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	Can Microsoft be the new Apple? Why failure would be its savior Julie Bort writes in the Microsoft Subnet blog, "The world is agog over an editorial published in the New York Times yesterday about Microsoft's lack of innovation. On Friday, Microsoft responded with equal predictability. The thing is, Microsoft has always been a follower. It hasn't got a roster of ground-breaking ideas to its credit. It has risen to success by noticing others' great technologies and building its own version that works 80% as well as the original, but costs less." Read More WHITE PAPER: MainSoft Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Shops This whitepaper explores the opportunity to promote SharePoint adoption, without demanding a wholesale change in users' behavior, by integrating SharePoint with your email client. Read More In this Issue Configuring PerformancePoint 2010 Time Intelligence IE flaw that lets remote hackers read your hard drive is extra bad for XP users Microsoft Warns of Record Patch Tuesday Report: Microsoft may launch new Office cloud license Microsoft to drop Linux, Unix versions of enterprise search From Microsoft Subnet WHITE PAPER: Compuware The Definitive Guide to APM In this Application Performance Management eBook, get hands-on, practical insight into industry best practices for managing your critical applications from an end-to-end perspective. Find out how to manage performance from the distributed front-end of IT operations to the mainframe back-end, while keeping the end-user experience in mind. Read Now. Configuring PerformancePoint 2010 Time Intelligence Ola Ekdahl: A common requirement of clients is to allow end users to filter data from scorecards and reports on a dashboard based on a Time Intelligence formula. PPS provides its own expression language called Simple Time Period Specification. Read More IE flaw that lets remote hackers read your hard drive is extra bad for XP users The Microsoft Subnet blog: Last week, a security researcher demonstrated a flaw in Internet Explorer at the Black Hat DC conference that could allow a hacker to remotely read files on the victim's local drive. The demonstration prompted a security advisory from Microsoft. Read More WEBCAST: HP Metzler: Virtualization and the Network Manager The networks manager's role has changed significantly over the years. This Webcast highlights survey results of 460 IT pros and their experiences with network management. Learn how network automation is helping to address the unique challenges of both physical and virtual environments. Learn more Microsoft Warns of Record Patch Tuesday Microsoft issued its Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2010. The notice warns that Patch Tuesday next week will see 13 security bulletins, tying October 2009 for the most security bulletins released in a single month. Read More Report: Microsoft may launch new Office cloud license Microsoft Corp. may be close to adding a new way for big businesses to buy Microsoft Office. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire FISMA Prescriptive Guide Learn how Tripwire helps federal agencies, as well as the organizations and contractors that store, process or transmit federal information. The FISMA Prescriptive Guide contains case studies from three fictional federal agencies, each capturing the perspective of a key stakeholder in the FISMA compliance process. Click here. Microsoft to drop Linux, Unix versions of enterprise search Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this year, the company announced in a blog post Thursday. Read More From Microsoft Subnet This newsletter features the top stories from Microsoft Subnet, your source for Microsoft blogs, videos, giveaways. We are giving away 15 copies of the book Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Services 2010 Unleashed. Have you entered yet? Read More
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