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Member since: July 2009

Bio: Julie Bort is the Online Community editor for Network World. She writes the Microsoft Update, Source Seeker and Cisco Odds and Ends blogs for Network World's Microsoft Subnet, Open Source Subnet and Cisco Subnet community sites.

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  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft: 5 smart and 5 dumb moves the company made in 2011
    Love it or hate it, Microsoft is a company that brings out strong emotions in just about every IT professional. With 2011 about to end, it is time for our picks of some of smartest moves this powerful software company made this year - and some of the moves we'd say were not so bright.

    9 weeks 14 hours ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Study: Companies using pirated software 'save' $2.9B
    Pirated software saves its users in developing countries more than $2.9 billion annually. So finds a study of manufacturers in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe and Asia-Pacific commissioned by Microsoft.

    12 weeks 4 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote VMware and Google on an acquisition frenzy in 2011
    While the world has been distracted by HP's baffling $10.2 billion purchase of Autonomy and Microsoft's surprising $9 billion buy of Skype, EMC/VMware and Google have been snapping up dozens of software companies throughout 2011.

    12 weeks 6 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Will IT certs get you jobs and raises? Survey says yes
    Sixty percent of IT professionals surveyed say a certification led to a new job, and half say it gave a salary boost. But some certs are more valuable than others.

    13 weeks 15 hours ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Barnes & Noble subpoenas Nokia over Microsoft Android lawsuit
    Barnes & Noble has subpoenaed Nokia and its patent-enforcement agency, Mosaid Technologies, as it defends itself against Microsoft's Android patent infringement lawsuit, according to documents filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission.

    13 weeks 4 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft pressures Huawei over Android patents while Barnes & Noble fires back
    Microsoft is reportedly trying to ink more deals in which makers of Android devices pay license fees while Barnes & Noble calls for an investigation into that practice.

    13 weeks 5 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft expected to offer hot fix for Duqu soon
    The big zero-day exploit on everyone's mind is Duqu, or "son of Stuxnet" - but researchers don't expect Microsoft to include a patch for it in next week's Patch Tuesday. Instead, a manual fix could be out as soon as this week.

    14 weeks 3 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft claims Hyper-V will leapfrog VMware
    After years of playing catch-up to VMware the upcoming version of Hyper-V is wowing the Microsoft faithful with unique new features -- and gaining the attention of VMware users, too, one consultant says.

    15 weeks 4 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft posts record quarter but says tablets have “cannibalized” netbooks
    Despite weak consumer demand for PCs, Microsoft posted a record first quarter revenue of $17.37 billion for the period that ended Sept. 30. This beat analysts expected sales of $17.2 billion. Revenue increased 7% percent over the year-ago period. Microsoft credited the increase to enterprise demand for Office, server and development tools.

    16 weeks 4 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Massive SQL injection attack has comprised nearly 200,000 ASP.Net sites
    Hackers are in the midst of a massively successful SQL injection attack targeting websites built on Microsoft's ASP.Net platform. About 180,000 pages have been affected so far, security researchers say.

    16 weeks 4 days ago

  • jbort jbort commented on LibreOffice sees new platforms, more users
    News coming out of the LibreOffice Conference in Paris this week is quite interesting.

    17 weeks 3 days ago | Read Article

  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft strong-arms hardware makers into social responsibility
    After years of failing to get Microsoft to adopt a formal environmental sustainability policy, shareholders seem to have won: Microsoft will now insist its hardware suppliers comply with the company's social responsibility requirements.

    17 weeks 4 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Computer infected? Blame yourself, Microsoft report concludes
    Zero-day exploits are nerve-racking for IT professionals but are far less dangerous than unpatched older vulnerabilities for which fixes are available, Microsoft says.

    17 weeks 6 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft's former open source chief says the cloud will open Redmond yet
    While many free software advocates warn that the cloud could kill open source, because users won't have access to the source code, Sam Ramji disagrees. He says that work is going on now to eliminate the legal liabilities of contributing to open source.

    18 weeks 13 hours ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
    Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage, in a cash deal valued at about $136 million. Gluster is also a contributor to the OpenStack cloud project and Red Hat is promising this involvement will continue. Indeed, Red Hat is now uncharacteristically saying its support of OpenStack will grow even beyond Gluster to the next release of Fedora.

