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News Microsoft Releases System Center Operations Manager 2012 RC Operations Manager 2012 helps monitor applications too, providing diagnostics on .NET and Java Enterprise Edition Web apps, including those supported by Microsoft's Windows Azure public cloud. Microsoft made a release candidate (RC) of System Center Operations Manager 2012 available to testers on Thursday.New to Operations

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News Microsoft Announces Windows 8 Roadmap for Windows Embedded OS The company announced plans to release Windows Embedded Standard v.Next "three quarters after Windows 8 is generally available for PCs," which pushes its release date into 2013.Microsoft on Monday outlined upcoming changes to its next-generation Windows Embedded operating system, which are largely based on Windows 8.These

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News Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL Confirm Online Advertising Partnership The deal between Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo came about, in part, because interoperability issues got solved.Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo have agreed to a deal that offers customers access to online display ad inventories from AOL's Advertising.com, the Microsoft Media Network (which includes MSN and Fox Sports sites) and Yahoo

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News Microsoft: Tens of Thousands of Customers Use Windows Azure Cloud General Manager of Microsoft Server and Tools says 75 percent of new server shipments use the Windows Server operating system for private cloud deployments. Microsoft expects the future of its Windows Azure public cloud to be more in the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) realm, offering support for multiple programming

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News Microsoft Reveals SQL Server 2012 Licensing Model Licensing costs for SQL Server 2012 won't substantially change except for Client Access Licensing (CAL), which will be higher.Microsoft unveiled a new licensing and pricing model for its upcoming SQL Server 2012 product family, which is expected in the first half of next year.The new licensing model is based on an organization's computing

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News Linux Community Counters Microsoft's Windows 8 Secure Boot Mandate While secure boot is optional to use as described in the UEFI spec, Microsoft will require system vendors to use it as the default as part of the Windows 8 logo program.Microsoft's comments about embracing secure boot at its BUILD developer conference in September caused an open source Linux community backlash.Now the

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News Microsoft Submits Patch to Samba Core Under Open Source License The relationship between Microsoft and Samba has certainly changed. Microsoft was forced by a European antitrust action to open its network protocols to Samba in 2007.Microsoft marked another open source milestone last month.The company's Oct. 10 patch improved the Samba core code and was submitted under the open source GNU

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News Microsoft System Center 2012 Previews Released On the cloud management side, Microsoft released betas of App Controller and Service Manager, as well as a release candidate of Orchestrator, which are all within the System Center 2012 product family.Microsoft announced a product name change and integration that beefs up its System Center 2012 suite.The announcements were made in

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News Citrix Unleashes Product Blitz at Synergy Partner ConferenceCitrix Systems unleashed a torrent of desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) announcements at its Synergy event in Barcelona on Wednesday. The announcements largely centered on the company's Desktop Transformation Model, which rolled out earlier this month.The product blitz came with ambitious plans for

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News Blackberry Business Cloud Services To Support Office 365 No service charge: Blackberry Business Cloud Services will be free for Microsoft Exchange Online and Office 365 customers. Research In Motion is launching a public beta trial this week of a new BlackBerry Business Cloud Services that works with Microsoft Office 365. The service, which is slated to roll out in January, enables access

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News Microsoft Updates Mac Lync Client for Office 365 Lync for Mac 2011, released last month, experienced problems on the latest Mac OSX Lion operating system.Microsoft issued an update on Friday that enables Macintosh users to connect to the company's Office 365 service.Office 365 supports connections with Microsoft Lync 2011 for Mac released last month, but users running Lync for Mac 2011 on

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News Microsoft Q1 Results Strong Despite Flat PC Sales Office sales remained strong, but Online Services continued to show weakness caused in part by Microsoft's Bing search initiatives.Microsoft met analysts' expectations in its fiscal first quarter, delivering $0.68 per share, despite flat PC sales, according to financial results reported by the company on Thursday.Revenue for the quarter,

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News Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" Is Widely Released It appears that only a few service providers have issues with the Mango release.Microsoft announced on Wednesday that most of its mobile service providers are in the process of delivering the Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" update to customers, after a phased rollout that began last month.It appears that only a few service providers have issues with

