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Compensation awarded to the top five executives at Microsoft, including current CEO Steve Ballmer, fell in fiscal year 2013, the first time in the last four years that it's declined, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). In the proxy statement Microsoft filed with the SEC last month in anticipation of the shareholders meeting slated for tomorrow, the Redmond, Wash. company provided data on the total direct compensation for Ballmer and the four highest-paid executives below him for the years 2009-2013. The total direct compensation -- salary, cash bonuses and stock awards -- in 2013 for the five was $36 million, for an average of $7.2 million each, down 3.7% from the year before. Although Microsoft says it does not directly tie executive compensation to "any specific set of metrics," in the proxy statement the company lauded its calibration of compensation with the firm's performance. "The relationship between total direct compensation and key financial results demonstrates the alignment we have established between pay and business performance," the proxy stated. To illustrate that, Microsoft compared compensation with its operating income. In fiscal year 2013, operating income dropped to 27 billion, or 5.4% lower than the year before. The difference in the year-over-year movement of compensation and operating income in 2013 -- the former down 3.7%, the latter off 5.4% -- was much smaller than in the previous two years, when compensation climbed significantly faster than did operating income. In fiscal years 2011 and 2012, Microsoft's operating income rose 12.7% and 4.9%, respectively. During those same years, however, direct compensation to Ballmer and his four highest-paid underlings jumped 23.1% and 22%. In 2012, direct compensation costs climbed more than four times faster than did operating income. Shareholders do not vote on executive compensation, although they must approve changes in how that compensation is calculated. One of the proposals before stockholders tomorrow will ask them to okay performance criteria used in the company's incentive plan. That plan has been amended to raise the annual maximum amounts for each designated executive from $20 million to no more than 20 million shares for stock options or stock appreciation rights, and 5 million shares for stock awards. Cash awards are also on the change docket, with those to be limited to the value of 5 million shares at the end of a fiscal year. "The limits on cash awards are raised to the same level as for stock awards, to give the [Compensation] Committee greater flexibility in making cash awards in a variety of situations, including new hire awards," Microsoft said in the proxy statement. Microsoft will host its annual shareholders meeting tomorrow in Bellevue Wash., starting at 8 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET). The company will webcast the event. At Microsoft, top executives' compensation for 2013 was much more in sync with year-over-year movement of operating income than in 2011 and 2012, when the former outpaced the latter by as much as four times. (Data: Microsoft.) Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at  @gkeizer, on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His email address is gkeizer@computerworld.com. See more by Gregg Keizer on Computerworld.com. Microsoft watch Someone made money off the Surface RT: Former Microsoft asset manager charged with insider trading Microsoft to name new CEO in early 2014 Microsoft's CEO search and the art of non-denial denials Microsoft exec hints at separate Windows release trains for consumers, business EU signs off on Microsoft-Nokia deal U.S. antitrust regulators OK Microsoft-Nokia deal Mum's the word: Microsoft board 'doing really well' at keeping quiet Scroogled swag sells out as some buyers go for the gag Gates talks CEO search, but reveals zip In role reversal, Ballmer stays composed, Gates chokes up, in shareholder meeting More in Microsoft Update download vine videos won't play download win 7 logon background changer download friend adder elite crack download chicken invaders 2 christmas edition full version download delta airlines boeing 777 for fs2004 download the sims 2 for download internet turbo full crack download crviewer dll windows xp download let the love begin mp3 kyla download talking cat game for pc

