Microsoft's device share growth to outpace Apple's through 2016

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	Microsoft's device share growth to outpace Apple's through 2016 Microsoft's share of shipped devices will climb slightly this year and pick up some steam in 2016, but Apple's share will grow at a more sluggish pace because of slow-downs in iPhone and iPad, Gartner forecast Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Curvature The State of IT Infrastructure & Operations The challenge that IT decision-makers face is the pressure to reduce costs paired with the pressure to progress digital maturity. Curvature analyzes why businesses miss significant CapEx and OpEx cost savings and how to refocus IT strategy. View now In this Issue 3 great CES Windows ultrabooks you'll crave Startup Reddo Mobility gets $4.25M to give Windows apps a second wind Microsoft Surface lookalike runs a productive version of Android instead 7 communities driving open source development Macro-based malware is making a comeback, researchers warn Former Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer on the Cloud Conspiracy Did Windows XP rise from the dead in December? Not exactly Dell XPS 13 wows, but it could hurt your pocket Microsoft adds boards feature to Delve to ease content organization Lenovo says Windows 10 will breathe life back into OS WHITE PAPER: IBM Magic Quadrant for Data Masking Technology IBM is a leader in Gartner Inc's Magic Quadrant for Data Masking Technology. Gartner reports that data masking should be mandatory for enterprises using copies of sensitive production data for application development, analytics or training. Read the full report to learn about IBM. Learn more! 3 great CES Windows ultrabooks you'll crave Windows fans, take note: Three great Windows ultrabooks were just announced at CES. Which is best for you? I've got specs and details. Read More Startup Reddo Mobility gets $4.25M to give Windows apps a second wind Desktop Windows apps aren't disappearing from enterprises overnight, but if startup Reddo Mobility has its way, many of them will morph into mobilized ones sooner than later. Read More Microsoft Surface lookalike runs a productive version of Android instead A trio of former Google employees are trying to make Android more work-friendly with a tablet that looks a lot like Microsoft's Surface Pro. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. Make Your Data Center as Cost Effective as AWS The average datacenter is 50% more costly than Amazon Web Services. As cloud economics threaten the viability of on premise data centers, the survival of IT organizations rests solely in the ability to maximize the returns of existing infrastructure. Learn More 7 communities driving open source development Over the past two decades, open development of technology has come to be seen as a key to driving innovation. Even companies that once saw open source as a threat have come around — Microsoft, for example, is now active in a number of open source initiatives. Read More Macro-based malware is making a comeback, researchers warn For the past several months, different groups of attackers have distributed malware through Microsoft Office documents that contain malicious macros, reviving a technique that has been out of style for over a decade. Read More Former Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer on the Cloud Conspiracy Microsoft former chief privacy adviser Caspar Bowden has said for years that he does not trust Microsoft as a company, nor does he trust its software. If a privacy expert who previously worked for Microsoft can't trust the company, should we? Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems NSS Labs Web Application Firewall Comparative Analysis NSS Labs reported that NetScaler AppFirewall achieved an overall block rate of 99.8% at $1.93 TCO per protected Connection Per Second – the lowest TCO of all contenders – that placed it in the Recommended section of their Web Application Firewall Security Value Map. Learn more >> Did Windows XP rise from the dead in December? Not exactly On more than one occasion, I have pointed out the error of judging operating system market share and installed base from the monthly Net Applications metrics. It's not that Net Applications is inaccurate, it's just not a measure of the actual installed base. Read More Dell XPS 13 wows, but it could hurt your pocket Dell's XPS 13 laptop elicited a "wow" the first time I saw it. Read More Microsoft adds boards feature to Delve to ease content organization Microsoft has added a feature to its Delve content discovery tool that lets users gather material related to a certain task or idea and place it in a central location. Read More Lenovo says Windows 10 will breathe life back into OS As the Windows 10 release gets closer, excitement around the OS is growing among those waiting to close the curtain on Windows 8. Read More
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