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News Microsoft Releases System Center Operations Manager 2012 RC Operations Manager 2012 helps monitor applications too, providing diagnostics on .NET and Java Enterprise Edition Web apps, including those supported by Microsoft's Windows Azure public cloud. Microsoft made a release candidate (RC) of System Center Operations Manager 2012 available to testers on Thursday.New to Operations

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News Microsoft Announces Windows 8 Roadmap for Windows Embedded OS The company announced plans to release Windows Embedded Standard v.Next "three quarters after Windows 8 is generally available for PCs," which pushes its release date into 2013.Microsoft on Monday outlined upcoming changes to its next-generation Windows Embedded operating system, which are largely based on Windows 8.These

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News Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL Confirm Online Advertising Partnership The deal between Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo came about, in part, because interoperability issues got solved.Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo have agreed to a deal that offers customers access to online display ad inventories from AOL's Advertising.com, the Microsoft Media Network (which includes MSN and Fox Sports sites) and Yahoo

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News Microsoft: Tens of Thousands of Customers Use Windows Azure Cloud General Manager of Microsoft Server and Tools says 75 percent of new server shipments use the Windows Server operating system for private cloud deployments. Microsoft expects the future of its Windows Azure public cloud to be more in the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) realm, offering support for multiple programming

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News Microsoft Reveals SQL Server 2012 Licensing Model Licensing costs for SQL Server 2012 won't substantially change except for Client Access Licensing (CAL), which will be higher.Microsoft unveiled a new licensing and pricing model for its upcoming SQL Server 2012 product family, which is expected in the first half of next year.The new licensing model is based on an organization's computing

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News Linux Community Counters Microsoft's Windows 8 Secure Boot Mandate While secure boot is optional to use as described in the UEFI spec, Microsoft will require system vendors to use it as the default as part of the Windows 8 logo program.Microsoft's comments about embracing secure boot at its BUILD developer conference in September caused an open source Linux community backlash.Now the

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News Microsoft Submits Patch to Samba Core Under Open Source License The relationship between Microsoft and Samba has certainly changed. Microsoft was forced by a European antitrust action to open its network protocols to Samba in 2007.Microsoft marked another open source milestone last month.The company's Oct. 10 patch improved the Samba core code and was submitted under the open source GNU

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News Microsoft System Center 2012 Previews Released On the cloud management side, Microsoft released betas of App Controller and Service Manager, as well as a release candidate of Orchestrator, which are all within the System Center 2012 product family.Microsoft announced a product name change and integration that beefs up its System Center 2012 suite.The announcements were made in

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News Citrix Unleashes Product Blitz at Synergy Partner ConferenceCitrix Systems unleashed a torrent of desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) announcements at its Synergy event in Barcelona on Wednesday. The announcements largely centered on the company's Desktop Transformation Model, which rolled out earlier this month.The product blitz came with ambitious plans for

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News Blackberry Business Cloud Services To Support Office 365 No service charge: Blackberry Business Cloud Services will be free for Microsoft Exchange Online and Office 365 customers. Research In Motion is launching a public beta trial this week of a new BlackBerry Business Cloud Services that works with Microsoft Office 365. The service, which is slated to roll out in January, enables access

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News Microsoft Updates Mac Lync Client for Office 365 Lync for Mac 2011, released last month, experienced problems on the latest Mac OSX Lion operating system.Microsoft issued an update on Friday that enables Macintosh users to connect to the company's Office 365 service.Office 365 supports connections with Microsoft Lync 2011 for Mac released last month, but users running Lync for Mac 2011 on

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News Microsoft Q1 Results Strong Despite Flat PC Sales Office sales remained strong, but Online Services continued to show weakness caused in part by Microsoft's Bing search initiatives.Microsoft met analysts' expectations in its fiscal first quarter, delivering $0.68 per share, despite flat PC sales, according to financial results reported by the company on Thursday.Revenue for the quarter,

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News Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" Is Widely Released It appears that only a few service providers have issues with the Mango release.Microsoft announced on Wednesday that most of its mobile service providers are in the process of delivering the Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" update to customers, after a phased rollout that began last month.It appears that only a few service providers have issues with

