: Smaller, less expensive gear on tap for back-to-school Three quick ways to ease your transition to Windows 8 Browsers pose the greatest threat to enterprise, Microsoft reports New Microsoft campaign promotes privacy prowess WHITE PAPER: McAfee Business-centric DLP Business-centric DLP to the Rescue - Keep networks open for business while guarding valuable data. Read Now Who are tech's highest paid CEOs? Median pay for tech CEOs in 2012 was $10.7 million, according to Network World's analysis of CEO compensation in the tech industry. At the top of the tally is one CEO who earned a pay package valued at $96.1 million. At the low end? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Read More Review: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 narrows the gap Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V combines easy setup and management with new features that lower the entry barrier to highly available virtualization clusters. Read More Microsoft re-releases 'Blue Screen of Death' patch Microsoft today re-released a security update that had crashed customers' PCs and crippled the machines with endless reboots, saying that the revised patch is now safe to install. Read More Virtualization showdown: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 vs. VMware vSphere 5.1 Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V brings advanced virtualization features to small shops, but VMware still reigns at the high end. 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Read More Microsoft says Office 365 adoption accelerating, but questions remain When Microsoft reported its third-quarter financial results last week, company officials trumpeted several metrics about sales and adoption of Office 365, the cloud subscription suite for email and collaboration. Read More 10 nifty Windows 8 apps -- all free Need help negotiating the corporate landscape? Want to track your network usage? Just looking for a fun little time-waster? These free apps for Windows 8 can help. Read More Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamoring for enterprise customers Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors. Read More WHITE PAPER: Condusiv (Formerly Diskeeper) Managing the I/O Explosion Without Extra Hardware In this Technology Spotlight, IDC highlights the unexpected I/O explosion brought about by virtualization and presents new technologies that deliver exceptional application performance without additional hardware by eliminating unnecessary I/O traffic at the source. Read more. Read Now! Windows 8 Update: Smaller, less expensive gear on tap for back-to-school Smaller, less expensive Windows 8 devices based on upcoming Intel processors are in the offing for later this year, the company says. Read More Three quick ways to ease your transition to Windows 8 Over the past few weeks I've had the opportunity to test-drive a couple Windows 8 laptops, and even though I've used the OS intermittently for months now, I still find it jarring every time the Metro interface (a.k.a. Start screen) appears. Read More Browsers pose the greatest threat to enterprise, Microsoft reports Microsoft's latest security report has found that Web-based attacks pose the greatest threat to companies, giving credence to efforts to develop browser alternatives to accessing the Internet. Read More New Microsoft campaign promotes privacy prowess Microsoft has launched yet another privacy awareness campaign, but this time around, the company decided to focus more on its own privacy right-doings rather than Google's alleged wrongdoings. Declaring " your privacy is our priority," the campaign runs online, in print, and on TV, billing Microsoft as the "good guy" of online privacy and offering educational resources for those who want to better control what they share online. Read More
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