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	Losses mount for Microsoft's Surface tablet line Economies of scale continued to elude Microsoft's Surface line as the tablet lost more money in the March quarter than in the preceding three-month period, regulatory filings showed. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software The Future of IT: A Customer First Approach Explore how customer-first policies can make use of social, mobile and cloud technologies to give workers the freedom and flexibility they desire to drive company productivity. Learn More. In this Issue Hackers find first post-retirement Windows XP-related vulnerability Preston Gralla: Microsoft phone chief: Nokia's Android phones will help get us to 1 billion users Microsoft profit drops but devices, consumer products help results Microsoft completes $7.2B acquisition of Nokia Preston Gralla: Microsoft's vision for the future: All Office, all the time Microsoft profit drops, but tablet, Windows sales help it beat estimates Preston Gralla: Can Microsoft's new Mini tablet save the Surface? Microsoft Surface Mini seems likely to ship soon Microsoft vows to appeal federal email privacy ruling Smartphone lull a golden opportunity for Microsoft WHITE PAPER: BMC Software IT Friction and Your Organization This report outlines key issues that cause friction between business users and IT. Learn More Hackers find first post-retirement Windows XP-related vulnerability Microsoft on Saturday told customers that cyber-criminals are exploiting an unpatched and critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) using "drive-by" attacks. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft phone chief: Nokia's Android phones will help get us to 1 billion users In case you thought that Microsoft would put the kibosh on Nokia's line of Android phones now that the company sale has gone through, rest assured they're here to stay. Former Nokia CEO and current Microsoft devices chief Stephen Elop says that they're key to getting Microsoft to 1 billion users of its services. Read More Microsoft profit drops but devices, consumer products help results Microsoft's profit dropped and its revenue was almost flat in its third fiscal quarter, during which the company replaced Steve Ballmer with Satya Nadella as CEO. Read More Microsoft completes $7.2B acquisition of Nokia Microsoft today officially closed its $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's handset business, welcoming approximately 30,000 new employees to its rolls. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft's vision for the future: All Office, all the time Microsoft's earning report yesterday made one thing perfectly clear: From now on, it's all Office, all the time. And that's a good thing.   Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software MyIT- Consumer Cool for Business Apps Rich Ptak discusses how BMC's MyIT combines the ease and familiarity of accessing today's consumer apps with the stability, security and strengths of the enterprise IT infrastructure. Learn More Microsoft profit drops, but tablet, Windows sales help it beat estimates Microsoft's profit dropped and its revenue was almost flat in its third fiscal quarter, during which the company replaced Steve Ballmer with Satya Nadella as CEO. Read More Preston Gralla: Can Microsoft's new Mini tablet save the Surface? It looks as if Microsoft's long-rumored Surface Mini may finally be on the verge of being released. Can the small tablet help save the Surface line, or will it be too little, too late? Read More Microsoft Surface Mini seems likely to ship soon Microsoft may be prepping to ship a mini version of its Surface tablets within a month, based on an Amazon.com listing for a case custom made for the device. Read More Microsoft vows to appeal federal email privacy ruling Email providers have to turn over a user's emails and other data to U.S. law enforcement when issued a search warrant, even if the data is stored overseas, a U.S. judge ruled Friday. Read More Smartphone lull a golden opportunity for Microsoft Critics have derided Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services business but the deal may be closing at the perfect moment -- during a slowdown in smartphone innovation. Read More
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