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    Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Just two critical fixes but they affect a lot of Windows systems

    Internet Explorer zero-day exploit is not addressed, but businesses should implement the workaround Microsoft is issuing two critical fixes on this month’s Patch Tuesday, one of them affecting its most popular operating system — Windows 7 — in conjunction with Windows Server 2008 R2. That problem allows remote execution of […]

  • Santa and NORAD: Microsoft nicer than Google this year

    NORAD switches to Bing Maps to help you track Santa’s journey on Christmas Eve Google apparently hasn’t been naughty in Santa’s eyes, but Microsoft must have been pretty nice. NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, will switch from using Google Maps to Bing Maps to track Santa Claus on […]

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    Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True

    Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True Almost one year ago today, we laid out the nightmare scenario for Microsoft (MSFT) that could lead to its business collapsing. After laying it all out, we concluded, “Fortunately for Microsoft, none of this is going to happen.” We were wrong. A lot changed […]

  • IT jobs on the other side of the cloud

    IT jobs on the other side of the cloud As companies turn increasingly toward the cloud, corporate IT staffers wonder if the grass is greener working for a service provider. Jake Robinson remembers the day when he really understood what it means to work on “the other side of the […]

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    Windows RT tablets and hybrids coming soon

    Microsoft, Asus, Lenovo and Samsung are launching tablets with Microsoft’s Windows RT Microsoft will open the floodgates for Windows RT tablets at a release event Oct. 26 in New York City. The Surface tablet from Microsoft will be available on launch, with more tablets from Asus, Dell, Samsung, Lenovo and […]

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    What if Windows 8 flops?

    Then Windows 7 gets a longer life, Microsoft presses on Microsoft launches Windows 8 later this month after a year of gradually making the new operating system more and more available, hoping for a big hit that will drive sales this holiday season and beyond, and giving the company new […]

  • Microsoft, PreEmptive Team to Deliver Exception Analytics to Visual Studio 2012

    Microsoft partners with PreEmptive Solutions to deliver exception analytics to Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 right out of the box. Microsoft and PreEmptive Solutions announced that PreEmptive Analytics and Dotfuscator CE will be included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 to provide exception analytics for developers using […]

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    What to expect at TechEd North America 2012

    As anyone who’s been to TechEd will attest, the event is not a sprint; it’s a marathon. With hundreds of technical sessions, workshops, labs and vendors, the annual Microsoft event doesn’t lack quantity. But what’s actually worth paying attention to? Thanks to the timing of the event, the published agenda […]

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    Will Windows Phone feel any pain after getting dumped by LG?

    Claiming sales are too weak, did LG make a valid point in dumping Windows Phone, or an excuse to avoid competing with Nokia? How about both? Ahead of a meeting between their CEOs, Korea’s LG Electronics has decided to shun any more Windows Phone products because there have yet to […]

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    IE’s browser share recovers, Chrome down for third straight month

    T Sign of a Microsoft turnaround, or just a calculation change by metrics company? Computerworld – Internet Explorer posted another major gain in share last month, the second in the first quarter of the year, perhaps signaling a turnaround in Microsoft’s fortunes, a Web metrics company said Sunday. Meanwhile, every […]