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	What's the price of not upgrading from Windows XP? Microsoft and its hardware partners really, really want everyone to abandon Windows XP by April 8. But the world won't end if you don't. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc Gartner's Unified Communications as a Service Report See what Gartner Inc., the world's leading information technology research and advisory firm, has to say about choosing the right Unified Communications solution for your business. Gartner's Magic Quadrant compares 16 of the leading UCaaS providers and names 8x8 a leader based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Learn more >> In this Issue Microsoft offers multifactor authentication to all Office 365 users Bill Gates tells Reddit he'll target cloud, Windows and Office in his new role at Microsoft How Microsoft and Mobilespaces are using the cloud for MDM Nadella's $40M portfolio puny compared to Ballmer's Microsoft adds critical IE, XP fixes to Tuesday's patch slate Microsoft to offer free 8GB of OneDrive storage if you refer friends Microsoft PowerBI puts Web and internal data on the map How effective will Gates be in his new tech advisor role? The future of the desktop is a tabletop Backlash slaps Microsoft's 'help-a-friend-dump-XP' plea Mozilla ships Metro Firefox beta for Windows 8 WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Performance Management: The Mobile App Development Playbook This comprehensive 16 page Forrester Research, Inc. report, authored by Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester VP and Principal Analyst, details a number of valuable, commonly collected metrics and describes the tools and frameworks that can help you collect them. Read now! Microsoft offers multifactor authentication to all Office 365 users Microsoft is offering multifactor authentication free as an option to all users of its Office 365 suite, a hosted set of Microsoft Office tools and applications. Read More Bill Gates tells Reddit he'll target cloud, Windows and Office in his new role at Microsoft As he starts work advising Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella on products, Bill Gates described his role to a Reddit chat group as also including agenda writing and setting performance standards, roles generally associated with the CEO. Read More How Microsoft and Mobilespaces are using the cloud for MDM It appears that MDM vendors are betting that the consumerization of mobile apps will follow the consumerization of mobile devices in the enterprise. Read More WEBCAST: 8x8, Inc Using Cloud Communications for a Competitive Advantage Watch this Frost & Sullivan webcast to learn why distributed organizations are rejecting the old model of premises-based communications solutions and have turned to cloud communications. Learn more >> Nadella's $40M portfolio puny compared to Ballmer's Microsoft disclosed new CEO Satya Nadella's stock holdings -- both those he now controls and a larger number he has coming to him -- at 1.1 million shares, with a paper value of nearly $40 million. Read More Microsoft adds critical IE, XP fixes to Tuesday's patch slate Microsoft on Monday unexpectedly added two more critical security updates to the list it will deliver tomorrow, including one for all versions of Internet Explorer and another for the soon-to-be-retired Windows XP. Read More Microsoft to offer free 8GB of OneDrive storage if you refer friends Rumors circulated about Microsoft's plan to rebrand Office Web Apps as Office Online, but it's no longer a rumor since Microsoft has a new "Choose your Office" webpage that compares the free Office Online to two paid versions of Office. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mitel Networks Guide to Building a Successful UC RFI Enterprises have an unprecedented opportunity to transform workplaces and the ways teams communicate with peers and extended ecosystems of partners. Learn More Microsoft PowerBI puts Web and internal data on the map Microsoft's new service, Power BI, provides a way to analyze data and present the results in a visually appealing way, without the bother of consulting an enterprise business intelligence software package. Read More How effective will Gates be in his new tech advisor role? Microsoft made a surprising, intriguing and dramatic announcement on Tuesday: No, it wasn't Satya Nadella's appointment as CEO to replace Steve Ballmer. It was the news that Bill Gates would step down as chairman and take on a new tech advisory role in which he'll substantially increase his involvement with the company he co-founded in 1975. Read More The future of the desktop is a tabletop One day, the future of Intel's desktop business will lie within something that looks like the Microsoft Surface. No, not the tablet--the older, tabletop version. Remember that? Read More Backlash slaps Microsoft's 'help-a-friend-dump-XP' plea Microsoft's appeal to its technically-advanced customers to help friends and family ditch Windows XP didn't quite work out like the company had hoped. Read More Mozilla ships Metro Firefox beta for Windows 8 Mozilla yesterday launched a beta version of its touch-enabled Firefox browser for Windows 8 and 8.1, fulfilling a promise to put the application on the road to a final release next month. Read More
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