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IBM Misses Sales Forecasts by $1 Billion

That’s a Lot of Cabbage by Anyone’s Standards.   This is quite enlightening… Click the chart for more information. IBM released third-quarter results Wednesday that missed sales forecasts by over $1 billion, as the company’s hardware business took a hit from the transition to the cloud. The hardware division, which produces servers and mainframes, lost …

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Microsoft To Rename Skydrive After Losing Trademark Suit

This is a Real Blow to Microsoft. It’s Going to be Very Costly… Microsoft will be forced to rename its SkyDrive cloud storage service after failing to defend its trademark against U.K. broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting. BSkyB, as the service is more commonly called, filed suit against Microsoft in 2011 in the English High Court, …

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‘Start’ Button Developers Say Windows 8.1 Doesn’t Put Them Out Of Business

I Guess Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 Isn’t The total ‘Cat’s Meow’ Check out this article on Windows developers…   When Microsoft added support for the revamped Start page into Windows 8.1, that eliminated the need for dedicated third-party Start menus, right? Wrong, say developers like Stardock, Classic Shell, and others. Perhaps not surprisingly, the third-party devs …

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Microsoft aims to simplify with Windows 8.1

Maybe Microsoft Will Get Windows 8 Right the Second time. Check out this article on Windows 8.1… Microsoft is trying to fix what it got wrong with its radical makeover of Windows. It’s making the operating system easier to navigate and enabling users to set up the software so it starts in a more familiar …

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Hotmail Is Dead As Outlook.Com Takes Over

Microsoft Changes the Name and Interface of Hotmail. Microsft Has Done What it Set Out to Do. Check Out This Informative Article…  Microsoft’s Hotmail, the free webmail service used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, was phased out Friday, as the US tech giant completed a rebranding to Outlook.com. “We’re excited to …

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Office 2013 and 365: Can Microsoft Slow the Google Invasion?

With Office 2013 and 365, Microsoft is Getting Serious In”The Cloud”. Check out this article… With Office 365, you’re signed into your Microsoft account, visible at the top right corner of applications. You can see recent documents from your SkyDrive, as seen above in the left column. Wired’s Gadget Lab has gone hands on with …

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Microsoft Puts Office in the Internet Cloud

We Knew This Was Coming! Well, here it is – Read all about it… Microsoft on January 29 began letting people subscribe to Office as a service in the Internet cloud, shedding the need to buy the popular productivity software on a disk. “It’s kind of a reflection of how most of us live nowadays,” …

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