Microsoft is building new processor power management features into Windows Server 2008, which are due out at the end of February. Stephen Berard, program manager of the Windows Platform Architecture team, discusses how these new features will reduce server energy consumption in the data center and how these features will be more widely adopted than they were in Windows Server 2003.

Mobile phone maker Nokia said it would bring Microsoft’s Windows Live suite of Web services, like email and instant messaging, to many of its cell phones.

Microsoft, Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. are competing for valuable real estate on a handset’s main screen, so users can gain access to their online services without the extra step of going through the phone’s Web browser.

Microsoft’s services will integrate with Nokia’s existing programs allowing users to sync their Windows Live contacts list with the phone’s address book or send and receive Hotmail emails within Nokia’s messaging application.

Owners of Nokia’s multimedia phones will be able to download a suite of Windows Live services that include email, instant messenger, contacts list and a blogging and picture sharing site.

Microsoft is set to launch a portion of its business intelligence technology platform, PerformancePoint Server 2007, at an event in New York on Sept. 20.

The second piece to Microsoft’s BI technology triad, SQL Server 2008 (code-named Katmai), is scheduled to ship in the second quarter of 2008. The company’s third major tech component, Office 2007, is available now–and will be integrated with PerformancePoint Server 2007.

But with the company’s BI strategy spread over three major components with a remaining year-long release cycle, will businesses have the luxury to wait?

At ZATZ, we aren’t just about how to do your job. We’re also here to help you learn how to handle troublesome coworkers and supervisors, find a new job, and how to leave the old one.

After the stressful process of looking for a new job while you’re still employed, accepting an offer is a huge relief. At last, you’re free! You probably can’t wait to share your good fortune with the world and tell your boss where she can shove that evil assignment she gave you last week.

You might think that since you’re leaving, you don’t have to worry what people think of you anymore. This is not the case. Unless you want to erase everything you’ve accomplished since you first accepted this job, your departure must be as strategic and deliberate as your arrival.

GFI Software, developer of network security, content security and messaging software, announced the release of the latest version of GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server, a solution that gives administrators comprehensive control over corporate Web usage and what employees are downloading from the Internet. GFI WebMonitor 4 boosts employee productivity and increases security whilst maintaining optimum use of the Internet as a business tool.

AccuWeather.com announced that it has released two new Spanish-language versions of popular weather widgets, including Spanish-text versions of the AccuWeather.com Toolbar for Internet Explorer and netWeather dynamic forecasts for web sites. AccuWeather.com produces more Spanish-language forecasts each day than any other weather provider in the U.S., with clients including major Spanish media outlets as Telemundo, Univision, and Grupo Televisa.

According to a July 2007 survey by Gartner Group of 225 U.S.-based organizations, 66 percent projected some level of increase in IT staff looking 12 months forward. This is up from 61 percent in 2006. The H1-B visa program, which allows U.S. firms to petition for workers from abroad, has been one avenue of meeting this demand. But the number of positions needing to be filled is seemingly way greater than the allowable quota imposed by Congress.

Attackers have set their sights on two Microsoft flaws–an unpatched DirectX Media vulnerability and the XML Core Services flaw the software giant patched last week in its MS07-042 security update.

Cupertino, Calif.-based antivirus giant Symantec issued alerts for both exploits in emails to customers of its DeepSight threat management service Monday and early Tuesday. The security vendor said it had raised its ThreatCon to level 2 in response to the threats.

If you’re like Contributing Editor Bill Mann, you spend much of your day in Outlook. Wouldn’t it be nice to spend less time there, and more time doing other stuff, maybe even spending some time away from the computer? Bill can’t guarantee you a specific result (despite the title of this article), but if you take advantage of the five techniques he describes here, you will save significant time in Outlook every day.

Read this OutlookPower article.

The archiving policies of U.K. companies have been thrust in the spotlight after news broke over the weekend that U.K. supermarkets Tesco and Asda are both fielding email archive requests from the Competition Commission. The Commission wants the supermarkets to hand over millions of emails to help its investigation into allegations of supermarket abuse of suppliers.

The emails the supermarkets need to produce cover their correspondence with suppliers in June and July when there was a price war between the two giants. Asda alone has said it will have to retrieve over 11 million emails.

The Commission is investigating allegations that the two supermarkets had threatened their suppliers and demanded discounts on goods. It forms part of its ongoing investigation into the alleged misuse of power by the U.K.’s largest supermarkets. The other two supermarkets being investigated, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons, have not been asked to hand over emails.