Late May claim for Windows 8 RC jibes with expected timetable

	Preston Gralla: Microsoft will punish app makers who won't release Windows Phone apps, spend $24 million to spur new app development | Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen victim of ID theft
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	Late May claim for Windows 8 RC jibes with expected timetable Microsoft will launch the "release candidate" of Windows 8 in late May or early June, according to a Saturday report by a Dutch blog. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com 100% Application Availability in the Cloud Optimize your infrastructure for mission-critical applications while minimizing costs. Powered by Microsoft SQL Server and Hosting.com. Availability--Performance--Scalability--Security. Guaranteed. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! In this Issue Preston Gralla: Microsoft will punish app makers who won't release Windows Phone apps, spend $24 million to spur new app development Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen victim of ID theft Motorola rejects $300M Microsoft bond to keep Windows 7 in Germany Microsoft extends app building to the cloud Microsoft upgrades Windows Phone SDK for low-cost smartphones Windows 8 lets users decide which IE opens links Many Office Live Small Business users fret over Office 365 transition Microsoft releases ASP.Net Web API, Razor source code Duqu malware resurfaces after four-month holiday The future of the PC 7 Great All-in-One Desktop PCs RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Preston Gralla: Microsoft will punish app makers who won't release Windows Phone apps, spend $24 million to spur new app development To close the gap in the number of apps available for Windows Phone versus the competition, Microsoft will spend $10 million to punish app makers such as Pandora who aren't developing Windows Phone apps, while while spurring Windows Phone app development with tens of millions of dollars in new funding.   Read More Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen victim of ID theft An AWOL U.S. Army soldier based in Pittsburgh is accused of stealing Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's identity and using it attempt to steal money from Allen's Citibank account. Read More Motorola rejects $300M Microsoft bond to keep Windows 7 in Germany Motorola refused Microsoft's offer of a $300 million bond to postpone enforcement of potential German injunctions against Microsoft products that use the H.264 video codec, which if granted could exclude Microsoft from the German market, according to court documents filed on Wednesday. Read More Microsoft extends app building to the cloud Extension to Team Foundation Service platform lets developers build source code on Windows Azure cloud Read More Microsoft upgrades Windows Phone SDK for low-cost smartphones Microsoft has released Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1, which allows developers to customize their apps for cheaper Windows Phones with less memory, and also run the development kit on Windows 8 machines, the company said in a blog post on Monday. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Why Run Windows Server Apps on AWS? Top 5 Reasons: 1. No New Hardware, 2. Get Started in Minutes, 3. Use Your .NET Skills in the AWS Cloud, 4. On-Demand Test Environments, and 5. Use your Existing Microsoft Licenses. Learn more with on-demand webinar. Watch now! Windows 8 lets users decide which IE opens links Windows 8 users will be able to set which version of Internet Explorer 10 automatically opens Web pages when links are clicked, Microsoft said Monday. Read More Many Office Live Small Business users fret over Office 365 transition Many companies that rely on Office Live Small Business (OLSB) for their e-mail and website hosting are complaining that a required transition to Office 365 or to a third-party hosting provider is too complicated for them to carry out and that Microsoft could be doing more to help them out as OLSB's closure date fast approaches. Read More Microsoft releases ASP.Net Web API, Razor source code The source code for ASP.Net Web API and Razor are being made available via an Apache 2.0 license Read More Duqu malware resurfaces after four-month holiday Duqu, the malware that has been compared to 2010's notorious Stuxnet, is back, security researchers said today. Read More The future of the PC Columnist Kevin Fogarty says when users can buy sophisticated data services to support not only gadgets, but applications, too, that changes the role and goals of IT. Read More 7 Great All-in-One Desktop PCs Traditional tower desktops have had a good run. All-in-one PCs--expensive upstarts just two or three years ago--have all but usurped the throne. Read More
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