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Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 10/14/2011

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Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections.

Environmental Building Strategies Migrates to Office 365 as Green Approach to IT Management With appropriate layers of security, reliability, and compliance, it delivers a cost-effective subscription service to them. And for the green approach to IT management and operations, the cloud-based system of Office 365 is the best solution. Migration to Office 365 provided significant return on investment (ROI) by the reduction of license costs and IT demands for EBS, which has offices across San Francisco, LA, New York and Colorado.

Microsoft launches Office 365 test at GITEX
Cloud-based enterprise solution is available in the Gulf region for full testing… “Today is a great milestone and we can announce that this service will be coming at least in trial form by at least the end of this calendar year, and we are working very hard to ensure we can start offering it commercially,” said Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president, Office Product Management Group, Microsoft.

Q&A: Microsoft Talks SharePoint, BCS and Office 365
The senior director of SharePoint product management at Microsoft takes some time during this week's SharePoint Conference 2011 to discuss what's coming for the Web application platform.

Google Your Company's Code of Conduct
For the first time, the FTC required a company to implement a comprehensive privacy program to protect the privacy of consumers' information. But the information that consumers share with companies such as Google and Facebook pales in comparison to information that companies have about their employees and customers—social security, tax, and medical information.

Windows Phone Chief Andy Lees Sees Time Ripe for Mango
Most smartphone platforms corral applications into silos, Lees says, where a user needs to go in and out of the apps repeatedly to complete a task such as finding nearby restaurants, reading reviews of them, and then making a reservation. That's all handled in a "flowing, almost singular experience" on Windows Phone, Lees says.

How Microsoft Reduces Memory Use in Windows 8
For the second time in Windows history, a new release of Windows will not increase its memory system requirements, but rather it will remain the same, or even go down.

Windows 7 Now the Most Widely Used OS, XP Usage Drops
Windows 7 now accounts for 40.21% of all global desktop operating system usage across the world. Windows XP usage slipped to 38.64% in the month of October.

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