{"id":16365,"date":"2014-05-02T08:27:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16365"},"modified":"2014-05-02T08:27:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:27:22","slug":"microsoft-news-summary-2-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16365","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News Summary-2 May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news yesterday was the general release of the new patch for IE on XP. Personally, I think this is a stupid mistake by Microsoft, and it will lead to some laggards to reason that Microsoft has reversed course on the end of support. Microsoft can comment all they want; most people never read blogs, press, or attend events. The mistake has been made, and it was one of the dumbest releases since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Bob\" target=\"_blank\">Bob<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netmarketshare.com\/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&amp;qpcustomd=0&amp;qptimeframe=M&amp;qpsp=183\">Windows XP is still on 26.29% of the world&#8217;s PCs<\/a>: According to NetMarketShare. That&#8217;s a lot of machines not to get the patch for the recent zero-day IE bug.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasmaurer.ch\/2014\/04\/whitepaper-and-webinar-vmm-fabric-management-and-resource-pooling\/\">Whitepaper and Webinar \u201cVMM (Fabric) Management and Resource Pooling\u201d<\/a>: By MVP Thomas Maurer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2014\/05\/microsoft-issues-fix-for-ie-zero-day-includes-xp-users\/\">Microsoft Issues Fix for IE Zero-Day, Includes XP Users<\/a>: This is to fix the recent headline grabbing zero day bug.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/openness\/archive\/2014\/05\/01\/microsoft-suse-alliance-linux-windows-interoperability-.aspx#.U2NUfvkui7c\">Microsoft-SUSE Alliance: Linux and Windows Interoperability for More Than 1,000 Customers<\/a>: Microsoft extended an agreement with SUSE through 2016 to remain committed to working in tandem on solutions that help customers manage critical workloads in mixed-source environment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmondmag.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/01\/microsoft-desktop-optimization-pack.aspx\">Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2014 Now Available<\/a>: A new version of MDOP is out. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows\/b\/springboard\/archive\/2014\/05\/01\/mdop-2014-delivers-improved-bitlocker-management-with-mbam-2-5.aspx\">MDOP 2014 delivers improved BitLocker management with MBAM 2.5<\/a>: The Springboard blog talks about the improved centralized management of BitLocker with Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring 2.5, included in the new Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2014.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.co.il\/choose-windows-server-2012-r2-hyper-v-over-vmware-vsphere.htm\" target=\"_blank\">5 Reasons To Choose Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.5<\/a>: A ever-so-slightly snarky op-ed post by me on the Petri IT Knowledgebase.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6ae64f6d-565f-46ce-8e73-0c3a76864189\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+XP\" rel=\"tag\">Windows XP<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMM\" rel=\"tag\">VMM<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/IE\" rel=\"tag\">IE<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Linux\" rel=\"tag\">Linux<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Deployment\" rel=\"tag\">Deployment<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMware\" rel=\"tag\">VMware<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news yesterday was the general release of the new patch for IE on XP. Personally, I think this is a stupid mistake by Microsoft, and it will lead to some laggards to reason that Microsoft has reversed course on the end of support. Microsoft can comment all they want; most people never read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News Summary-2 May 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,181,130,184,190,193,195,196,103,124],"class_list":["post-16365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-deployment","tag-hyper-v","tag-ie","tag-linux","tag-security","tag-system-center","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmm","tag-vmware","tag-windows-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16366,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions\/16366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}