7 things on Microsoft's 2014 to-do list

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	7 things on Microsoft's 2014 to-do list Microsoft needs to make Nokia work, get Office on iOS, and find Ballmer's successor in 2014. Read More WHITE PAPER: AT&T Transforming Your Organization with Mobility This whitepaper intends to help organizations understand the critical elements of a mobilization solution, the value and inter-dependencies, and important enablement assessment questions. Learn More In this Issue Unencrypted Windows crash reports give 'significant advantage' to hackers, spies 2014 outlook: Innovation agenda makes shadow IT OK As customers fume, Microsoft promises Surface Pro 2 firmware fix ASAP Top vendors like Google, Apple hope to take smartwatches mainstream in 2014 Microsoft manager charged with insider trading NASA's greatest challenges in 2014 Chromebooks' success punches Microsoft in the gut LG heads to Las Vegas with a 980 gram laptop Perspective: Microsoft's CEO pick will be dubbed a dud, bragged as brilliant WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Forrester Workload Automation Paper commissioned by BMC In "Industrializing IT Workload Automation," Forrester Consulting and BMC Software analyze the results of a comprehensive survey that addressed job scheduling on the ground today. Read Now! Unencrypted Windows crash reports give 'significant advantage' to hackers, spies Windows' error- and crash-reporting system sends a wealth of data unencrypted and in the clear, information that eavesdropping hackers or state security agencies can use to refine and pinpoint their attacks, a researcher said today. Read More 2014 outlook: Innovation agenda makes shadow IT OK A rise in operational spending bodes well for hiring, which remains a bright spot in the tech industry. The biggest drivers of IT spending growth are cloud computing, mobility, big data and social networking technologies. Read More As customers fume, Microsoft promises Surface Pro 2 firmware fix ASAP Even as Microsoft promised to speed up work on a re-release for a flawed Surface Pro 2 firmware update, customers continued to damn the company for the fiasco. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Managing Essential tools for greater productivity People are interacting with software from the moment they wake up (hearing an alarm on a smartphone) to the time they relax in the evening (reading or shopping online). And in between, software affects virtually every work function in some way, whether in the executive suite or on the shipping dock. Read Now Top vendors like Google, Apple hope to take smartwatches mainstream in 2014 The smartwatch phenomenon promises to blossom in 2014 as experts expect Google to launch a model by summer followed by Apple sometime in the fall. Even Microsoft is reportedly working on one. Read More Microsoft manager charged with insider trading A Microsoft portfolio manager and his business partner are charged with insider trading that profited them $393,125. Read More NASA's greatest challenges in 2014 In its annual look at what challenges NASA faces in the coming year, the agency's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) this year outlined nine key areas it says will cause the most angina. Leading the way in pain is money. NASA's current money story starts off bad and just gets worse. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors HP Converged Storage Customers Share their Experiences This Enterprise Strategy Group Solution Impact Analysis examines how well-designed, executed and implemented storage can elevate storage from a necessity and a cost center to an asset that contributes to the business. This report confirms that ROI is a real-world value that HP Converged Storage customers are realizing today. Learn More Chromebooks' success punches Microsoft in the gut Chromebooks had a very good year, according to retailer Amazon.com and industry analysts. And that's bad news for Microsoft. Read More LG heads to Las Vegas with a 980 gram laptop LG Electronics is expanding its line-up of Windows PCs with a number of new products, including the 13Z940 Ultra PC laptop, which has a 13.3-inch full HD screen and weighs 980 grams. Read More Perspective: Microsoft's CEO pick will be dubbed a dud, bragged as brilliant No matter who Microsoft names as its new CEO early in 2014, the pick will trigger comments from experts and technology leaders who question the sanity of the board, the person who took the job or everyone involved. Read More
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