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	Windows sales defy predictions, grow 4% | Microsoft Q3 revenue grows almost across the board, beats Wall Street expectations
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	Microsoft yanks Office for Mac 2011 upgrade Microsoft last Friday pulled an Office for Mac 2011 major update from its upgrade servers, acknowledging bugs that have corrupted the Outlook database on some machines. Read More WHITE PAPER: Imation Scalable Storage 7 Simple Truths About Tiering Your Data Dealing with the explosion of extreme data means more than containing it all. It's about determining what data is most useful to your business and where "speed meets need." Learn how you can use data tiering to transform unstructured data into "content" while keeping protection high and costs low. View Now In this Issue Windows sales defy predictions, grow 4% Microsoft Q3 revenue grows almost across the board, beats Wall Street expectations Microsoft to pull plug on XP in 2 years Scot Finnie: Playing the wrong hand with Windows 8 Preston Gralla: Microsoft's jump in Windows sales show there's plenty of life in the operating system Did Microsoft run out of time with Windows RT? Microsoft touts corporate tools in Windows 8 Enterprise Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy Microsoft evangelist corrects comment that Windows Phone 7 devices will get upgrade to Apollo Skepticism mounts over Windows RT's enterprise role Preston Gralla: Microsoft evangelist: Ooops, I didn't mean Windows 7 phones will upgrade to Windows 8 Apollo WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Windows sales defy predictions, grow 4% Stronger-than-expected sales of Windows helped Microsoft post a 6% increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, the company said yesterday. Read More Microsoft Q3 revenue grows almost across the board, beats Wall Street expectations Microsoft revenue grew across most of its businesses in the third quarter, with the exception of its entertainment division, but profit fell slightly, the company said on Thursday. Read More Microsoft to pull plug on XP in 2 years Microsoft has kicked off what it calls a 'two-year countdown' to the death of Windows XP and its Office 2003 productivity suite. Read More Scot Finnie: Playing the wrong hand with Windows 8 Microsoft is gambling its reputation with its upcoming operating system. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft's jump in Windows sales show there's plenty of life in the operating system A jump in Windows sales reported by Microsoft yesterday shows that reports of the death of PCs and Windows are premature. Microsoft reported an increase in sales in the Windows and Window Live division, marking a turnaround from flat or decreasing Windows sales in past quarters.   Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Getting Started with DB2 Application Development Learn how easy it is to get started on DB2 application development. This e-book includes topics such as using DB2 Express-C, writing SQL statements, working with open source tools and more. Read Now Did Microsoft run out of time with Windows RT? Microsoft may have simply run out of time with Windows RT as it tried to keep up with rivals Apple and Google, an analyst said today. Read More Microsoft touts corporate tools in Windows 8 Enterprise Microsoft yesterday laid out the exclusive features of Windows 8 Enterprise, one of three editions of the upcoming OS and the only one limited to corporate customers. Read More Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy From the desktop to digital music, search to mobile devices, these Big Three have shaped our digital lives for more than a decade. Who's winning now? Here's how the battle shakes out. Read More Microsoft evangelist corrects comment that Windows Phone 7 devices will get upgrade to Apollo A Microsoft developer evangelist has corrected his earlier comments that all Windows Phone 7 phones, including Nokia's new Lumia 900, will be upgraded to the next major version of the operating system, Windows Phone 8, dubbed Apollo. Read More Skepticism mounts over Windows RT's enterprise role Omissions from the feature set of Windows RT are leaving analysts increasingly skeptical that enterprises will gravitate toward tablets running the new forked version of Windows. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft evangelist: Ooops, I didn't mean Windows 7 phones will upgrade to Windows 8 Apollo The brouhaha over whether Windows Phone 7 devices will be upgradable to Windows 8 Apollo seems to be over: The Microsoft evangelist who said they would be upgradable now says that he misspoke. In the immortal words of Roseanne Rossanadanna: Never mind!   Read More
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