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	Windows XP deadline provides silver lining to slumping PC market The PC market remained weak in the third quarter, but the expiration of Microsoft's support for Windows XP in April next year may have prompted users to look at upgrades, which eased the slump. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets   Troubleshoot a WLAN Developing a baseline & testing your WLAN design, managing signals & users, & administering & troubleshooting your WLAN has never been easier. This white paper outlines how to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot wireless networks. Read the white paper. View now In this Issue Inside CIO paychecks Shutdown could delay government's patching of IE, Windows and .NET flaws The 'Bad Boys' of open source Microsoft Says Its Future in the Cloud Is Bright Dell's Surface Pro wannabe: Threat or proof Microsoft's strategy works? Microsoft ponies up $100K to researcher who figured out new Windows hack in 2 weeks Ballmer promises Office on iPad after touch-first apps hit Windows Tenth Anniversary Patch Tuesday brings crucial Microsoft Explorer fix Microsoft tosses in YouTube towel, returns to Web UI for Windows Phone WEBCAST: Wildpackets Big Data Analytics in Distributed Network Monitoring Watch this webcast to see how you can apply WildPackets' best-in-class analytics to your high-speed distributed network, without compromising precision through sampling or polling, providing a single view of your network and its historical performance in unprecedented detail and scope. View Now Inside CIO paychecks Ever wonder what payday is like for CIOs at giant global companies? Network World scoured the proxy statements of the 500 largest U.S. companies to find instances where a CIO or senior IT executive ranks among a company's highest-paid executive officers. We found 25. Check out the details on their multi-million pay packages, which include six-figure salaries, cash bonuses, stock awards, and perks. Read More   Shutdown could delay government's patching of IE, Windows and .NET flaws The ongoing government shutdown could leave desktop and server systems in many federal agencies vulnerable to new threats disclosed Tuesday by Microsoft in its latest round of security updates. Read More   The 'Bad Boys' of open source The open source world's most notorious characters. Read More   WHITE PAPER: NetApp Wiley: Object storage for Dummies Enterprise data is growing rapidly - reaching multiple petabytes of data or even billions of files for many organizations. View Now Microsoft Says Its Future in the Cloud Is Bright In case there was any doubt, Microsoft made it clear on Monday that it sees its future in the cloud. It unveiled a "wave" of enterprise cloud products and services--from Windows Server and System Center to Visual Studio, Windows Intune, SQL Server and Dynamics, to a new Windows Azure U.S. Government Cloud. Read More   Dell's Surface Pro wannabe: Threat or proof Microsoft's strategy works? Microsoft faces competition for its Surface Pro 2 tablet, and it's from an expected source: One of its own hardware partners, Dell. Read More   Microsoft ponies up $100K to researcher who figured out new Windows hack in 2 weeks The security researcher who was awarded $100,000 by Microsoft said he spent about two weeks pondering, then demonstrating a new way to circumvent Windows' defensive technologies. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW Principles of PCI Compliance Take the time to understand and learn to apply the requirements for locking down payment card data. Read Now Ballmer promises Office on iPad after touch-first apps hit Windows Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today said that a touch-specific version of Office will, at some point, reach the iPad. Read More   Tenth Anniversary Patch Tuesday brings crucial Microsoft Explorer fix As anticipated, the latest round of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday monthly release of security fixes addresses a widely known Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability already being exploited by malicious hackers. Read More   Microsoft tosses in YouTube towel, returns to Web UI for Windows Phone Microsoft yesterday threw in the towel on its attempt to build its own YouTube app for Windows Phone, revising that app to shunt users instead to the browser for accessing Google's video service via the Web. Read More
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