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Microsoft news from Network World

Breaking Microsoft news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com

1 - Upcoming Microsoft CRM clients may mean more productivity
2 - Armored-truck company entrusts tracking software to Windows Azure cloud
3 - FBI busts software copyright fugitive who fled to Pakistan
4 - Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn't so anonymous
5 - Microsoft team discovers malicious cookie-forwarding scheme
6 - Microsoft fine-tunes Windows 8 Beta with input from users
7 - Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing
8 - Microsoft Windows Phone 7 app fights malaria
9 - First look: Windows 8 breaks new ground
10 - Security history: Nothing like an old-fashioned boot sector virus
1 - Upcoming Microsoft CRM clients may mean more productivity

The productivity of salespeople could jump with the upcoming release of native Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications for specific mobile platforms and put the software vendor ahead of some of its competitors, an expert says.

2/7/2012 6:03:48 AM

2 - Armored-truck company entrusts tracking software to Windows Azure cloud

U.K.-based cash-transport firm G4S is trusting the security of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service to keep safe the application that tracks where the money is as it travels to and from customers and the company's vaults in armored trucks.

2/6/2012 12:44:35 AM

3 - FBI busts software copyright fugitive who fled to Pakistan

The FBI today said it arrested a man on charges of illegally reproducing and distributing more than 100 copyrighted commercial software programs who had fled the country after being indicted last year.

2/2/2012 12:49:42 AM

4 - Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn't so anonymous

Data routinely gathered in Web logs - IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings - can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, Microsoft researchers say.

2/2/2012 12:24:37 AM

5 - Microsoft team discovers malicious cookie-forwarding scheme

Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analyzing commonly collected Web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking.

2/1/2012 11:41:03 PM

6 - Microsoft fine-tunes Windows 8 Beta with input from users

Microsoft continues to tinker with Windows 8 even as it finalizes its beta version, acting on suggestions it received from users who have experimented with the Windows 8 Developer Preview.

1/31/2012 10:01:22 AM

7 - Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing

Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing.

1/30/2012 6:00:00 AM

8 - Microsoft Windows Phone 7 app fights malaria

Microsoft has awarded an Imagine Cup Grant to a team that developed a custom Windows Phone 7 and application that can diagnose malaria then upload the data to cloud servers that map the data to help track outbreaks.

1/27/2012 12:01:53 AM

9 - First look: Windows 8 breaks new ground

The first public beta for Windows 8 is expected to be released in February, but we've been testing pre-beta code in our lab. Our overall impression is that Windows 8 represents an aggressive effort by Microsoft to deliver a single OS that runs just about everywhere and takes on all of Microsoft's key rivals.

1/23/2012 10:00:00 AM

10 - Security history: Nothing like an old-fashioned boot sector virus

It has been 26 years to the day when the computing world was introduced to its first virus: The Brain.

1/18/2012 11:51:55 PM

 
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