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For a free trial, pricing and to find out more about Office 365 and the special offers currently available call our Office 365 specialist Chris Wheeler on 01364 655181 or you can visit: www.greymatter.com/hc/Office365 grey matter software know how Contents Welcome 4 Software News Flexera, JetBrains, Symantec and more. Editorial Recently I powered up my Windows Phone to discover that it 7 News in brief Editor: .....................................................................Matt Nicholson had downloaded and installed a new app – not something I’d Technical editors: .. Sean Wilson, Paul Edwards and competition winners. chosen for myself, you understand, but something that Microsoft Editorial advisor: ............................................Julia Hopkins 8 Competition News editor: ...................................................... Paul Stephens obviously thought I needed. I am talking about Cortana, which (I Publisher: ..................................................................Andrew King assume) has appeared on countless other Windows Phones as well. Win an HP Stream 7! Contributors: ....................................................Tim Anderson, Simon Bisson, Mary Branscombe, For those not blessed with a Windows Phone, Cortana is Kay Ewbank, Jon Honeyball, Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s Siri, Google Now or Amazon Echo in that 10 Moving on Graham Keitch, Paul Stephens it’s an Intelligent Personal Assistant, designed to feed you information Handling Windows Server Design and layout: ..................................... Jason Stanley tailored to your personal needs and desires. Such information can 2003 End of Service. Illustration: ............................................................Sholto Walker Web Design: ........................................................Jason Stanley range from a reminder that you’ve got an appointment with your boss, to a notification that your favourite band is playing in Barcelona Advertising & Circulation at the same time as you’re planning a short break, and a link to a Marketing: ....................Ash Khagram, Emma Cottle bijoux hotel close to the venue that it thinks you might like. It’s able to do such things not only because you told it to, but also Tel: 01364 654100 because it has access to that imponderable store of data generated by Email: [email protected] the online activity of you and your friends over the past years. It’s early HardCopy is edited for Grey Matter three days yet, but the intention is that such IPAs (as I’m going to call them) times a year by Matt Publishing. It is printed will eventually supplant the web browser and the search engine as by Pepper Communications in Plymouth. your interface to the Internet. They will manifest on your phone, your Copyright © 2015 Grey Matter Ltd. All rights tablet and your desktop, and they will become increasingly 14 Migration tools reserved. No part of this publication may be indispensable as they, and the data that drives them, learn more Tools to help you upgrade reproduced in any form without prior your systems. consent of the copyright holder. about who you are, what you like, and what you believe. All trademarks acknowledged. It is early days, and the technology still has a way to go. When 19 Secure transfer HardCopy is a trademark and Grey Matter a Apple’s Siri first appeared, for example, it was accused of having a Utilities for moving data registered trademark owned by Grey Matter securely and reliably. Limited. While all reasonable attempts are ‘pro-life’ bias because, when asked to find an abortion clinic in made to ensure accuracy, Grey Matter and Manhattan, it responded: “Sorry, I couldn’t find any abortion clinics.” It 24 Making movies Matt Publishing disclaim any liability also exhibited a tendency to direct people towards Crisis Pregnancy Generating and delivering whatsoever for any use of information high quality video. herein. Prices exclude VAT unless specified. Centers which were set up by pro-life groups to counsel women against abortion. However Siri’s response has more to do with the 29 Inside Data Cover Image: Jason Stanley limitations of its software, rather than any ethical considerations. Crisis Migrating your database. Advertisers Index Pregnancy Centers present themselves as standard health clinics so 30 Straight talking they can attract women who may be thinking of aborting. The popular Tim Anderson on the 2 Office 365 Planned Parenthood organisation, on the other hand, does offer implications of .NET Core. 7 Flexera App Portal abortions, but doesn’t describe itself as an ‘abortion clinic’. 32 And Another Thing 9 Bing Maps Nevertheless there are dangers. The addition of an IPA ‘filter’, for Jon Honeyball on where 13 Windows Server 2003 want of a better word, makes it harder for us to judge the veracity of Microsoft is going in 2015. 17 Microsoft Azure the information we are presented with. We have a semblance of 34 Short Cuts 18 Ipswitch MOVEit control, but behind the scenes faceless corporations are making Views from the edge. 20 McAfee countless decisions based on the thousands of terabytes generated by 23 Paessler our daily activities. Their agendas may not worry us, but our 26 Intel Media Server experiences with the like of Rupert Murdoch, for example, suggest we 28 Adobe are naïve to think they do not, or will not, have one. Register Now! 31 MadCap Software Matt Nicholson, Editor, HardCopy HardCopy magazine is published three times 33 JetBrains a year. Make sure you don’t miss out by 35 Intel Parallel Studio registering or updating your details at 36 Microsoft Dynamics CRM www.greymatter.com/hc/subscribe Grey Matter Limited Prigg Meadow, Read HardCopy online Ashburton, Devon, TQ13 7DF, UK To view buyer’s guides, news, blogs and [email protected] forums go to HardCopy online at www.greymatter.com/hc/hardcopy Matt Nicholson grey matter Editor, HardCopy @GreyMatter_News software know how Grey Matter • 01364 654100 • HardCopy 3 News Software News Symantec does the splits Symantec • www.greymatter.com/symantec/ Californian vendor Symantec, owner of Michael Brown. The the Norton antivirus brand, has information management announced plans to split itself into two company, operating as companies, one focused on security, the other Veritas Technologies on information management (data storage). In Corporation and boasting another unusual move the new security a brand new logo, will inherit products They’re being hired, by agreement, from Narus, offshoot has reached an agreement to hire 65 including Backup Exec, NetBackup and the high-end analytics firm bought by scientists and data engineers from Boeing Symantec’s platform for eDiscovery (the Aerospace giant Boeing Corporation in 2010, network analytics subsidiary Narus, without business of searching electronic data for along with licences for a series of Narus’s actually buying the company. evidence in litigation). The split is scheduled to technologies. Symantec says the Narus The split, announced in October but yet to complete by the end of 2015, and follows engineers will bring expertise in machine be implemented, will create two separate similar demergers by Hewlett Packard and eBay learning, security, big data analytics and publicly-traded companies. The security last year. networking, which it will use to apply meaning company, with products including Endpoint Meanwhile, Symantec (the security to the data collected from its global threat Protection and Norton Internet Security, will company) has already made its first acquisition intelligence network as part of its Unified retain Symantec’s name and current CEO, – not a company, but a large number of its staff. Security Platform strategy. Microsoft goes free, open source and cross-platform Microsoft • www.greymatter.com/microsoft/ Microsoft has made a decisive grab for existing free VS Express editions: first, it can use technologies from .NET into Mono, and the the hearts and minds of startup and the over 5,000 product ecosystem of Visual cross platform capabilities of Mono into .NET.” open source developers with a free, full- Studio extensions; and second, it can target all That .NET stack will also include the new featured Visual Studio 2013 edition, at the same platforms (i.e. desktop, web, mobile) from a ASP.NET 5 (formerly known as “vNext”), time announcing that .NET, in its entirety, is single installation. The package is licensed for described by Microsoft as “a lean .NET platform going open source and cross-platform. The commercial development by teams of up to five for building modern cloud-based apps.” Key company has also shipped Preview releases of people in businesses with less than $1 million features include compatibility with a new Visual