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	Lumia 900: Do-or-die for Nokia, Windows Phone in U.S.? Nokia's Lumia 900 smartphone goes on sale April 8 in what many analysts see as a do-or-die moment for Nokia and Microsoft's Windows Phone OS in the key U.S. market. 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: Five ways the Lumia 900 beats the iPhone Improve Your Windows 7 Registry With 7 Easy Tweaks Microsoft details Azure security features Microsoft acquires 20 new Windows security ideas for $13,400 each Microsoft boosts virtualization capabilities in Desktop Optimization Pack First look: Visual Studio 11 beta leaner, meaner for Metro IT Blogwatch: Nokia Lumia 900 review roundup Preston Gralla: Mozilla engineer --- Windows 8 Metro will be linchpin of Firefox success Microsoft counted as key Linux contributor, for now anyway RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. Preston Gralla: Five ways the Lumia 900 beats the iPhone I've been testing the Lumia 900 for the last several days, and have found that some of ifs features are superior to the iPhone --- here are five of them. (Note: I'll have a fuller review posted on Computerworld in several days.)   Read More Improve Your Windows 7 Registry With 7 Easy Tweaks The Windows Registry is a powerful but confusing component of the Windows operating system. In earlier editions of Windows, editing the Registry was fraught with peril; if the user edited it with the wrong tool or altered a critical key, the result could be an inoperable Windows installation. Windows 7, however, is far more forgiving than its predecessors when it comes to modifying the Registry, if you use the built-in Windows 7 Registry Editor (Regedit). Read More Microsoft details Azure security features Microsoft has added its Azure cloud platform to the Cloud Security Alliance's STAR security registry, which is a listing where cloud service providers post information about their security features. Read More Microsoft acquires 20 new Windows security ideas for $13,400 each Microsoft has received 20 submissions in the $268,000 contest it hopes will result in new security technologies being baked into Windows, a company security strategist said Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: LTO Program The Evolving Role of Disk and Tape Disk-based solutions for data protection have opened up new storage options for organizations. The question should not be whether to choose disk or tape, but rather how to leverage both technologies to deploy a cost-effective tiered-storage architecture. This paper discusses the 5 best practices for backup and long-term data protection Read now Microsoft boosts virtualization capabilities in Desktop Optimization Pack Microsoft is boosting the virtualization components of its Desktop Optimization Pack suite of IT management tools. Read More First look: Visual Studio 11 beta leaner, meaner for Metro Metro-style development support and monochrome obsession are featured in Microsoft's all-encompassing Windows development tool Read More IT Blogwatch: Nokia Lumia 900 review roundup The Nokia Lumia 900 reviews are in. And they're mostly positive, especially about the free/$100 price. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers at Engadget, PCWorld, Ars, Verge log their thoughts.   Read More Preston Gralla: Mozilla engineer --- Windows 8 Metro will be linchpin of Firefox success A major key to Firefox regaining significant market share is developing a Windows 8 Metro version of the browser, says a high-level Mozilla engineer working on the project. And it's clear that this is more than talk, because Mozilla already has has a working prototype.   Read More Microsoft counted as key Linux contributor, for now anyway For the first time ever, and probably only temporarily, Microsoft can be counted as a key contributor to Linux. Read More
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