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WinInfo Short Takes: February 10, 2012

By Paul Thurrott, 02/10/2012

An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including Microsoft's incredible but overdue revelations about Windows 8 on ARM devices, why the tech press is wrong to deride ...

Quest Software Touts New Features of Secure Copy 6.0

By Jeff James, 02/09/2012

Scriptlogic was acquired by Quest Software in August 2007, and Secure Copy 6.0 -- released in late January -- is one of the first Scriptlogic products to be branded under the ...

Microsoft Pledges Reasonable Patent Licensing, No Injunctions

By Paul Thurrott, 02/08/2012

Microsoft on Wednesday published a statement in which it pledged to license its "standard essential patents" using "fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms." The statement ...

Motorola Targets Apple, Microsoft Revenues in Patent Suits

By Paul Thurrott, 02/08/2012

This week, details of two Motorola Mobility patent-oriented legal attacks against Apple and Microsoft, respectively, and both in Germany, were revealed. The goal? To obtain a ...

Virsto Updates Hyper-V Offering, Brings Storage Virtualization to VMware vSphere

By Jeff James, 02/07/2012

I recently interviewed Gregg Holzrichter, the VP of Marketing for Virsto Software, about two of his company's recently announced products: Virsto 2.0 for Hyper-V, and the first ...

ITC Attorney Claims Barnes & Noble Isn't Violating Microsoft Patents

By Paul Thurrott, 02/07/2012

An on-staff attorney with the ITC believes that ebook reader maker Barnes & Noble should win a patent-infringement lawsuit brought against it by Microsoft.

The Consumerization of IT Is Not a Victimless Crime

By Paul Thurrott, 02/07/2012

The trend toward the consumerization of IT has dramatic ramifications for end users who have unwittingly forced their employers to accept these changes.

Obviously, Smartphone Shipments Exceeded PC Sales in 2011

By Paul Thurrott, 02/06/2012

Market researchers from Canalys announced that overall sales of smartphone handsets exceeded those of PCs in calendar year 2011.

WinInfo Short Takes, February 3, 2012

By Paul Thurrott, 02/03/2012

An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including a Windows Phone 8 leak, preordering a Nokia Lumia 900, Microsoft marketing layoffs, Facebook's IPO numbers, an uproar ...

CEO: ARM-Based Windows 8 Devices Will Be Superior

By Paul Thurrott, 02/02/2012

ARM CEO Warren East said that ARM-based tablets and other devices based on Windows 8 were superior both to Android tablets and to Windows 8 devices that will run on Intel-type ...


 

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