How to buy a Microsoft volume license on the cheap

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	How to buy a Microsoft volume license on the cheap Most people think of Microsoft volume licenses as the province of big companies -- as Microsoft's way of keeping the hoi polloi from buying some of its fancier products. VLs are expensive, cumbersome, and not for the faint of heart, the story goes. But that story's wrong. It turns out there's a trick that people in the know have been using for years to comply, quite precisely, with the rules and pick up any VL software they might want for a song. Read More WEBCAST: LogMeIn Top Reasons to Innovate Customer Service It's all about the customer experience, right? Make that experience a peerless one and your company has a distinct competitive advantage. And the key to doing so lies in optimizing interactions with customers at various touch points and by various means. View Now In this Issue IBM makes big mobile push with ThinkMobile Oracle moves manufacturing jobs from Mexico to the U.S. Microsoft enlists Dell to push Office 365 on new PCs Oracle updates NetBeans for HTML5 Identity fraud in U.S. reaches highest level in three years WHITE PAPER: Condusiv (Formerly Diskeeper) Top Ten Myths About Recovering Deleted Files This white paper examines the misperceptions of file restore. Learn how Condusiv's Undelete 10 frees IT from daily "accidental delete" calls and makes file recovery from backup a thing of the past. Read more. Read Now! IBM makes big mobile push with ThinkMobile Forget the ThinkPad, IBM is now all about ThinkMobile. IBM is making a renewed push into the burgeoning market for all things mobile, saying it can help its corporate customers grow revenue and become more competitive through mobile app development. Read More Oracle moves manufacturing jobs from Mexico to the U.S. Oracle is moving 130 manufacturing jobs from Mexico to Oregon in the U.S., a company spokeswoman said. The move by Oracle reflects a growing trend by both tech and other companies to move a part of their manufacturing back to the U.S. Apple, for example, has said it will make some Macs in the U.S., while Intel is expanding its manufacturing in the country. Read More Microsoft enlists Dell to push Office 365 on new PCs Some major computer makers are pushing Office 365 with their new PCs, but others have stuck with a more traditional bundling tactic of including a factory-installed, single-license trial. "[Microsoft is] very clearly heading towards driving every consumer towards the Office 365 option that they can, in the hopes of a subscription," said Wes Miller, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, in an interview Wednesday. Read More Oracle updates NetBeans for HTML5 With the release of version 7.3 of NetBeans, Oracle has updated the IDE (integrated developer environment) so Java developers can more easily build rich HTML5-based user interfaces for their mobile and Web applications. NetBeans 7.3 "allows developers to use the same IDE [to compose in] HTML5 that they would use for building back-end services that their Web and mobile applications would connect to," said Bill Pataky, Oracle vice president of product management of tools and frameworks. Read More Identity fraud in U.S. reaches highest level in three years U.S. consumers experienced the highest level of identity theft in three years in 2012, although much of the fraud losses were absorbed by banks and merchants, according to a new survey. Incidents of identity fraud affected 5.26 percent of U.S. adults last year, according to a survey of 5,249 people by Javelin Strategy and Research. That's up from 4.9 percent in 2011 and 4.35 percent in 2010. The company put the total number of identity victims in 2012 at 12.6 million. Read More
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