Microsoft slates Windows 8 'release preview' for early June

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	Microsoft slates Windows 8 'release preview' for early June Microsoft's top Windows executive today said that the company will ship an almost-complete version of Windows 8 the first week of June. Read More 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. In this Issue Preston Gralla: Apple's Tim Cook on Windows 8: It's like merging a fridge with a toaster Microsoft to support ODF 1.2 open document standard in Office 15 Robert L. Mitchell: Office Live Small Business: A horror story Macs more likely to carry Windows malware than Mac malware, Sophos says Facebook to pay Microsoft $550M for AOL patents Is Windows RT on tablets DOA because it lacks needed enterprise features? Preston Gralla: Disgruntled Microsoft ex-employee goes public: on-target critique or sour grapes? Microsoft releases update for Deployment Toolkit utility WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Preston Gralla: Apple's Tim Cook on Windows 8: It's like merging a fridge with a toaster Apple's Tim Cook took time out from Apple's earnings call to give a sideways slam to Windows 8, saying that Microsoft's attempt to get it to work on PCs and tablets was like trying to mate a refrigerator with a toaster.   Read More Microsoft to support ODF 1.2 open document standard in Office 15 Microsoft has demonstrated support for the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 standard in a technical preview of the forthcoming Office 15 productivity suite, and plans to release a beta version with the feature late this summer. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Office Live Small Business: A horror story I thought I had plenty of time to get my Web site off Microsoft OLSB, which goes dark this Monday. Boy was I wrong.   Read More Macs more likely to carry Windows malware than Mac malware, Sophos says One in five Mac computers is likely to carry Windows malware, but only one in 36 is likely to be infected with malware specifically designed for the Mac OS X, according to study performed by antivirus firm Sophos. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerating Cloud Performance with WAN Optimization Today's smart CIOs are assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each should run—locally or in the public cloud. Read on to learn about the benefits of cloud computing, and why its success or failure is often dependent on WAN optimization. Learn more. Facebook to pay Microsoft $550M for AOL patents Facebook on Monday continued its latest spending spree by agreeing to pay Microsoft about $550 million for some 650 former AOL patents and patent applications. Read More Is Windows RT on tablets DOA because it lacks needed enterprise features? Omissions from the feature set of Windows RT are leaving analysts increasingly skeptical that enterprises will gravitate toward tablets running the new forked version of Windows. Is Windows RT on tablets DOA because it lacks needed enterprise features? Read More Preston Gralla: Disgruntled Microsoft ex-employee goes public: on-target critique or sour grapes? Five-year Microsoft veteran Max Zachariades who blogs under the name Max Zografos just posted a scorched-earth account about his time at Microsoft in which he lambasts the company as a red-tape-ridden bureaucracy that punishes creativity and rewards mediocrity. It's not clear, though, whether the post is an accurate description of working conditions at Microsoft, or an attempt by a fired employee to settle scores.   Read More Microsoft releases update for Deployment Toolkit utility Microsoft has released a new version of a tool designed to let enterprise IT staffers automate and manage large-scale deployments of Microsoft OSes, desktop applications and server software. Read More
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