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Microsoft: Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. (Source:wikipedia.org)
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There are lots of companies of all sizes still using Windows XP – and they seem relatively happy with it. According to W3Schools (an online education resource), over 38% of desktops are still running Windows XP - an impressive show of loyalty for Microsoft, but one that is causing problems in its drive to move people to a more modern platform.
Those still on Windows XP should have that decision under review.
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Barriers to large-scale adoption of videoconferencing in the enterprise have included complexity, poor workflow integration and lack of flexibility. Solutions must be easy to use and accommodate how and where users work to yield business benefits.
This white paper explores the potential impact of Microsoft Lync 2013 as organisations strive to make video communications and collaboration a more pervasive and instinctive part of everyday business.
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Adobe has released a security advisory after it found that
one of its build servers had been compromised and used to create malicious
files for signing digital certificates. All security certificate issued by the
server from June 10th this year are expected to be recalled by the 4th October
2012.
Whilst Adobe say that the vast majority of PC users will not
be affected, they will also be issuing a software security update in the near
future.
"However, some cust ... read more
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The news last week that more than half a million Apple Macs had been infected with a botnet-building trojan known as Flashback had many PC users secretly sniggering into their computer screens. For decades now, Mac users have managed to remain pretty smug about the misconception that Macs were incapable of becoming infected with malware, but now they have.
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Microsoft has announced its most significant update to search engine Bing since its launch in 2009, to include a social sidebar. The new-look search page will begin rolling out over the next couple of weeks and will be split into three sections.
This "focuses on bringing you information from the web to help you take action and interact with friends and experts without compromising the core search experience.” In the centre of the new page, is ‘Snapshot', with web results on the ... read more
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All versions of Internet Explorer (IE) from 6 to 10 will
need to install updates from Microsoft this month in order to address critical
vulnerabilities in the browser.
This month is set to be a bumper month all round for
Microsoft software, with a total of 57 security holes in IE, Windows XP, 2003
and Vista, Microsoft Server Software, Office and the .NET framework.
According to Micro ... read more
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A study funded by Microsoft has found that cloud computing will create 9.62 million jobs in Asia Pacific alone by 2015.
The research also estimates that the technology will create 14 million new jobs internationally by the same year, which is good news for the global economy. The study was carried out by global analysts IDC, who say that revenues from cloud innovation could reach $1.1 trillion by 2015.
The res ... read more
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German investment bank Deutsche Bank has completed the first phase of its migration to the cloud. The firm decided to adopt the new technology as a way of streamlining internal application development.It is hoped that the cloud computing infrastructure will help the bank's developers boost the turnaround of software creation. The cornerstone of the move is the ability for ... read more
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On top of the news this morning that Microsoft has reported its first quarterly loss in its history, a new survey has found that large enterprises are "less than enthusiastic” about the introduction of Windows 8 into their organisations.
This could come as something of a blow to Microsoft’s tablet sales when Surface is released in October, as it’s commonly thought that the device is specifically aimed at the enterprise market.
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Facebook have teamed up with five leading anti-virus vendors to create Facebook Antivirus Marketplace in an attempt to slow the spread of malware around the site. Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec are the security firms involved and the new page offers cut price and free antivirus solutions to interested surfers.
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Adobe has released two critical updates to address zero-day
flaws, which are both under "active attack” by hackers. Windows and Mac users
are both affected, although one of the exploits is being used in targeted
attacks that tricks users into opened an email attachment.
The attachment is a Word document and contains malicious
Flash content and targets the ActiveX version of Flash Player on Windows.
The other vulnerability attacks Safari and Firefox running
on Macs and c ... read more
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The latest forecast from Gartner predicts that sales of worldwide devices are set to grow by 9% this year, although this will include a significant change in the mix of devices as PC sales continue to decline.
2013 will see 2.4 billion units being shipped and this expected to continue growing through to 2017, when it will total around 2.9bn units.
However, the traditional PC market will decline 7.6% as consumers continues to change their spending habits. This is due to ... read more
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Researchers at IDC have found that slower than expected growth was experienced in Q1 2013 for PC sales in China, which is the largest PC market in the world.
Whilst it’s thought that there were contributing factors to the decline, such as the Chinese New Year, budget cuts and anti-corruption measures, the reduction in growth still came as something of a surprise. It’s thought that the market will recover slightly in March, although not enough to offset a weak February.
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The IP Expo begins tomorrow at Earls Court, London and will
run for two days with events and seminars surrounding a wealth of IT subjects,
including virtualization and a host of keynote speakers.
The only enterprise IT event to cover all subjects across IT
is to include product launches and demonstrations and entry is free for those
who pre-register attendance on the IP Expo
website. It’s thought that the event will include ... read more
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In a recent interview with CNBC, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is reported to have said that iPad users are frustrated by the lack of Microsoft Office and the ability to type, even if they don’t know it.
This means that it’s only a matter of time before Surface and hybrids take the tablet market. However, recent figures from IDC, as we reported last week, show that whilst it’s seen some improvement, Surface is well behind iPad and Android tablets with a tiny proportion of the 253 ... read more
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HP and Microsoft have joined forces in order to offer a private cloud solution suitable for even the largest enterprises. The news comes in the wake of Microsoft's recent announcement of their cloud strategy and the release of licensing for System Center 2012, which has now become generally available.
System Center 2012 has been updated in order to integrate core cloud capabilities and speed up deployment. read more
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Microsoft has announced a new tool designed to help IT
professionals test their enterprise’s readiness for deployment to the cloud.
The Cloud Security
Readiness Tool is a free resource targeting SMEs to help them to assess
security as it emerged that a recent Microsoft survey found that companies who
have already adopted cloud have found it to be better secure than on-site
solutions.
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Ahead of the launch of Windows 8 and the Surface tablet, which the new OS was designed for, Microsoft has also announced the introduction of the latest version of Office, which is to include apps such as SkyDrive enabling cloud services.
It’s also been announced that the latest version of Windows will be available to the public on October 26th this year, which coincides nicely with the launch of their new tablet device.
According to one report, "cloud and social ... read more
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Microsoft has bought the office social networking site Yammer for $1.2bn, the tech giant confirmed on Monday. The four year old site, which currently has five million users offers a social networking platform for use within companies.
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said, "Yammer adds a best-in-class enterprise social networking service to Microsoft's growing port ... read more
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) has continued to lose web browser market share as users adopt offerings from rivals - particularly Google's Chrome browser. Experts predict that IE's market share will slip below 50 per cent by March of this year.Use of IE has been declining relatively steadily for many months - albeit with a one-month pause in December of last year. It currently holds 51.9 per cent of the market share, according to Net Applications, a company based in Cal ... read more
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