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News Microsoft Updates Windows Intune Cloud Service Software distribution across a network of PCs via the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud is now available with Windows Intune.Microsoft released a major update to Windows Intune, a PC management and security service aimed at mid-size organizations, that became publicly available in March.Software distribution is among the new Windows Intune

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News Big Data Updates to SQL Azure Cloud Service Expected in Q4 The long awaited SQL Azure Federation v1 for scaling out databases using a sharding pattern, is among the expected features.Microsoft is rolling out a major update of its SQL Azure cloud database service sometime in the fourth quarter.The updated service will increase the maximum size of SQL Azure databases from 50 GB to 150 GB,

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News Microsoft Regroups Apps on Windows 8 Metro UIThe future of the Windows user interface is app-based rather than file-based, according to Microsoft. But many people have already expressed concerns about the new app tiles that make up the Start Screen of the Windows 8 Metro user interface.Microsoft is responding to that feedback in a series of "building Windows 8" blog posts issued this

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News SQL Server 2012 Expected in First Half of Next Year Microsoft announced Data Explorer, a new cloud capability for businesses to share data in SQL Server 2012At the PASS Summit 2011 in Seattle this week, Microsoft officially announced SQL Server 2012 (formerly codenamed "Denali") and expanded its product support for open source Apache Hadoop technology.The third community technology

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News Microsoft: Linux Dual-Boot Configurations Still "Possible" on Windows 8 PCs Is the whole dual-boot argument associated with Linux much ado about nothing? Even Windows 7 is not slated to have support for a dual-boot configuration with Windows 8.Microsoft debunked claims that dual-boot configurations with Linux OSes are not possible on Windows 8. However, users must first turn off a "secure

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News Microsoft: October Security Update Patches .NET and Silverlight The October security update provides patches for two "critical" and six "important" items covering a range of products including Microsoft .NET Windows, Internet Explorer, Forefront and Microsoft Host Integration Server.Microsoft released its October Security Bulletin alerting users to eight patches, including a critical

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News Microsoft Receives EU Approval for Skype Deal When the acquistion is finalized, Microsoft will gain access to 170 million Skype subscribers, although it's likely that most are consumers who use the free version of the product.The European Commission approved Microsoft's $8.5 billion bid for Skype on friday, paving the way for Microsoft to integrate Skype's voice-over-IP technologies and

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News Microsoft Previews PowerShell 3.0 The company released a preview of the scripting technology for Windows 8, and the latest Windows 7 technologies, as part of its Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview. Microsoft highlighted the upcoming release of Windows PowerShell 3.0 for Windows 8 during several sessions at its Build conference for developers last week.The company

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News Microsoft Previews Hadoop Connectors for SQL Server The company hinted that more tooling is on the way for big data integrations.Microsoft is previewing test versions of its Hadoop connectors, designed to enable the transfer of structured and unstructured data with SQL Server and SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse in heterogeneous environments.Hadoop is an Apache open source framework for

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News SharePoint Online To Add Business Connectivity Services By year-end, SharePoint Online will offer Business Connectivity Services to make it easier for developers to build cloud-based applications that front-end their data.Microsoft highlighted an update to SharePoint Online during the Day 1 keynote at its SharePoint 2011 conference in Anaheim, Calif. The major update will offer Business

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News Windows 8 Apps in Sync via Microsoft's Live Cloud At it's BUILD conference for developers earlier this month, Microsoft demonstrated how Windows Live Services will play a key role in enabling roaming and single sign-on capabilities for Windows 8 and its applications.With Windows 8, Microsoft is moving towards the world of connected devices championed by former Microsoft Chief Software

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News Developers Take Center Stage at Day 2 Build KeynoteWhile yesterday's keynote focused more on Windows 8 and Metro-style app development, Wednesday morning's Build keynote -- lead by Microsoft Corporate Vice Presidents Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander -- targeted the rank and file .NET developer, focusing in on the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, among other topics.Wearing his trademark

