Microsoft is winning by losing in mobile

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	Microsoft is winning by losing in mobile There are apparently a lot of conflicted naysayers who are truly, madly, deeply rooting for Microsoft -- and especially its Surface tablet -- to succeed. How else to explain the number of articles this week that strain to find a silver lining to Redmond's currently lackluster showing when it comes to mobile? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue Buggy Microsoft patch causing fonts to disappear Microsoft refutes Internet Explorer information disclosure leak Dell scraps Android smartphones in favor of Windows 8 tablets Facebook reveals secrets behind its speedier new Android app WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Networking for Virtualization Deep Dive As virtualization technology has progressed, it's made designing a network more complicated than it used to be. This Deep Dive will help you understand the fundamentals of a stable, capable and robust network ready for modern virtualization, then walk you through the process of designing it. Learn more. Buggy Microsoft patch causing fonts to disappear Another Black Tuesday, another weird bug. CorelDraw customers posting on the company blog started complaining about disappearing fonts on Wednesday. Two posters, Gary G and drummachine, discovered that the cause of the problem is yet another buggy Black Tuesday patch delivered by Windows Automatic Update. Read More Microsoft refutes Internet Explorer information disclosure leak Microsoft refuted claims on Thursday that an information disclosure leak in its Internet Explorer browser poses a privacy risk, arguing that the company publicizing the issue is seeking to put its competitors in an unfavorable light.Spider.io, a U.K. based company in the advertising analytics field, alleged that two unnamed companies are improperly using a flaw that allows them to track whether display advertisements, sometimes buried far down in web pages, are actually viewed by users. Read More Dell scraps Android smartphones in favor of Windows 8 tablets Dell doesn't plan on returning to the Android smartphone market any time soon, announcing that it will focus instead on creating Windows 8 touch-enabled computers and tablets. Read More Facebook reveals secrets behind its speedier new Android app Facebook Thursday announced an updated version of its Android app, which the company claims loads photos and opens up Timelines twice as fast as before, a critical upgrade for end-users who don't have extra seconds to spare waiting for the latest cute cat picture to load. Read More
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