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Microsoft details Windows 8 upgrade program for consumers
By Juan Carlos Perez | 01 June, 2012 19:33Microsoft provided on Friday more details about the Windows 8 OS upgrade program for consumers who buy Windows 7 PCs, clarifying certain dates, offer limits and impact on the company's accounting.
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Wall Street Beat: June starts slow but hope for tech in 2012 remains
By Marc Ferranti | 01 June, 2012 19:09June is off to a rocky in the markets for technology companies as shares slump in the wake of troubling economic reports, though cooler heads appear to have confidence in the sector for the long term.
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Google files EU antitrust complaint over use of 'patent trolls' by Nokia and Microsoft
By Jennifer Baker | 01 June, 2012 12:45Google has asked European Union regulators to investigate alleged collusion between Nokia, Microsoft and so-called patent trolls.
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Online services increased their effort to protect user data, EFF says
By Loek Essers | 01 June, 2012 12:13While some online services are stepping up their efforts to protect private user data from government requests, there is plenty room for improvement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said on Thursday. It is time for all companies that hold private user data to make public commitments to defend their users against government overreach, the foundation said.
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CIOs extend unified communications to mobile devices
By Lauren Brousell | 31 May, 2012 19:15A survey finds that IT leaders are accelerating their plans to invest in unified communications and collaboration technologies. But the systems aren't cheap.
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Microsoft confirms $15 Windows 8 upgrade
By Gregg Keizer | 31 May, 2012 23:47Microsoft said on Thursday that it would kick off a Windows 8 upgrade program on Saturday, June 2, giving buyers of new Windows 7 PCs the chance to grab a copy of the not-yet-released operating system for $15.
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Microsoft previews new versions of Visual Studio and .Net
By Joab Jackson | 31 May, 2012 23:13Closely following its preview release of Windows 8, Microsoft has also posted a release candidate of its next version of the Visual Studio IDE (integrated development environment), as well as release candidates of the .Net framework and the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 source-control software.
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Browser feature can be abused to misrepresent download origin, researcher says
By Lucian Constantin | 31 May, 2012 21:43Legitimate browser functionality can be abused to trick users into believing that a trusted website has asked them to download a file, which is actually being served from a rogue server, Google security engineer Michal Zalewski demonstrated on Tuesday.
Interviews about Microsoft-
AppSense: A busy year ahead
By Hafizah Osman | 01 May, 2012 15:16It has been about eight months since Michael Bosnar replaced Sean Walsh as AppSense A/NZ managing director. HAFIZAH OSMAN spoke to him about some of the challenges the company has faced and the company’s expansion strategies.
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SNAPSHOT: Avanade - Partner of choice
By Patrick Budmar | 16 September, 2011 16:05Avanade Australia Country Manager, Jeyan Jeevartnam, on the company’s position in Australia and its plans for future growth.
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INSIDE STORY: Steering towards new business strategies
By Julia Talevski | 27 July, 2011 14:19Distributor IPL Communications held a thought leadership event earlier this year specifically targeting 170 dealers that were a mix between telco and system integrators. This was underscored by the need to change. Julia Talevski sat down with IPL general manager, Paul Scanlan, and managing director, Stead Denton.
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PROFILE: Harnessing the power of the hybrid cloud and beyond
By Patrick Budmar | 21 June, 2011 11:40With the virtualisation needs of Australian and New Zealand companies continually expanding, VMware Australia has stepped up to meet ITS ever growing expectations through the cloud. ARN spoke to VMware Australia Vice-President and Managing Director, Duncan Bennet, about his recent promotion, making virtualisation work and the journey to the cloud.
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Q&A: Microsoft's Windows marketing chief says Apple's 'scared'
By Eric Lai | 09 June, 2009 08:51Do you love Microsoft Corp.'s recent TV ads? Hate its "Apple Tax" marketing campaign? Then meet Brad Brooks. As Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows consumer product marketing, Brooks approved both campaigns as part of his goal of burnishing Windows 7's image in advance of its October launch (and tarnishing Apple's).
