Patch Tuesday: 16 security advisories, 5 critical for Windows

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	Patch Tuesday: 16 security advisories, 5 critical for Windows Microsoft is issuing the largest number of monthly security advisories since June 2011, five of them critical and affecting all supported versions of Windows. And applying the patches will be time consuming, experts say. Read More WEBCAST: EMC Redefine Your Mission-Critical Cloud with VMAX3 This webinar examines how EMC's VMAX3 storage solution provides unprecedented reliability, agility, cost-effectiveness and power in today's demanding storage environments. Learn More In this Issue Air Force veteran to IT: 'Live your dreams' Bill Gates sells $925M in Microsoft stock, still owns $13.6B worth Say goodbye to Microsoft Lync, hello to Skype for Business Here comes the new Office: Microsoft melds applications to present data in flexible, shareable ways Home Depot IT: Get hacked, blame Windows, switch execs to MacBooks Windows 10 Start menu secrets every desktop pro should know Drastic price cuts may damage PC industry, jeopardize Microsoft's hopes for Windows 10 When Outlook drag-and-drop stops working ... Hands on with Microsoft Sway, the web-savvy, shareable content creator of the future WHITE PAPER: NetApp The Private Cloud Grows Up Today, all the rules are being rewritten, both inside and outside the data center. The reason: virtualization. Read this paper to see how enterprises can derive competitive advantage by using virtualization technologies to build the most agile infrastructures. View Now>> Air Force veteran to IT: 'Live your dreams' Retired Air Force Major Brian Shul isn't an IT expert, but his story of survival and recovery captivated the IT audience at a national management conference. A fighter pilot during Vietnam, Shul flew 212 combat missions. His AT-28 aircraft was shot down near the Cambodian border as the war was ending, and Shul was forced to crash land into the jungle. Read More Bill Gates sells $925M in Microsoft stock, still owns $13.6B worth Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sold 20 million company shares in late October, but thanks to market gains in the past three months, his portfolio was worth more than when he last sold stock, regulatory filings showed. Read More Say goodbye to Microsoft Lync, hello to Skype for Business Microsoft is upgrading its Lync unified communication platform to look and feel more like the familiar consumer version of Skype and changing its name to Skype for Business. Read More WEBCAST: CenturyLink Effective collaboration = exceptional customer engagement Now on Demand! IT leaders are constantly required to do more with less, but even as new digital technologies now play the most vital role in engaging customers, many IT groups spend 75% of their resources on legacy application maintenance. Join us to learn how IT organizations can pivot from maintenance to creation and innovation. View now Here comes the new Office: Microsoft melds applications to present data in flexible, shareable ways Delve, Sway, Revolve: For those who don't follow Microsoft's products closely, the words might sound like instructions for a nerdy line dance. But like the mashup generation they're written for, the three new apps take elements of Microsoft's productivity generation and blend them together. Read More Home Depot IT: Get hacked, blame Windows, switch execs to MacBooks You may have received an email from Home Depot notifying customers that along with compromising 56 million credit card accounts, attackers stole 53 million email addresses. Home Depot. Read More Windows 10 Start menu secrets every desktop pro should know Windows 10 promises to bring back the Windows 7 Start menu for those of us who still slavishly utilize a keyboard and mouse -- you know, the people who try to get "real work" done with Windows. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 10 Essential Elements for a Secure Enterprise Mobility This white paper highlights 10 key points encompassing security, user experience, IT operations and BYOD to help your organization realize the full benefits of mobility. Learn more Drastic price cuts may damage PC industry, jeopardize Microsoft's hopes for Windows 10 Windows PC makers slashed prices to historically low levels in the U.S. during the last three weeks of October, damaging the consumer business just as Microsoft tries to push Windows 10 as its salvation, a retail analyst said last week. Read More When Outlook drag-and-drop stops working ... So the drag-and-drop functionality in Microsoft Outlook flat-out stopped working for me this morning, presumably because it's Monday. I've never had this problem before, so I didn't know how to fix it. Read More Hands on with Microsoft Sway, the web-savvy, shareable content creator of the future Even in preview form, Sway is intriguing. Rough around the edges, it still shows off Microsoft's new emphasis on simplicity in creating shareable, rich documents. Read More
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