Microsoft licensing plans for cloud management suite

January 17, 2012

ZDNet With all the cloud hype, it’s sometimes easy to forget that “clouds” are just a bunch of servers located in datacenters — whether they be customers’ own, hosters’, or tech vendors’ datacenters. On January 17, Microsoft will highlight that fact by positioning its new System Center 2012 system-management bundle as key to managing both [...]

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The next generation file system for Windows: ReFS

January 17, 2012

Building Windows 8 An inside look from the Windows engineering team We wanted to continue our dialog about data storage by talking about the next generation file system being introduced in Windows 8. Today, NTFS is the most widely used, advanced, and feature rich file system in broad use. But when you’re reimagining Windows, as [...]

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English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout

January 16, 2012

To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Date: January 16, 2012 Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a [...]

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Zappos hack exposes personal information

January 16, 2012

Beta News By Ed Oswald Data on up to 24 million customers of online shoe retailer Zappos was compromised according to an email sent by its CEO Tony Hsieh on Sunday. While Hsieh says that full credit card information is safe, hackers may have the last four digits of the cards. Hackers accessed names, email [...]

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10 years after Bill Gates’ Trustworthy Computing memo

January 16, 2012

Beta News By Christopher Budd I joined the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) in April 2001 and left the company in December 2010. During that time I was involved in security and privacy at Microsoft, culminating in my role handling worldwide crisis communications for security and privacy incidents. I am one of a handful of [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for January 2012

January 5, 2012

Security TechCenter http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-jan Preliminary information, subject to change. This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on January 10, 2012. This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the January bulletin summary on January 10, 2012. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin [...]

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Advanced Bootkit attacks in 2011

January 4, 2012

ESET Threat Blog The year 2011 could be referred to as a year of growth in complex threats. Over the course of this year we witnessed an increase in the number of threats targeting the Microsoft Windows 64-bit platform, and bootkits in particular. Here is a self-explanatory diagram depicting the evolution of bootkit threats over [...]

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Internet Explorer 6 Countdown

January 4, 2012

ie6countdown 10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2012, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye. http://www.ie6countdown.com/ BBC News Meanwhile rival Google has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown on the promotion of its Chrome browser. It has downgraded Chrome [...]

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Firefox 9.0.1 released

December 30, 2011

The latest version of Firefox has the following changes: Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript Added support for font-stretch Improved support for text-overflow Improved standards support [...]

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SOPA-GoDaddy

December 30, 2011

ESET Threat Blog SOPA bytes GoDaddy’s business, and it will hurt you too. by Andrew Lee CEO, ESET North America The Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA as it is more commonly known, currently being debated in congress, has lit up a huge outcry on the Internet in recent weeks. We, here at ESET were [...]

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