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	12 open source tools every Windows admin will love We mined Microsoft's open source hosting repository to unearth 12 invaluable Windows admin tools -- and they're all free. Read More WEBCAST: Trusteer Security Requirements vs. Operational Challenges In this webinar, guest speaker Rick Holland, senior analyst serving Security & Risk Professionals at Forrester Research, Inc., will discuss the security and operational challenges associated with advanced malware protection. Learn More In this Issue INSIDER The best laptops, convertibles, and Ultrabooks for Windows 8 Microsoft updates display 'worrisome' decline in quality Reddit AMA featuring Microsoft Outlook.com team tackles NSA, IMAP, Gmail Apple raises bet in poker game with Microsoft over mobile productivity How Microsoft's Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 are better suited for businesses Microsoft kicks off iPad buyback deal in latest effort to juice Surface sales PC satisfaction scores dip as customers drift to tablets Boulder's tech workers cope with historic flood Microsoft working out kinks in Outlook.com's IMAP implementation HTC grants our wishes: HTC One will run Windows Phone 8 WHITE PAPER: Boundary, Inc. Flying Blind or Seeing in the Clouds While the potential benefits of cloud computing are undeniable, it's difficult to gain operational visibility over environments that are dynamic and distributed by design and heterogeneous by nature. Read now! INSIDER The best laptops, convertibles, and Ultrabooks for Windows 8 From classic clamshell notebooks to next-gen touch hybrids, see how HP, Dell, Samsung, Lenovo, and Acer stack up. Read More Microsoft updates display 'worrisome' decline in quality Microsoft had to rewrite four security updates just three days after releasing them after customers reported never-ending demands that they be installed, even though they already had been. Read More Reddit AMA featuring Microsoft Outlook.com team tackles NSA, IMAP, Gmail Microsoft messaging team uses Reddit Q&A session to announce IMAP support. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell SecureNetworks CISO's Guide to Advanced Attackers No matter the size of your organization, advanced cyber-attacks represent a credible threat to your organization. Security analyst firm Securoris and Dell SecureWorks collaborated on this guide to help gather intelligence, mine for threat indicators, respond to alerts and break the attack process. Read now! Apple raises bet in poker game with Microsoft over mobile productivity Apple yesterday poked Microsoft by announcing it would give away its trio of iWork productivity apps to buyers of new iOS 7-compatible iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches purchased after Sept. 1. Read More How Microsoft's Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 are better suited for businesses When Microsoft launches the next generation of Surface tablets in two weeks, they'll be better suited to use in enterprises than the initial offerings, making them both more mobile with longer battery life and better suited for office work with a docking station add-on that gives them Ethernet connectivity. Read More Microsoft kicks off iPad buyback deal in latest effort to juice Surface sales Microsoft will pay at least $200 for used iPads made by rival Apple, and in return issue credit that customers can use to buy one of the company's Surface tablets. Read More WHITE PAPER: SolarWinds 2013 Network Management Software Buyer's Guide Network management solutions can range from free, open‐source tools, to complex & pricey enterprise class solutions. Balancing the trade‐offs between price & features can be tough. To help with this challenge, Networkmanagementsoftware.com reviewed six different solutions. Learn More PC satisfaction scores dip as customers drift to tablets The jarring combination of Microsoft's radical reinvention of Windows with old-style hardware caused the average satisfaction score of PC makers to slip in the last year, a pollster said. Read More Boulder's tech workers cope with historic flood Tech firms in Boulder must shutter downtown offices as floods damage offices and close most roads. But the Internet-based firms keep running smoothly. Read More Microsoft working out kinks in Outlook.com's IMAP implementation Getting Outlook.com to work with email client applications via IMAP is proving to be a challenge for some users of the Microsoft webmail service. Read More HTC grants our wishes: HTC One will run Windows Phone 8 This one burns me. Having given up on the Lumia family for being power-hungry monsters, I had gone over to the dark side and finally found an Android phone I could live with, the Samsung Galaxy S4. I had nothing against Apple; I'd owned an iPhone since 2008. But the screen was too small for my fat fingers and stretching it in one dimension but not the other made it look like a Pez dispenser. Read More
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