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News Analysts Review Windows 8 Platform Changes In essence, Microsoft now has two client operating system models: Metro and classic, according to Directions on Microsoft.A team of analysts at independent consultancy Directions on Microsoft updated their Windows platform roadmap based on announcements from Microsoft's Build conference for developers, held earlier this month. Michael Cherry,

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News Windows Phone "Mango" Tools Released The Release to the Web of the free tools coincides with the rollout of Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" and the first Web version of the Windows Phone Marketplace.Microsoft launched the final version of its free Windows Phone Software Development Kit (SDK) 7.1 for building mobile applications that run on the Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" operating system on

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News Carriers Start to Roll Out Windows Phone "Mango" Worldwide All carriers have started to deliver Windows Phone 7.5 but it could take four weeks for some customers to be notified. Microsoft is planning a gradual roll out to head off any problems with its first major upgrade.Mobile phone operators are starting to release Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" updates to customers worldwide, Microsoft

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News Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" Updates Could Start Next Week By the end of October, Microsoft will provide functionality in its App Hub that allows developers to publish updates to 7.0 and 7.5 versions of their apps.Microsoft expects carriers and handset manufacturers to begin rolling out Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" updates to customers in one to two weeks, the company announced on Wednesday.The

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News IE10 Preview 2 Shows HTML5/CSS3 Progress Internet Explorer 10 is the first browser to support several new performance APIs coming out of the W3C's working groups, according to Microsoft.Microsoft released another glimpse of its upcoming Internet Explorer 10 browser technology to Web developers on Wednesday to facilitate testing of HTML5, CSS3 and related features.IE10 Platform Preview 2 is

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News Microsoft Previews Windows To Go for Windows 8 The early release of Windows To Go runs the Windows 8 developer preview.Microsoft offered a preview of its Windows To Go product, with an imaged version of Windows 8 on a USB device, at its Build conference on Thursday. The early release of Windows To Go runs the Windows 8 "developer preview" version of the OS.Windows To Go will enable IT

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News Windows Phone GM To Exit Microsoft Charlie Kindel was the general manager of Microsoft's Windows Phone Developer Experience, where he was responsible for growing the third-party apps ecosystem for Windows Phone 7.The general manager of developer experience in Microsoft's Windows Phone business is leaving the company to found his own startup. Charlie Kindel, a 21-year Microsoft veteran,

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News Attachmate and Xamarin Announce Mono PartnershipMono Project originator Miguel de Icaza announced a deal with Attachmate to continue commercial support of the open source .NET technology.Attachmate acquired Novell earlier this year and then laid off virtually all members of the company's Mono team. de Icaza, who lead the Mono development at Novell, left Attachmate soon after and founded

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News Windows Server 8 Optimized for Cloud The developer preview bits for the new server are currently available to MSDN subscribers.Microsoft highlighted its next-generation server technology, code-named "Windows Server 8," during the Day 2 keynote at its Build conference for developers on Wednesday. Windows Server 8 is designed to support the transition from client/server applications to

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News Development Team Structure Sheds Light on Windows 8 Features The features handled by each team represent broad architectural aspects of Windows.The structure of the development teams working to build Microsoft Windows 8 could offer clues about what's coming in the next operating system.On Wednesday, Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, explained the general

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News Microsoft Disables Supercookie Code The use of the supercookie code isn't inline with the company's privacy policies, according to Microsoft.Microsoft's Web sites were among the sites identified by researchers at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley as using "supercookie" code. Microsoft claims, however, that it has since disabled the tracking code, which

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News Windows 8 Changes Highlighted in Opening Build KeynoteTo kick off its long-awaited Build conference today, Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, lead the two-hour long keynote offering details on the developer preview of Windows 8, a tour of the diverse hardware destined to run the new operating system and applications, and insight into

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News Ballmer: 'Microsoft Office Meets the Cloud'Microsoft announced the global availability of Office 365, the cloud-based counterpart to its Office desktop suite, on Tuesday at a launch event in New York.CEO Steve Ballmer said, "We're here to introduce Microsoft Office 365, where Microsoft Office meets the cloud." Microsoft has its sights on large enterprises, but small and medium businesses

