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Gartner: Think twice before deploying Windows 7 Certificate Authority Security Council backs SSL server rules taking effect Nov. 1 Network World Daily News PM August 15, 2014 Share this email The world's coolest and geekiest mailboxes "Image by REUTERS/Fred ProuserSnail mail may get the short shrift these days but that doesn't mean the mail deserves to be delivered to a basic black box with numbers on it. No-siree.  What we have here is a collection of mailboxes – starting with a number from Florida, but including a number from around the world that are pretty cool and geeky. If you have a cool mailbox drop us a picture. As for the others, take a look:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Gartner: Think twice before deploying Windows 7 2. Certificate Authority Security Council backs SSL server rules taking effect Nov. 1 3. Sprint plans price cuts and eventual layoffs, new CEO tells workers 4. Grocery stores in multiple states hit by data breach 5. Adtran lays groundwork for superfast broadband over copper 6. See 1,000 little robots swarm 7. Microsoft: Give IE another chance 8. Azure cloud services have a rough week 9. Heartbleed exposes weaknesses in hardware design 10. F5 partners should seek service growth 11. Week in Tech: New phones, high-tech helmets and wet CEOs WHITE PAPER: IBM Forrester 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave Forrester has released its 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave, and for the second consecutive time, IBM is a leader. View Now>> Gartner: Think twice before deploying Windows 7 Companies have been less willing to embrace Windows 8, preferring instead to downgrade PCs they deploy with Windows 7 instead. All well and good, but Gartner is advising them that unless they want to go through another XP-like headache, they should start preparing to move off Windows 7 instead of to it. Windows 7 will be supported until 2020 and is still very popular, but it is also five years old now and getting a little long in the tooth. Microsoft has given up trying to make people like Windows 8 and is charging full steam ahead with Windows 9, a.k.a. Threshold, for a Q2 2015 release. Stephen Kleynhans, research vice president at Gartner said in a blog post on Tuesday, "While this feels like it's a long way off, organizations must start planning now, so they can prevent a recurrence of what happened with Windows XP."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Certificate Authority Security Council backs SSL server rules taking effect Nov. 1 As a safety precaution to prevent SSL server certificates being exploited for network man-in-the-middle attacks on organizations, vendors that issue SSL server certificates will begin adhering to new issuance guidelines as of Nov. 1. These new rules, as described by members of the industry group Certificate Authority/Browser Forum, mean certificate authorities (CAs) will not issue certificates that contain "internal names" and expire after Nov. 1, 2015. Now, a second industry group, the CA Security Council, whose members include Go Daddy, DigiCert, Trend Micro, Entrust, Symantec, GlobalSign and Comodo, shares its perspective on these important changes in the commentary below from Wayne Thayer, a member of the Steering Committee of the CA Security Council who is also Go Daddy's general manager for security products:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Sprint plans price cuts and eventual layoffs, new CEO tells workers Sprint's new CEO Marcelo Claure addressed employees for the first time Thursday and promised price reductions as soon as next week, according to a report.Sprint didn't deny the report of Marcelo's comments. A spokesman also confirmed Friday that Sprint is "focusing on providing the best value in the market."According to the account of Claure's comments, he told workers, "We're going to change our plans to make sure every customer in America thinks twice about signing up to a competitor." The report, which first appeared in LightReading.com, also said that "very disruptive" rate plans are coming next week.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: CDW Mobile Policy Checklist Here's what to consider when putting together a mobile policy designed to support a highly productive workforce. Read Now Grocery stores in multiple states hit by data breach A data breach at Supervalu Inc., one of the largest grocery wholesalers and retailers in the U.S., could affect thousands of people who shopped at the company's stores between June 22 and July 17.The breach may also affect customers from several other major grocery store chains for which Supervalu provides IT services as a third-party provider.The stores affected by the breach include 180 Supervalu stores operated under the Hornbacher's Shop 'n Save, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, Farm Fresh and Cub Foods banners. Customers of all Jewel-Osco stores operating in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa were also affected. Supervalu offered up a list of the stores it believes were affected ( download PDF) and has posted a FAQ about the breach..To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Adtran lays groundwork for superfast broadband over copper Telecom equipment vendor Adtran has developed a technology that will make it easier for operators to roll out broadband speeds close