Stock's ups and downs tell Microsoft's tale for 2013

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	Stock's ups and downs tell Microsoft's tale for 2013   A visual look at Microsoft's share performance illustrates the year's big events. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell and Microsoft From Cost Center to Innovator & Microsoft® & Dell™ Solutions If you feel like you're treading water rather than innovating, you're not alone. In a survey of non-IT professionals, 54% responded that they consider IT a "support or maintenance organization." View Now In this Issue Preston Gralla: Do big holiday sales mean that Microsoft Surface tablets are for real? Microsoft support tells Surface Pro 2 owners firmware fix will ship Jan. 14 Gates will surrender Microsoft shareholder crown to Ballmer in 2014 Ubuntu 13.10 takes aim at Microsoft, Apple, Google Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: The Windows killer: Chromebook New types of RAM could revolutionize your PC Preston Gralla: Does Microsoft see open source in its future? Windows 8 regains uptake mojo, XP restarts death slide WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   Find out whether SaaS-based ITSM is right for you Software-as-a-service is more than just a cloud-based delivery model—it's a new approach to service that lets companies optimize utilization of in-house IT resources while providing service more effectively. Learn More Preston Gralla: Do big holiday sales mean that Microsoft Surface tablets are for real? Holiday sales and post-holiday usage numbers show big gains for Surface tablets. It is a one-time blip, or are bigger Surface tablet the wave of the future? Read More   Microsoft support tells Surface Pro 2 owners firmware fix will ship Jan. 14 Microsoft support representatives have told Surface Pro 2 owners that a firmware update will be issued Jan. 14 to remedy multiple problems that cropped up after they installed a similar update a month ago. Read More   Gates will surrender Microsoft shareholder crown to Ballmer in 2014 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' once-invulnerable position as the company's biggest stockholder continued to erode in the fourth quarter of 2013. Read More   Ubuntu 13.10 takes aim at Microsoft, Apple, Google Ubuntu is moving into the rarified class of operating systems that cover x86/x64 clients and servers, ARM-based tablets/smartphones, and commodity cloud instances. Meaning that it's taking on everybody from Microsoft to Red Hat to Apple and Google. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell and Microsoft Reference Architectures for designing & deploying SQL server Virtualization provides highly efficient data center computing environments. To optimally design a virtual environment, an initial understanding of the underlying platform and its capabilities is important. This white paper proposes a virtual converged infrastructure using Dell Active System 800 for virtual database deployments. View Now Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: The Windows killer: Chromebook Could the Chromebook knock out Windows on the desktop? Don't bet against it. Read More   New types of RAM could revolutionize your PC New chips that blur the line between computer memory and storage are starting to move beyond niche applications and could change how we use PCs, an industry analyst said Sunday. Read More   Preston Gralla: Does Microsoft see open source in its future?   Microsoft may be gearing up for something of an open source future, with a new programming language open source project possibly slated for release in 2014. Is it for real, or just a cheap, easy way for Microsoft to get good PR? Read More   Windows 8 regains uptake mojo, XP restarts death slide   Windows 8 surged in December to end the year with almost 12% of the user share of all Windows personal computers, while the destined-for-retirement Windows XP restarted its decline after a two-month pause, a Web analytics company Net Applications said Thursday. Read More
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