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Microsoft Says No to Disabling UEFI Secure Boot on ARM
By Joe Brockmeier / January 13, 2012 3:30 PM / 0 Comments

Remember last year when questions arose about Microsoft's policies on UEFI secure boot on Windows 8? Microsoft's response, or lack thereof, was that "OEMs are free to choose" how or

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Issues for 2012 #2: Is Windows 8 Too Late?
By Scott M. Fulton, III / December 27, 2011 1:00 PM / 0 Comments

The memo has already gone out to the various book editors, news editors and technology analysts: The proper phrase is not "tablet PC" any more. A tablet and a PC

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Why Microsoft Office is Our PC's Kudzu
By David Strom / December 7, 2011 12:00 PM / 0 Comments

Is it time to retire Microsoft Office, as my colleague Eric Lundquist says in his latest Information Week column? Much as I would like to, I can't. Part of the

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Do We Really Need a New Microsoft?
By Scott M. Fulton, III / December 2, 2011 1:45 PM / 0 Comments

The discussion is already nearly five years old, and yet the vacancy in the public conscience persists as if something big had collapsed just last week. Microsoft is no longer

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Microsoft Finally Contributed Code to Samba Open Source Interop Project
By Scott M. Fulton, III / November 3, 2011 3:40 PM / 0 Comments

Five years ago, the complaint against Microsoft brewing before the European Court of First Instance was that it was not contributing enough knowledge about Windows' source code to let others

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Who Are The Top Tech Lobbying Firms?
By David Strom / October 26, 2011 3:30 PM / 0 Comments

An article in USA Today this week got me interested in how much the tech firms are paying to lobby Congress. There are a few places you can easily research

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SQL Server 2012: Microsoft's Case for Structured Data in the Cloud Era
By Scott M. Fulton, III / October 12, 2011 9:45 AM / 0 Comments

Unstructured data, for lack of a more poetic phrase, exists. In fact, there's more of it now than at any time in history - the growth rate Forrester experts cite

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Microsoft: Stuxnet Offshoots Responsible for 150% Increase in OS Exploits
By Scott M. Fulton, III / October 11, 2011 11:30 AM / 0 Comments

It may not be an independent source of data about Windows, but Microsoft's system of telemetry for tracking the causes of system failures, is orders of magnitude more sensitive than

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Atlassian Rolls out v4 of Confluence
By David Strom / September 19, 2011 5:00 AM / 0 Comments

Atlassian announced today a new version 4 of its Confluence team collaboration software tool. We covered version 2.9 here several years ago and since then they have been busy adding

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The 5 Worst CEOs in Tech
By Joe Brockmeier / September 8, 2011 1:30 PM / 0 Comments

Tech CEOs are getting a lot of attention lately. With the exception of exiting Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the attention is not a good thing. From Carol Bartz's abrupt firing

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Friday Roundup: Court Tosses Oracle Award, App Engine Pricing, Fake IDs, Seesmic and More...
By Joe Brockmeier / September 2, 2011 4:00 PM / 0 Comments

It's been a crazy conference week with VMworld and Dreamforce '11 going on at the same time. News from those shows have been all over ReadWriteWeb's channels this week, like

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Microsoft to Compete with Salesforce, SAP Using CAL Rebates
By Scott M. Fulton, III / August 29, 2011 9:30 AM / 0 Comments

Last year, financial analysts took note of the steepening share decline by SAP in the CRM software market, with the other three major players - Salesforce.com, Siebel (Oracle), and Microsoft

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Windows Interoperability with Linux to Come From China
By Scott M. Fulton, III / August 23, 2011 7:35 AM / 0 Comments

For the last decade, Windows has held the emperor's seat in Chinese enterprises. As a result, market share for Internet Explorer 9 and usage share of Bing are believed higher

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Setbacks for Google in Patent Cases Make Motorola Look Less Valuable
By Scott M. Fulton, III / August 18, 2011 7:09 AM / 0 Comments

If the proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI) by Google announced on Monday truly is about the value of MMI's patent portfolio, then mitigating circumstances over just the past few

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Microsoft Bringing Hadoop Connectors to SQL Server
By Klint Finley / August 12, 2011 12:30 PM / 0 Comments

This week Microsoft announced its intentions to bring Hadoop to SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW). PDW was introduced last year and brought centralized data warehousing capabilities to

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Why Microsoft, Google and Facebook Want Your Email
By Joe Brockmeier / August 10, 2011 4:00 PM / 0 Comments

Tally up the total number of searches on Google, Yahoo and Bing and you have about 3.5 billion searches per day. It's estimated that Twitter has about 300 million accounts

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Will a Commercial nginx Shake Up the Web Server Market?
By Joe Brockmeier / August 4, 2011 12:00 PM / 0 Comments

The nginx Web server and reverse proxy server has already posted impressive numbers in the Web server market as a small open source project. Now the project's creator, Igor Sysoev,

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Microsoft Project and Visio Will Come to Office 365
By Klint Finley / July 15, 2011 12:30 PM / 0 Comments

Microsoft Office 365, the cloud-based service from Microsoft (read our take on it here), already supports Outlook/Exchange, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Lync. We've reported that BlackBerry Enterprise Server

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IT Poll: Is One Version of Windows for All Devices the Right Approach?
By Klint Finley / July 14, 2011 3:00 PM / 0 Comments

This week at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference the company made its tablet strategy more clear. As reported by Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows Phone President Andy Lees said: "We

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Microsoft Research Open-Sources Experimental Operating System
By Klint Finley / July 13, 2011 11:45 AM / 0 Comments

ETH Zurich open-sourced an experimental operating system called BarrelFish, which it built in conjunction with Microsoft Research. The purpose of BarrelFish is to explore the best ways to structure

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Microsoft May Release Windows 8 Beta in September
By Klint Finley / July 8, 2011 7:30 AM / 0 Comments

Windows 8 may be released as soon as April 2012, according to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley. Foley writes that according to a "trusted source" Microsoft is on track to

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Office 365 vs. Google Apps vs. Zoho
By Klint Finley / June 28, 2011 4:38 PM / 0 Comments

Today, as expected Office 365 came out of beta. Office 365 is Microsoft's consolidated cloud-services system that combines hosted versions of Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Lync Server. So

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Steve Ballmer on Microsoft's Big Data Future and More in This Week's Business Intelligence Roundup
By Klint Finley / June 17, 2011 3:30 PM / 0 Comments

Big, or at least unbounded data, continues to have a profound impact on business intelligence, business analytics and data warehousing. This week we saw a few particular developments in

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Windows XP Still Powers 60% of Corporate Desktops, Apple Makes Small Gains
By Klint Finley / June 17, 2011 1:00 PM / 0 Comments

According to a new report from Forrester, Windows 7 is now in use on 20% of corporate desktops as of March 2011. Windows XP still holds on to 59.9%

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Third-Party Plugin Brings Priority Inbox Style Organizing to Outlook
By Klint Finley / June 17, 2011 11:45 AM / 0 Comments

Last year we told you about a few plugins for Microsoft Outlook users with Gmail envy. Here's another one for that list: Priority Inbox for Outlook. This is a

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