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7 high-profile executives who left Microsoft

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7 high-profile executives who left Microsoft
Server and Tools President Bob Muglia is on his way out. Who else has left Microsoft in the past year or so? Read More


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Four Steps to Cure Your Patch Management Headache
The need to speed up patch deployment across today's highly complex and distributed IT environment has never been more important. The heat is on to proactively safeguard your systems and endpoints from the newest exploits as the time it takes hackers to exploit a known vulnerability continues to shrink. Read More

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The ROI of Application Delivery Controllers
How modern offload technologies in Application Delivery Controllers can drastically reduce expenses in traditional and virtualized architectures, with a fast ROI. Read now!

Bob Muglia aside, the brain drain at Microsoft is a good thing
With the strangely public ousting of Microsoft's Bob Muglia earlier this week, it may seem that there are few software engineers left at the highest levels of Microsoft. I was surprised to discover that this isn't completely true. Of the 18 members of Microsoft's senior executive team, seven of them are techies. Read More

Microsoft needs to get in front of WP7 glitch, pronto
Microsoft remains frustratingly tight-lipped about a number of reports of users of Windows Phone 7-powered smartphones reporting excessive amounts of data usage that seem to be happening without the users' knowledge. It's been called "phantom data" in some reports. The reports have been anecdotal so it's hard to know how widespread they might be. Read More

Microsoft fixes two Windows bugs but leaves five security holes unpatched
Microsoft gave the security a world a light Patch Tuesday today, with only two updates, after issuing a record 106 security bulletins in 2010 and 17 in December alone. But that doesn't mean Microsoft products have no holes in them. In fact, security researchers say there are five unpatched zero-day flaws that Microsoft is still working to fix. Read More


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Users Rate Cloud Email Security Vendors
Nemertes is an independent organization that conducts research based 100% on the experiences of actual end-users. See why they awarded their PilotHouse award to Google Postini messaging security service. Their decisive win over AT&T, Cisco, Symantec and others for superior technology, customer service and value are worth noting. Read now!

In HTML5 war, Microsoft guy slams "President of the United States of Google"
Microsoft and Google are fighting yet another public relations battle, this time over the HTML5 video standards to be used in the next generation of Web browsers. Read More

iFixit tears apart a Windows phone and finds Nexus One hardware
In the iFixit Teardown, the HTC Surround (a device based on Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system) was found to contain hardware similar to the Android-based Nexus One. Read More

Kama Sutra malware threatens to put Windows users in awkward position
A Sophos IT security consultant has issued a warning not to fall prey to malware that uses a PowerPoint presentation demonstrating sexual positions from the Kama Sutra as its lure. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation

The Value of iLayer Management: A Technical Brief
Many customers have expressed a desire for tape libraries to proactively report more—and better—information about their units, therefore requiring less hands-on time supporting their tape systems. Read More

Microsoft fights Apple trademark on 'App Store'
Microsoft is asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to deny Apple a trademark on the name "App Store," saying the term is generic and competitors should be able to use it. Read More

Microsoft-led group formed to buy Novell patents dissolves
In a move that will be seen by many as a big win for open-source advocates, a plan to create a consortium led by Microsoft to buy Novell patents has been withdrawn. Read More

Microsoft to release WebMatrix dev software
Microsoft plans to release WebMatrix this week. Read More

Windows Phone 7 at CES: Hellooooo? Anyone there?
The Big News for Windows Phone 7 coming out of CES was captured in a single, brief blogpost at MobilityDigest: the first software update for the mobile UI will be ready in 30-60 days. For the calendarically-challenged that would be early February. Or perhaps early March. Read More



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