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OWA becomes WebApp in Exchange 2010

What's in a name? Mostly, market positioning. In his Secrets of Exchange 2010 blog, Rand Morimoto writes, "It came as a surprise to many of us on the early adopter program with Microsoft when, on one of the very last builds of Exchange 2010, all of a sudden Outlook Web Access was renamed Outlook Web App. It is the same OWA for web mail as we’ve used for years. Why the different name? Because Microsoft is branding all of their Web applications as Web Apps." But the app has been updated in several ways, including supporting more browsers than just Internet Explorer.

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  • Winners of Microsoft Subnet and Cisco Subnet contests Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 11/05/2009

    Wendy NewtonWe are tickled to announce the winners of our October giveaways. The grand prize winner of the October Microsoft Subnet giveaway is Wendy Newton (pictured), IT manager for Bowman and Brooke LLP. She won a free Microsoft training course from Global Knowledge. Wendy is overseeing a whole bunch of state-of-the art technology projects for her company including the installation of Exchange Server 2010 with Outlook Voice Access and Unified Messaging. She plans to use her free training to take an Exchange 2010 course.

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  • Microsoft to release six patches, three critical, on Nov. 10 Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 11/05/2009

    Microsoft plans to release six patches that address 15 vulnerabilities next week for its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday, three of which are labeled critical and three, important. These patches fix holes in XP, Vista, Windows Server 2008 (all editions except R2), most recent versions of Office for both Macs and Windows.

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Microsoft Subnet and Pearson Education are giving away 15 free copies of the hot title Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed (a $59.99 value). Deadline for entries is November 30. Plus read author Rand Morimoto's guest blog, Secrets of Exchange 2010, written exclusively for Microsoft Subnet.  Plus, GET FREE CHAPTERS of an entire library of Microsoft books here. 

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Network World welcomes New Horizons Computer Learning Centers as a contributor to Microsoft Subnet. New Horizons is offering a free Microsoft training course worth up to $2,500 to be given to one lucky Microsoft Subnet reader. What's more, the winning reader can choose any five-day (or shorter) Microsoft course in the United States from the New Horizons catalog. Training is offered in hundreds of U.S. cities. Deadline for entries is November 30. 

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