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Microsoft surveys tech elites on online privacy
Every year for Data Privacy Day, Microsoft releases the results from a new privacy survey. This year, Microsoft skipped over average John and Jane Does and instead surveyed "technology elites." The results were a bummer. Read More


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Using Cloud Communications for a Competitive Advantage
Watch this Frost & Sullivan webcast to learn why distributed organizations are rejecting the old model of premises-based communications solutions and have turned to cloud communications. Learn more >>

WHITE PAPER: IBM

4 Keys to Optimizing Long-Term Loyalty and Revenue
Today, implementing a customer relationship management (CRM) application may not be enough to remain competitive. To gain market share and grow revenue, many companies complement a CRM application with other technologies. Business analytics, predictive analytics, collaboration and data integration can give you more insights about your customers. Read Now

Microsoft to reveal data-center server designs that save cash
Businesses with large data centers stand to net big savings in capital, power, deployment and maintenance costs if they follow server blueprints being made public by Microsoft. Read More

Mac flashback: Bill Gates on the business impact of the Macintosh (3/2/1987)
Microsoft chairman praises Macintosh but never sees corporate buyers being a strong point for Apple. Read More

Microsoft-backed lobbying groups blast talk of Google-EU deal
A pair of organizations with ties to Microsoft today slammed a report that Google and European antitrust regulators were set to strike a deal without running it by them. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology

The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure
Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIO's are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. View Now

Partners get improved admin tools to manage customers' Office 365 environments
Microsoft will roll out over the coming weeks enhanced administration tools for partners that manage their customers' Office 365 deployments. Read More

21 more crazy and scary things the TSA has found on travelers
Each year Transportation Security Administration airport screeners have the truly thankless task of securely checking the traveling public's carry-ons and luggage. (This year tragically the job was dangerous as well, as one officer, Gerardo Hernandez, was killed in the line of duty at Los Angeles International Airport). But in that luggage they sure find some wacky and scary things according to the Transportation Security Administration Blog. Here's a look at some of the most interesting things people tried to travel with in 2013. Read More

Microsoft sharpens Windows Intune's cloud device management tool
Microsoft will deliver next week a set of new and enhanced features to Windows Intune, the device admin tool that lets organizations manage PCs and mobile devices from the cloud. Read More


WEBCAST: Code42

Endpoint Backup & Restore: Protect Everyone, Everywhere
Arek Sokol from the bleeding-edge IT team at Genentech/Roche explains how he leverages cross-platform enterprise endpoint backup in the public cloud as part of his company's global, "100% virtual" strategy. Watch today! Learn More.

Microsoft joins ARM server effort
Microsoft has joined a new project to accelerate the development of ARM-based servers, suggesting ARM versions of products like Windows Server and Hyper-V could be in the works. Read More

Microsoft: Targeted phishing attacks allowed SEA to steal law enforcement documents
Since the start of 2014, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has twice attacked Microsoft, accusing the Redmond giant of helping the government spy on and monitor our email as well as warning people not to use Microsoft email like Hotmail or Outlook. The first hack was via all of Skype's social media accounts. Read More

Did Microsoft reach into your PC to stomp a botnet?
Microsoft took down yet another botnet, but its method for doing so many not sit well with a lot of people, as the company removed software from their computers without their knowledge. Read More

Perspective: If Windows 8 = Vista, what's Microsoft's next move?
As Windows 8 struggles to gain traction, you can hear the criticism mounting, that Microsoft's latest OS is the new Vista. If that turns out to be true, the company has some big decisions to make. Read More

Microsoft nixes SkyDrive, picks OneDrive as new name
Microsoft today said it had renamed its SkyDrive online storage services as OneDrive, picking a name six months after striking a deal with a British broadcaster that had taken the American firm to trademark court. Read More


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