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	TechEd 2012: Windows Server 2012 isn't available yet, but it's running Bing How cooked is Windows Server 2012? Cooked enough to power Microsoft's Bing search engine. That's what attendees at Microsoft's TechEd North America 2012 heard during the first day's keynote by the company's Server and Tools Business President Satya Nadella, who used the information to try to convince his audience that it needs to move to the new platform as soon as it's available. Read More WEBCAST: HP, Microsoft & Intel Gaining A Competitive Advantage With Your Data Learn why managers at the most competitive organizations are two times more reliant on business analytics than managers at their least competitive peers. Click here to view the entire HP-Microsoft Data Management Appliance & Reference Architecture Portfolio and see how you can manage any data, any size, anywhere. (http://bit.ly/I1OdGI) Learn more In this Issue Windows 8 nears the finish line: What's good, what's bad 5 things we love/hate about Windows 8 Microsoft touts Windows Server 2012, Azure for data center 'cloud OS' Actual Windows RT tablet sees the light of day. Should anyone care? Microsoft official: The time is right for developers to build Win8 Metro apps Which carcass is worth more for Microsoft's vultures, RIM or Nokia? Microsoft developing Hyper-V support for OpenStack Symantec and Microsoft team for disaster-recovery service Tech companies oppose USITC's proposed import ban on Xbox Microsoft 'sorry' for raunchy Windows Azure video with dancing girls, bad sexual lyrics IT pros head to TechEd seeking details about Microsoft enterprise upgrades Microsoft to repair Internet Explorer fault discovered at hacking contest WHITE PAPER: CommVault Gartner Newsletter: Traditional Backup Read this Gartner-CommVault co-branded newsletter to understand why modern data protection is the best alternative to traditional backup. Learn More Windows 8 nears the finish line: What's good, what's bad Microsoft lifts the Windows 8 kimono one last time before the finish line. Here are the improvements and inconsistencies. Read More 5 things we love/hate about Windows 8 Now that Microsoft has released the latest beta version of Windows 8, with the clever name of Release Preview, here are 5 things we love and 5 things we hate about the new OS. Read More Microsoft touts Windows Server 2012, Azure for data center 'cloud OS' Microsoft kicked off its TechEd North America conference with a wide-ranging keynote session that was short on "wow" news but heavy on positioning for Windows Server 2012, Windows Azure and server-side products as key components of what the company is calling "the era of the cloud OS." Read More Actual Windows RT tablet sees the light of day. Should anyone care? The Computex trade show in Taipei, which wraps up on June 9, was a bit of a coming out party for Windows RT. Not because Microsoft made any major announcements about it, but because actual devices — not crude development platforms — were on display running the OS. Read More WHITE PAPER: Certeon Accelerate Business Continuity This lab-validated performance results report will enable IT and SAN administrators to take complete advantage of volume replication while reducing replication-based WAN traffic. Learn more. Microsoft official: The time is right for developers to build Win8 Metro apps With Windows 8 in its final phase of development, Microsoft is encouraging commercial and in-house enterprise developers to start building Metro-style applications for Microsoft's new operating system for desktops, laptops and tablets. Read More Which carcass is worth more for Microsoft's vultures, RIM or Nokia? Nokia and RIM, the two former leaders in the early smartphone market, are now basically at the end stage of their downward spirals. This is an opportunity for Microsoft, which wants to make some inroads in the smartphone market, assuming Microsoft it can play its cards right. Read More Microsoft developing Hyper-V support for OpenStack Microsoft is attempting to reintegrate support for Hyper-V back into OpenStack, months after the open source cloud-building project dropped support for the hypervisor in its latest release. Read More Symantec and Microsoft team for disaster-recovery service Symantec today announced a partnership with Microsoft to use Symantec storage and disaster-recovery products in tandem with Microsoft's Azure to allow continuous computing if a customer's main data site is severely disrupted. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Software Sun Chemical Customer Success Story Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, quadrupled its complex batch environment with zero extra headcount using BMC Control-M's Automated File Transfer features. Learn More! Tech companies oppose USITC's proposed import ban on Xbox The U.S. International Trade Commission should not ban the import of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console into the U.S., as an administrative law judge there has recommended, because of the negative effects on the technology industry, some tech vendors and trade groups have told the commission. Read More Microsoft 'sorry' for raunchy Windows Azure video with dancing girls, bad sexual lyrics Wow and yikes, there's nothing quite like a big raunchy oops when launching the New Windows Azure Services. While there are services like "Watch 'Learn Windows Azure' Live from TechEd North America," if you "watched" the Azure presentation at the Norwegian Developers Conference, then you "learned" a lot. Read More IT pros head to TechEd seeking details about Microsoft enterprise upgrades Tim Vander Kooi has gone to Microsoft's TechEd North America many times since the late 1990s, but he's never been as enthused as he is this year about attending the conference, the company's most important event for IT professionals and developers. Read More Microsoft to repair Internet Explorer fault discovered at hacking contest Next week's Patch Tuesday will feature a fix for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that came to light at the celebrated Pwn2Own hacking competition held earlier this year at CanSecWest. Read More
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