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News Build: Microsoft Reveals Windows 8 Details Microsoft pulled back the curtain on its new operating system, code-named "Windows 8," at a preview during its Build conference, being held this week in Anaheim, Calif. These demonstrations held Monday at a Build preview for press offer the deepest view yet of what looks like a radical departure from past desktop operating system designs. Those

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News Microsoft Adds Android to Windows Phone API Mapping ToolMicrosoft released API mapping tools for Android developers, as promised this week, to make it easier to port Android apps to Windows Phone 7.In April, Microsoft released API mapping tools for Apple iOS developers and indicated that similar tooling was on the way for Android sometime this summer. The Apple iOS tools provide the same

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News Google Blinks: Judge Sides with Microsoft on Expert Testimony in Android Lawsuit The judge, acting on behalf of the U.S. International Trade Commission in the Microsoft vs. Motorola dispute, indicated that Google failed to document its "good-faith effort to resolve the matter with Microsoft."Google's attorneys cried foul last week, claiming that a Microsoft expert witness improperly

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News Windows 8 Copy Feature Unveiled Windows 8 is designed to handle high-volume copy jobs better than the current Explorer command system found in Windows 7.Microsoft is slowly starting to reveal more about Windows 8, showing planned changes to the file management system on Wednesday.Windows 8 is designed to handle high-volume copy jobs better than the current Explorer command system found in

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News Gartner: Windows 7 Installed on 42 Percent of PCs Worldwide Despite economic headwinds, 94 percent all PCs will ship with Windows 7 in 2011, predicts Gartner.Gartner Inc. is forecasting that Windows 7 will be the dominant operating system worldwide by the end of 2011.Despite economic headwinds, the market researcher's latest model predicts 94 percent of all PCs will ship with Windows 7 in

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News Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Integrates More Managed Code Dynamics AX 2012 enables developers to compile the product's X++ language into the Common Immediate Language of the .NET Framework for the first time.Microsoft released its Dynamics AX 2012 enterprise resource planning software earlier this month, touting features that will enable greater customization by developers and

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News Microsoft Phases Out Windows Mobile Apps Last week Microsoft began notifying Windows Mobile 6.x developers that the company will no longer accept new Windows Mobile applications for the Windows Marketplace for Mobile starting July 15, 2011.Last week Microsoft began notifying Windows Mobile 6.x developers that the company will no longer accept new Windows Mobile applications for the

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News Microsoft Forms Cloud Partnership with Chinese Linux Vendor The deal with China Standard Software Co., which is designed around cloud computing, involves a technical collaboration on Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization technology.Microsoft formalized its alliance with Linux server provider China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C) this week, with an interoperability and legal agreement

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News Smartphone Sales Up 74 Percent Worldwide, Microsoft Loses Share Samsung's proprietary smartphone OS Bada passed Microsoft Windows Phone in unit sales in the second-quarter.Smartphone sales worldwide rose 74 percent year-over-year in the second-quarter but unit sales of Microsoft Windows Phones slipped, falling behind the Samsung Bada, according to Gartner research.Smartphone unit sales

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News Microsoft Releases Avatar Kinect Gamers interacting in chatrooms via live avatars could be the start of a larger trend. The Kinect sensor may one day be miniaturized for laptops, smartphones and other mobile devices, according to Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer.Microsoft released Avatar Kinect on Monday, a new service for Xbox users of the Kinect

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News Microsoft Beats Q4 Estimates, Windows Sales Lag Microsoft reported its FY11 Q4 results on Thursday, beating analysts' expectations, despite a dip in Windows revenue for the second consecutive quarter. Total revenue for the quarter was buoyed by Office 2010 sales and continued strength in the Entertainment and Devices division, lead by the Xbox 360 gaming console.Microsoft reported its

