Why IBM thinks Windows Phone is best for the enterprise

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	Why IBM thinks Windows Phone is best for the enterprise The BYOD movement is how Apple got into the enterprise, but if it were up to IT pros, you'd be issued a Windows Phone. That's what IBM has found in its work with large firms. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Pay-as-you-Grow Data Protection IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery gives small and medium businesses the opportunity to start out with only the individual solutions they need, and add new functionalities as they grow. Read Now In this Issue Geek-themed Meme of the Week: XP vs. Snow Leopard Perspective: Microsoft risks security reputation ruin by retiring XP One year later, Microsoft Office's collaboration tools are still a work in progress Microsoft sketches ambitious enhancements for Office 365 The greatest security story never told -- how Microsoft's SDL saved Windows 3 ways to get a new Windows 7 PC in the Windows 8 era The future of work is about people, and it's in the cloud: insights from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference Microsoft plans to patch critical under-attack IE bug next week Windows 8.1 with Bing appears to pay for Windows... with Bing If you haven't retired Windows XP and haven't been fired yet, get busy WHITE PAPER: Crittercism   Getting Agnostic about Mobile Devices The need for flawless, high-performing mobile apps is critical, yet many organizations struggle. This paper explains how to accurately analyze performance of mobile apps, calculate the cost of app failure, and how to develop, deploy and test mobile apps so that malfunctions don't happen. Read more! Geek-themed Meme of the Week: XP vs. Snow Leopard No. 34 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, brought to you by the Internet, represents the first appearance here of the Joker and his "Everyone loses their minds" meme. Read More   Perspective: Microsoft risks security reputation ruin by retiring XP A decade ago, Microsoft kicked off SDL, or Security Development Lifecycle, a now-widely-adopted process designed to bake security into software, and began building what has become an unmatched reputation in how a vendor writes more secure code, keeps customers informed about security issues, and backs that up with regular patches. Read More   One year later, Microsoft Office's collaboration tools are still a work in progress With the introduction of Office 365 Home Premium last year, Microsoft radically changed the way it delivers Office to consumers. Instead of just offering an Office suite that includes a varied number of applications priced anywhere from $140-$400, the software maker wagered you'd pay $100 per year to get access to all of the Office apps and the right to install them on up to 5 PCs, plus extra Skype minutes and OneDrive storage. Read More   WHITE PAPER: BlackBerry (Research In Motion | RIM) What's Coming in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) Find out why Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions that are truly future-ready must be designed to enable Machine-to-Machine (M2M) capabilities and much more. Learn More Microsoft sketches ambitious enhancements for Office 365 Microsoft didn't disappoint with the new and improved capabilities it announced and demonstrated for Office 365 this week, but how well they work in the real world remains to be seen. Read More   The greatest security story never told -- how Microsoft's SDL saved Windows Microsoft has launched a new website to "tell the untold story" of something it believes changed the history of Windows security and indeed Microsoft itself -- the Software Development Lifecycle or plain 'SDL' for short. Read More   3 ways to get a new Windows 7 PC in the Windows 8 era If any word most accurately describes Windows 8, it's "divisive." Microsoft's finger-first, device-agnostic reimagining of Windows draws haters like flies and has played some part--how large a part is up in the air--in driving PC sales off a cliff since its launch. Even so, Microsoft isn't backing down, and Windows 8 and its Live Tiles are darn near ubiquitous in stores. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems, Cisco, & NetApp Infographic: Eliminating Desktop Virtualization Bottlenecks Organizations are turning to desktop virtualization to provide greater mobility, reduce IT costs and improve security. Find out why more and more organizations today are turning to converged architectures to deploy virtual desktops efficiently. Learn more The future of work is about people, and it's in the cloud: insights from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference There was an overwhelming amount of information to process at the just completed Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas. This conference continued the themes of the last SharePoint Conference in 2012: cloud, mobile, and social. But at this conference, and for the first time, Microsoft did not just show solutions and features that were ready for prime time. Read More   Microsoft plans to patch critical under-attack IE bug next week Microsoft will deliver five security updates to customers next week, two tagged as "critical," including one that will quash the open vulnerability in Internet Explorer that hackers have been exploiting since January. Read More   Windows 8.1 with Bing appears to pay for Windows... with Bing   Documentation allegedly associated with the "Windows 8.1 with Bing" release appears to show that, from a product sense, very little will differentiate it from a standard Windows implementation. Read More   If you haven't retired Windows XP and haven't been fired yet, get busy Security comes first, with a premium on speed upgrading to a supported Microsoft operating system Read More
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