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	Microsoft predicts another cruel quarter for PCs Microsoft is prepping Wall Street for a 2% slip in Windows revenue for the third quarter and warning that PC shipments will continue their double-digit tumble. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Corporation Give Your Users What They Want with Cloud and Mobile Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM EDT You will learn: - How moving to the cloud can help accelerate mobile adoption in your organization. - The benefits of combining the power of cloud with the freedom and functionality of mobile. Learn More. In this Issue Surface RT $900M pounding renews calls for Office on iPad First look: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V shines on Preston Gralla: Windows tablets tank, account for only 1 percent of Web tablet traffic Microsoft ships Office 2010 SP2, starts upgrade clock Intel aims for longer tablet battery life with Haswell chips Nokia launches Lumia 625 smartphone with 4.7-in screen Preston Gralla: Developers say, "We love Windows Phone" but fail to cash in Apple's interest in supersized iPad signals mimicry of Microsoft WHITE PAPER: FICO (Fair Isaac) Cloud Analytics for the Masses Learn the best practices in building applications that can leverage volume, variety and velocity of Big Data for organizations of any size. Learn more. Surface RT $900M pounding renews calls for Office on iPad Armed with a $900 million argument, an analyst raised the Office-on-iPad banner, saying that the flop of the Surface RT gives Microsoft a chance to make billions in lemonade from its lemon. Read More First look: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V shines on Preview editions of Hyper-V 2012 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 pick up where the strong initial releases left off Read More Preston Gralla: Windows tablets tank, account for only 1 percent of Web tablet traffic If you judge market share by Web usage, Windows tablets have failed. A new report by the online ad network Chitika finds that they account for one percent of all Web tablet traffic, compared to 84.3 percent for iPads. Worse yet, the numbers haven't budged for months. Read More Microsoft ships Office 2010 SP2, starts upgrade clock Microsoft yesterday released Office 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2), a cumulative update that includes previously-released bug fixes as well as several performance, reliability and stability improvements. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Storage Resource Management Suite Learn how you can visualize applications to storage dependencies, analyze configurations and capacity growth, and optimize your environment to improve storage management efficiency. Learn more. Intel aims for longer tablet battery life with Haswell chips Intel says it will increase the battery life of tablets and hybrid PCs that use its microprocessors, with new low-power Haswell chips that will start shipping later this year. Read More Nokia launches Lumia 625 smartphone with 4.7-in screen Nokia announced its largest Windows 8 smartphone today, the low-cost Lumia 625 that sports a 4.7-in. LCD screen. Read More Preston Gralla: Developers say, "We love Windows Phone" but fail to cash in More developers plan to write apps for Windows Phone than any other platform, concludes a recently finished survey. But their interest has been waning, and a significant problem is that Windows Phone's revenue potential simply hasn't been there. If this continues, Windows Phone could fall even further behind iOS and Android in app availability. Read More Apple's interest in supersized iPad signals mimicry of Microsoft Apple's reported interest in a larger iPad tablet with a 13-in. screen shows that the Cupertino Calif. company is thinking along some of the same lines as its rival Microsoft, analysts said today. Read More
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