System Center Orchestrator 2012 beta; Patent advocate wants to hinder sale of Nortel patents

	Patent protection advocate calls for help in hindering Nortel patent sale | Is a Streaming OS in Microsoft's Future?
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	System Center Orchestrator 2012 - what's changing? Kerrie Meyler and Pete Zerger: Now that System Center Orchestrator 2012 is available in beta, you may be wondering if it is worthwhile to continue creating policies with Opalis Integration Server (OIS) 6.3. Will you have to rewrite all your OIS policies for the next release? Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Four Steps to Dynamic Workload Management In the beginning, IT ran on one platform - the mainframe. Workloads were predictable and stable, and we could schedule accordingly. But then came Unix, AS/400, Windows and a multitude of other platforms, all with accompanying workloads. Learn More! In this Issue Patent protection advocate calls for help in hindering Nortel patent sale Is a Streaming OS in Microsoft's Future? Linus Torvalds: ARM has a lot to learn from the PC Rumors of HP's Death are Ridiculously Exaggerated A case against third-party management tools What HP's Changes Mean for Microsoft Enterprise Architects App Store for Windows 8 Confirmed What does community mean to you? Microsoft pursues webOS devs, offers free phones Microsoft disables 'supercookies' used on MSN.com visitors Visit Microsoft Subnet for more daily news, blogs WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu Midmarket Blades Lead the Pack A rock solid base for Dynamic Infrastructures. For IT organizations the blade server environment, in combination with virtualization technologies on various levels, is the IT infrastructure of choice to achieve considerable consolidation benefits and ensuring flexible usage of server resources. Read now! Patent protection advocate calls for help in hindering Nortel patent sale The leader of the Open Invention Network has put out an all-call to help it fight the pending sale of Nortel's patent portfolio to a consortium of vendors led by Apple and Microsoft. Read More Is a Streaming OS in Microsoft's Future? Andy Patrizio: The traditional desktop operating system has always been on the PC itself, or occasionally booted from a server, but a patent filed by Microsoft in early 2010 gives hints that the company is planning on a remote OS that can be loaded from a variety of sources. Read More Linus Torvalds: ARM has a lot to learn from the PC Jon Brodkin: It's well known Linux and ARM developers have clashed over the past few months over how best to support ARM in the Linux kernel. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xsigo Systems Building a Flexible Private Cloud Datacenter This quick case study examines how a VMware vCloud services provider increased VMware performance and got 17 times more VMs per server with a converged infrastructure. Get insights on VMware best practices from a company that runs VMware for a living. Read now! Rumors of HP's Death are Ridiculously Exaggerated Andy Patrizio: There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between what HP has said and what some people are reporting. While Leo Apotheker made his plans rather clear, you may be hearing to the contrary. Read More A case against third-party management tools Sean McCown: One of the biggest businesses in IT is third party tools. But I use the Microsoft native tools. Read More What HP's Changes Mean for Microsoft Enterprise Architects Tom Henderson: Microsoft has had a long-term relationship with HP, and a bit of that changes and perhaps actually strengthens. HP announced on August 18th, 2011, that it was putting its Personal Systems Group on the block. Read More WEBCAST: GFI Software GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform. View now App Store for Windows 8 Confirmed Andy Patrizio: Windows division chief Steven Sinofsky has started to disclose some of the technologies in Windows 8. Read More What does community mean to you? Sean McCown: How important is community involvement? I don't think that just because you write an app for SQL Server that you should be expected to put all your earnings back into the community. Read More Microsoft pursues webOS devs, offers free phones Taking advantage of HP's departure from the tablet and smartphone market, Microsoft has offered webOS developers free phones, tools and training to create apps for its Windows Phone 7 platform. Read More Microsoft disables 'supercookies' used on MSN.com visitors Microsoft has disabled an online tracking technology that a Stanford University researcher said allowed the company to sneakily track users on MSN.com -- even after they deleted browser cookies and other identifiers. Read More Visit Microsoft Subnet for more daily news, blogs This newsletter features posts from the Microsoft Subnet community of industry expert bloggers plus news and giveaways. We've got Microsoft training and System Center books to give away. Read More
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