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	Dangerous Zero-day Windows Trojan Targets Espionage Ms. Smith: There is a new vicious rootkit-level malware infection targeting critical infrastructure and aimed at corporate or government espionage. It often enters the enterprise through USB sticks. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Insight Get Microsoft Office 2010 today. Get work done whenever and wherever with Microsoft Office 2010. New features expand collaboration, and access. See new features. In this Issue New rootkit threatens all versions of Windows Apple may top Microsoft in revenue How to fix sluggish Outlook performance EFF Fights To Allow People To Comment Anonymously Online The spy who loved Windows PowerPivot vs Native SSAS Privacy Watchdog Itself Leaks A Thousand Emails Microsoft Partner Conference and the Cloud Bing's first year Stupidest excuse for slow app performance Microsoft punches Cisco, VMware in the eye Connecting to Social Networks from Outlook Can the Windows File Classification Infrastructure save us? WHITE PAPER: IBM Manage enterprise data with Integrated Data Management Adopting an Integrated Data Management strategy can be a highly effective way to help IT support business growth, facilitate data governance and manage costs. It is also key to helping ensure that the enterprise derives maximum competitive advantage from its data. Read More! New rootkit threatens all versions of Windows Julie Bort: Microsoft has confirmed a new, highly dangerous zero-day vulnerability that has caused multiple researchers to issuing warnings. The exploit is a whopper on all levels. Read More Apple may top Microsoft in revenue Jon Brodkin: Some analysts expect Apple to report more quarterly revenue than Microsoft. Read More How to fix sluggish Outlook performance Rand Morimoto: For organizations using Microsoft Outlook and Exchange server with users complaining that Outlook is REALLY there are known problems and known fixes. Read More EFF Fights To Allow People To Comment Anonymously Online Ms. Smith: Should people be allowed to comment anonymously online? That question is currently making its way through the US legal system. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest The Myths, the Market Drivers and What You Need to Know To create a consistent, seamless Unified Communications (UC) experience across your organization, you must first examine your existing infrastructure and business processes to determine what components will work best for your business. Get an overview of the potential benefits of UC, including key considerations for mapping out your UC strategy. Read now! The spy who loved Windows Robert Mullins: With the latest news that a 12th spy was reported to be scheming, this time inside a cubicle at Microsoft, I reached out to Ira Winkler, an expert on cybercrime and its role in corporate espionage, for perspective. Read More PowerPivot vs Native SSAS Brian Egler: PowerPivot is a great new technology for Self-Service BI. In previous blog entries I have outlined some of the technology using SQL Server 2008 R2 and Excel 2010. Read More Privacy Watchdog Itself Leaks A Thousand Emails Ms. Smith: An employee for a privacy group made a rookie mistake by sending a Reply-All email and actually breached the privacy of people who had emailed their concerns to the group about their privacy. Read More Microsoft Partner Conference and the Cloud Rand Morimoto: Last week was Microsoft's Worlwide Partner Conference, also known as WPC 2010, where over 14,000 attendees learned about Microsoft's strategy. They heard a lot about the cloud. Read More VIDEO: IBM Smarter Data Management Integrated Data Management provides the capability to manage systems that require integration across different environments which span technologies, combine custom and packaged applications that may vary significantly in age, and are managed by a team of individuals who may or may not be in the same building. Learn More Bing's first year Robert Mullins: Microsoft search experts told reporters today that Bing, now with a big "1" plopped onto its birthday cake, has now reached double-digit market share in the U.S., is coming to Android and continues to innovate. And "Bing" as a verb? Still working on it. Read More Stupidest excuse for slow app performance Sean McCown: As a production DBA I see different problem scenarios all the time. And in every one of these scenarios there's always this blame game going on. Read More Microsoft punches Cisco, VMware in the eye Julie Bort: The Windows Azure Appliance that Microsoft announced on Monday combines cloud services and virtualization with an on-premises flexible server, networking, storage. Sound familiar? It should. Read More Connecting to Social Networks from Outlook Dustin Puryear: Outlook 2010 is going to connect to social networks like Facebook LinkedIn. Read More Can the Windows File Classification Infrastructure save us? Tyson Kopczynski: Let's face it. Managing data in the enterprise is a messy endeavor. I have yet to see an organization that has a 100% handle on where data should live, be used, protected, consumed, etc. Read More
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