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Building Windows 8

Updates to Windows 8 for General Availability

We are pleased to be releasing a set of improvements to Windows 8 in broad areas of performance, power management and battery efficiency, media playback, and compatibility.

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Network World: Internet Explorer 9 Blows Away Competition in Security Test

Microsoft IE9 blew away Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari in new tests by NSS Labs to measure the ability of web browsers to block malware and catch click fraud.

Test Lab Guides

100 Test Lab Guides and Counting

As of August, there were over 100 published Test Lab Guides (TLGs) , which show you how to configure and demonstrate a Microsoft technology, feature, product, or solution in a standardized test lab environment. There are 16 TLGs for Windows Server 2012 alone.

Server & Cloud Blog

Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps

To better align security and protection solutions with the workloads and applications they protect, Microsoft is announcing changes to the roadmaps of some of the security solutions made available under the Forefront brand.

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