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	Researchers crack Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo, Digg audio captchas Researchers have figured out how to to crack captchas, making it possible to launch automated attacks against sites such as Microsoft, eBay and Digg where opening phony accounts could be turned into cash. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation The Efficiency Essentials You're Dead Without This white paper takes you inside Diskeeper 2011 and clearly shows you why you shouldn't run your network without it. Learn more. In this Issue Microsoft backpedals from Ballmer's Windows 8 comments Microsoft offers students a free Xbox with new Windows 7 PCs Is the Windows business desktop dying? Microsoft online chief: I would never log into a Chromebook New 'Mango' Windows Phone version integrates apps 3 reasons Mango could interest you in buying a Windows Phone How to protect smartphones and tablets IBM Rational tops Microsoft Visual Studio in developer survey Microsoft finds 427K email addresses on knocked-out Rustock server WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Providing Security and Acceleration for Remote Users Delivering applications to remote users is a significant undertaking. Applications need to be available, and they must be delivered securely and quickly. Through a range of products, F5 has solved the security plus acceleration challenge for remote users with BIG-IP Edge Gateway and BIG-IP APM. Read More! Microsoft backpedals from Ballmer's Windows 8 comments Microsoft is backing away from comments by CEO Steve Ballmer, who had told Japanese software developers that the next version of Windows would be dubbed Windows 8 and launch in 2012. Read More Microsoft offers students a free Xbox with new Windows 7 PCs If you are about to plunk down some cash for a new Windows 7 PC for your college studies, you may be able to score a free Xbox with that purchase. Microsoft is giving away a free Xbox 360 4GB console with the purchase of a Windows 7 PC $699 or more beginning this week through September 3, or until it determines that supplies have run out. Read More Is the Windows business desktop dying? A combination of factors is going to cause Windows to lose its stranglehold on the business desktop. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Software Get the Leading ITSM Suite on your Terms BMC Remedy OnDemand offers the power of the industry's leading IT Service Management solution with the flexibility of Software as a Service. And when your needs change, switching between the OnDemand and on-premise BMC Remedy suite is seamless. Watch the demo for a peek inside BMC Remedy OnDemand. View Today! Microsoft online chief: I would never log into a Chromebook Surprise! A Microsoft executive doesn't like Google products. Read More New 'Mango' Windows Phone version integrates apps Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled many new features to its Windows Phone software but it left out a few that some people had hoped to see. Read More 3 reasons Mango could interest you in buying a Windows Phone Here are three reasons why Mango might help Microsoft sell more Windows Phones, pulling it up from its current fifth place in the smartphone OS rankings. If these reasons don't persuade loyal Android or iPhone users, they might attract first-time smartphone buyers. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 6 Key Dedupe Challenges The deduplication market is the fastest segment ofthe storage industry, per IDC. Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing spin are. Read More Today! How to protect smartphones and tablets Managing mobile devices entails a level of complexity unheard of in the traditional enterprise world of Windows desktops. MDM software needs to control devices from multiple manufacturers, running different versions of as many as five operating systems, tied to carrier networks with their own particular constraints. Read More IBM Rational tops Microsoft Visual Studio in developer survey The Rational tools suite came in first in six categories and had the best overall score in Evans Data's survey. Read More Microsoft finds 427K email addresses on knocked-out Rustock server Microsoft investigators uncovered a cache of more than 400,000 email addresses on one hard drive it seized in March when it led an organized takedown of the Rustock botnet, according to court documents. Read More
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