TechEd North America 2012 Highlights

TechEd 2012 featured the official unveiling of Microsoftâ€™s â€œEra of the Cloud OS,â€ pulling together the cloud-optimized Windows Server 2012, an enterprise-ready Windows 8, and new services and features to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service capabilities. View More

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Venkat Ganti, MSFT

Download Microsoft Security Compliance Manager 2.5

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Jeannine Dealy

How Microsoft IT Uses Endpoint Protection

Friday, Jun 29

Blain Barton, MSFT

TechNet Radio: TCP/IP In-Depth Walk Through

Friday, Jun 29

Bob Hunt, MSFT

Maintaining Compliance through Server Patch Management

Friday, Jun 29

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Windows Azure Team Blog

Reimagining Active Directory for the Social Enterprise

The developer previewâ€“available soonâ€“builds on Windows Azure Active Directory capabilities to support integration with consumer-oriented Internet identity providers, and the ability to support Active Directory in deployments that span the cloud and enterprise.

In the News

Ars Technica: Windows Phone Gets Ready for Enterprise

Thanks to the common Windows core, it will support secure booting and full device encryption, based on BitLocker. This will integrate with existing device management systemsâ€¦

Windows Phone Blog

Announcing Windows Phone 8

Joe Belfiore provides a high-level sneak peek at the Windows Phone 8 platform. Look for a more complete tour of new features later on this blog.

Analysis

Gizmodo: Surface Makes the MacBook Air and iPad Look Obsolete

According to this Gizmodo article, Surface â€œjust bumped the MacBook Air and the iPad to the back seat.â€ Itâ€™s â€œbeautiful and functional and simple and honest.â€