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News Former Microsoft Exec To Head Juniper Networks' New Software Division Bob Muglia is the third Microsoft executive to join Juniper Networks since Kevin Johnson left Microsoft to become chief executive of the networking company in 2008.Veteran Microsoft executive Bob Muglia has joined Juniper Networks, the company announced on Monday, as the vice president of its new Software Solutions

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News Microsoft Releases Windows Phone Update 'Mango' to DevelopersMicrosoft is making the beta of the first major update to its Windows Phone 7 operating system, codenamed "Mango", available to developers for testing applications. It could take weeks for some developers to get it, however.The company also released the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 beta 2 for Mango.A Microsoft Silverlight SDK blog post

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News Microsoft Releases Windows Phone 'Mango' to Manufacturing Microsoft plans to issue Windows Phone 7 "release candidate" tools in late August, and those tools will be required for developers to upload their Mango apps to Microsoft's App Hub.Microsoft has released the Windows Phone "Mango" operating system update, expected on smartphones sometime this fall, to its device

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News Microsoft Updates SQL Server with R2 SP1, "Denali" CTP3 Microsoft released the latest community technology preview of SQL Server "Denali" on Monday. The next-generation technology was highlighted during the keynotes and session talks at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference this week in Los Angeles.Microsoft released the latest community technology preview of its next-generation SQL

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News Enterprises Not Ready for UC in the CloudMid-to-large U.S. enterprises remain reluctant to deploy unified communications over a public cloud, according to an industry-commissioned study, conducted by Osterman Research, last month.The research may not bode well for Microsoft as the company gets ready to launch its Office 365 cloud-based services, which include UC technologies on June 28.The

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News Tech-Ed: First Service Pack for Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 on Track for June Office 2010 Service Pack 1 is the first major update to Office clients and SharePoint Server since both products were released in April 2010.Microsoft announced on Monday that Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 clients and SharePoint Server 2010 is on track for release by the end of June.The company

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News Gartner Predicts Rise of Citizen Developers By 2014 "citizen developers" are expected to build 25 percent of new business applications, according to Gartner research. IT shops without governance policies in place to address this trend could face consequences, the study warns.In its study, "Citizen Developers Are Poised to Grow," Gartner argues that user-created business applications are

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News Windows 8 Preview Unveils New App Model Microsoft offered a first look at its Windows 8 operating system and its new touch-enabled interface designed to run apps based on HTML5 and JavaScript. Microsoft unveiled its next operating system, code-named "Windows 8," at the All Things Digital D9 Conference this week. Windows 8 is designed to run on multiple form factors including tablets,

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News Microsoft Plans to Support USB 3.0 in Windows 8 The company is tasked with supporting the emerging USB 3.0 technology while also trying to stay compatible with its earlier USB software efforts.Microsoft announced on Monday that it expects the Windows 8 operating system to support emerging Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0) technologies.USB 3.0 is a high-speed interface specification for

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News Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 ReleasedMicrosoft released Service Pack 1 for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Tuesday.  Service Pack 1 (SP1) rolls up the fixes and updates since the Office suite and SharePoint were released in June 2010.The release of SP1 comes on the same day that Microsoft officially launched the latest version of its cloud-based Office suite,

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News Windows Phone SDK Release Candidate Goes Live for "Mango" App Submissions The Mango 7.1 SDK Release Candidate supports a Go Live license that enables developers to submit their apps to the Windows Phone Marketplace.Microsoft promised Windows Phone developers in July, when the first major update to its operating system was released to manufacturing, that the App Hub would start accepting

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News Microsoft Previews SQL Server 2008 SP3 The company has managed to reduce the changes in Service Pack 3 by about 65 percent.Microsoft released previews of Service Pack 3 this week that support various editions of its SQL Server 2008 relational database.The Customer Technical Previews (CTPs) contain improvements based on customer feedback and Service Pack 2 hotfixes. Service Pack 2 was

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News Microsoft Counters Android Patent Attack Claims General Counsel Brad Smith says Microsoft invited Google to "bid jointly with us" for the Novell patents.Two Microsoft executives contested Android patent attack complaints by Google's chief counsel via Twitter.David Drummond, Google's senior vice president and chief legal officer, claimed in a blog post last week that Microsoft, Apple and