    18 weeks 6 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote NEC to ship OpenFlow switch for Microsoft Windows Server 8 Hyper-V
    Chalk up another big partnership win for Microsoft's Hyper-V from the world of virtual, programmable switching. NEC's OpenFlow-based network fabric, ProgrammableFlow, will be integrated with Windows Server 8 and Hyper-V when Windows Server 8 becomes available, NEC says.

    19 weeks 6 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft gets Casio to sign Linux patent protection deal
    Lest we forget that Microsoft still insists Linux violates 235 of its patents, Microsoft issued a reminder today. It announced a patent licensing deal with Casio Computer Co. Ltd. that "among other things, will provide Casio's customers with patent coverage for their use of Linux in certain Casio devices," Microsoft says.

    20 weeks 6 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Lync not enterprise-ready, claims Microsoft ISV-turned-rival
    A gap between what Microsoft promises with Lync's telephony and what it delivers makes Lync a poor choice as an IP PBX replacement for large organizations, according to a former Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" who now works for Avaya. A current Microsoft MVP also says that Lync in its current form is a mediocre choice for a large enterprise, but that it works well for the SMB and is really geared toward smaller businesses anyway.

    20 weeks 6 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft inks licensing deals with two more Android makers
    Microsoft announced Thursday that Acer and ViewSonic have each agreed to license undisclosed intellectual property from Microsoft to cover each vendor's Android phones and tablets, Microsoft says.

    22 weeks 4 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft blacklists all DigiNotar certificates
    Microsoft on Tuesday blacklisted all DigiNotar certificates after seeing active attacks from at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by DigiNotar. The company has released updates for all versions of Windows with the new blacklisted data.

    22 weeks 6 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Linux Foundation chief on Torvalds' leadership
    Linux Foundation executive director, Jim Zemlin on why Linux's success is different from other operating systems; why its ability to capture the desktop might never matter; that MeeGo may not be as dead as it looks and that the next big thing is HTML5.

    23 weeks 2 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Linux Foundation chief: 'You are an idiot' if you don't give back to open source
    Linux is the granddaddy of all open source projects, the blueprint for the decentralized development processes. And some of those who use the Linux code, free for the taking, don't give back in equal measure. Still, the time for cajoling those users -- even commercial projects like Ubuntu leader Canonical -- into participating is over, says Jim Zemlin, executive director of the nonprofit Linux Foundation.

    23 weeks 6 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Linux Foundation releases specification to ease licensing headaches
    The Linux Foundation and FOSSBazzaar on Wednesday released a new specification to ease the pain of license compliance for open source software. The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) is a data exchange specification that tracks license information in a standardized way and allows it to travel across the software supply chain.

    25 weeks 4 days ago

  • jbort jbort wrote Microsoft patching: Still painful after all these years
    The spring of 2011 has seen some of the largest Microsoft Patch Tuesdays ever. In April, Microsoft tied its all-time record with 17 updates that fixed 64 vulnerabilities. In June, the company issued another biggie, with 16 updates that fixed 34 vulnerabilities.

    28 weeks 1 day ago

  • jbort jbort wrote How to implement IPv6 in a Windows environment: an expert guide
    By now, you’ve heard that ARIN has (more or less) run out of IPv4 addresses and the time has come for mass migration to IPv6. If you are a Windows shop, the good news is that Microsoft has been preparing for IPv6 for years and almost all of the latest Microsoft wares support it. Some, such as Windows Server 2008 R2, depend heavily on it for certain features.

    28 weeks 4 days ago

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  • Commented on LibreOffice sees new platforms, more users

    I think it is going to help LIbreOffice that it is being used in Ubuntu.

    4 months ago

  • Commented on Where Google Chrome security fails: the password

    I haven't hacked at Chrome OS myself yet, so this is just hearsay ... but I find it hard to believe that they won't support some kind of strong password system, id's or whatnot. The whole thing about Chrome is that it is supposed to be secure -- not allowing you to download anything to the device itself. That's a little silly if they only support basic passwords. I don't think the Google engineers are really that silly. I think Google Chrome OS will fail on other levels -- I think the concept of it has been proven, over and over again, to be something consumers don't want. We like our local applications.Julie BortNetwork World's Google Subnetwww.googlesubnet.com

    2 years ago

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