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	Microsoft restores Outlook.com after three-day outage Microsoft on Saturday apologized for a three-day partial outage of Outlook.com and said the email service was back up and running, only to note hours later that problems still plagued some customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Lenovo Group Limited Quick & Effective Windows XP Migration Checklist The end of support date for Windows XP is rapidly approaching, after which the potential for security vulnerabilities will dramatically increase. Lenovo;s Image Technology Center (ITC) services along with the Lenovo In-Place Migration (IPM) product can help IT staff quickly and successfully migrate from Windows XP with minimum disruption. Learn More In this Issue Surface channel distribution tempo shows Microsoft lacks Plan B after sales debacle Jonny Evans: Why Microsoft needs to worry about Google Glass XP Z: Microsoft scares Windows XP users straight with undead bug warning Blaster from the past: The worm that zapped XP 10 years ago Windows 8 comes to open-source PCs with GizmoSphere board WHITE PAPER: Symantec Virtualization Book Don't be one of the 74 percent of small businesses that doesn't have a disaster recovery plan, especially for your virtualized environment. It is possible to easily protect both your virtual and physical infrastructure with one backup solution. Download this white paper to learn about ways to back up your VMware or Hyper-V virtual environments now. Read now! Surface channel distribution tempo shows Microsoft lacks Plan B after sales debacle Microsoft's slow expansion of commercial sales of its struggling Surface line is proof that the company had no backup plan after completely misreading the market, an analyst said today. Read More Jonny Evans: Why Microsoft needs to worry about Google Glass Microsoft is failing in the mobile space -- Surface is skin deep -- but it's looking in the wrong direction if it really wants to make a difference, you see, it's not Apple it should be emulating, but Google, specifically, Google Glass. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Comparison of Unified vs. Two Products Because of the outstanding economy, flexibility, and service levels it offers, virtualization is transforming data centers at breakneck speed: by 2016, an estimated 80% of the world's x86 servers will be virtual machines (VMs). But the speed of this transformation raise challenges for "traditional" IT services and the teams that deliver them. Read now! XP Z: Microsoft scares Windows XP users straight with undead bug warning Microsoft warned Windows XP customers that they face never-patched, never-dead "zero-day" vulnerabilities if they don't dump the 12-year-old operating system before its April 2014 retirement. Read More Blaster from the past: The worm that zapped XP 10 years ago Ten years ago this week, the Blaster worm swept through Windows XP and Windows 2000 networks, bringing some government agencies to a halt and perhaps contributing to a power blackout in the Northeast U.S. Read More Windows 8 comes to open-source PCs with GizmoSphere board The market for x86 open-source PCs is now a two-horse race, with GizmoSphere releasing schematics and design documents for hobbyists to build from scratch a Windows 8 computer based on open design. Read More
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