A deep dive into Windows 8 Developer Preview

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	A deep dive into Windows 8 Developer Preview Preston Gralla spends several days working with Windows 8 on a PC, and reports on his experiences. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. In this Issue Preston Gralla: Will Windows 8 be Windows Phone 7's savior? Windows 8 developer tablets go for $3,500+ on eBay Spain launches Microsoft probe IT Blogwatch: Why Microsoft is more like Apple: @JoeMarini Preston Gralla: Microsoft loses $1 billion a quarter on Bing...but it's only chump change Microsoft gets Casio to sign Linux patent protection deal Cisco and Microsoft cooperate to bring network-layer management to Hyper-V RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Computerworld Research Take Computerworld's Survey - Chance to Win $500 How has your organization responded to employees' interest in using consumer devices to do their work? Which types of consumer devices is your IT department supporting? Take our brief survey on the consumerization of IT, and enter to win a $500 cash prize. Click to continue Preston Gralla: Will Windows 8 be Windows Phone 7's savior? There hasn't been a great deal of good news for Windows Phone 7 recently. But the Windows 8 Developer Preview holds out hope that Windows 8 may eventually be the boost the struggling smartphone operating system needs.   Read More Windows 8 developer tablets go for $3,500+ on eBay Several of the souped-up Samsung tablets Microsoft handed out to 5,000 developers at last week's BUILD Windows conference are for sale on eBay at prices as high as $3,500. Read More Spain launches Microsoft probe Spain's National Competition Commission is investigating whether Microsoft has unjustifiably prevented or limited resale of software licenses, in breach of Spanish and European Union competition laws, the Commission announced Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: SEPATON and Hitachi Data Systems Data Growth and Protection: Addressing the Challenge How does your organization deal with the data deluge? This white paper explores new research that gets to the heart of the challenges of protecting and managing the data you already deal with and preparing for the ever-increasing volumes of data to come. And, it discusses how a single, scaleable solution can address these issues. Read now IT Blogwatch: Why Microsoft is more like Apple: @JoeMarini Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has accepted the resignation of a fairly-senior manager who "leaked" information via Twitter. Joe Marini, a Principal Program Manager on Windows Phone, is out after tweeting information about an upcoming Nokia (NYSE:NOK) (HEL:NOK1V) phone, running Windows Phone 7.5. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder what all the fuss is about.   Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft loses $1 billion a quarter on Bing...but it's only chump change One might think that Microsoft would be concerned about its nearly $1 billion-a-month losses on Bing. The truth is, though, Microsoft is so profitable and sitting on so much cash that it can sustain that loss indefinitely. Why else would the company just announce a 25% boost in its dividends?   Read More Microsoft gets Casio to sign Linux patent protection deal Lest we forget that Microsoft still insists Linux violates 235 of its patents, Microsoft issued a reminder today. It announced a patent licensing deal with Casio Computer Co. Ltd. that "among other things, will provide Casio's customers with patent coverage for their use of Linux in certain Casio devices," Microsoft says. Read More Cisco and Microsoft cooperate to bring network-layer management to Hyper-V Windows Server 8 looks promising enough that Cisco it is queuing up two new products designed to extend its network controls to Hyper-V virtual environments when Microsoft releases Windows Server 8 sometime next year. Read More
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