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Researchers crack Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo, Digg audio captchas
Researchers have figured out how to to crack captchas, making it possible to launch automated attacks against sites such as Microsoft, eBay and Digg where opening phony accounts could be turned into cash. Read More


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Microsoft backpedals from Ballmer's Windows 8 comments
Microsoft is backing away from comments by CEO Steve Ballmer, who had told Japanese software developers that the next version of Windows would be dubbed Windows 8 and launch in 2012. Read More

Microsoft offers students a free Xbox with new Windows 7 PCs
If you are about to plunk down some cash for a new Windows 7 PC for your college studies, you may be able to score a free Xbox with that purchase. Microsoft is giving away a free Xbox 360 4GB console with the purchase of a Windows 7 PC $699 or more beginning this week through September 3, or until it determines that supplies have run out. Read More

Is the Windows business desktop dying?
A combination of factors is going to cause Windows to lose its stranglehold on the business desktop. Read More


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Microsoft online chief: I would never log into a Chromebook
Surprise! A Microsoft executive doesn't like Google products. Read More

New 'Mango' Windows Phone version integrates apps
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled many new features to its Windows Phone software but it left out a few that some people had hoped to see. Read More

3 reasons Mango could interest you in buying a Windows Phone
Here are three reasons why Mango might help Microsoft sell more Windows Phones, pulling it up from its current fifth place in the smartphone OS rankings. If these reasons don't persuade loyal Android or iPhone users, they might attract first-time smartphone buyers. Read More


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The deduplication market is the fastest segment ofthe storage industry, per IDC. Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing spin are. Read More Today!

How to protect smartphones and tablets
Managing mobile devices entails a level of complexity unheard of in the traditional enterprise world of Windows desktops. MDM software needs to control devices from multiple manufacturers, running different versions of as many as five operating systems, tied to carrier networks with their own particular constraints. Read More

IBM Rational tops Microsoft Visual Studio in developer survey
The Rational tools suite came in first in six categories and had the best overall score in Evans Data's survey. Read More

Microsoft finds 427K email addresses on knocked-out Rustock server
Microsoft investigators uncovered a cache of more than 400,000 email addresses on one hard drive it seized in March when it led an organized takedown of the Rustock botnet, according to court documents. Read More



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