With Ballmer retiring, tech world awaits white smoke from Redmond

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	With Ballmer retiring, tech world awaits white smoke from Redmond Mere days into the Steve Ballmer Successor Watch, guessing who will be his replacement has become a new tech industry pastime. Read More WHITE PAPER: SolarWinds The ROI of Network Management & Monitoring This results in strong ROI, improved data analysis and reporting, and reduced network downtime. This white paper demonstrates the total cost of ownership and how to calculate an ROI for a network monitoring system. Learn More In this Issue 10 scenes from Ballmer's Microsoft Hackers may cash in when XP is retired Microsoft will craft XP patches after April '14, but not for you Windows 8 stains Ballmer's legacy Next Microsoft CEO faces rocky road in easing NSA-fueled privacy worries Dell remains committed to Windows 8 for business tablets Microsoft, Motorola trial to resume Monday Only an outsider CEO can help Microsoft New Microsoft CEO's First Task: Fix broken, cannibalistic culture WHITE PAPER: ExtraHop Networks Going Beyond APM with Real-Time IT Operations Analytics This white paper explains how IT organizations can harness the wealth of wire data flowing through their environments for real-time IT operational intelligence. Read how companies across a wide range of industries are analyzing wire data for more agile and proactive IT operations. Read more >> 10 scenes from Ballmer's Microsoft Tenacious and sharp-tongued, Steve Ballmer has held the helm at Microsoft for more than 13 years, navigating highs and lows, economic recessions and recoveries, acquisitions, lawsuits, and competitive battles. On Aug. 23, the company announced that Ballmer will retire as Microsoft CEO at some point in the next 12 months. Here's a look at the company he's leaving. Read More Hackers may cash in when XP is retired Hackers may bank their Windows XP zero-day exploits and cash them in after Microsoft stops patching the aged operating system next April. Read More Microsoft will craft XP patches after April '14, but not for you Just because Microsoft doesn't plan on giving Windows XP patches to the public after April 8, 2014, doesn't mean it's going to stop making those patches. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Security First Insurance Using IBM Content Analytics and ECM software, the insurer enhances service to policyholders no matter which channels they use to get in touch. Learn More. Windows 8 stains Ballmer's legacy Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer survived the flop that was Windows Vista, but he wasn't able to do the same after the disappointment of Windows 8. Read More Next Microsoft CEO faces rocky road in easing NSA-fueled privacy worries When Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer steps down in the next 12 months, his successor will be left with the task of easing rising privacy concerns fueled by reports of massive Internet snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency. Read More Dell remains committed to Windows 8 for business tablets Windows 8 may be seeing sluggish demand, but Dell believes its the best OS for business tablets and plans to roll out more products built with the operating system later this year, a senior executive said Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors HP StoreOnce Is "Better Together" with HP Data Protector 7 This paper looks at the benefits to be realized in the combined scenario of HP StoreOnce appliances being used with HP's own Data Protector 7 backup software while considering the topic of "where" the deduplication occurs. Learn More Microsoft, Motorola trial to resume Monday Microsoft and Motorola are expected to begin arguments on Monday in the second part of a court case regarding patent licensing fees. Read More Only an outsider CEO can help Microsoft Microsoft's board of directors must hire a new CEO from outside the company's ranks to follow through on retiring chief executive Steve Ballmer's promise to reinvent the tech giant, analysts said. Read More New Microsoft CEO's First Task: Fix broken, cannibalistic culture The announcement of Steve Ballmer's departure has given reporters plenty to do in what would ordinarily be a lazy August. Read More
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