Windows 8 uptake slows for third straight month

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	Windows 8 uptake slows for third straight month Windows 8's uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, Net Applications said today. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Announcing exciting new server flash products You don't want to miss this live broadcast featuring extreme flash product testing! Join EMC on Tuesday, March 5 when we announce exciting new server flash products. Find out how your environment can benefit from extreme flash performance. Get real-time answers to all your product questions from our flash technology experts. In this Issue Preston Gralla: Want to be a billionaire? Work for Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Wal-Mart but not Apple Tablet Wars: Microsoft Surface RT v. Apple iPad Microsoft starts sending cut-off notices to Office 365 preview users Preston Gralla: ARM CEO: We like Windows RT, but Chromebooks may point the way to the future Preston Gralla: Windows 8 market share bumps along at number 4, says new study Richi Jennings: Office 365 confuses and bemuses ARM CEO hopeful about Windows RT EU to fine Microsoft over browser ballot fiasco, says report Facebook confirms buying Microsoft's Atlas to boost ad sales WEBCAST: VMware Disaster Recovery for Exchange Using VMware Learn how customers use VMware solutions to increase performance and maintain uptime. View Now! Preston Gralla: Want to be a billionaire? Work for Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Wal-Mart but not Apple If your goal in life is to be a billionaire, start making out your job application to Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Wal-Mart. In the most recent list of billionaires compiled by Forbes, six are are associated with Google, five with Wal-Mart, four with Facebook, and three Microsoft.As for Apple, there's only a single billionaire, Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs' widow. Read More Tablet Wars: Microsoft Surface RT v. Apple iPad The Microsoft Surface running Windows RT is just about everything you'd want in a tablet, but how does it stack up against the market leader, the Apple iPad? Read More Microsoft starts sending cut-off notices to Office 365 preview users Microsoft has started to warn customers who signed up for Office 365 subscription previews that their free ride is about to end. Read More Preston Gralla: ARM CEO: We like Windows RT, but Chromebooks may point the way to the future ARM, which makes the chips used for the Microsoft Surface and other Windows RT tablets, isn't particularly worried that Windows RT hasn't set the world on fire. ARM CEO Warren East expects that eventually Windows RT will become popular. But he also believes that Chromebooks may point the way towards how future PCs will work. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Forrester - Turn Big Data Inward With IT Analytics Big data promises to manage your complex business to make better decisions. But the technology services that run your business are also complex. This Forrester report helps leaders prepare for IT analytics that turn big data efforts inward to manage the technology services that run your business. Register now to get the full report. Read Now Preston Gralla: Windows 8 market share bumps along at number 4, says new study New evidence shows that Windows 8 isn't taking the world by storm: NetApplications reports that its February market share was 2.67%, behind Windows 7, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, and just barely ahead of Mac OS X 10.8. Read More Richi Jennings: Office 365 confuses and bemuses Microsoft's Office 365 launch has people scratching their heads. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) seems to enjoy confusing the world by adding more and more 'differentiated' options for its Office 365 suite. The additional editions bring the number offered for business to nine, not to mention all the other ones for education, government, and consumers.   Read More ARM CEO hopeful about Windows RT Microsoft's new version of Windows written for ARM processors may not be an unqualified success, but ARM CEO Warren East said the software maker will learn from its mistakes with Windows RT and come back with a better product. Read More EU to fine Microsoft over browser ballot fiasco, says report European antitrust regulators will slap Microsoft with a fine before the end of March for failing to offer customers a browser choice screen, according to a report today by the Reuters news service. Read More Facebook confirms buying Microsoft's Atlas to boost ad sales Facebook is buying Microsoft's Atlas Advertiser Suite, an ad analysis platform, in a move that should increase its advertising revenue and give marketers better information about their campaigns across the social network, on both desktop and mobile. Read More
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