How Load Balancing Is Playing a Bigger Role in Tech Transitions

Load balancing technology, which took off in 1990s with the rise of the Internet, continues to find behind-the-scenes work in the enterprise - including a supporting role in the current mobile boom. Take the case of Richard Fleischman & Associates, an IT consulting firm that uses load balancing products from Kemp Technologies in its disaster recovery (DR) line of business. RFA's financial services industry clients include hedge funds and broker-dealers, and financial industry regulations require a disaster recovery plan. (New York City customers can cut over to RFA's Purchase, N.Y. disaster recovery center or the company's Boston center.) Stevens Demorcy, senior systems engineer at RFA, says Kemp Technologies provided a solution to a tricky DR issue: Making customers' iPhones, Android and Windows smartphones quickly available in the event of a disaster. In the last few years, many customers had migrated from BlackBerry and BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) to smartphones that use Microsoft's ActiveSync mobile data synchronization technology. (ActiveSync is a Microsoft Exchange Server feature that lets users access email, calendar and contacts on mobile devices.) During Superstorm Sandy, many clients had to go to DR and wait hours for DNS updates to propagate and reach their devices. Related: Gimme Shelter: Wall Street Braces for Next SuperstormAnalysis: Did Wall Street's Business Continuity Plans Fail During Sandy? In the BlackBerry world, BES handles the back-end communications task of redirecting blackberry devices to the DR site. But that tool no longer exists in the smartphone/ActiveSync environment. As a consequence, it can take up to a day for some smartphones to get an updated DNS record, which redirects the device to a new IP address, Demorcy notes. RFA built its smartphone solution using a combination of Kemp's LoadMaster local load balancers and GEO global load balancers. The GEO appliances are key in this application, since they redirect smartphones when customers go into DR mode. Demorcy says the GEO acts as a DNS server, repointing traffic wherever the server administrator needs it to go. RFA typically places one load balancer and one GEO at the customer's site and the same number at a disaster recovery center, though Demorcy says the particular arrangement may change depending on a client's needs. Load balancing is an "old concept" that "hasn't changed much," Demorcy says, but using the global feature to quickly give people access to their email during an emergency has reinvigorated the technology. "That's the part that makes it worthwhile. The global part is where you benefit the most if you want to do DR." 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Heman Tailor, director of IT at SCAinteractive, a company that provides interactive promotions such as customer loyalty programs, cites the additional features as a plus. The company currently uses the Coyote Point E450GX appliance. ( Fortinet acquired Coyote Point Systems earlier this year.) The technology manages the Web server cluster in SCAinteractive's network operations center, which the company uses to run its promotions. "Using a load balancer is very typical of running a Web cluster - or any other cluster, for that matter," Tailor says. "There are many solutions out there, but what makes it stand out is features such as hardware compression and SSL offloading, and Layer 7 routing and load balancing." Case Study: Thanks to ADC, Carfax Accelerates Data Delivery to Meet Demand Those features, Taylor says, "reduce the load significantly on our end, along with making the management of the servers behind the clusters much easier." As for future developments, Tailor points to the incorporation of global load balancing as most server farms add second and third sites to boost reliability. Load Balancing's Enduring Qualities Work Well for Failover While load balancers have grown in sophistication as they meld into application delivery controllers, customers continue to cite the old-fashioned virtue of reliability as the important draw. The capability to shift workloads away from oversubscribed servers in a data center or to failover from one server to another remains a core feature. Now Nerd, based in Beaverton, Ore., deployed Barracuda Networks' Load Balancer 440 to support its NerdDeck offering, a white-label remote technical support service. NerdDeck serves as its customers' remote support department, providing a phone and chat service as well as remote access tools. Geoff Turner, Now Nerd CEO, says installing the load balancer paid off within weeks of purchasing it. 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Someone made money off the Surface RT: Former Microsoft asset manager charged with insider trading

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Microsoft ships IE11 for Windows 7