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News Microsoft Inks Four Android License Agreements, Adds Chrome This week Microsoft added Wistron Corp. to a string of patent license agreements with manufacturers associated with the use of the Android open source mobile operating system. What's unique about the Wistron deal is that it includes the design manufacturer's use of the Google Chrome operating system.Microsoft on Tuesday added

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News Microsoft Releases Source Code Used to Collect Wi-Fi Data In a bid to promote greater transparency about its data collection practices, Microsoft released some of the source code for its Windows Phone 7 location information software last week.In a bid to promote greater transparency about its data collection practices, Microsoft released some of the source code for its Windows Phone 7

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News Microsoft Releases Windows Phone 'Mango' Dev Tools, Nokia and Other Phones Expected this FallMicrosoft on Tuesday announced plans this fall to release Windows Phone "Mango," the code-name for a major Windows Phone 7 upgrade with more than 500 new features, on handsets from the three current Windows Phone 7 manufacturers and four others, including Nokia.In conjunction with the

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News Microsoft Research Secures Windows with SAGE Fuzz Testing Most fuzz-testing tools use the blackbox approach of throwing random inputs at a program without knowledge of the code. For the last two years, Microsoft has used a whitebox fuzz-testing method developed by Microsoft Research to reduce security flaws in its Windows x86 software.Most fuzz-testing tools use the blackbox approach of

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News Developing Microsoft's New SkyDrive Architecture Microsoft has redesigned the file browsing features in SkyDrive using "intelligent AJAX" technology.Microsoft has redesigned the photo viewing and file browsing features in SkyDrive, the cloud-based storage and file sharing service.The new architecture is based on AJAX technology, according to Steve Bailey, a development manager for Windows

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News HTML 5 Ready for Broad Testing and Review Ratification of HTML 5 is on track for 2014. The Last Call milestone, reached on May 24, opens up the HTML 5 Working Draft specification for final testing and broad public comment. Microsoft is among the organizations working on the HTML5 publishing language for creating standard Web pages, alongside participants from Adobe Systems, Apple, Google,

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News Microsoft: Despite Doubters Office 2010 Sales on TrackMicrosoft touted the adoption of Office 2010, calling it "the fastest selling version of Office ever" in a blog marking the one year anniversary of the latest version of the productivity suite, which shipped June 15 of last year. The first service pack for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is expected later this month.According to

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News Tech-Ed: Microsoft Previews Windows Phone for BusinessMicrosoft executives focused on plans for Windows Phone 7 during the keynote at its Tech-Ed North America conference on Monday, but the Skype acquisition, which was announced last week, was not part of the 90-minute presentation.During the keynote, Robert Wahbe, Microsoft corporate vice president of Server and Tools Marketing, and

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News Microsoft and SUSE Agree to Extend Linux Partnership This latest deal is basically the same one that was established between Microsoft and Novell in November of 2006.Microsoft is renewing its server interoperability and patent-protection agreement with SUSE Linux and investing $100 million in the program. Under the new terms, Microsoft and SUSE will continue their interop and IP licensing

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News Developer Build of Mango "Close Enough" To RTM The latest developer build of the Windows Phone "Mango" OS works with the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 beta 2 refresh released this week.Microsoft released its Windows Phone "Mango" OS to device manufacturers this week but app developers will get an earlier build, compatible with the latest refresh of the beta 2 tooling.The developer build of Mango (

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News Windows Thin PC Released to Manufacturers Microsoft released Windows Thin PC to hardware manufacturers on Tuesday. Windows Thin PC is virtual desktop infrastructure technology, based on the Window Embedded Standard 7 codebase, that can run on any PC that is capable of running Windows 7.Microsoft released Windows Thin PC (WinTPC)to hardware manufacturers on Tuesday. WinTPC is virtual

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News CORRECTED: Microsoft Strongly Denies VB 6 Going Open Source, Sources Retract StatementRedmond Developer News has retracted its earlier report that Microsoft had told MVPs at the Tech-Ed Conference that it planned to open source the Visual Basic 6 programming language.Microsoft's Doug Seven, director of product management for Visual Studio tools and languages, strongly denied a story

