Office showdown: Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps

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	Office showdown: Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps The war between Google and Microsoft is heating up. Each tech giant offers a productivity suite serving the essentials for serious work online: word processing, spreadsheets, email, and calendars. Should you ally with Google Apps for Business, or root for Microsoft's Office 365 for Small Business? Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Network-Attached Storage in the Public Cloud In this paper, after reviewing the key requirements for an enterprise-grade cloud storage system, we introduce Red Hat Storage Server and review the architectural characteristics that make it the storage system of choice for enterprise users. Learn More In this Issue Preston Gralla: Bill Gates: Microsoft's mobile strategy was "clearly a mistake" Microsoft reopens 128GB Surface Pro online orders Preston Gralla: Does the latest Mac malware attack show that Windows 8 is more secure than Mac OS X? Office 2013 pricing loophole discounts suite by as much as $40 Microsoft enlists Dell to push Office 365 on new PCs Preston Gralla: Microsoft loses out to Gmail as king of Web-based mail. Can Outlook.com take back the throne? Microsoft's Surface RT shipments for China tiny compared to rival tablets Microsoft's Outlook.com comes out of preview phase Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17% Preston Gralla: HP bets on Android and Chome: What happens to Windows? Windows 8 book authors dish on Windows 8 Microsoft warns of looming retirement for Windows 7 RTM WEBCAST: VMware The Case for Virtualizing Your Microsoft Exchange Deployment This Aberdeen Group report offers valuable insights on the impressive benefits to be achieved by virtualizing your Exchange deployment. View Now! Preston Gralla: Bill Gates: Microsoft's mobile strategy was "clearly a mistake" Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates has admitted the obvious: Microsoft's beginning strategy for mobile phones was a failure. When asked why it failed, he had this to say: "That's too complicated." Read More Microsoft reopens 128GB Surface Pro online orders Microsoft on Friday reopened online sales for the 128GB Surface Pro after nearly a week of stock outages, telling buyers that the tablets would ship in two to three weeks. Read More Preston Gralla: Does the latest Mac malware attack show that Windows 8 is more secure than Mac OS X? The latest Mac malware attack should finally put to rest the long-discredited claim by some Mac fans that OS X is invulnerable to attacks. But it also raises this question: Are Macs less safe than Windows PCs, particularly those running Windows 8? Read More Office 2013 pricing loophole discounts suite by as much as $40 Microsoft customers can save between $20 and $40 on a one-PC, perpetual license of Office 2013 by purchasing a "product key card," a retail offer that consists of a 25-character activation key. Read More Microsoft enlists Dell to push Office 365 on new PCs Some major computer makers are pushing Office 365 with their new PCs, but others have stuck with a more traditional bundling tactic of including a factory-installed, single-license trial. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft loses out to Gmail as king of Web-based mail. Can Outlook.com take back the throne? Thanks to skyrocketing signups, Gmail has become the biggest email provider on the Web, beating out Microsoft's combined Hotmail and Outlook.com, as well as Yahoo Mail. Will the newly unveiled Outlook.com help Microsoft take back the lead? Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Addressing the Broken State of Backup Check out the new report featuring Gartner Research, "Addressing the Broken State of Backup". Find out how to get faster, more reliable backup and disaster recovery by modernizing your backup systems. Learn more. Microsoft's Surface RT shipments for China tiny compared to rival tablets While first day sales for Microsoft's Surface RT tablet attracted a long line in Beijing back in October, demand for the device in China has been low, as shipments reached only 30,000 units during the fourth quarter, according to research firm IDC. Read More Microsoft's Outlook.com comes out of preview phase Microsoft has moved its email service Outlook.com out of the preview phase, and plans a marketing campaign to boost its adoption worldwide. Read More Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17% Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17% and stopped selling multi-license packages of the application suite. Read More Preston Gralla: HP bets on Android and Chome: What happens to Windows? Long-time Microsoft partner HP is turning to Android and Chome for new mobile devices. With one of its biggest partners looking to other operating systems in mobile, what does this mean for Microsoft? Read More Windows 8 book authors dish on Windows 8 Writing a book about Windows 8 takes a peculiar combination of perseverance, insight, and a high tolerance for pain. Those who write books about Win8 get to dig into the heart of the beast -- they're exposed early and often to inconsistences and difficulties, and they're tasked with making the hard parts of Win8 accessible to regular people. Along the way, book authors acquire an enormous amount of experience with how the product actually works, going far beyond the stunted feature lists, glib reviews, and sound bites we've all come to expect. Read More Microsoft warns of looming retirement for Windows 7 RTM Microsoft is reminding customers that Windows 7's first edition, which shipped more than three years ago, will be dropped from support in early April. Read More
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