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	Microsoft delivers stopgap defense against active IE10 attacks Microsoft on Wednesday issued a stopgap defense that protects IE9 and IE10 against ongoing attacks until the company issues a patch, probably in three weeks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Software Quantifying the Impact of Network Based Attacks This document will give you some guidelines on how to assess the impact of network-based attacks on your organization. We will look at: • Different types of network-based attacks • How those attacks can affect your bottom line • Methods of quantifying the impact of those attacks Learn more! In this Issue What if Microsoft threw an iPad Office party, and no one came? Microsoft Lync to play nice with Cisco, Android Leaked release dates shed light on Microsoft's Windows 9 plans Why security pros should care about Bitcoin's troubles Microsoft kills SkyDrive, launches OneDrive The simple way to stop serious Microsoft software flaws? 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Read More Microsoft Lync to play nice with Cisco, Android Microsoft is accommodating Cisco conferencing systems and Android tablets to help make Microsoft Lync and Skype communications platforms able to connect any customers by voice, video, messaging and conferencing regardless of what device they use. Read More Leaked release dates shed light on Microsoft's Windows 9 plans WZor, the leaker with a track record dating back to the Vista days, has unleashed a bunch of dates that, if true, indicate a very busy year. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Take Your Social Business Relationships to the Next Level This IBM Redguide publication provides information about IBM Social Business and includes details about the business need and the value of transformation to a social business. Learn More. Why security pros should care about Bitcoin's troubles Chief security officers who believe the latest Bitcoin problems do not affect them should think again. Securing such digital currency flowing through peer-to-peer payment systems may one day be the responsibility of security pros. Read More Microsoft kills SkyDrive, launches OneDrive Three weeks after announcing OneDrive as the new label for SkyDrive, Microsoft today activated the renamed storage service, and offered some new incentives that give customers more space. Read More The simple way to stop serious Microsoft software flaws? Take away 'admin' rights Running Windows users with 'standard' rather than 'administrator' rights would have removed over 90 percent of the risk posed by critical vulnerabilities reported in Microsoft products last year, an analysis by privilege management firm Avecto has found. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Software NSA Series Data Sheet Learn how your organization can be both secure and productive without compromising network performance. Dell's SonicWALL™ NSA Series next-generation firewalls utilize the latest multi-core hardware design and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® (RFDPI) technology, to protect your network from internal and external attacks. Read now! Microsoft marshals marketing, service, social for Dynamics CRM, aims anew at Salesforce.com Microsoft is about to make a fresh run at its CRM (customer relationship management) rival Salesforce.com with new capabilities for marketing automation, customer support and social media monitoring. Read More The surprise power hog for mobile storage: software Flash storage can be a big power consumer in mobile devices, but it's not the flash that sucks up all that energy, it's the software that goes with it, according to researchers from the University of California at San Diego and Microsoft. Read More Microsoft claims 200M Windows 8 licenses sold, but how many are in use? Microsoft last week said that it had sold 200 million licenses of Windows 8 since the operating system launched more than 15 months ago. But how many copies are actually being used? Read More Microsoft pushes ahead with Skype-Lync integration Microsoft will demonstrate on Tuesday how Lync and Skype users will be able to communicate via video conferencing, the next stage of the integration between its enterprise unified communications server and its consumer IM and IP telephony network. Read More
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