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News Microsoft To End Hohm Power-Monitoring Service Microsoft is calling it quits on Hohm, its free power-monitoring service for consumers. The decision to shutter Hohm resulted in part because it didn't fit the business model of the Windows Embedded Business segment, according to a developer who worked on the project.Microsoft is calling it quits on Hohm, its free power-monitoring service for

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News Visual Studio ALM vNext Announced at Tech-Ed The next version of Microsoft's Visual Studio application lifecycle management will expand beyond development and QA to integrate IT operations and input from stakeholders.Microsoft unveiled what's coming in Visual Studio ALM vNext at its Tech-Ed North America conference for developers and IT professionals, which is taking place in Atlanta this

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News IE9 Economic Impact: Forrester Taps into Early Adopters The top benefits of moving to IE 9, beyond the extended cost savings, were described by interviewees as "malware protection and improved security," as well as "some improvement in productivity for power browser users."Companies can cut IT costs by migrating to Internet Explorer 9, according to new research, commissioned by

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News Infragistics Charts a New Course for Windows Phone The XAML mobile controls are based on the same APIs as the desktop and are consistent, from a developer standpoint, with the company's UI controls for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight.Infragistics Inc. released a suite of its data visualization controls for Windows Phone developers at the end of June, after previewing the

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News French Security Firm Hacks Chrome Google Chrome has survived hacker contests for more than two years. Now a security firm claims it's found a zero-day exploit of Chrome running on Windows.Google offered $20,000 to any programmer, who could find a vulnerability in its Chrome Web browser in February. Chrome survived that contest without being hacked.After two years of escaping hackers'

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News Microsoft Drops Fees for Data Transfers to the CloudStarting July 1, Microsoft will offer free inbound data transfers to its Windows Azure cloud computing platform.The cut in pricing,announced this week, is available to all Windows Azure customers, according to the company. Users of Windows Azure still get charged for outbound data transfers, which are region specific. Outbound data

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News Microsoft's May Security Patch Is Light After Massive Load in AprilMicrosoft's security update, which is expected on Tuesday, May 10, is relatively light compared to last month's massive patch load.The one "critical" item will address remote code execution vulnerabilities in Windows Server 2003 and 2008. The important item will be designed to plug an RCE security concern with PowerPoint

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News Microsoft's Nadella Talks about Azure, Office 365The new head of the Microsoft Server and Tools Business, Satya Nadella, took the stage today at the GigaOM Structure event to talk about Windows Azure and cloud computing adoption. Nadella talked publicly about the company's strategy for the first time since replacing longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia in February.The live Q&A, which

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News Microsoft Acquires ERM Partner Prodiance On Monday Microsoft announced it had acquired Prodiance Corp., a Microsoft Certified Partner that specializes in enterprise risk management software, which integrates with Office and SharePoint.On Monday Microsoft announced it had acquired Prodiance Corp., a Microsoft Certified Partner that specializes in enterprise risk management software, which

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News Microsoft's 'License Mobility' Extends to Amazon Cloud Microsoft launched its License Mobility with Software Assurance program this month, enabling companies to move on-premise application servers to public cloud hosting services, such as Amazon Web Services, without incurring additional software licensing costs.Microsoft's License Mobility with Software Assurance (SA) program, which

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News U.S. Regulators Approve Microsoft Skype AcquisitionThe Federal Trade Commission indicated on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice has cleared Microsoft's bid to buy Skype in a deal estimated at $8.5 billion.Luxembourg-based Skype provides IP-based voice and video communications services over the Internet. In order to proceed, the acquisition still requires international regulatory

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Microsoft today released the fourth "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9, the company's next-generation Web browser. The platform preview is not a complete browser since it lacks an address bar and some navigation and security features. It's a prebeta release that shows off the IE team's integration of HTML 5 support, scalable vector graphics and hardware-accelerated graphics -- all

