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	Microsoft's browser auto-update pays off as IE10 share doubles Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11% of all copies of IE in use, a Web measurement company said today. 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! In this Issue Microsoft's new idea to steal Android users is a good one Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won't go Microsoft boosts its Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy rating Microsoft turns room into video game with IllumiRoom project Enterasys boosts productivity with Microsoft SharePoint alternative Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com Google adds in-browser Office doc viewing to Chrome Five easy steps to going (almost) paperless White House program targets IT jobs for service members WHITE PAPER: F5 Drive Out Bottlenecks in the Application Delivery Chain Fueled by users who are hyper-sensitive to delays in application delivery, organizations are seeking solutions that can help them root out and eliminate delivery latency. This paper examines the role of Application Delivery Optimization to improve application performance in the data center and beyond. Learn More! Microsoft's new idea to steal Android users is a good one News broke a few days ago about a mobile app coming to the Google Play Store, designed to ease the transition from Android to Windows Phone 8. The "Switch to Windows Phone" app being developed by Microsoft and its partner Quixey scans the apps installed on a device, then checks the Windows Phone App store to see if the same apps are available for WP8, and if not, it suggests similar or alternative apps. Read More Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won't go Microsoft was hit with a double whammy last month as it made scant progress in either boosting the usage share of Windows 8 or depressing the share of Windows XP, data published today showed. Read More Microsoft boosts its Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy rating Microsoft is winning praise from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for taking stronger stands to protect the privacy of customers' data that it stores in its cloud data centers. In its annual "Who's Got Your Back?" report the EFF singles out Microsoft for praise twice. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Case Study: Boston College Read this case study to learn how Boston College has reduced complexity of the backup process for over 1,700 seats by centralizing management. Read now Microsoft turns room into video game with IllumiRoom project The IllumiRoom project from Microsoft Research turns a living room into a video game with projected images that extend and complement the main television screen. The realistic effect, if commercialized, could propel Microsoft's gaming business far beyond its competition. Read More Enterasys boosts productivity with Microsoft SharePoint alternative Enterasys Networks, the Salem, N.H., maker of networking and security products, found coordinating collaboration among staff, suppliers and partners was cumbersome using Microsoft's SharePoint so went looking for a simpler way that wound up saving money by boosting efficiency. Read More Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com Microsoft is rolling Skype in with its free Outlook.com email service, giving customers the ability to fire up VoIP calls directly from their mail inbox. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Best Practices for the Hyperconverged Enterprise Network Join Maryam Zand, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Riverbed Technology, as she discusses how you can: Achieve unified communications Realize business short-term ROI Optimize network performance, regardless of end-user location Increase user productivity Learn more. Google adds in-browser Office doc viewing to Chrome Google yesterday released an add-on that lets users view Microsoft Office documents within its Chrome browser, another small step in the search giant's encroachment on Microsoft's lucrative business productivity turf. Read More Five easy steps to going (almost) paperless It's over between me and my file cabinet. Six drawers full of dead trees. Total weight: a gargantuan 194.7 pounds of paper. I can't think of any less useful way to utilize home office space, especially when most of the contents, once filed, will never be touched again. I'm also gearing up to move, and the thought of packing, unpacking, and refiling all that stuff made me even more eager to end the relationship, pronto. Read More White House program targets IT jobs for service members The Obama administration this week teamed with Cisco, Microsoft, HP and others to roll out what it called an "IT Training and Certification Partnership" designed to get thousands of service members into the information technology world. Read More
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