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	Office 365 subscriptions furnish 4% of Microsoft's Office division revenue Microsoft's Business division, which manages the company's Office cash cow, recorded a 5% revenue bump in the first quarter over the same period in 2012, an increase driven by a surge in enterprises signing long-term licensing agreements. 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. In this Issue Microsoft: Mum's again the word on Windows 8 sales Microsoft to pay departing CFO Klein $2M for non-compete, secrecy promises Easy XP-Windows 7 upgrades are over Microsoft to drive Windows tablet strategy with smaller devices, OS rebates Preston Gralla: Don't be fooled by Microsoft's earning report about Windows growth Microsoft Q3 earnings and revenue up, as all divisions make gains Microsoft files patent for new open windows viewer INSIDER Microsoft faces a loss of relevance Microsoft DirectAccess impresses Nokia sees improving Windows Phone sales and shrinking loss in Q1 WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Strategy Guide to the Cloud Public sector entities are eyeing cloud models as a way to consolidate IT, save money and provide new services both internally and to constituents. Read Now! Microsoft: Mum's again the word on Windows 8 sales Even though PC shipments were down 14% last quarter, Microsoft's Windows division posted revenue about the same as the last year, making up for slumping sales to OEMs with growth in long-term licensing agreements sold to enterprises. Read More Microsoft to pay departing CFO Klein $2M for non-compete, secrecy promises Microsoft's chief financial officer, Peter Klein, will receive $2 million in the year after he retires from the company, according to documents filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read More Easy XP-Windows 7 upgrades are over The easy upgrades from Windows XP are done, migration experts said, predicting that a sizeable number of large enterprises will still be running the aged OS even after Microsoft stops supporting it. Read More Microsoft to drive Windows tablet strategy with smaller devices, OS rebates Microsoft's chief financial officer yesterday confirmed that the company and its hardware partners would ship smaller, lower-priced Windows tablets in the next months. Read More Preston Gralla: Don't be fooled by Microsoft's earning report about Windows growth At first blush, the news is all good about Windows from Microsoft's earning report. But a closer look shows that's not at all the case. Read More WHITE PAPER: Moovweb Why Responsive Design Isn't Good Enough… And How to Fix It Mobile is changing everything for your company but do you know the keys to mobile web development that will really work for your customers and employees? Read Now! Microsoft Q3 earnings and revenue up, as all divisions make gains Microsoft increased revenue across all its divisions in its third fiscal quarter, achieving an almost 20 percent revenue increase year on year. Read More Microsoft files patent for new open windows viewer Microsoft last week filed a patent application for a new method of browsing through open windows on the desktop that builds on an older, now-abandoned feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Read More INSIDER Microsoft faces a loss of relevance Microsoft took another hard knock this month when top tech researchers laid much of the blame for dwindling first-quarter PC sales at the feet of the beleaguered Windows 8 operating system. Insider (registration required) Read More Microsoft DirectAccess impresses Available since Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsofts DirectAccess server role became fully integrated with the OS in Windows Server 2012. DirectAccess is designed to connect a VPN-type session automatically as soon as a compatible Windows client is connected to the Internet. Read More Nokia sees improving Windows Phone sales and shrinking loss in Q1 Nokia's sales of smartphones running Windows Phone continued to grow in the first quarter, and its net loss shrank year on year, even as overall revenue declined. Read More
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