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Microsoft this week touted global market share gains for Internet Explorer 8 over rival browsers, citing July data from Net Applications. In May, IE's browser market share stabilized. It had previously been on a losing streak, dropping a percentage point each month from July 2009 to April 2010, according to Net Application's data. This week, Ryan Gavin, senior director for Internet Explorer

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The search giant Google and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency are investing in a company working to track Web-browsing behavior. Both companies are funneling money into Recorded Future, a company researching a new Web-browsing analytics tool that could be used to estimate the future browsing habits of people surfing the Web.Boston-based Recorded Future scans thousands of Web sites,

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Microsoft today disclosed retail pricing and release plans for Office for Mac 2011. Office for Mac 2011 is the seemingly neglected cousin to the Windows-based Microsoft Office productivity suite. The Apple Mac-based version has a dedicated Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit development team operating on a production cycle that varies from the Windows team. For instance, the latest

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) confirmed i4i's patent, sending another blow to Microsoft's legal strategy to deny intellectual property claims surrounding i4i's "custom XML" technology. Toronto-based i4i announced on Tuesday that the USPTO had "issued a Reexamination Certificate" (PDF). The certificate confirms U.S. Patent No. 5,787,449, which contains i4i's invention claims

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Microsoft's business strategies were described at the company's Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday. The talks by five Microsoft executives, including Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, came on the heels of the company's positive fourth-quarter earnings. Last week, Microsoft announced revenue of $16 billion for the quarter. Peter Klein, Microsoft's chief financial officer, said at

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A Google program manager last week announced the company was changing its software development methodologies to speed up stable releases of the Chrome Web browser. "Running under ideal conditions, we will be looking to release a new stable version about once every six weeks, roughly twice as often as we do today," said Anthony Laforge in a post on The Chromium Blog. The three reasons

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With working prototypes of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 in the hands of developers, and the software now at the technical preview stage, substantive judgments of the phone can be made. Those reviews are starting to come in, and they're largely positive. For instance, Michael Gartenberg, an influential analyst with Altimeter Group, gave the phone a mostly thumbs-up review. Among his comments:

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Microsoft announced today that it is planning to release a new version of its security mitigation tool for ISVs and Windows users. Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 2.0, when released in "upcoming weeks," will contain six mitigation protections, according to Microsoft's announcement. The mitigations block general techniques used by hackers that try to exploit vulnerabilities

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Novell today announced that it is shipping the release version of Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0, the add-in module for Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) that enables developers to write cross-platform .NET applications. Mono Tools 2.0 advances the cross-platform appeal of the tooling, adding full support for development of .NET applications bound for the Mac

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After a year of working on securityВ steps to comply with federal government regulations, Google today launched Google Apps for Government. Google Apps for Government is the first suite of cloud-computing applications to receive Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification and accreditation from the U.S. government, said David Mihalchik, Google's federal business

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Microsoft has adopted a variant of its "responsible disclosure" policy for reporting security flaws in its software, the company announced last week. The new approach is called "coordinated vulnerability disclosure" (CVD). However, the policy is not too different from responsible disclosure, which depended on keeping reports by security researchers private until a fix or workaround was

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An annual survey of IT organizations found rising trends toward deploying Windows 7, desktop virtualization and unified communications solutions. Computer Economics surveyed more than 200 IT organizations in the United States and Canada from January to April of this year. Despite a conservative spending outlook with the current economic downturn, IT organizations were willing to invest in

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Microsoft has licensed the architecture for ARM Holdings' mobile microprocessor platform, but the move does not appear likely to have an impact on devices in the near-term pipeline. ARM, whose processors are widely used in mobile devices, notably Apple's iPhone and iPad, said Microsoft is the first software vendor to say it is taking on an architectural license. The move lets Microsoft

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Tablet handheld computers will begin to outsell netbooks in two years in the U.S. market, according to Forrester Research. The Massachusetts-based research firm classifies tablets as a "form of personal computer," even though the definition is sometimes considered up for debate by the industry. By 2014, consumers predominantly will use tablets over netbooks. In 2015, Forrester predicts

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