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News Analysis: With Microsoft ending support for Windows XP Service Pack 2, it might be time for the company to rethink discontinuing the operating system itself in 2014. – Microsoft has officially discontinued support for Windows XP Service Pack 2. Although the company will continue to support Service Pack 3 through... 

Enterprise software provider Metastorm has launched an online workflow modeling service, called Metastorm M3, the company announced on Tuesday. The service, which is hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform, can be used to model a variety of different enterprise concerns, such as goals, systems, workflows, rules, and projects.... 

Microsoft has launched a new self-support service for Windows XP and Vista users that relies on technology baked into Windows 7.  Read More →

Microsoft is beta testing a PC management service aimed at supporting midsized businesses, the company announced Monday. The service, called Intune, will be available to 1,000 users in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.  Read More →

Cloud computing is an enticing model, promising a new level of flexibility in the form of pay-as-you-go, readily accessible, infinitely scalable IT services. Executives in companies big and small are embracing the concept, but many are also questioning the risks of moving sensitive data and mission-critical work loads into the... 

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is confident people will love seeing interesting ads amid the rest of the chatter on his company’s Internet communications service. But he and the rest of Twitter’s management team aren’t in any rush to prove it after waiting four years to usher in advertising. The ads may be confined... 

A dozen major broadcast groups have formed a joint venture to develop a national service to provide programming to mobile devices live, on-demand and from print and electronic sources. Belo, Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps, Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television, ION Television, Media General, Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek... 

The E(z)RF Service Assurance Module enables wireless LAN administrators to leverage an existing Meru WLAN infrastructure to provide ongoing benchmarking of the wireless network. – Meru Networks E(z)RF Service Assurance Module provides an easy way for enterprise wireless LAN administrators to benchmark and measure network...