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	Ex-Microsoft employee arrested, accused of stealing Windows RT, product activation secrets A former Microsoft employee accused Wednesday of leaking Windows RT updates and software that validates product key codes faces federal criminal charges of stealing trade secrets. Read More WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Top 10 Internet Applications Most Likely to be Mobilized Effective mobile application performance management optimizes application availability and response time, ensuring the best user experience. Learn the difference the right management tools make and why tools that monitor the network or focus only on performance at the device level are not enough. Read now! In this Issue My most-wanted software feature: rollbacks Big data, big pay: 10 data jobs with climbing salaries If Microsoft gives away Windows Phone 8, will anyone take it? Productivity showdown: Google Apps or Office 365? 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The paper presents the user perspective, the IT perspective, and methods for accomplishing application rejuvenation. Learn More! Review: Windows 8.1 Update offers an olive branch for mouse users Windows 8.1 Update brings a tiny handful of mouse-centric improvements and a hodgepodge of interface tweaks. Read More Microsoft Research doles out the attaboys to one of its own: Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport With a few days' notice, Microsoft Research was ready for this morning's announcement that one of its own -- distributed systems pioneer Leslie Lamport -- is the 2013 A.M. Turing Award winner. The annual Association for Computing Machinery honor, which includes a $250,000 prize, is sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize in Computing". 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