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	Microsoft invests in new Barnes & Noble unit, settles litigation Microsoft will invest $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, which will include the digital Nook and College businesses of Barnes & Noble, the companies said in joint statement on Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Compuware Boost Business Agility for IBM WebSphere By reducing problem hotspots within WebSphere before they occur in the development process or by diagnosing and repairing them when they occur in test and production can improve the time-to-value and ROI for a WebSphere implementation by as much as 50% or more. Learn More. Learn More. In this Issue Preston Gralla: Wozniak: Windows Phone is so beautiful, Steve Jobs might have been reincarnated by Microsoft to help design it Preston Gralla: Why Windows Phone may succeed -- carriers hate Apple Carriers desperately seeking Windows Phone 'Obstinate' Conficker worm infests millions of PCs years later Down but not out: Conficker camouflages new Windows infections Microsoft links Metro theme to jQuery Mobile, Windows Phone Preston Gralla: Apple is "ten years behind Microsoft" on security says security firm Kaspersky Microsoft re-releases Office for Mac 2011 upgrade after fixing bugs Microsoft issues Office 2011 SP2 update, hopefully it works RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver – 6/20 Register Now! IT Roadmap is the one day, cost free, professional-level conference and expo that's full of job-ready solutions you can put to work now. IT Roadmap surrounds you with technology's most-followed analysts and the industry's most-innovative solution providers, all focused entirely on building the roadmap you need in crucial areas of enterprise IT. Click to continue Preston Gralla: Wozniak: Windows Phone is so beautiful, Steve Jobs might have been reincarnated by Microsoft to help design it Co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak believes that Windows Phone 7 sports a more beautiful interface than the iPhone and Android phones, so much so that he jokingly said that Microsoft may have managed to reincarnate Steve Jobs to help with its design. Read More Preston Gralla: Why Windows Phone may succeed -- carriers hate Apple Microsoft may be gaining a powerful set of partners to help Windows 8 become a success -- AT&T and Verizon Wireless, who need leverage against Apple's onerous demands for subsidies for every iPhone the carriers sell.   Read More Carriers desperately seeking Windows Phone AT&T and Verizon Wireless want Windows Phone smartphones to succeed in the U.S., partly to provide leverage against Apple's demands for subsidies required for selling the popular iPhone. Read More 'Obstinate' Conficker worm infests millions of PCs years later The long-suppressed Conficker botnet is still actively infecting millions of new machines, giving Windows enterprise users a two-and-a-half-year headache. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Sustainable Compliance for the Payment Card Industry This white paper explains the essentials of a PCI DSS compliance program, focusing on the critical but problematic areas that comprise much of the heart of the requirements. Learn More! Down but not out: Conficker camouflages new Windows infections Windows PCs infected with Conficker are more likely to be compromised by other malware because the worm masks those secondary infections and makes those machines easier to exploit, a security expert said. Read More Microsoft links Metro theme to jQuery Mobile, Windows Phone With Microsoft Open Technologies release, websites and mobile apps can use Metro style Read More Preston Gralla: Apple is "ten years behind Microsoft" on security says security firm Kaspersky Macs are about to be swamped by a new wave of malware attacks, and are risk because Apple is "ten years behind Microsoft" when it comes to security, says Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of the security firm Kaspersky. If he's right, the recent Flashback Trojan attack is the shape of things to come   Read More Microsoft re-releases Office for Mac 2011 upgrade after fixing bugs Microsoft yesterday re-released Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 (SP2) after fixing a bug that wormed into the original update. Read More Microsoft issues Office 2011 SP2 update, hopefully it works The other day I detailed how I recovered my Office 2011 apps after installing Microsoft's ill-conceived Office 2011 SP2 update. A few days later, Microsoft pulled the update. Now Microsoft has released an update to that update in the form of the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.2.1 update. Read More
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