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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The hidden fangs of Windows 8.1 -- and how to avoid them

  Bona fides, benefits, and baggage: Rating 5 favorites for Microsoft's next CEO | Microsoft moves closer to unifying Windows and Windows Phone

 
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The hidden fangs of Windows 8.1 -- and how to avoid them
Before you install Windows 8.1, make sure you understand the gotchas and how not to get bit. Read More
 


WEBCAST: Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

Combat Disasters And Optimize Business Operations
Offsite data replication is key to ensuring ongoing business operations, but it can be complex and costly, especially when performed over long distances. Join this discussion to discover how you can apply fast, cost effective and reliable remote replication strategies and technologies. View now >>

WHITE PAPER: CDW

Software Asset Management: Practices for Success
This white paper discusses best practices that can dramatically increase your success rate of a SAM deployment. Make sure and follow these steps and verify that your SAM toolkit has the necessary functionality to keep your organization steps ahead of the competition -it's a long term investment. Read Now

Bona fides, benefits, and baggage: Rating 5 favorites for Microsoft's next CEO
A very genteel coup d'etat is playing out in Redmond, where Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer is being hustled, ever so politely, into retirement. Read More
 

Microsoft moves closer to unifying Windows and Windows Phone
Microsoft's cross-platform strategy is no secret. Much of the same code found in Windows 8.1 is also in Windows Phone 8, including the kernel. So it stands to reason that, in time, apps should be easily portable between platforms, especially WP8 and Windows RT. Read More
 

Security researchers laud Microsoft, Facebook bug bounty programs
Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report vulnerabilities in widely used products. Read More
 


WEBCAST: IBM

Webinar: IBM IIM for Fraud, Abuse and Waste in Government
View this IBM webinar to learn about the challenges and opportunities in fraud reduction, waste, and abuse in government programs and agencies. You will learn how IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager (IIM) can help your organization. Learn More.

Test and test again: the lesson from Windows 8.1's bumpy rollout
The rocky rollout of Windows 8.1 should serve as a reminder for consumers, software developers, hardware vendors, enterprise IT pros and Microsoft itself that a period of careful testing and analysis must precede the release and installation of an operating system update. Read More
 

Microsoft books critical IE, Windows fixes for next week
  Microsoft today said it will deliver eight security updates next week to patch critical vulnerabilities in Windows and Internet Explorer (IE), as well as others to plug holes in every supported edition of its Office suite. Read More
 

Perspective: What's Microsoft's Office Web Apps strategy?
Microsoft's addition of real-time collaboration to its free Office Web Apps last week was necessary in the short term to counter Google Docs, analysts said. Read More
 


WHITE PAPER: Internap

Performance Analysis: Benchmarks of Clouds
Cloud Spectator recently released the report, Performance Analysis: Benchmarks of Bare-Metal & Virtual Clouds, which compared Internap's bare-metal cloud with Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Rackspace OpenCloud. Download this comprehensive report to see the full results. Learn more

New bug bounty program rewards researchers for finding flaws in widely used software
A new bug bounty program sponsored by Microsoft and Facebook will reward security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in widely used software that have the potential to affect a large number of Internet users. Read More
 

Google dumps Windows Vista support from Google Apps
Google's policy of discontinuing support for aging versions of Internet Explorer will nearly cut out businesses and consumers who run Google Apps on Windows Vista. Read More
 

Banking malware infections rise to highest level since 2002
  Malicious software aimed at stealing online banking credentials surged in the third quarter of this year to a level not seen since 2002, according to a new report from Trend Micro. Read More
 

 

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