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	Microsoft claims 200M Windows 8 licenses sold, but how many are in use? Microsoft last week said that it had sold 200 million licenses of Windows 8 since the operating system launched more than 15 months ago. But how many copies are actually being used? Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation The MDM advantage: Creating insight from big data To help enterprises create trusted insight as the volume, velocity and variety of data continue to explode, IBM offers several solutions designed to help organizations uncover previously unavailable insights and use them to support and inform decisions across the business. View Now In this Issue Microsoft kills SkyDrive, launches OneDrive Preston Gralla: Office to be released for the iPad before Windows tablets? What gives, Microsoft? Preston Gralla: Microsoft backs off on Office for iPad. Is this the revenge of the company's old guard? Microsoft pushes ahead with Skype-Lync integration Richi Jennings: Microsoft Office on the iPad raises questions Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: You can keep using XP for another year, but do you really want to? Microsoft marshals marketing, service, social for Dynamics CRM Microsoft delivers stopgap defense against active IE10 attacks Microsoft sets Oct. 31 as stop date for Windows 7 consumer PC sales Jonny Evans: Failing Microsoft must bring Office to iPad Jonny Evans: Mac users four times more engaged than Windows users What if Microsoft threw an iPad Office party, and no one came? WHITE PAPER: Druva Top 10 Endpoint Backup Mistakes When considering endpoint backup options, be sure you're making the right decisions. Protecting data on endpoints has become more challenging because of recent trends like exponential data growth, the rise in endpoints, BYOD, and SaaS applications. Read Now! Microsoft kills SkyDrive, launches OneDrive Three weeks after announcing OneDrive as the new label for SkyDrive, Microsoft today activated the renamed storage service, and offered some new incentives that give customers more space. Read More Preston Gralla: Office to be released for the iPad before Windows tablets? What gives, Microsoft? The on-again, off-again love affair between Office and the iPad continues: The latest rumors say that Office will arrive on the iPad even before it comes to Windows tablets. No matter the truth of things, Microsoft needs to make clear its Office strategy, or else it will give up ground to competitors. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft backs off on Office for iPad. Is this the revenge of the company's old guard? Even though former CEO Steve Ballmer promised last fall that Microsoft would be bringing Office to the iPad, there's a new sheriff in town, and that promise no longer holds. The company is now strongly hinting that Office for the iPad may be a non-starter. Is this a return to the bad old days of Microsoft? Read More Microsoft pushes ahead with Skype-Lync integration Microsoft will demonstrate on Tuesday how Lync and Skype users will be able to communicate via video conferencing, the next stage of the integration between its enterprise unified communications server and its consumer IM and IP telephony network. Read More Richi Jennings: Microsoft Office on the iPad raises questions The Rashomon of Microsoft Office Yes, no, and maybe. The door is ajar. Similar to a Zen koan, bloggers are struggling to find meaning in recent statements made by Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) marketing master Tami Reller. Asked if the software giant is still contemplating the meaning of Office on the iPad and Android, the cryptic response was as clearly heard as the sound of one hand clapping. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers listen for trees falling in a forest. Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: You can keep using XP for another year, but do you really want to? While clinging to the 11-year-old OS after Microsoft issues its last security patch in April is defensible, the security risks are going to keep mounting. Read More WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Five Tips for Improving Customer Experience This paper conveys how the pressure to increase customer satisfaction metrics with less funding will increase as companies look for new ways to differentiate their services and reduce customer churn. Learn More. Learn More Microsoft marshals marketing, service, social for Dynamics CRM Microsoft is about to make a fresh run at its CRM rival Salesforce.com with new capabilities for marketing automation, customer support and social media monitoring. Read More Microsoft delivers stopgap defense against active IE10 attacks Microsoft on Wednesday issued a stopgap defense that protects IE9 and IE10 against ongoing attacks until the company issues a patch, probably in three weeks. Read More Microsoft sets Oct. 31 as stop date for Windows 7 consumer PC sales Microsoft has set Oct. 31 as the end of sales of new consumer-grade Windows 7 PCs, but for now has left open the do-not-sell-after-this-date for business machines. Read More Jonny Evans: Failing Microsoft must bring Office to iPad Microsoft may have chosen a new CEO but it seems it still hasn't figured out how to carve a future in the Apple-driven Post-PC computer world. And it all comes down to Office. Read More Jonny Evans: Mac users four times more engaged than Windows users Mac users are almost four times more likely to upgrade to the latest edition of their OS in comparison with Windows users, with nearly a quarter of the most active users of both platforms now using Macs. Read More What if Microsoft threw an iPad Office party, and no one came? Microsoft will make a killing when it launches Office apps for Apple's iPad and tablets powered by Android. Or will it? Read More
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