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	Microsoft again writes off Surface inventory, renews profitability doubts Microsoft again took a hit on its Surface business, the company acknowledged Tuesday. Read More WEBCAST: EMC Corporation VIDEO: BACKUP FOR VSPEX Learn about the strength of backup with EMC VSPEX and lead your IT transformation. By choosing EMC VSPEX with integrated EMC backup, you'll be able to accelerate your virtualization deployment. Learn More>> In this Issue Preston Gralla: Earnings reports show Apple matters to the world, Microsoft doesn't Microsoft revenue lifted by cloud sales to businesses Preston Gralla: New leaked Windows 9 screenshots show an operating system PC users can love Deep-dive review: The Lumia 635 smartphone -- a study in contrasts How Nokia both helped and hindered Microsoft's earnings Microsoft brings two open source tools to Azure 'Nadella Effect' makes Ballmer $2.8B richer Microsoft reveals bankruptcy of devices strategy by dumping Nokia feature phones Microsoft combines several enterprise IT conferences into one for '15 WHITE PAPER: SAS A Non-Geek's Big Data Playbook This white paper is designed to be a visual playbook for the non-geek yet technically savvy business professional who is still trying to understand how big data, specifically Hadoop, impacts the enterprise data game we've all been playing for years. Learn more Preston Gralla: Earnings reports show Apple matters to the world, Microsoft doesn't Yesterday's earnings reports from Microsoft and Apple showed a contrast in corporate strategies: Apple's aimed at consumers, Microsoft's targeted at businesses. Those reports and the press's reaction to them shows why right now Apple matters to the world, and Microsoft doesn't. Read More Microsoft revenue lifted by cloud sales to businesses Strong sales of cloud products to businesses helped lift Microsoft's revenue by 18 percent last quarter, though its profits declined. Read More Preston Gralla: New leaked Windows 9 screenshots show an operating system PC users can love Two new leaked Windows 9 screenshots show good news for users of traditional PCs -- it looks as if the operating system will be actually useful for them, and not just for those with touch-based devices. I've got screenshots and details. Read More Deep-dive review: The Lumia 635 smartphone -- a study in contrasts Nokia's new low-cost Lumia 635 smartphone makes some unfortunate hardware compromises, but on the plus side it comes with the excellent Windows Phone 8.1. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS See the Possibilities Utilizing Data Visualization Regardless of size, today's businesses are bombarded with structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources. Take advantage of all this data with in-memory analytics and data visualization techniques, to get day-to-day insights for making better decisions. Learn more How Nokia both helped and hindered Microsoft's earnings Microsoft paid more than $7 billion for Nokia's handset and services business, and the jury is still out as to what it means for its future. In the past quarter it boosted Microsoft's revenue but also ate into its profit. Read More Microsoft brings two open source tools to Azure Following through on promises from new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft continues to add support for non-Microsoft technologies, allowing them to run well on the company's Azure cloud hosting platform. Read More 'Nadella Effect' makes Ballmer $2.8B richer Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's 'devices and services' strategy may be in tatters, discarded by his successor, Satya Nadella, but Ballmer must be smiling all the way to the bank. Read More Microsoft reveals bankruptcy of devices strategy by dumping Nokia feature phones Microsoft decision to ax the feature phone business it got when it bought Nokia's handset business for $7.2 billion shows the investment 'went for naught.' Read More Microsoft combines several enterprise IT conferences into one for '15 Microsoft will hold next year a new conference that encompasses its enterprise IT products, including the productivity and server Office software, IT management wares and development tools, and replaces several shows that are narrower in scope. Read More
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