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	Microsoft makes a play for the living room with Xbox One Microsoft is making a big play for the living room with a new Xbox console that marries games with live TV, Internet browsing, music and Skype. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Next Generation Backup and Recovery Read this IDC analysis of ten midsize companies that have deployed EMC backup and recovery solutions to learn key IDC findings including: - Average payback period of 7 months ROI of 450% over 3 years - Reduced restore times from 17 to 2 hours - Reduced backup windows from 11 to 3 hours Learn more. In this Issue Preston Gralla: Does Lenovo's high earnings show there's gold in Windows 8? Microsoft software satisfaction slumps Lenovo profit up 90% as smartphone shipments soar HP profit falls 32% as PC and server sales decline Preston Gralla: Users tell Microsoft, keep your Windows 8 Metro apps, we don't want them How to Prepare for Windows 8 Even Though It's Not Coming to Enterprises Google engineer bashes Microsoft's handling of security researchers, discloses Windows zero-day Windows 8.1 laptops with AMD's new chips to support wireless display Preston Gralla: Another way Apple beats Microsoft -- in sketchy tax dodges Preston Gralla: Dell and enterprises diss Windows 8 big-time Microsoft boosts Japan Azure offering, adds data centers Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are secret backers behind European Privacy Association WEBCAST: Sepaton 3 Reasons Why Sepaton is the World's Fastest Backup Solution Leading analyst, Storage Switzerland learns how Sepaton backs up and deduplicates massive data volumes while maintaining the industry's fastest performance - all in one system. Learn more! Learn More. Preston Gralla: Does Lenovo's high earnings show there's gold in Windows 8? Even though the PC market has seen record declines, high-flying Lenovo just reported record revenue an a 90 percent increase in profits compared to a year ago. Has the Chinese-based company figured out how to turn Windows 8 into gold? Read More Microsoft software satisfaction slumps Customer satisfaction with Microsoft's software, primarily Windows, dropped slightly in the last year, likely part of the fallout over Windows 8, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Read More Lenovo profit up 90% as smartphone shipments soar PC sales in China and high growth in smartphones shipments helped boost Lenovo's net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter by 90%. Read More HP profit falls 32% as PC and server sales decline Hewlett-Packard reported a 32% drop in profit for its second fiscal quarter, due partly to slower sales of PCs and servers. Read More Preston Gralla: Users tell Microsoft, keep your Windows 8 Metro apps, we don't want them Microsoft's new-style "Metro" Windows 8 apps were supposed to draw people to the operating system in droves, but the exact opposite is happening. Just-published research shows that 60% of users don't bother to launch even a single Metro app a day. Read More How to Prepare for Windows 8 Even Though It's Not Coming to Enterprises Windows 8 won't be adopted as a standard at your business anytime soon, according to a new Forrester report. But that doesn't mean IT shouldn't prepare for it to sneak through the BYOD side door. Here are five ways to be ready for Windows 8. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Red Hat JBossand Oracle WebLogic Server This competitive brief outlines the differences in the economies of the competing application platforms, the implementation of the JEE specification, open standards support and other non-JEE specifications features. Read this paper to learn more about how your organization can benefit from Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Learn More Google engineer bashes Microsoft's handling of security researchers, discloses Windows zero-day A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights. Read More Windows 8.1 laptops with AMD's new chips to support wireless display Advanced Micro Devices hopes to regain share in the PC processor market with its upcoming chips based on the Jaguar core, which will bring console-like gaming and wireless displays to laptops with Windows 8 and its successor, Windows Blue. Read More Preston Gralla: Another way Apple beats Microsoft -- in sketchy tax dodges When it comes to paying taxes, Apple certainly thinks different, using sketchy tax dodges and phantom offshore companies to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. Competitors like Microsoft have used similar tactics, but not nearly to the extent that does Apple. This is one more example of the way that Apple polishes a shiny public image, but acts in private in a less-than-stellar manner. Read More Preston Gralla: Dell and enterprises diss Windows 8 big-time If selling and buying operating systems were a football game, Dell and enterprises might be called for piling on, because within the last several days both of them have given big thumbs-downs to Windows 8. This is just the latest in a long series of bad news for the newest version of Windows. Read More Microsoft boosts Japan Azure offering, adds data centers Microsoft will boost its Azure cloud offering in Japan, adding two domestic data centers to speed response times and improve reliability in the face of natural disasters. Read More Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are secret backers behind European Privacy Association Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have been confirmed as the secret backers behind the European Privacy Association (EPA) which was accused of a lack of transparency by an independent watchdog on Thursday. Read More
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