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	Windows XP is a rootkit spawning pool If you're still dragging your feet on moving to Windows 7, consider this: A report from the Czeck antivirus firm Avast notes that three in four PCs infected with rootkits are running Windows XP, and it's not because so many people use aging operating system. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Financial Services Firm Reduces Mean Time to Recovery Literally every second counts, when downtime costs in the tens of thousands of dollars per minute. Learn why one U.S. financial services firm turned to Splunk and implemented a system that provides one global view of multiple logs to dramatically reduce their MTTR and paid for itself in just one month. Read more. In this Issue Internet Explorer gains among Windows 7 users, despite Microsoft's overall losses Thinking about RISC with Windows 8 From the department of kicking Google while it's down Microsoft MDOP now controls BitLocker Doing e-discovery/message retention/legal recovery in Exchange 2010-Office 365 ACLU to Congress: Cancer of gov't secrecy is killing America Opalis runbook automation fundamentals (Part 1) Google explains its data correlation privacy settings Microsoft fixes Mac Office bug in Apple's Lion Latest Windows Phone 7 tools let coders ready Mango apps Alcatel-Lucent gets $70 million in Microsoft patent case WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Email Security in Small and Medium-sized Businesses No organization can afford to operate without an email security strategy. The risk landscape is constantly changing with new threats surfacing every day. This white paper looks at email security in small and medium businesses, the solutions available and what features SMBs cannot do without. Read now Internet Explorer gains among Windows 7 users, despite Microsoft's overall losses Microsoft's long and steady decline in browser market share continued in July, but there is one bright spot for Redmond: Among Windows 7 PC owners, Internet Explorer is gaining, albeit only slightly. Read More Thinking about RISC with Windows 8 As Microsoft expands the CPU platform support from x86/x64 families into ARM territory with the addition of ARM CPU chips, there are many questions that will be raised for enterprise systems planners and designers. Some of the arguments will go back two decades in terms of the theoretical design differences between CPUs, but in more practical views, the actual impact of two CPU device families supported by Windows needs to be thought through. In the short term, nothing needs to be done; in the long term, deeper questions arise. Read More From the department of kicking Google while it's down "Well, sometimes when a person loves their gmail very, very much, the two get together and an ad is born." And with that quote, Microsoft hurls a big, fat grenade at Google for its contextual ads in Gmail. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Identity-Aware Networking Download this whitepaper today discover how IT can integrate identity and networking, enabling new business processes and easing regulatory compliance while improving security. Read now! Microsoft MDOP now controls BitLocker Microsoft has expanded its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) to include the ability to manage users' BitLocker encrypted folders. Read More Doing e-discovery/message retention/legal recovery in Exchange 2010-Office 365 The topic has come up many times recently on how organizations can leverage Microsoft Exchange 2010 (on-premise) or Microsoft Office 365 (in the cloud) to retain messages, legally hold and recover messages, and successfully perform eDiscovery tasks as required by legal counsel, by law, and/or as needed. Read More ACLU to Congress: Cancer of gov't secrecy is killing America American democracy is beyond sick, in fact it's cancerous due to government secrecy cloaking the surveillance of American citizens. According to a new ACLU report, written by Mike German, a former FBI undercover agent, and Jay Stanley, "We are now living in an age of government secrecy run amok." Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Get Wi-Fi Ready as a LAN Replacement As Wi-Fi continues to evolve, administrators need better real-time visibility into the "health" of clients. Learn how one tool can provide an intuitive, "at-a-glance" picture of: - Client transmission data rates - Transmission success rates - Goals of deployment for high, normal and low density locations Read now! Opalis runbook automation fundamentals (Part 1) As one speaks to customers about System Center these days, Opalis Integration Server (OIS) is a product that everyone wants to know more about. To that end, this series of postings covers some fundamental concepts to help get you started. This 3-part blog series discusses OIS 6.3 concepts and functionality, including real-world tips and sample automation sequences (policies) to jumpstart your process automation efforts. Read More Google explains its data correlation privacy settings In response to my blog post about how Google seems to be gathering pubic data about people and correlating it with their Google user names, Google has offered some explanations. A company spokesperson told me that the search giant is no looking at public phone directories to match phone numbers with user names. But it is looking through social media sites to correlate those accounts to your Google user name and profile. Read More Microsoft fixes Mac Office bug in Apple's Lion Microsoft released an updated version of Communicator for the Mac that works with Apple's Lion operating system. Read More Latest Windows Phone 7 tools let coders ready Mango apps Microsoft has released the latest beta version of the Windows Phone 7 Mango development tools and OS build to developers. They can now start final preparations for submitting the first batch of Mango apps for certification in August. Carriers and handset makers are already testing near-final code for new phones due this fall. 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