to 500Mbps over copper lines.The conventional wisdom is that copper is dying out and fiber is ascending. However, the cost of rolling out fiber is still too high for many operators, which instead want to upgrade their existing copper networks (and in some cases fiber simply can't be installed). So there is still a need for technologies that can make use of copper networks and complement fiber.Adtran has developed what is calls FDV (Frequency Division Vectoring), which enhances the capabilities of two of these technologies—VDSL2 with vectoring and G.fast—by enabling them to better coexist over a single subscriber line, the company said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE See 1,000 little robots swarm Harvard University researchers have demonstrated a self-assembling swarm of 1,000 small robots and described it in the latest edition of the journal Science. The Self-Organizing Systems Research Group has put together the algorithms and devices, which communicate via infrared transmissions. You don't get much cooler or creepier than this: To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More Microsoft: Give IE another chance In a wide-ranging "Ask Me Anything" chat on Reddit Thursday, developers and program managers from the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) team urged users to give the browser a second chance, crowed over the upcoming demise of IE8, and confirmed that even though they will push small, regular feature updates to customers, there will be an IE12.They also revealed that they have considered changing Internet Explorer's name to distance the browser from its often-negative reputation.Ars Technica reported on the name-change discussion on Thursday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Azure cloud services have a rough week Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform suffered a series of outages and service disruptions in the past week that affected several products and impacted customers in various parts of the world.Maintaining solid performance and reliability of the Azure infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service cloud tools is key for Microsoft, as it battles strong rivals in this market, like Amazon and Google.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has identified the Azure suite of PaaS and IaaS products as essential for the current and future financial success of the company, which is shifting its focus from providing software that customers install on their premises to selling cloud services and applications hosted on its data centers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Heartbleed exposes weaknesses in hardware design Heartbleed may have been a software bug, but it highlighted glaring weaknesses in existing hardware architectures, which remain vulnerable to memory-bound attacks, a university researcher said this week.Data is vulnerable to hackers when in transit or in computer memory, said Ruby Lee, professor of engineering at Princeton University's Department of Electrical Engineering, at a presentation to the Hot Chips conference.The weakness is in the memory and cache, or secondary memory where data temporarily resides before being sent for processing or storage."This is correctly functioning hardware—with no bugs—but it is leaking out information," said Lee, who was chief architect and one of the lead processor developers at Hewlett-Packard before joining Princeton.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE F5 partners should seek service growth Last week, I was fortunate enough to present at F5's Agility Partner Conference. The event was held in New York's Times Square and had about 1,000 of F5's reseller partners, all looking to get a handle on what's next for the fast growing vendor. One of the things I enjoy about partner events is that it gives me an opportunity to interact with many of the resellers and see if what I'm observing aligns with the trends in their business. During my presentation, I talked a lot about the complexity of IT today and the opportunity that it creates in the area of professional services. There's no doubt that IT is more complicated today that it was a decade or even five years ago.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Week in Tech: New phones, high-tech helmets and wet CEOs (Editor's Note: The following is the transcript for the video above)Nick Barber: Thanks for joining us here on World Tech Update, I'm Nick Barber.Microsoft's Devices Group has unveiled the Nokia 130, a mobile phone that costs just $25, but there's a drawback. It lacks an Internet connection and apps. With the 130, Microsoft is going after people in emerging markets who are buying their first phone. It's also a good fit for people who want a backup to complement their existing smartphones.Samsung launched its new Galaxy Alpha with a metal frame, in a bid to boost sales after the plastic design of its smartphones has been blamed for the company's recent struggles. The phone runs Android 4.4 and is powered by Exynos process with four ARM cores. It has a 4.7-inch screen, 12-megapixel camera and 2GB of RAM.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Skyhigh Networks Checklist for Selecting Enterprise-Ready Cloud Applications To minimize risk, organizations must employ a methodology to identify and select enterprise-ready cloud services. 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