Windows 8's new UI: A return to Flatland

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	Windows 8's new UI: A return to Flatland Buried in an 11,000-word tome on the Building Windows 8 blog, user experience honcho Jensen Harris explains that the legacy desktop in Windows 8 will ship with white -- yes, solid white -- window borders, square window edges, buttons that don't glow, no shadows, no transparency (except, apparently, on the taskbar), 2D ribbon icons flat as pancakes, no reflections, and no gradients. Welcome back to Flatland! Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remotely manage with LogMeIn Central Central's web-based management console lets you deploy software, proactively monitor and automate tasks. You can even apply all Windows Updates at the same time to keep systems up-to-date and secure. Try it free for 30 days. In this Issue Microsoft's Visual Studio 11 lineup adds Windows Phone, Azure tools What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games Yahoo's Genome joins hosted big data analytics trend The look ahead to a software-controlled world WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Microsoft's Visual Studio 11 lineup adds Windows Phone, Azure tools Microsoft has shared final product lineup and specifications expected for its upcoming Visual Studio 11 IDE, featuring accommodations for the Windows Phone mobile OS and Windows Azure cloud platform. Read More What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games. Read More Yahoo's Genome joins hosted big data analytics trend Yahoo has joined a growing list of companies offering big data analytics as a service with its Genome offering this week. Genome is a service designed to let companies deliver highly targeted online advertising and marketing campaigns. It will let advertisers quickly sift through and analyze terabytes of real-time Web data collected from Yahoo's own networks and from those of partners such as Yahoo and AOL. Read More The look ahead to a software-controlled world The Interop show in Las Vegas is always a good bellwether for enterprise technology trends, and perhaps the most striking thing about the recent show was how little the term "network fabric" came up. The buzz instead was about software-defined networks, decoupling the network control plane from the data plane and using the OpenFlow protocol to give servers, which inherit network control, access to devices such as switches and routers. Read More
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