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	Talk is not cheap: Microsoft adds $23B to market cap on rumors of Office for iPad Microsoft's share price cracked $40, setting an 11-year high in trading on Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Designed to be the best Power Systems continues to prove itself as the ultimate system for compute intensive workloads, high performance analytics, high performance UNIX*, and high performance computing. Learn More In this Issue Preston Gralla: Microsoft snoops on blogger's email account. Is yours safe? Microsoft tries to tempt XP diehards with $100 discount on new PCs Encrypted email service Virtru adds Office 365 compatibility Ex-Mozilla engineer blames Microsoft's rules for Metro Firefox's death Microsoft's DirectX 12 to boost gaming on PCs, mobile devices Windows leak site Wzor goes dark a day after feds arrest Microsoft mole Microsoft to review policies after admitting it searched customer email WHITE PAPER: Druva 5 Things You Didn't Know About Cloud Backup IT departments are embracing cloud backup, but there's a lot you need to know before choosing a service provider. Learn all the critical things you need to know by accessing the white paper, 5 Things You Didn't Know About Cloud Backup. Read now! Preston Gralla: Microsoft snoops on blogger's email account. Is yours safe? As part of an investigation into a leak of Windows 8, Microsoft snooped on the Hotmail emails and instant messages of a blogger. The company claims it was all legal. Is your Microsoft account safe from the company's prying eyes? Read More Microsoft tries to tempt XP diehards with $100 discount on new PCs Microsoft is pitching another deal at pry-XP-from-my-cold-dead-hands customers, offering them $100 off a new Windows 8.1 device if they spring for one that costs more than $599. Read More Encrypted email service Virtru adds Office 365 compatibility Virtru has added Microsoft's Office 365 and Outlook Desktop services to its list of compatible email platforms for its encryption product. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Empowering Mainframe Users to be More Successful In this video, CA Technologies and IBM talk about how the power of IBM's zEnterprise combined with CA Technologies portfolio of products are empowering Mainframe customers to be successful. Learn more>> Ex-Mozilla engineer blames Microsoft's rules for Metro Firefox's death A former Mozilla engineer who worked on the "Metro" version of Firefox says that poor adoption of Windows 8's radical user interface wasn't behind the decision to shelve the browser. Read More Microsoft's DirectX 12 to boost gaming on PCs, mobile devices Windows and Xbox games will receive a significant graphics and performance boost with Microsoft's new DirectX 12, a set of application programming interfaces and tools used in PC games. Read More Windows leak site Wzor goes dark a day after feds arrest Microsoft mole The noted Windows leak site Wzor.net was offline Thursday and its Twitter account had disappeared, a day after an ex-Microsoft employee was charged with stealing trade secrets from the company. Read More Microsoft to review policies after admitting it searched customer email Microsoft promised to subject itself to a more rigorous process before searching through its customers' email accounts in the future after a recent legal case revealed that the company searched for evidence of theft of its trade secrets in a Hotmail account. Read More
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