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News Microsoft Updates Windows Intune Cloud Service Software distribution across a network of PCs via the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud is now available with Windows Intune.Microsoft released a major update to Windows Intune, a PC management and security service aimed at mid-size organizations, that became publicly available in March.Software distribution is among the new Windows Intune

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News Big Data Updates to SQL Azure Cloud Service Expected in Q4 The long awaited SQL Azure Federation v1 for scaling out databases using a sharding pattern, is among the expected features.Microsoft is rolling out a major update of its SQL Azure cloud database service sometime in the fourth quarter.The updated service will increase the maximum size of SQL Azure databases from 50 GB to 150 GB,

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News Microsoft Regroups Apps on Windows 8 Metro UIThe future of the Windows user interface is app-based rather than file-based, according to Microsoft. But many people have already expressed concerns about the new app tiles that make up the Start Screen of the Windows 8 Metro user interface.Microsoft is responding to that feedback in a series of "building Windows 8" blog posts issued this

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News SQL Server 2012 Expected in First Half of Next Year Microsoft announced Data Explorer, a new cloud capability for businesses to share data in SQL Server 2012At the PASS Summit 2011 in Seattle this week, Microsoft officially announced SQL Server 2012 (formerly codenamed "Denali") and expanded its product support for open source Apache Hadoop technology.The third community technology

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News Microsoft: Linux Dual-Boot Configurations Still "Possible" on Windows 8 PCs Is the whole dual-boot argument associated with Linux much ado about nothing? Even Windows 7 is not slated to have support for a dual-boot configuration with Windows 8.Microsoft debunked claims that dual-boot configurations with Linux OSes are not possible on Windows 8. However, users must first turn off a "secure

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News Microsoft: October Security Update Patches .NET and Silverlight The October security update provides patches for two "critical" and six "important" items covering a range of products including Microsoft .NET Windows, Internet Explorer, Forefront and Microsoft Host Integration Server.Microsoft released its October Security Bulletin alerting users to eight patches, including a critical

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News Microsoft Receives EU Approval for Skype Deal When the acquistion is finalized, Microsoft will gain access to 170 million Skype subscribers, although it's likely that most are consumers who use the free version of the product.The European Commission approved Microsoft's $8.5 billion bid for Skype on friday, paving the way for Microsoft to integrate Skype's voice-over-IP technologies and

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News Microsoft Previews PowerShell 3.0 The company released a preview of the scripting technology for Windows 8, and the latest Windows 7 technologies, as part of its Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview. Microsoft highlighted the upcoming release of Windows PowerShell 3.0 for Windows 8 during several sessions at its Build conference for developers last week.The company

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News Microsoft Previews Hadoop Connectors for SQL Server The company hinted that more tooling is on the way for big data integrations.Microsoft is previewing test versions of its Hadoop connectors, designed to enable the transfer of structured and unstructured data with SQL Server and SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse in heterogeneous environments.Hadoop is an Apache open source framework for

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News SharePoint Online To Add Business Connectivity Services By year-end, SharePoint Online will offer Business Connectivity Services to make it easier for developers to build cloud-based applications that front-end their data.Microsoft highlighted an update to SharePoint Online during the Day 1 keynote at its SharePoint 2011 conference in Anaheim, Calif. The major update will offer Business

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News Windows 8 Apps in Sync via Microsoft's Live Cloud At it's BUILD conference for developers earlier this month, Microsoft demonstrated how Windows Live Services will play a key role in enabling roaming and single sign-on capabilities for Windows 8 and its applications.With Windows 8, Microsoft is moving towards the world of connected devices championed by former Microsoft Chief Software

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News Developers Take Center Stage at Day 2 Build KeynoteWhile yesterday's keynote focused more on Windows 8 and Metro-style app development, Wednesday morning's Build keynote -- lead by Microsoft Corporate Vice Presidents Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander -- targeted the rank and file .NET developer, focusing in on the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, among other topics.Wearing his trademark

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