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Microsoft researchers find spammers by graphing social networks
Do you believe in the theory that only good people have lots of social media friends, while "bad people" don't have friends and don't leave many traces of themselves online? According to recent Microsoft research, a spammer email account can be identified by the lack of connectivity to other people. Read More


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Introduction to Data Center Infrastructure Management
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What Microsoft paid The Stones to help launch Windows 95
So what did Microsoft really pay The Rolling Stones to use "Start Me Up" as the soundtrack for the advertising campaign that launched Windows 95? Read More

Microsoft launches Office 365, glosses over cloud limitations
CEO Steve Ballmer pitched his answer to Google Apps as Microsoft announced worldwide availability of Office 365, but made no mention of Microsoft's biggest cloud rival. Read More

Is Mozilla's lifecycle haste Microsoft's gain?
The Mozilla Foundation's decision to kick development into high gear may prove as disastrous and harmful to its product as Microsoft's complacency in letting Internet Explorer 6 languish for far too long hurt IE's place in the market. Read More


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HP IT Migrates to an all HP network
It's no surprise when a high-tech company uses its own products. However, the story of how HP recently migrated its own network to HP Networking equipment has unique aspects that make it relevant to all enterprises in any industry or market segment. Read now

Microsoft patents spy tech for Skype
A newly patented Microsoft technology called Legal Intercept would allow the company to secretly intercept, monitor and record Skype calls. Privacy advocates are concerned. Read More

Microsoft signs two patent deals for Android devices
Microsoft signed two deals this week with companies that agreed to pay royalties for technology used in Android devices, following a similar deal the software giant made with HTC last year. Read More

Office 365: It's not just for SMBs
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasted no time in his keynote at the Office 365 launch in mentioning that Office 365 is an ideal solution for SMBs. Read More


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A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0
Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now!

Office 365 apps for iPhone and Android not coming anytime soon
Microsoft launched Office 365 to the world this week, but the company's cloud product development is by no means complete. Read More

Envisioning a more perfect Windows 2012
Microsoft is all about keeping us busily working with fresh versions of Windows, and up to now, we've heard precious little about Windows Server changes. Indeed Windows 8 has been a huge distraction, after Microsoft pulled a rabbit out of its hat with the success of Windows 7. Read More

Microsoft boosts Java accommodations on Azure cloud
Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java helps Eclipse users build and configure deployment packages of their Java apps for Azure. Read More



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