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Ballmer, Tucci discuss cloud vision
By Shane O'Neill | 11 March, 2009 11:32Microsoft and EMC recently converged in New York City to announce a three-year extension of their alliance to work together on enterprise virtualisation, storage, security and content management products.
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Blogging with Microsoft
By Trevor Clarke | 12 December, 2008 15:26When you already have a successful channel model which utilises all the traditional communication mediums, how do boost your ability to impart information and knowledge? Blog and start your own TV show. At least that’s what Microsoft has done.
Features about Microsoft-
First look: Windows 8 Release Preview
By Loyd Case | 31 May, 2012 19:46I'm sitting in my breakfast nook, my Samsung Series 9 sitting on the countertop. I check the news, and then look at how the markets are doing. After that, I fire up IE 10 to check my morning blogs, which kills another 15 minutes or so. At that point, I swipe the home page to the list of apps and open Word. It's a little disconcerting to be in the Metro-style interface--in what Microsoft calls the "Windows Home Page"--and then suddenly be in the desktop as Word launches. But cognitive dissonance is likely to be a common phenomenon among experienced Windows users.
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Guide: How to use Microsoft Word as a desktop publishing tool
By Helen Bradley | 30 May, 2012 08:21High-end desktop publishing programs, such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress, feature lots of tools to help designers produce stunning pages. But these programs are expensive, and novices require training to use them, factors that render their acquisition difficult to justify for most small businesses.
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Top 15 Cloud storage tips and tasks
By Ian Paul | 07 May, 2012 11:31No single cloud service can do everything. Some shine when it comes to streaming a cloud music collection from the Web, but stink at syncing desktop folders. Other cloud services are great for sharing photos, but useless for reviewing a document's revision history.
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Opinion: Windows RT may be Microsoft's answer to Apple and Google in the BYOD game
By Rob Enderle | 04 May, 2012 23:42There is an interesting post from the Microsoft Windows team on the Windows On ARM (WOA) version of Windows 8 that was recently renamed Windows RT-which reminded me why I'll never do Microsoft naming again. Windows RT is targeted directly at the iPad users who are bringing that product into the enterprise today on a wave of trend we are alternatively calling consumerization of IT or Bring Your Own Device ( BYOD) because we evidently can't come to a consensus on just one term.
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10 predictions for what the CIO Role will look like in 2020
By John Brandon | 04 May, 2012 01:39At the same time, we also know that technology will change dramatically. Who could have predicted even 10 years ago that the CIO would have to deal with complications such as cloud security and virtualisation? To find out how the role will change in eight years, we tapped industry leaders, analysts and CIOs themselves to discover what the challenges of 2020 for the CIO will be like. Here's what we found out.
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10 commandments of Windows security
By Daniel Dern | 24 April, 2012 09:15With the introduction of Windows 7, many PC and notebook users may feel more secure than they did using older versions of the Microsoft operating system. Newer OSs have more security features, offer better out-of-the-box security settings and have closed many of the historical security holes. Windows 7, for example, has changed the default User Account Control level so that it's harder for rogue programs to run without first explicitly gaining the user's permission.
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Guide: How to use Microsoft Word to create an e-book
By Helen Bradley | 18 April, 2012 22:15Microsoft Word has lots of features that make creating ebooks easy. You can use styles to format an ebook or update its formatting to work on a different platform. You can use the References tool to create a table of contents automatically. And you can produce a design template that's ready for repeated use, so you can spend more time creating content and less time futzing with layouts. Once you've mastered these steps, you can create great ebooks effortlessly. I'll show you how.
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In depth: Nokia's great Windows Phone hope - Beauty without brawn
By Galen Gruman | 10 April, 2012 20:13Nokia may sell more cellphones than any other company in the world, but it's been all but excluded from the United States for years -- and it's seen its global sales steadily shrink as the iPhone and Android smartphones have become the darlings of buyers in an increasing number of countries. Nokia's relevance has been fast receding, and its Symbian, Maemo, and MeeGo efforts became a pattern of failure for a company that just didn't get it. In response, a year ago, Nokia bet its future largely on Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's answer to Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
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