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	Microsoft unveils Office for iPad As expected, Microsoft today announced Office for the iPad at a press event in San Francisco led by CEO Satya Nadella. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Exploring Business and IT Friction: Myths and Realities IT Organizations with passion for and actions around customer experience will lead the Service Revolution. Learn More>> Learn More In this Issue Preston Gralla: The Windows Apocalypse: Here's why Microsoft is releasing Office for the iPad Jonny Evans: Office for iPad marks end of the platform wars On eve of expected Office for iPad, some remain skeptical Preston Gralla: Will Microsoft CEO Nadella put a nail in Windows' coffin this week? PC sales to drop by 6% in 2014 Microsoft returns to scare tactic well in dump-XP campaign Preston Gralla: Hate Windows 8? 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Preston Gralla: The Windows Apocalypse: Here's why Microsoft is releasing Office for the iPad If you're confused why Microsoft is releasing Office for the iPad, look no further than Gartner's latest survey, which finds that PC sales will continue to plummet, while tablets continue to skyrocket. And there's no end in sight Read More Jonny Evans: Office for iPad marks end of the platform wars Microsoft's purported plan to launch Office for iPad today is a bigger deal than you thought. Read More On eve of expected Office for iPad, some remain skeptical Although rumors have pegged today as the day when Microsoft will announce a long-awaited Office for iPad, some remain skeptical that the company will actually pull the trigger. Read More Preston Gralla: Will Microsoft CEO Nadella put a nail in Windows' coffin this week? If Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announces Office for the iPad as expected this week, he'll signal the company's willingness to finally move beyond its heavy reliance on Windows. But will he go beyond that, and give some indication that this is just the first step in abandoning the company's all-Windows-all-the-time past? Read More PC sales to drop by 6% in 2014 The global decline in sales of laptops and desktops is expected to continue in 2014 -- and Gartner envisions another decline of nearly 5% in 2015 Read More WHITE PAPER: Innotas The Project Manager's Guide to Life Ever feel like you're herding cats, when all you're trying to do is manage projects? If you have countless projects and applications drifting aimlessly like parentless children and no idea what's going with them, it's time for an integrated project portfolio management approach. Get the Innotas eBook today. Read now! Microsoft returns to scare tactic well in dump-XP campaign Microsoft yesterday pulled out a fear-of-God approach to scare users into dumping Windows XP, telling them that the most popular tasks done on a PC will put them in the crosshairs of cyber criminals. Read More Preston Gralla: Hate Windows 8? How about a return to DOS? Plenty of people, including me, are no fans of Windows 8. But be happy it's here -- at least you don't have to compute like people did in the days of DOS. Then again, if you want, you can now return to those days, thanks to the free code being made available to all takers. Read More 10 desktop apps to power your Windows PC These apps will help you work with files of all types -- as well as back them up and keep them secure. Read More Richi Jennings: FORMAT C: -- MS-DOS source code 'free' (as in lite-beer) BillG blurs the lines. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) releases old source code. MS-DOS and Word For Windows are downloadable (but don't call them 'open'). The Computer History Museum (CHM) hosts the files for us, calling them "historic" and "primitive." In IT Blogwatch, bloggers go searching for clues. Read More INSIDER Preston Gralla: 5 top tips for mastering Outlook Want to get the most out of Outlook? I've got five great tips that will help you ignore annoying message threads, clean out redundant messages, change your inbox view, connect to social networks, and collapse and expand message headers. Read More 10 top Excel keyboard shortcuts Add date and time stamps, jump to next corner of a selection and more -- all with time-saving keyboard shortcuts from "Mr. Excel" Bill Jelen. Read More
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