CSTechcast.com is the source for our weekly podcast for tech pros. This week we discuss ways to keep your job in a bad economy with Bruce Culbert, CEO of iSymmetry and myCRMcareer. In the news Microsoft takes Exchange and SharePoint to the cloud, CA aims to help manage cloud services, OOXML gets finalized but the controversy remains, USB devices threaten network security, and Internet Explorer 8 gets a ship date, or at least a ship quarter. Seagate's being incommunicado about hard drive problems while pushing themselves on the chattiest services in social networking gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at remote desktop tools, and we bring you tips on handling the bandwidth issues of WSUS in "The Weekly Tech Tip".
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Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:Microsoft on the cloud: Sharepoint and Exchange go Online (Ars Technica)CA Unveils Cloud Management Strategy, SaaS Unit (InformationWeek)ISO publishes Office Open XML specification (InfoWorld)Symantec Sees Rise in USB-Based Malware as Reports of U.S. Army Ban Surface (eWeek)IE8 Update: Browser to Ship in 2009 (eWeek)Anyone here own a 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11? (ZDNet)
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