Microsoft today released Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) for Windows 7, and announced it would soon start pushing it to customers as an automatic update. Three weeks ago, Microsoft signaled that the debut of the final of IE11 was imminent when it shipped a blocking toolkit for enterprise IT departments who wanted to ban the browser from their desktops. "We will begin automatically updating Windows 7 customers to IE11 in the weeks ahead, starting today with customers running the IE11 Developer and Release Previews," said Rob Mauceri and Sandeep Singhal, a pair of IE group program managers. Microsoft launched IE11 on Windows 8.1 on Oct. 17. The automatic upgrades on Windows 7 from IE10 -- which didn't reach the widely-used operating system until February -- will quickly drive up IE11's user share. From February through September, for instance, IE10's share of all copies of Internet Explorer soared from next to nothing to nearly 34% due to the forced upgrade from IE9, as well as some traction from Windows 8, before slipping for the first time last month as IE11 appeared in Windows 8.1. That automatic upgrade may be welcomed by consumers, but analysts see it as a significant pain point in the enterprise, where change is often met with skepticism, even hostility. "The faster pace is absolutely the biggest pain point," said Gartner analyst Michael Silver in an interview last month, talking about Microsoft's accelerated development and release tempo for Windows. "The problem with faster release cycles is that [enterprises] don't know if their apps will work with each new version. [And] IE is the biggest inhibitor to continuous upgrades" Today, Mauceri and Singhal touted IE11's better JavaScript benchmark scores, claiming it's 29% faster than the current Chrome 30, 32% faster than Firefox 25 and 26% faster than Opera Software's Opera 17, citing the SunSpider test suite. Ironically, Microsoft once dismissed JavaScript benchmark results as bogus. Three years ago, Dean Hachamovitch, the executive who still heads the IE team, said speed trials like SunSpider were "at best, not very useful, and at worst, misleading." Not surprisingly, as IE's scores have improved, Microsoft's tune on the topic has changed. IE11 for Windows 7 can be downloaded from Microsoft's website. The installer file is approximately 28MB in size. download 2 demo hot need pursuit speed download drs gangsta lean song download how do i add new brushes on gimp download tiki tane always on my mind download usb disk security son surum full indir download adobe flash player 12 cnet download quick memory editor chip online download easy tv mpeg b/g w/fm download how do i netflix on psp download patch angry birds space 1 2 0

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Samsung takes baby steps in touting Tizen OS to developers

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A huge damage award looms as Apple and Samsung return to court next week

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Microsoft's big test: Deciding what stays, what goes in touch-based Office

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Perspective: What's Microsoft's Office Web Apps strategy?

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Apple's dark tower Mac Pro ship date quickly slips to February 2014

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Proposed California law would mandate smartphone kill switch

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Apple and China Mobile sign deal to sell iPhones in January

Apple plans to offer the iPhone to more than 760 million China Mobile customers starting in  January, which could help it increase its share from the fifth position in this growing market. The company already sells its phones in China through two other carriers in the country -- China Telecom and China Unicom -- but a deal with China Mobile, the largest in the country, had eluded it for some time. One reason is that China Mobile uses a different wireless telecommunications standard from its competitors. As part of an agreement announced Sunday, Apple's iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C will be available from China Mobile and Apple retail stores in China on Jan. 17. Preregistration of the phones will begin on the carrier's website and through its customer service hotline from Wednesday. The pricing of the iPhone 5S and 5C for China Mobile will be available at a later date, Apple said in a statement. Apple's share of the Chinese smartphone market reached 8 percent in the third quarter, according to research firm Canalys. Samsung Electronics was the largest player with a 21 percent market share, followed by Lenovo with a 13 percent share. Local player Yulong Computer Telecommunication with 11 percent market share and Huawei with 9 percent share took the third and fourth places. China issued 4G licenses in December to three local carriers including China Telecom, which has been deploying base stations across the country using a 4G technology known as LTE TDD (Long-Term Evolution Time Division Duplex). Apple had been unwilling previously to support China Telecom's TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) 3G network technology, but on Sunday it announced that the iPhones would run on both the 4G TD-LTE and the 3G TD-SCDMA networks. China Mobile's 4G services will be available in 16 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen by the end of this year, according to a joint statement by the two companies. By the end of 2014, China Mobile plans to complete the rollout of more than 500,000 4G base stations, which will cover more than 340 cities with 4G service, it added. download gta 3 on computer without buy download wallpapers for iphone 4 download xp emergency boot cd download acer aspire one bios restore download christmas music mp3 for download quotes about life getting you down download latest flash player windows xp download gimp mac os x install download 50 cent pimp mp3 download cheats for plants vs zombies ipad 2

Apple's Mac Pro is the new black

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eBay sellers scalp Mac Pro cylinders for nearly double retail price

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