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	Windows 9 in November? Don't believe it With Windows 8 being pretty much abandoned, interest is now shifting to Windows 9 and any rumors about it will be sucked up as quickly as an iPhone 6 rumor. The latest, though, is just a little hard to swallow. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Essential Elements of Data Center Facility Operations This paper describes unique management principles and provides a comprehensive, high-level overview of the necessary program elements for operating a mission critical facility efficiently and reliably throughout its life cycle. Learn more! In this Issue Layoffs cool Microsoft employees' opinion of CEO Satya Nadella Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop New SSL server rules go into effect Nov. 1 About those alleged backdoors in Microsoft products... Microsoft wants you to forget Windows 8 Is "Bring Your Own Identity" a security risk or advantage? EU, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo meet on 'right to be forgotten' but questions remain Apple losing its grip as top tablet company Internet Explorer is the 'sweet spot' for attackers so far in 2014 Doing an Office 365 Migration the Right Way WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Analysis of Traditional Data Center vs. Scalable Data Center This white paper provides a quantitative TCO analysis of the two architectures, and illustrates the key drivers of both the capex and opex savings of the improved architecture. Learn more! Layoffs cool Microsoft employees' opinion of CEO Satya Nadella Although Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's approval rating before the company's biggest-ever layoff was high enough to place him in the top 30 of U.S. chief executives, the percentage of employees, both current and former, who say they approve of him as the firm's leader has dropped since the job cuts. Read More Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop While smartphones descend on computer cognoscenti like Mongol hordes and tablets tempt the tried and true, the good ol' Windows desktop still reigns supreme in many corners of the modern tech world. That's where I live, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Read More New SSL server rules go into effect Nov. 1 Public certificate authorities (CAs) are warning that as of Nov. 1 they will reject requests for internal SSL server certificates that don't conform to new internal domain naming and IP address conventions designed to safeguard networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Fundamentals of Managing the Data Center Life Cycle This paper describes the five phases of the data center life cycle, identifies key tasks and pitfalls, and offers practical advice to facility owners and management. Learn more! About those alleged backdoors in Microsoft products... Four of Microsoft offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, China, were raided as part of an official government investigation. Read More Microsoft wants you to forget Windows 8 As talk of the next Windows begins to build and some details of what most are calling for now either Windows 9 or Threshold come into focus, it's worthwhile to take a moment to remember Windows 8. Because Microsoft will want everyone to forget it. Read More Is "Bring Your Own Identity" a security risk or advantage? Questions abound over websites authenticating users via identities established through Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Amazon, Microsoft Live, Yahoo Ponemon Institute survey shows. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Economizer Modes of Data Center Cooling Systems This paper provides terminology and definitions for the various types of economizer modes and compares their performance against key data center attributes. Learn more! EU, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo meet on 'right to be forgotten' but questions remain European data protection authorities still have questions after meeting with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo about the implementation of a recent ruling that gave European citizens the right to be forgotten by search engines. Read More Apple losing its grip as top tablet company Apple's grip on the tablet is loosening, with the iPad losing ground during the second quarter this year to Android and Windows tablets. Read More Internet Explorer is the 'sweet spot' for attackers so far in 2014 After analyzing public vulnerabilities and exploit trends in the first half of 2014, Bromium Labs concluded that Internet Explorer is the "sweet spot for attackers." Read More Doing an Office 365 Migration the Right Way Migrating email from Exchange (on-premises) to Office 365 (in the cloud) would seem to be a pretty simple and straight forward process, and when you know what you are doing, it is a methodical process. However in the past 2-3 years that we've been doing Office 365 migrations, it's amazing the number of times we get called in to "fix something" that some other migration specialist did that has us shaking our heads wondering what they were thinking... Read More
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