Windows 10 deep-dive review: Finally, a unified operating system

	Update: Microsoft results lifted by cloud products, but profit drops | Microsoft's Surface line-up posts 2nd straight profitable quarter
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	Windows 10 deep-dive review: Finally, a unified operating system The January 2015 technical preview of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 10 OS offers a more natural interface, a cool digital assistant and lots of potential. Read More   WEBCAST: HGST A Flash Crash Course on Flash-Based Architectures In this webcast, subject matter expert Bert Scalzo, chief architect at HGST, will shed light on the numerous flash-based architecture alternatives currently available to data center managers and Oracle DBAs – from the most basic non-RAC flash alternatives to truly disruptive technologies. Learn more >> In this Issue Update: Microsoft results lifted by cloud products, but profit drops Microsoft's Surface line-up posts 2nd straight profitable quarter Microsoft continues cross-platform tear, releases Outlook for iOS, Android HoloLens: Abracadabra! Microsoft unveils a great distraction HoloLens: Look who's innovating Microsoft previews free, updated Power BI business intelligence tool Windows 10's Spartan browser will get extensions Microsoft previews OneDrive for Business for the Mac Enterprises: Get ready to pay to go slow on Windows 10 : IBM eGuide: Enterprise Mobile App Development In this eGuide, CIO, Computerworld and InfoWorld examine trends and advice about enterprise mobile application development. Read on to learn how best to approach mobile apps in your organization. Learn More Update: Microsoft results lifted by cloud products, but profit drops Microsoft's overall revenue for the last three months of 2014, totaled $26.5 billion, up 8 percent from the year before. Read More   Microsoft's Surface line-up posts 2nd straight profitable quarter Microsoft yesterday reported a second consecutive quarter of gross profit for its Surface tablet line, and said that revenue broke the $1 billion mark for the first time. Read More   Microsoft continues cross-platform tear, releases Outlook for iOS, Android Microsoft today launched Outlook for iOS and Android, a rebranded version of startup Acompli's app, to replace the oft-derided Outlook Web App (OWA) as the go-to mobile email client for Office 365 users.Microsoft acquired Acompli late last year for a reported $200 million, then immediately folded its developers into the Outlook team and made its former CEO and co-founder Javier Soltero a general manager in the group. At the time, Microsoft said that Acompli Email would be blended "with work currently in progress by the Outlook team."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   HoloLens: Abracadabra! Microsoft unveils a great distraction Microsoft invited all of us to ooh and ahh at the introduction of HoloLens. But pay no attention to what the company's other hand is doing with Windows as a Service. Read More   HoloLens: Look who's innovating It's Microsoft, and its latest moves suggest a real shift in the corporate culture. Read More   Microsoft previews free, updated Power BI business intelligence tool Aiming at a mass business-user audience, Microsoft has released a preview of the next version of its cloud-based data visualization software, Power BI, with a promise to maintain a free option even after its general release. Starting Tuesday, businesses can sign up at PowerBI.com to test it (the first version premiered last February). A free version of the software is available immediately from the Apple App Store for the iPad. Power BI will also be available for free later this year for the iPhone, Android, and Windows 10. Through a free, downloadable component of the software called Power BI Designer, users can produce dynamically updated dashboards, with interactive, animated charts of corporate data. The software is designed so that elements of those dashboards can be easily shared with other Power BI users, with or without Excel. A variety of connectors allow Power BI users to set up live links to a wide range of data sources.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Windows 10's Spartan browser will get extensions Microsoft's Internet Explorer development team has confirmed there will be a browser extension system for Project Spartan, allowing developers to to extend functionality with software built directly into the browser. Read More   Microsoft previews OneDrive for Business for the Mac   Microsoft on Wednesday released the promised preview of OneDrive for Business for OS X, the first way to sidestep the browser to access company documents and the only way to sync files for offline use on a Mac. Read More   Enterprises: Get ready to pay to go slow on Windows 10   Microsoft's faster-paced release cadence for Windows 10 will require enterprises to either adapt or pay for the privilege of going slow, analysts said. Read More
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