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Microsoft's challenge: Innovation, innovation

Mary Jo Foley: Former Softies are back in the news extolling the virtues of Macs, talking about what went wrong with Microsoft's tablet PC and criticizing Microsoft's development and commercialization processes.

Operating Systems

Will your new Windows 7 PC support XP Mode?

Ed Bott: Near the time of the launch of Windows 7, some of the most popular Intel CPUs available at the time didn't support hardware-assisted virtualization. Let's see what chips are supporting it now.

General News

LHC to run for longest continuous period

The Large Hadron Collider is about to enter its longest continuous operational period, in preparation for full-strength particle-smashing.

Security

Mega-Patch Tuesday heads up

Ryan Naraine: According to an advance notice from Microsoft, five of the 13 bulletins will be rated "critical" because of the risk of remove code execution attacks.

Product Review Blogs

Hands-on with the B&N nook update 1.2.0, available now

Michael Miller: A couple hours ago I mentioned that a rumored 1.2.0 software version may be coming to nook owners today and in hopes that this was true I went to the Barnes & Noble ebook store on my nook and bought a single issue of a newspaper.

Communications

Intelligence community warns Senate committee of increased terror threats

Doug Hanchard: Thursday's hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence brings to light very different views held by its members on Miranda warning policies and should such warnings be offered to terrorist suspects. The committee also heard how terrorists are falling off the grid.

Web Technology

Social CRM: Ground zero for Enterprise 2.0 in 2010

Dion Hinchcliffe: What if customers were often the best people to help other customers? That's the basic premise of an emerging class of enterprise software usually referred to these days as "Social CRM."

Enterprise Hardware

Server wars: Intel, HP vs. IBM

Larry Dignan: Unix servers may not be the most glamorous market in IT, but the big players are duking it out to grab more share. IBM will launch new Power7 systems while HP and Intel will show off their latest Itanium.

Enterprise Software

Microsoft readies free upgrade program for Office buyers

Mary Jo Foley: Just like it does with Windows to keep the bottom from dropping out of the market in the months prior to the launch of a new release, Microsoft does the same with Office via its Tech Guarantee program. It looks like that free-upgrade program is about to begin for Office 2010.

IT Management

Analyst relations: Failure in action

Michael Krigsman: Bloggers, analysts, journalists, and other influencers are an important component of the enterprise software ecosystem. Vendors seek high ratings from analysts and influencers because many buyers use reports to inform large purchasing decisions.

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