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Eleven years ago today, January 13, 2000, Steve Ballmer was appointed CEO of Microsoft. Increasingly, many, including me, are wondering how many more years he’ll continue in that role. View the full article
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Windows IT Pro The PC sales figures for Q4 2010 and for the year are out, and both IDC and Gartner are claiming that the iPad had a negative impact. However, looking at the firm's initial predictions for 2010 and at preliminary iPad unit sales figures, I'm not so sure that's the case. ... View the full article -
Supersite Today: A Category 5 Death Storm disrupts work, eWeek wants Ballmer out, Microsoft mocks H.264 removal from Chrome, a conspiracy theory, Microsoft patches reboot my PC, no IE fix, a new Android version, Apple's predicted quarterly results, Mac sites I actually like, Apple CEO Steve Jobs' compensation, and video game unit sales from December. ... View the full article
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Supersite Moving the iPhone 4 to Verizon Wireless isn't really going to solve many problems for current (or potential) users. Indeed, it may cause some problems of its own. Here's what we know so far. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Microsoft has asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to deny Apple a trademark on the term "App Store," arguing that it is generic, has been used by many companies, and should be open to competitors. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Microsoft announced an expansion of its Office 365 service to the education market. ... View the full article
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Microsoft is planning to launch its WebMatrix Web-development tool bundle this week at the CodeMash event, according to multiple tweets. Microsoft’s ISV Developer Community site confirmed the planned January 13 launch. View the full article
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Supersite Apparently, the web is interested in my schedule. Here are some more items from today... ... View the full article
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Microsoft Windows - Mailbag: January 11, 2011
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Supersite In this week's mailbag: .NET on the Mac, Windows Phone 7 and video chat, iPhone 4's hardware problems revisited, reviewing the 2011 tablet devices, and Windows Phone 7 on Sprint and Verizon. ... View the full article -
Microsoft will be launching Office 365, its successor to BPOS, Live@Edu and Office Live Small Business — later this year (I’m still hearing early June). On January 11, Microsoft shared new pricing and packaging details about one of the coming Office 365 SKUs: Office 365 for Education. View the full article
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Supersite Today: my attempts at tough love with Microsoft, Apple's over-use of the term revolutionary, Office 365 heading to education, and the iPhone 4 announced for Verizon Wireless. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro In last week's UPDATE commentary, I described an all-too-familiar scenario in which I, as the resident PC expert among a certain circle of friends and family, become the lifetime tech support for all of them. Based on my email, much of you are in the same boat as well. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Verizon Wireless announced today that its customers will be able to purchase Apple's iPhone 4 starting next month. The announcement was long expected, and while the iPhone 4 is a nearly year-old design that comes laden with the most hardware defects of any recent Apple device, this change is expected to have long-term repercussions in the wireless industry, perhaps especially at AT&T. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Microsoft confirmed this week that its Server & Tools Business (STB) president, Bob Muglia, is leaving the company this year to pursue opportunities elsewhere. Muglia is a 23-year veteran of the software giant and has held the president position for two years. Based on internal email, it appears that Muglia was ousted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ... View the full article
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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Data Access Components. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. View the full article
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Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Backup Manager. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate Windows Backup Manager file that is located in the same network directory as a specially crafted library file. For an attack to be successful, a user must visit an untrusted remote file system location or WebDAV share and open the legitimate file from that location, which in turn could cause Windows Backup Manager to load the specially crafted library file. View the full article
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Supersite Microsoft provides a last minute fix for the expiring version of Windows Home Server "Vail." ... View the full article
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At the end of January 10, 2011, the latest Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ public preview was slated to expire — even though there was no replacement beta slated for another four to six weeks. But Microsoft has issued a last-minute expiry workaround, officials said today. View the full article
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We’ve seen Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s January 10 e-mail to the troops about Server and Tools Business (STB) Unit President Bob Muglia’s unexpected departure from the company. But we haven’t heard from Muglia — until now. View the full article
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Microsoft veteran and Server & Tools Business (STB) President Bob Muglia is leaving Microsoft, according to an email that CEO Steve Ballmer sent to employees on January 10. View the full article
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Supersite Today: iTunes at 10, iPad 2 rumors, Microsoft's wake-up call, some serious bad news for WHS "Vail" users, Verizon confidence on the eve of iPhone launch, and Angry Birds for the PC. ... View the full article
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Microsoft officials said on January 10 to expect a new version of its Dynamics AX ERP product (codenamed AX 6) to ship in the third calendar quarter of 2011. This means if Microsoft holds to its current plans, the company could end up releasing new versions of all four of its ERP products this year. View the full article
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Microsoft is making available as of January 10 its Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 operating system — its offering for ruggedized enterprise phones and devices. View the full article
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Windows IT Pro With the 2011 CES dust finally settling, I think it's time for a rational look at what Microsoft really announced last week. And what I see is a troubling example of tunnel-vision. ... View the full article
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Microsoft’s healthcare leaders already are thinking about how the newly announced Surface 2, Xbox, Xbox Live and the Kinect sensors may be incorporated into healthcare applications. View the full article