11 highlights from Microsoft's BUILD conference

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	11 highlights from Microsoft's BUILD conference Microsoft kicked off it's BUILD developers conference Wednesday with a two hour keynote. Here are some of the takeaways. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Intelligent IT Operations: Making IT Smarter Consolidating IT event management in a centralized operations bridge can help you increase efficiency in the short term while setting the stage for greater competitiveness over the long term. Read Now! In this Issue Preston Gralla: Five reasons Windows 8.1 is a winner Microsoft promises IE11 on Windows 7 Microsoft releases disk images for Windows 8.1 beta upgrades Richi Jennings: Fire Steve Ballmer after BUILD FAIL (you know you can do it) QuickPoll: With Windows 8.1 out (in preview), has Microsoft turned a corner? Microsoft delivers mobile app for SkyDrive Pro WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Backup and Recovery Changes This IDC Whitepaper provides an overview of the forces driving change within today's IT organizations and data centers and discusses how backup and recovery can enable or hinder broader IT infrastructure and business transformation. Learn more. Preston Gralla: Five reasons Windows 8.1 is a winner Windows 8.1 has gone a long way towards fixing some but certainly not all of Windows 8's woes. Here are five ways Windows 8.1 improves upon Windows 8. Read More Microsoft promises IE11 on Windows 7 Microsoft today confirmed that Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) will be ported to Windows 7, but declined to name a release date. Read More Microsoft releases disk images for Windows 8.1 beta upgrades Microsoft has released its Windows 8.1 beta as a disk image, making it more convenient to upgrade multiple devices within an organization or enterprise. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kony Solutions Mobility Outlook Report – Smart Mobility for Better Business With Kony's enterprise mobility solutions, you mobilize quicker and smarter. The KonyOne Platform provides true 'write once, run everywhere' capability that extends your apps across all of your employee's devices. Learn more. Richi Jennings: Fire Steve Ballmer after BUILD FAIL (you know you can do it) BUILD 2013 was not BLAMMER's best bash. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is facing growing calls to let Steve Ballmer go. His performance up to and including the BUILD conference keynote came under criticism. And that's despite the free Windows 8.1 download. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if this is the best way to save Microsoft. Read More QuickPoll: With Windows 8.1 out (in preview), has Microsoft turned a corner? Expectations were high for the Windows 8.1 preview that Microsoft rolled out at its BUILD conference on Wednesday. Do you think with Windows 8.1 that Microsoft has turned a corner? Read More Microsoft delivers mobile app for SkyDrive Pro Microsoft has released a SkyDrive Pro mobile application that gives SharePoint Online users access to the cloud storage service from iOS and Windows 8 devices. Read More
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