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• How do they do IT: Microsoft's Tech.Ed goes IPv6

  Microsoft’s annual event for IT professionals, Tech.Ed, will this year deploy IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) for the first time in an effort to drive education and awareness about the technology.

• Microsoft: Features still missing in Azure

  Due to an early emphasis on getting the right architecture for its Azure cloud platform, which went live in February, Microsoft's cloud service is still missing key features that are available in the company's standalone products, said Microsoft executives at the company's 2010 Tech Ed conference, being held this week in New Orleans.

• Apple WWDC vs. Microsoft TechEd

  Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft and Apple. The two most valuable tech companies in the world will host competing conferences next week for IT pros and developers. While Apple gets its iGroove on with the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Microsoft will lure techie professionals to New Orleans for TechEd.  

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  Five Windows 7 features to make IT managers jobs easier

  Speaking from Microsoft's Tech Ed event on the Gold Coast, Windows 7 commercial group lead and the woman responsible for the launch of Windows 7 in Australia, Sarah Vaughan, outlines the top five features of Windows 7 to make the lives of IT managers a little easier.

• Slideshow: Microsoft Tech Ed day two

  Out and about in the Tech Ed exhibition hall

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  Tech Ed: Women in IT

  Out of the 2500-odd IT professionals and developers at this year's Microsoft Tech Ed on the Gold Coast, only about 200 are women. The attendance of women is up 50 per cent from last year, but it's still a far cry from the number of men pouring through the doors.

• Slideshow: TechEd 2009

  Photos from Microsoft's annual IT professional meet

• Financial crisis good time for IT leaders: Microsoft

  Microsoft has called upon IT managers to be more innovative and drive up operational efficiencies during the economic downturn at this year’s Tech.Ed user conference on the Gold Coast.

• TechEd kicks off on the Gold Coast

  Microsoft has kicked off its annual IT professional meet and sell-out event, Tech.Ed, on the Gold Coast in Queensland.

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  Microsoft's software pipeline set to burst

  If there was one revelation at this week's Microsoft TechEd conference it was that the company's product pipeline is stuffed with new software timed for release in the next seven to 12 months that will force corporate IT to deftly plan and strategize how it wants to deal with the onslaught.