| Network World Daily News PM | | | | At a press event on Tuesday, Microsoft launched the next version of Windows: Not Windows One, not Windows 9, but Windows 10, which combines the reborn Start menu with Windows 8's colorful live tiles and adjusts its behavior depending on how you're using your device.Windows 10 will officially launch in the middle of next year, but you'll have a chance to try it out before that via a new Windows Insider program, launching Wednesday. The platform's most vocal fans will have a chance to download the technical preview before it launches next year. Mark Hachman Microsoft's Joe Belfiore showing off Windows 10's reborn, revamped Start Menu.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | | | Issue highlights 1. 3 … 2 … 1 … That's all for Lotus 1-2-3 2. Q&A: Meet Microsoft's new Azure CTO, Mark Russinovich 3. Four charged with stealing Army helicopter training software 4. Icahn says PayPal spin-off is almost a 'no brainer' 5. DARPA image technology would move way beyond X-Rays 6. Photo of the day: Cellphones of protest in Hong Kong 7. Cisco, Oracle find dozens of their products affected by Shellshock 8. 'Free' Wi-Fi for first born? … Well, about that 9. Cray aims to stay in big leagues with XC40 supercomputers 10. IDG Contributor Network: How a TV network is being used to move financial transactions 11. Likes of Apple Pay may make smaller banks more vulnerable 12. Whammo! DOJ brings down the hammer on StealthGenie mobile 'stalking' app 13. Funny pic: Have a problem? Find an engineer | | WHITE PAPER: Unify This Infographic highlights the costs of losing experienced workers and the steps you can take to support a more flexible work environment Learn More | | Dan Bricklin's VisiCalc was first and Microsoft Excel would come to dominate, but in between it was Lotus 1-2-3 that ruled the spreadsheet world and helped push the IBM PC deep into the modern workplace. Today Lotus 1-2-3 breathed its last, at least symbolically, as we have reached IBM's previously announced date for discontinuing support for this iconic software that Big Blue stopped selling last year after a three-decade run (that included acquiring Lotus in 1995).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Earlier this month, Microsoft quietly appointed software architect Mark Russinovich as chief technology officer for its Azure cloud computing platform, formalizing a role he's been executing for the past several years.It was a smart appointment not the least because it may help ease any remaining concerns of system administrators reluctant to take on Microsoft's cloud platform as part of their job duties. Among the Microsoft faithful, Russinovich has serious geek credibility. If Russinovich is behind the gears at Azure, it must be O.K.Russinovich has long been one of the most popular speakers at Microsoft's Build and TechEd technical conferences, thanks to his clear, cogent explanations of the company's technologies. Russinovich joined the company in 2006, after Microsoft purchased his enterprise software company, Winternals Software, which offered a line of Windows repair tools that many found superior to Microsoft's own.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The defendants also allegedly stole pre-release games and information on Microsoft's Xbox READ MORE | | Activist investor says PayPal needs to acquire competitors or be acquired READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Unify If unified communications is on your mind, you're probably looking for ways to leverage your current technology investment, flexible deployment options, global support capabilities, a vendor with a clear market vision, and expert advice. Look no further. Click here to learn how Unify can address all of your UC needs. Learn More | | Getting a better view inside mostly dense objects like corrosion in aircraft wings and welds on ships or even gunpowder hidden in suitcases are just a few of the applications researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are hoping to develop with a new program called Intense and Compact Neutron Sources (ICONS). With ICONS DARPA is actually looking to develop a portable unit able to generate both neutrons and X-rays.+More on Network World: The FBI's big, bad identification system+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Protesters hold their mobile phones as they block the main street to the financial Central district, outside the government headquarters, in Hong Kong on Sept. 29. READ MORE | | Cisco has identified 71 products vulnerable to Shellshock and Oracle 51, but the number is likely to increase READ MORE | | The press is having a field day with a report that a half-dozen Londoners unwittingly agreed to give up their first-born child in exchange for otherwise free Wi-Fi access. READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Check out this informative technology dossier to explore the ins and outs of using big data analysis and web-user profiling to protect your company against cyber threats. Read Now | | Cray has added more horsepower to its latest supercomputer, the XC40, and already has scored some big-time customers.The XC40, announced on Tuesday, is based on Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v3 server chip series, code-named Grantley, which was unveiled earlier this month. The supercomputer has a complement of new technologies that provide faster access to memory and storage, which boosts overall computing power.Cray has made some of the world's fastest computers, including what is currently the world's second fastest supercomputer, Titan, which operates at a peak speed of 27 petaflops. The XC40 will serve as the basis for a U.S. Department of Energy supercomputer called Trinity, which is due for deployment in 2016 and will have 82 petabytes of distributed storage.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Bitcoin eliminates banks from the transactional loop and passes the savings on to the end-user. What if you could cut out the Internet too? One organization is trying with an OTA, or Over-The-Air, digital TV network. READ MORE | | Atlanta -- Many banks with less than $50 billion in assets have a problem that payment systems like Apple Pay will make even more attractive to exploit, a team of security researchers says. By altering electronic-transfer files before they are uploaded to the national transaction clearinghouse, criminals can redirect funds to accounts they control and make off with millions of dollars at a clip, according to researchers at TrustCC, a consultancy specializing in financial institution IT security. They presented their findings at (ISC)² Security Congress 2014. + Also on Network World: Home Depot, Target breaches exploited Windows XP flaw |Bot-herders can launch DDoS attacks from dryers, refrigerators, other Internet of Things devices +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | StealthGenie is the "first-ever criminal case concerning the advertisement and sale of a mobile device spyware app," but hopefully it is just the start of wiping out stalking spyware. READ MORE | | Everyone knows that engineers solve the world's problems. Give them some coffee and you get a solution, plus a touch of snarkiness, at least according to one diagram making the rounds on Twitter today. 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