Microsoft may backtrack on Start button in Windows 8

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	Microsoft may backtrack on Start button in Windows 8 Microsoft may recant its Windows 8 design theology, bloggers reported Tuesday, by offering Windows 8 users an option to bypass the "Modern" UI and by restoring the Start button and menu to the beleaguered operating system. A pair of longtime Microsoft hands, Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet and Tom Warren of The Verge, citing unnamed sources and messages on Windows discussion forums, said Microsoft was considering those tweaks for an upcoming update, called "Windows Blue" by some and "Windows 8.1" by others. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CITE Conference Is your IT consumerization journey on track? Embracing consumer technologies for business advantage is a journey. Take the first crucial step at Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) June 2-4, 2013 in San Francisco. Come Sunday for "The Consumerization Journey: A Readiness Assessment Workshop" led by Doug Neal and Jim Ginsburgh of CSC Leading Edge Forum. Learn more at www.citeconference.com In this Issue Google adds IT admin features for Chrome browser Senate's big immigration bill seeks to crack down on offshore outsourcing Mobile a top priority for Yahoo in 2013, Mayer says White House threatens to veto CISPA ahead of vote Oracle's Hurd on Fusion Applications, aggressive salespeople, and SAP WHITE PAPER: Websense Security Overview Websense ACE ACE is the real-time defense engine at the core of Websense web, email, data, and mobile security solutions. Learn how ACE uses Websense ThreatSeeker Network. Read Now! Google adds IT admin features for Chrome browser Google has beefed up the administration and management controls that IT staff have over their users' Chrome browsers. Google has added the ability for IT departments to apply the workplace configuration of Chrome browsers to Chrome browsers installed on employees' home computers. That way, users working on their home computers can have access to their work Web apps, custom themes and app store by logging into Chrome with their Google Apps for Business or Google Apps for Education accounts, the company said Tuesday. Read More Senate's big immigration bill seeks to crack down on offshore outsourcing The U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill would make major changes to the H-1B visa that are certain to upset some and likely please others. The H-1B changes would likely most upset India's offshore industry, as it limits visa holders to 50 percent of an IT services firm's U.S. workforce, and requires H-1B employers to pay higher wages to the foreign workers. Read More Mobile a top priority for Yahoo in 2013, Mayer says Yahoo wants to accelerate its development of mobile products geared toward delivery of personalized content, CEO Marissa Mayer said, as the company works to stay relevant in a world where smartphones and tablets are becoming dominant. How Yahoo will accomplish that goal is not immediately clear -- it has yet to announce any specific mobile apps or services it has in the pipeline -- but it was an objective oft-repeated during the company's first-quarter earnings call. Read More White House threatens to veto CISPA ahead of vote The White House has threatened to veto the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its present form, citing concerns that the bill does not adequately prevent sharing of irrelevant personal information. If the bill in its current form were presented to President Barack Obama, his advisors would recommend that he veto the bill, the executive office of the President said in a statement. Read More Oracle's Hurd on Fusion Applications, aggressive salespeople, and SAP As co-president of Oracle, Mark Hurd is tasked with selling an ever-increasing array of new software and hardware products, such as the Exadata database machine and Fusion Applications, while figuring out how to keep the company's vast installed base happy and fending off competition from the likes of SAP. Hurd spoke to the IDG News Service on a variety of topics during an interview at the Collaborate user group conference in Denver. What follows is an edited transcript of that conversation. Read More
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