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According to Bill Gates, Apple's new pay feature won't bring about the demise of Microsoft's mobile platform.
10/20/2014
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IBM announced today that it will be paying $1.5 billion to semiconductor manufacturer Globalfoundries to take over its struggling chip business.
10/20/2014
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News
Microsoft has killed off a few SharePoint Online features.
10/17/2014
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Security Advisor
This month's security update has led to compatibility and installation errors for many users.
10/17/2014
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Cloud-based machine learning service gains real-time analytics with support for Apache Storm clusters, among other new improvements.
10/17/2014
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Women at Microsoft earned 99.7 percent of what men earned last year in U.S., CEO Satya Nadella reportedly told employees in an e-mail promising opportunities for advancement regardless of gender and race. Are women paid equally in your company?
10/17/2014
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Microsoft this week published a guideline for IT pros on how to deploy Windows in computing environments large and small.
10/16/2014
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Microsoft disclosed today that its unified technology event coming in May next year will be called "Microsoft Ignite."
10/16/2014
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In-Depth
Before making the jump, here are some points to consider.
10/16/2014
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Microsoft provided an update today about its future Exchange Online Protection plans.
10/15/2014
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Microsoft released October cumulative updates (CUs) for both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 this week, with lots of caveats.
10/15/2014
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In a surprise move, Microsoft has partnered with Docker to collaborate with the open source community to develop containers for Windows Server and the Azure cloud service.
10/15/2014
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Microsoft's Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC )3.0, made available for download Monday, has brought back the ability to do physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversions.
10/15/2014
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Internet Explorer will begin blocking outdated Silverlight ActiveX plug-ins, starting on Nov. 11.
10/14/2014
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Microsoft indicated this week that it plans to deliver another build of the Windows 10 technical preview, which will be "coming soon."
10/14/2014
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Security Advisor
This month's security offering includes three bulletins rated "critical" and five "important" items.
10/14/2014
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Microsoft added some auditing and reporting capabilities to its Azure cloud computing service this week.
10/10/2014
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Microsoft CEO's gaffe in saying that women shouldn't ask for raises offered a teachable moment: Women who feel they deserve better pay should just say so.
10/10/2014
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Microsoft pitched its Surface Pro 3 PC product line to business users today, offering a promo and a new support program.
10/09/2014
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Worldwide PC shipments declined in the third quarter, according to analyses published this week by IDC and Gartner Inc.
10/09/2014
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Microsoft has improved document collaboration capabilities for its Office 365 subscribers.
10/08/2014
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This Windows Server 2012 feature makes it easy to set storage quotas and manage file types.
10/08/2014
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VMware looks to broaden desktop virtualization with its new VMware Workstation.
10/08/2014
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Microsoft plans to rename Windows Intune, calling it "Microsoft Intune" with its next major update release.
10/08/2014
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
It's hard to sell units when customers can't find them in stores.
10/08/2014
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One of the fastest growing providers of infrastructure software for Microsoft and VMware virtual environments said it will maintain focus on data protection of VMs.
10/08/2014
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This step-by-step visual guide will get you up and running in no time.
10/07/2014
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Microsoft has rolled out two new cloud-based solutions in recent days, including Disaster Recovery to Azure and Redis Cache services.
10/07/2014
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Microsoft had been collecting more than $1 billion a year from Samsung via an Android cross-licensing contract, a court record disclosed on Friday.
10/06/2014
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Foley on Microsoft
IT should keep an eye on some of Microsoft's upcoming cloud-based services, including Power BI and Enterprise Mobility Suite.
10/06/2014
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Security Advisor
Romanian hackers are targeting the Yahoo Games servers.
10/06/2014
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Keeping the brand intact, the PC and printing business will be called HP Inc. and its infrastructure and cloud organization to become Hewlett-Packard Enterprise next year.
10/06/2014
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A recent Microsoft blog post offered some interesting details about Windows 10 before it got pulled.
10/03/2014
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In-Depth
Microsoft's release of the first Windows 10 Technical Preview this week shows signs that the company's effort to unify the fragmented OS for PCs, tablets and phones delivered with Windows 8.x is coming to life, but not yet an exponential leap forward.
10/03/2014
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Microsoft's effort to unify Windows is showing progress but the first preview of Windows 10 comes with use of the famous Charms, introduced in Windows 8, only for those using touch. It remains to be seen whether they'll resurface for mouse users.
10/03/2014
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Microsoft's Office 365 subscription plan reorganization for small-to-medium businesses took effect today.
10/02/2014
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After releasing SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 earlier in the week, Microsoft followed up with the release of the final service pack for the first revision of SQL Server 2008.
10/02/2014
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In-Depth
Vendor consolidation is leading IT pros to favor fewer players, according to this year's annual Redmond Third-Party Reader's Choice Awards.
10/02/2014
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Microsoft today unveiled a preview of a new Office app for putting together content called "Sway."
10/01/2014
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Windows Insider
While the new features may be tempting, the new Hyper-V VMs' incompatibilities should stop you from jumping on board.
10/01/2014
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A Microsoft Research effort to build a library OS micro-service is coming to fruition, says Microsoft's Mark Russinovich.
10/01/2014
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In-Depth
As enterprise IT pros face a business imperative to support the management and analysis of Big Data, Microsoft has embraced the call with the latest evolution of SQL Server, support for NoSQL and Hadoop. The changes promise to alter the role of the traditional DBA.
10/01/2014
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Microsoft pitched the business side of Windows 10 today after announcing the upcoming operating system at a San Francisco press event.
09/30/2014
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Microsoft has rolled out another version of SQL Server 2008, dubbed Release 2 Service Pack 3.
09/30/2014
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Microsoft's next major Windows release will be called "Windows 10."
09/30/2014
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Security Advisor
IT's security spending is not keeping up with the reported 42.8 million security incidents in PwC's enterprise survey.
09/30/2014
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Microsoft indicated this week that the patch cycle for Windows 8.x and Windows Server 2012 R.x systems follows a different approach than in the past.
09/29/2014
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Predictive analytics technology developed by Microsoft Research is now gathering data by surveying users in the form of a game.
09/29/2014
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Does your IT team have the competencies it'll need to survive the remainder of this decade?
09/29/2014
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Microsoft is working on a fix for its Rights Management Service sharing app for Apple iOS devices.
09/26/2014