Users refuse to chuck XP as Windows 8 uptake flattens

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	Users refuse to chuck XP as Windows 8 uptake flattens For the second month in a row, Windows XP and Windows 8 defied their maker's wishes, as XP gained user share, and Windows 8, the OS Microsoft hopes will fuel sales of new devices, flatlined in February. Read More WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Measuring Customer Satisfaction with Support Services This HDI Research Corner report reveals the findings from 264 support organizations that provide technical support for the services or products used by customers. Learn More In this Issue Preston Gralla: Microsoft makes it official: We're all in with Android Richi Jennings: Two Microsoft execs fade away: Reller and Bates are out Preston Gralla: Smile, Kinect users. The Brits may spy on you with your camera. Windows XP will still get security support in China Richi Jennings: Microsoft taking chance on free Windows 8.1 giveaway? Preston Gralla: Windows Phone will be fastest-growing phone OS in the world, IDC says. Is it for real? Microsoft misjudges customer loyalty with kill-XP plea Microsoft mapping patent ruled invalid in Germany Microsoft upgrades iOS version of SkyDrive Pro WHITE PAPER: VCE Vblock™ Systems and SAP: Transform Your Business You rely on your ERP System to drive your business and give you a strategic advantage. Now you can speed time-to-value throughout your operations while also lowering costs by running your SAP applications on VCE™ Vblock™ Systems. Learn More Preston Gralla: Microsoft makes it official: We're all in with Android Any doubt that Microsoft sees Android as an important part of its future should be erased with a just-announced deal with an Indian handset maker to manufacture dual-boot Windows-Android phones, and with Microsoft asking HTC to include Windows Phone as a dual boot option on its Android phones. That's on top of Nokia's new line of low-cost Windows Phone devices. Is this a way to extend Windows Phone's life, or an admission of the platform's failure? Read More Richi Jennings: Two Microsoft execs fade away: Reller and Bates are out Tami and Tony taken out behind the barn. Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) new CEO is doing some spring-cleaning. Looks like Tami Reller's getting the blame for Windows 8, and there's simply no reason to keep Tony Bates hanging around like the metaphorical bad smell. In other news, Scrooled-meister Mark Penn is getting a promotion. Oh brother. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers eyeroll until their extraocular muscles scream for mercy. Not to mention: MC Chris crosses the nerdcore streams, in tribute to Harold Ramis... Read More Preston Gralla: Smile, Kinect users. The Brits may spy on you with your camera. A report that Britain's spy agency GCHQ has snooped on and stored webcam images from millions of Yahoo users has potential dangers for Kinect owners. The surveillance agency has been evaulating using Kinect's camera to spy on its owners as well. Read More Windows XP will still get security support in China Microsoft is making a special exception in the way it retires Windows XP in China, and will continue offering security support for the OS to users in the nation. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS Marketing Analytics in Manufacturing Effective marketing analytics have the ability to leverage big data and break down unstructured customer info to help manufacturers better understand customer needs. Aberdeen Group found that 43% of manufacturers cited finding new ways to serve customers as a primary focus area. This report explores the drivers & benefits of marketing analytics. Learn more Richi Jennings: Microsoft taking chance on free Windows 8.1 giveaway? Pass, go, or collect? This is not a Nigerian "419" scam, a method to earn millions browsing the web from home, or an attempt to sell a bridge in Brooklyn. However, some bloggers are having a hard time believing rumors that Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will soon give Windows 8.1 away for free. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers are skeptically optimistic and optimistically skeptical. Read More Preston Gralla: Windows Phone will be fastest-growing phone OS in the world, IDC says. Is it for real? Users for now may not be flocking to Windows Phone, but yet one more research firm says that it will be fastest-growing major smartphone OS in the world through 2018. Does this mean the OS is finally breaking through? Read More Microsoft misjudges customer loyalty with kill-XP plea Microsoft grossly overestimated the loyalty of those it thought were its most steadfast customers when it asked them to help get friends and family members to dump Windows XP, a corporate communications expert said. Read More Microsoft mapping patent ruled invalid in Germany The German Federal Patent Court invalidated a Microsoft mapping patent because it lacked an inventive step, a court spokeswoman said Friday. The company had alleged that Motorola Mobility and Google infringed the patent in the Google Maps app. Read More Microsoft upgrades iOS version of SkyDrive Pro Microsoft has a new version of SkyDrive Pro's iOS app that has the cloud storage product's new identity -- OneDrive for Business -- and broadens its scope of users. Read More
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