Behind the $40 Windows 8 upgrade

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	Behind the $40 Windows 8 upgrade While a $40 price tag doesn't exactly qualify as giving Windows away, it puts a big crimp in one of the main arguments for avoiding Windows 8. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Making the Leap to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Once you've broken through the layers of software licensing required for VDI, you may find that depending upon the solution you choose, you could wind up paying more per desktop VM than per traditional client. It's vitally important to run all of the numbers before you jump in. Understand the factors to consider. Read Now! In this Issue Surprising winner in JavaScript speed wars: Metro IE10 Microsoft's Endpoint Protection is worth the licensing pains Full upgrades to Windows 8 only from Windows 7 Windows desktop destined for long slide to oblivion, says Gartner 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 Surprising winner in JavaScript speed wars: Metro IE10 Though it's impossible to objectively measure Web browser "speed," a few JavaScript benchmark tests produced surprising results: Metro IE10 beat the pants off all competitors. Read More Microsoft's Endpoint Protection is worth the licensing pains The recently released SCCM 2012 has received rave reviews, but you may have missed the fact that Microsoft has slipped Endpoint Protection into the product as a paid add-on. Endpoint Protection is an antimalware product, plain and simple. Read More Full upgrades to Windows 8 only from Windows 7 Microsoft will support full upgrades to Windows 8 only from the three-year old Windows 7, according to a report Thursday. Read More Windows desktop destined for long slide to oblivion, says Gartner Microsoft will deemphasize the Windows desktop in future releases of its operating system as usage of traditional Windows applications falls to just 10 percent of users' time by 2020. Read More
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