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	Why Microsoft's mobile marketing strategy hinges on iOS and Android As part of its new platforms and productivity strategy, Microsoft is bringing services and applications to platforms like OS X, iOS and Android -- sometimes before they come to Windows devices. Windows loyalists claim chasing users at the expense of Microsoft's own platform gives them little incentive to stick by. But, in fact, Microsoft is using what it does on other platforms to advertise Windows and Windows Phone. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Selecting a Web Content Management Solution According to Ovum, selecting an appropriate web content management (WCM) system has become a challenge for organizations due to the array of products available. Read their latest report and find out: -How the WCM market is evolving -Why IBM Customer Experience Suite is considered a market leader Learn More In this Issue Microsoft's $84 million man: What's Nadella done to earn it? Microsoft kills EU browser choice screen Human error root cause of November Microsoft Azure outage The year in tech industry apologies Microsoft and IBM keep the pressure on Amazon's cloud Microsoft throws open doors to Sway beta Top malware families turn point-of-sale into point-of-theft NAC Renaissance Google Cloud offers streamlined Ubuntu for Docker use Will Microsoft sue the makers of Adblock Plus? WHITE PAPER: IBM IBM Value-based Archiving Solutions This solution brief highlights IBM Value-based Archiving Solutions, which help enable organizations to apply specific archiving logic—including content-based analytics and classification, records declarations, and metadata processing—to address the requirements of archiving projects. View Now>> Microsoft's $84 million man: What's Nadella done to earn it? What could Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have done in just 10 months to convince shareholders he's worth the $84 million pay package they approved earlier this month? Quite a bit, it turns out, but it remains to be seen how his actions will pan out for the company over time, and in fact that long view was taken into account in his compensation bundle. Read More Microsoft kills EU browser choice screen Microsoft has retired the browser choice screen it agreed to show new Windows users in the European Union as part of an antitrust settlement. Read More Human error root cause of November Microsoft Azure outage Human error was the culprit for a November outage of the Microsoft Azure cloud storage service. The company is hoping that recent updates that automate formerly manual processes will help prevent similar outages in the future. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Forrester 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave Forrester has released its 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave, and for the second consecutive time, IBM is a leader. View Now>> The year in tech industry apologies Google, Microsoft, Facebook and the rest get in the sorry line. Read More Microsoft and IBM keep the pressure on Amazon's cloud Until further notice, Amazon Web Services is the reigning public IaaS cloud leader. But deep-pocketed companies Microsoft and IBM are keeping the pressure on AWS with a flurry of announcements beefing up their clouds to close out the year. Read More Microsoft throws open doors to Sway beta The beta test of Microsoft's newish Web-publishing app, Sway, is no longer by invitation-only: the company said today it's open to all. Read More WHITE PAPER: Curvature Whitepaper: Peers vs. Policy Companies are interested in a single point of contact, on-site vendor support, more comprehensive network knowledge, and support for end-of-life products. To keep up with these evolving requirements, IT decision makers are considering peer advice and alternative maintenance. View now Top malware families turn point-of-sale into point-of-theft 'Tis the season to be jolly, but it won't be a time to celebrate if consumers and organizations alike are not hyper-vigilant about the security of their purchases. While the American credit card system will become more secure in the coming year, it is still stuck in the 1960s, which makes it an easy target for 'point-of-sale' malware. Read More NAC Renaissance Remember NAC? Cisco first introduced the concept of Network Admission Control back around 2004. Back then, NAC's primary role was checking the security status of PCs before granting them access to the network. Read More Google Cloud offers streamlined Ubuntu for Docker use Google has adopted for use in its cloud a streamlined version of the Canonical Ubuntu Linux distribution tweaked to run Docker and other containers. Read More Will Microsoft sue the makers of Adblock Plus? Microsoft, Google, and a group of French publishers are reportedly planning to sue developers of ad-blocking software because it has been a bit too effective and popular. Read More
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