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	Microsoft leads seizure of Zeus-related cybercrime servers Microsoft said on Monday it and several partners had disrupted several cybercrime rings that used a notorious piece of malicious software called Zeus to steal US$100 million over the last five years. Read More 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 In this Issue Preston Gralla: Tests show Windows 8 Consumer Preview is much faster than Windows 7 Microsoft's ads, humor boost consumer opinion of IE Microsoft makes a price cut to slow Google Apps Microsoft adds Git support to CodePlex repository Preston Gralla: StatCounter to Microsoft: You're wrong, Chrome beat Internet Explorer last weekend Preston Gralla: Microsoft says Chrome didn't top Internet Explorer last weekend SURVEY: IDG Research Participate in this survey for a chance at $500! Computerworld is conducting a survey about the evolving role and influence of technology buyers in today's corporate enterprise. Participate in this brief survey and enter a sweepstakes to win a $500 cash prize. Please share your valued opinion with us in this important survey by clicking on the link below. Preston Gralla: Tests show Windows 8 Consumer Preview is much faster than Windows 7 One thing you'll like about Windows 8: Even though it's only in its preview form, it's already faster than Windows 7. And as development proceeds, it should only get even faster.   Read More Microsoft's ads, humor boost consumer opinion of IE Microsoft's recent campaigns touting Internet Explorer 9 have moved IE's quality perception needle for U.S. adults, according to BrandIndex, a brand quality measurement company. Read More Microsoft makes a price cut to slow Google Apps Microsoft is cutting the price of its own cloud-based service, Office 365, to improve its chances of success in the enterprise market and to stave off competition from Google Apps, analysts say. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! Microsoft adds Git support to CodePlex repository Responding to user demand, Microsoft now allows projects using its CodePlex open source code repository to use the increasingly popular Git version-control system built by Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Read More Preston Gralla: StatCounter to Microsoft: You're wrong, Chrome beat Internet Explorer last weekend Microsoft has attacked StatCounter, the firm that said Chrome topped Internet Explorer last weekend, saying that its data and assumptions were flat-out wrong. Now StatCounter is fighting back. In comments to my blog post about the issue, StatCounter says that Microsoft is the one with the wrong data and assumptions.   Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft says Chrome didn't top Internet Explorer last weekend A day after the analytics firm StatCounter reported that Chrome had bested Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser on a recent weekend day, Microsoft says it simply isn't so. Microsoft claims that StatCounter bases its findings on faulty data and incorrect assumptions.   Read More
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