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Microsoft CEO maintains confidence that its mobile OS would draw more users in years to come, however IDG News Service – While Microsoft has enjoyed many successes over the past year, Windows Phone 7 hasn’t been among them, admitted Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during the opening keynote Monday at the […]
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Sole critical bulletin will fix flaws only in Vista and Windows 7 Computerworld – Microsoft today said it will issue four security updates next week, only one of which is pegged as critical, to patch 22 vulnerabilities in Windows and Visio 2003. Best Microsoft MCTS Training, Microsoft MCITP Training […]
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The Windows 8 start screen merges the multi-touch, tile-based design of WP7 with desktop OS features for a completely new UI. Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky gave a sneak peek of the next version of Windows — code-named Windows 8 — at the Wall Street Journal’s D9 conference on Wednesday. […]
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Microsoft has announced a free, 358-page book providing a detailed introduction to Windows CE 6.0. The downloadable Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Preparation Kit is intended as a text for students taking the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist exam, but is also useful generally, the company says. Best Microsoft MCTS Training, […]
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For his annual keynote at the Microsoft Wordwide Partner Conference, taking place this week in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner wasted little time challenging Microsoft’s many competitors. He flouted the supposed weaknesses of Cisco, IBM, Google, Oracle and others, letting attendees know that Microsoft is gunning for […]
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IT job seekers have real reason to hope. No fewer than 10,000 IT jobs were added to payrolls in May alone, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics, reflecting a steady month-over-month increase since January. And in a June survey by the IT jobs site Dice.com, 65 percent of hiring […]
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We survey the cloud’s effects on nine classes of IT jobs: Architects and sys admins win, middle managers and tech specialists lose — what about you? Winners: System administrators Other than architects, the jobs undergoing the greatest change as cloud encompasses the data center are those involving hands-on system administration. […]
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You can’t prevent your cloud service provider from going down, but there are ways to protect yourself For example, Web-based disk encryption vendor AlertBoot, headquartered in Las Vegas, used to pay $50,000 a month just for electricity, AlertBoot CEO Tim Maliyil says. Best Microsoft MCTS Training, Microsoft MCITP […]
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Sending your IT business to the cloud comes with risk, as those affected by these 10 colossal cloud outages can attest Is that a reason to run, arms flailing, away from anything cloud-connected? Probably not. But it is a reason to look carefully at your own data safeguards and think […]
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Apple plugs phishing hole on developer website YGN Ethical Hacker Group, which identified the holes, says news reports spurred action by Apple The hacker group that flagged a vulnerability on an Apple development website, a vulnerability that could have led to phishing attacks against Mac OS X, iPad and iPad […]