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	Microsoft tries to tempt XP diehards with $100 discount on new PCs Microsoft yesterday began pitching another deal at pry-XP-from-my-cold-dead-hands customers, offering them $100 off a new Windows 8.1 device if they spring for one that costs more than $599. Read More WHITE PAPER: Plantronics Unleash your UC Potential By Putting Users First What's holding back Unified Communications (UC) adoption? Too often, today's solutions are simply too hard to use. Now, survey results show high-quality audio and a simple and intuitive user experience can turbo-charge acceptance. Read this exclusive report from Plantronics and IDG to learn how you can start making the most of UC. Read now! In this Issue How Cisco wants to win in the cloud In defense of Microsoft's leak investigation Windows leak site Wzor goes dark a day after feds arrest Microsoft mole Ballmer hints he may step down from Microsoft board 3 free alternatives to Windows for desktop PCs Encrypted email service Virtru adds Office 365 compatibility Microsoft reviews investigation policies after admitting search of customer email Ex-Mozilla engineer blames Microsoft's rules for Metro Firefox's death Microsoft warns Word users of ongoing attacks exploiting unpatched bug Nokia delays closure of sale to Microsoft of smartphone business 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! How Cisco wants to win in the cloud Cisco is making a big bet ($1 billion in fact) on the cloud, but it's going to have a battle winning it against the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google, each of which have their own strong plans in this crowded market. Read More In defense of Microsoft's leak investigation By now, you've probably heard about the former Microsoft employee arrested for spilling trade secrets to a French website, and the impact it has had throughout the underground community that thrived on leaks. How Microsoft was able to get him might be trust-damaging to some, but not to me. Read More Windows leak site Wzor goes dark a day after feds arrest Microsoft mole The noted Windows leak site Wzor.net was offline Thursday and its Twitter account had disappeared, a day after an ex-Microsoft employee was charged with stealing trade secrets from the company. Read More WHITE PAPER: CradlePoint Technology Enterprises in Motion In a world where traditional tethers to the central office have all but vanished, enterprises that operate vehicle fleets require constant and dependable mobile Internet connectivity to keep up. Learn More Ballmer hints he may step down from Microsoft board Microsoft's former CEO, Steve Ballmer, hinted recently that he may soon step down from the company's board. Read More 3 free alternatives to Windows for desktop PCs It's an increasingly mobile world -- and the mobile future of Windows is dubious. To better accommodate end users, CIOs would be wise to consider these three alternatives to Windows on the desktop -- Chrome, Android and Ubuntu. Read More Encrypted email service Virtru adds Office 365 compatibility Virtru has added Microsoft's Office 365 and Outlook Desktop services to its list of compatible email platforms for its encryption product. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS See the Possibilities Utilizing Data Visualization Regardless of size, today's businesses are bombarded with structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources. Take advantage of all this data with in-memory analytics and data visualization techniques, to get day-to-day insights for making better decisions. Learn more Microsoft reviews investigation policies after admitting search of customer email Microsoft promised to subject itself to a more rigorous process before searching through its customers' email accounts in the future after a recent legal case revealed that the company searched for evidence of theft of its trade secrets in a Hotmail account. Read More Ex-Mozilla engineer blames Microsoft's rules for Metro Firefox's death A former Mozilla engineer who worked on the "Metro" version of Firefox says that poor adoption of Windows 8's radical user interface wasn't behind the decision to shelve the browser. Read More Microsoft warns Word users of ongoing attacks exploiting unpatched bug Microsoft today warned users of Word 2010 that in-the-wild attacks are exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in the software. Read More Nokia delays closure of sale to Microsoft of smartphone business Nokia has delayed to April the sale of its smartphone business to Microsoft as it still hasn't received approvals from certain antitrust authorities in Asia. Read More
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