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	Gartner: Think twice before deploying Windows 7 Companies have been less willing to embrace Windows 8, preferring instead to downgrade PCs they deploy with Windows 7 instead. All well and good, but Gartner is advising them that unless they want to go through another XP-like headache, they should start preparing to move off Windows 7 instead of to it. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Quintillion Case Study Hedge fund administration company Quintillion doubles its asset and investor portfolio while keeping staff levels almost flat, by working with Insight 2 Value to deploy an efficient content management solution, based on IBM Case Manager. Read Now In this Issue 17 ways to hate Microsoft Outlook 2013 less Microsoft pulls its August Windows update after users report crashes Munich reverses course, may ditch Linux for Microsoft Azure services down again Microsoft tweaks SharePoint Online to free up site storage Windows Phone isn't dead, but it needs a new reason to live Virtual hard drives: The IT pro trick that lets you back up your data for free Microsoft preps Office 365 document management tool for lawyers Bill Gates blows away other techies with his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video Symantec folds nine Norton products into one service WHITE PAPER: Juniper Networks   Security in the Next-Generation Data Center This white paper examines these trends, and it reveals the key capabilities that today's security teams require to effectively ensure that vital corporate assets remain secure, while at the same time optimizing access, cost, and administrative efficiency. View Now 17 ways to hate Microsoft Outlook 2013 less Few software products draw such universal -- and deserved -- scorn as Outlook 2013. Here's how to tame the beast. Read More   Microsoft pulls its August Windows update after users report crashes Microsoft has pulled its August Update for Windows after users reported crashes and issues restarting their systems. The company is currently recommending users uninstall the update. Read More   Munich reverses course, may ditch Linux for Microsoft The German city of Munich, long one of the open-source community's poster children for the institutional adoption of Linux, is close to performing a major about-face and returning to Microsoft products. Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP Why you need a next-generation firewall This white paper explores the reasons for implementing NG firewalls and lays out a path to success for overburdened IT organizations. Learn More Azure services down again Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform, wobbly for more than a week, is again experiencing outages and interruptions that are impacting multiple products in the U.S. and abroad. Read More   Microsoft tweaks SharePoint Online to free up site storage The company also increased the maximum amount of SharePoint site collections in Office 365 to 500,000 from 10,000. Read More   Windows Phone isn't dead, but it needs a new reason to live As Microsoft chases the low-end phone market where Android already dominates, it could be neglecting one of its own core strengths: productivity. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies   Conquering Information Overload with Data Modeling Businesses are collecting geometrically more data of different kinds from more sources in more places than ever before. As a result, organizing, controlling, and validating all that information has become an increasingly important key to successful, profitable decision-making. Learn more! Virtual hard drives: The IT pro trick that lets you back up your data for free Once you finally start backing up your data (like you've been told to over, and over again), consider using a virtual hard drive (VHD). VHDs have been used by IT professionals for years in virtual machines and server applications, but you can also use them as a free, easy-to-use backup format—especially since the tools required to use it come with Windows. Read More   Microsoft preps Office 365 document management tool for lawyers Microsoft has developed a document management add-on for Office 365 intended for lawyers, signaling a possible interest by the company in creating vertical-industry tools for the suite. Read More   Bill Gates blows away other techies with his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video   If you have to watch just one more ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, make it this one from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. He geeks out as only Bill Gates can do by drawing up and demonstrating quite the contraption. Read More   Symantec folds nine Norton products into one service A single product, Norton Security, can be used across Windows, OS X, Android and iOS. Read More
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