Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Five great Windows open source tools; Facebook and greed

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This is Network World's Microsoft Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Microsoft Subnet, your daily source for Microsoft news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more.

Top pick of the week

Five great Windows open source tools
Open source projects for Windows are growing like weeds. Here's a list of five favorites that blogger Ron Barrett promises will make your network rock -- all at that lovable open source price: Zenoss Core, VirtuaWin, Bochs, Recuva, PINs. Barrett tested each one. Click through the slideshow for an at-a-glance look, or check out his longer review of each tool (plus a list of Honorable Mentions), on Barrett's blog.

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More top picks from the week:

Microsoft is the largest U.S. user of H-1B visas, study says

Microsoft readies Vista SP2, plus fake updates coming for Windows 7

Microsoft counters lawsuit, claims it doesn't profit from XP downgrades

The top three reasons Exchange 2007 SP1 is awesome

The 10 hottest certifications

Converging on Microsoft podcasts
Latest episode: The Company Just Bought Your Last Computer

From our bloggers:

Mitchell Ashley: Convering on Microsoft
Facebook/Zuckerberg's greed, violating trust, and the coming privacy crisis
Excessive greed. It seems to be the systemic problem of the times, whether it's bandits like Bernie Madoff and Alan Stanford or Internet companies like Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. Zuckerberg/Facebook has failed its users on two counts.

Tyson Kopczynski: Hidden Microsoft
A $99,999 keyboard is the best bargain I’ve seen yet
Admittedly, this is most likely a typo or a joke, or if the seller is really trying to sell this keyboard for that much, you never know, it might be made of diamonds.

Glenn Weadock: On Windows Server 2008
BitLocker extends its reach
When BitLocker made its debut in the form of Windows Vista, it could only encrypt the system volume, in Server 2008 R2 (and Windows 7), BitLocker can be used to encrypt USB drives

Alex Lewis: Windows into Silicon Valley
Interview with Microsoft UC GM Betsy Frost
Betsy Frost, general manager for Microsoft unified communications, speaks about how Microsoft will internally save millions using its own UC technology.

Brian Egler: SQL Server Strategies
Blended learning, the best of two worlds
The trend is on to mix classroom and online learning as a less expensive, greener alternative.

Randy Muller: All About Microsoft Certifications
Server Quest II - the Contest
How would you like to win $5,000 for doing what you love to do - code and play games? You can, with a Silverlight contest that Microsoft is running.

Kerrie Meyler: Managing Microsoft
The case for open ... hardware
Apple facilitates all aspects of its hardware, and its operating system is pre-installed on all Macs. Apple exclusively produces the hardware, so why does Microsoft get bashed but Apple does not?

Susan Hanley: Essential SharePoint
Ten best practices for SharePoint My Sites
The SharePoint My Site allows users to create a “personal portal” in the corporate SharePoint environment. 

Hot discussions among Microsoft Subnet readers

Here is a good question: Is scripting programming or just systems administration?

Windows Vista, The Windows Me of our Generation

Layoffs - An Interesting Twist - want to move to India?

Hit me with your Second Shot

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use PowerPoint

Five great Windows open source tools

Giveaways and goodies

Deadline is February 28 for these goodies up for grabs:
1) One Microsoft training course from Global Knowledge worth up to $2,995.
2) Fifteen copies of Exchange Server 2007 How-To: Real Solutions for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Administrators by J. Peter Bruzzese and published December 22, 2008, by Sams.
See the Microsoft Subnet home page for details on all giveaways.

Check out Microsoft Subnet’s library for more free chapters and special discounts on best-selling books.

Check out the giveaways for books and free Cisco training from our sister site, Cisco Subnet.

Visit the Microsoft Subnet page for daily news, bloggers, opinions, hot topics.


Tweet to compete
Tweet to competeSmart social networking has become essential for most IT execs.

2009 MWC highlights
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02/24/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Conflicker worm gets an evil twin
  2. Citrix drops price of hypervisor to zero
  3. Bring in the iPhone clones
  4. Five fantastic open source tools for Windows admins
  5. 9 dirty tricks: Social engineers' favorite pick-up lines
  6. More than half of booted workers steal data on way out
  7. Proposed law might make Wi-Fi users help cops
  8. Lessons from a light socket
  9. A $99,999 keyboard is the best bargain I've seen yet
  10. Forget the Oscars: Sit back for the 404 Awards


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