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	Microsoft's money pit: Surface has lost $1.2B Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow's revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the "devices" side of its corporate-refashioning strategy. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW It's who you know: CDW + Microsoft Office 365 That's why we partner with industry leaders like Microsoft. The Office 365 suite combines familiar Office programs with cloud-based communications services like Exchange, SharePoint and Lync to help your workers collaborate wherever they may be. View Now In this Issue Preston Gralla: Does the world really need a Surface Mini Pro? Microsoft CEO Nadella aces first-100-day test Preston Gralla: Nadella versus Ballmer as CEO: Microsoft employees say it's Nadella by a mile Greg Lambert: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2014 Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Windows 8.1 Update 1, now with less annoyance Microsoft Azure cloud set to add SAP apps Surface do-or-die moment? Not so fast End of Support for Windows XP a Danger to Tech Freedom : VCE Infographic: Converged Infrastructure Benefits In order to meet fast-evolving business needs, many IT leaders are turning to converged infrastructure systems. This Infographic quantifies the savings organizations are realizing from increased deployment speed, higher availability, and lower annual costs. Learn More Preston Gralla: Does the world really need a Surface Mini Pro? Tomorrow Microsoft will likely introduce a 7- or 8-inch Surface Mini running Windows RT. Some rumors also point to a Surface Mini Pro as well, running full-blown Windows 8. Does the world really need a full-bore small Windows 8 tablet? Read More Microsoft CEO Nadella aces first-100-day test If Satya Nadella is celebrating his first 100 days as CEO of Microsoft today, no one can blame him, a corporate leadership expert said. Read More Preston Gralla: Nadella versus Ballmer as CEO: Microsoft employees say it's Nadella by a mile How well is Satya Nadella doing as Microsoft's CEO compared to Steve Ballmer? If you ask Microsoft employees, they'll tell you it's Nadella by a mile, according to the career site Glassdoor. Are the employees on-target, or is it hero worship and wishful thinking? Read More Greg Lambert: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2014 This May update from Microsoft includes nine updates, eight of which have been released for this May Patch Tuesday. Microsoft released an earlier out of band (OOB) patch for the ninth. Of these nine security updates, three are rated as critical by Microsoft with the remaining six rated as important. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Bringing Business Intelligence to the Cloud Has your organization been hoping to utilize Power Pivot and Power View for your self-service BI needs but you haven't been able to justify a deployment of SharePoint and SQL Server to support proper collaboration and management? If so, I have some good news for you! View Now Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Windows 8.1 Update 1, now with less annoyance After trying Update 1 for the last few weeks, the best I can say for it is that it sucks less. Read More Microsoft Azure cloud set to add SAP apps Microsoft and SAP's long-standing partnership is being strengthened with the pending certification of SAP's ERP software for deployment on the Azure cloud infrastructure service. Read More Surface do-or-die moment? Not so fast Microsoft's scheduled unveiling of new Surface tablets next week is not a last-chance moment for the company's hardware dreams, analysts said, countering a theme popular on the Web. Read More End of Support for Windows XP a Danger to Tech Freedom What could be less news than the end of Windows XP support? Everybody on the planet has been told about it a hundred times. This article concerns the real danger you haven't been reading about. Read More
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