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	Windows Blue may restore Desktop, Start button, Microsoft's hopes The two most disliked aspects of Windows 8 - the lack of a Start button and inability to boot to desktop - may finally be addressed in Windows 8.1, aka "Windows Blue," an update to the maligned due later this year. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee Business-centric DLP Business-centric DLP to the Rescue - Keep networks open for business while guarding valuable data. Read Now In this Issue Microsoft Azure enters price war with Amazon Web Services 30 apps that improve Microsoft Office 2013 IT pro has a hair-raising hobby: competitive bearding Outgoing Intel CEO knocks Windows 8, predicts $200 touch PCs this year New Windows 8 Blue leak shows more refinements Microsoft exec talks mobile smack, trashes iOS as 'boring,' Android as 'a mess' Microsoft may backtrack on Start button in Windows 8 Intel's mobile transition struggles are Microsoft's advantage Microsoft is making a mistake by passing on a Surface Phone Microsoft moves to optional two-factor authentication WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel Big Data Requires a Remodeling of the Data Warehouse Take a few moments to learn about a data warehouse appliance that is a massively parallel server optimized to run Microsoft's SQL Server that delivers enterprise scalability, ease of maintenance, and a single version of the truth, all for a low cost. Read Now! Microsoft Azure enters price war with Amazon Web Services Microsoft is dropping prices for Azure Cloud Services and for Azure virtual machines to match those of Amazon Web Services and implies that it will cut the prices of other Azure offerings as well to match those of AWS. Read More 30 apps that improve Microsoft Office 2013 Want to improve your Microsoft Office experience? These 30 apps, most of them free, extend the capabilities of your core Office 2013 and Office 365 applications. Read More IT pro has a hair-raising hobby: competitive bearding By day Chad Roberts, 35, is a Windows Server & Exchange administrator for Berkshire Hathaway Media Group. For play he's an award-winning competitive beardsmith and founder of the RVA Beard League. Read More WHITE PAPER: Condusiv (Formerly Diskeeper) Managing the I/O Explosion Without Extra Hardware In this Technology Spotlight, IDC highlights the unexpected I/O explosion brought about by virtualization and presents new technologies that deliver exceptional application performance without additional hardware by eliminating unnecessary I/O traffic at the source. Read more. Read Now! Outgoing Intel CEO knocks Windows 8, predicts $200 touch PCs this year Intel's outgoing CEO took a few parting shots at Microsoft's Windows 8 Tuesday as he explained a slump in both revenue and profits for the first quarter. Read More New Windows 8 Blue leak shows more refinements Microsoft just can't seem to keep a lid on it: A new development version of Windows 8.1, aka Windows Blue, was leaked this week on P2P sites, showing some new tweaks and improvements. Read More Microsoft exec talks mobile smack, trashes iOS as 'boring,' Android as 'a mess' Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones took shots at both iOS and Android today, calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's is "a mess." Read More WEBCAST: F5 Networks Making VMware View Mobile Access Secure and Fast Watch the video to see how F5 can help by making VMware View secure, fast, scalable, and available. Learn More Microsoft may backtrack on Start button in Windows 8 Microsoft may recant its Windows 8 design theology, bloggers reported Tuesday, by offering Windows 8 users an option to bypass the "Modern" UI and by restoring the Start button and menu to the beleaguered operating system. Read More Intel's mobile transition struggles are Microsoft's advantage As Intel continues developing high-quality PC components, Microsoft might be able to get Windows 8 off the ground. Read More Microsoft is making a mistake by passing on a Surface Phone Microsoft may, repeat may, be whipping up a smartwatch, but according to the company's Windows Phone honcho, a self-made Surface smartphone isn't in the cards quite yet. Read More Microsoft moves to optional two-factor authentication Following similar initiatives by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the log-on service for many of its online and desktop products. Read More
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