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	Ballmer's Chance of Changing Microsoft? Don't Bet on it Microsoft's attempt to transform its dog-eat-dog corporate culture into a kinder, gentler cooperative climate is likely doomed, an expert in failed business strategies said today. Read More WHITE PAPER: CommVault Game Changer: Unlocking Employee Access to Information Business is wholly driven by data today, with users demanding anytime, anywhere access. Still, a recent study by IDG Research Services concludes that data complexity severely impacts that access, while unduly burdening IT. Learn More In this Issue Should You Keep Using Windows XP? It's a New (Virtual) World with Windows Server 2012 R2 Surface RT Can Help Small Businesses Reduce IT Costs Microsoft Embraces Surface RT Price Cut -- and $900M Writedown -- by Poking Fun at Apple's iPad Microsoft Remains Shackled to Strategy After $900M 'Absolute Abomination' of a Blunder Office Revenue Smells Sweet Even as PC Sales Stink it Up Microsoft Should Yank Windows RT for Windows RT's Own Good WEBCAST: Dell Boomi Taking iPaaS Beyond Cloud Integration iPaaS is increasingly being deployed beyond cloud services integration, replacing on-premise middleware. In this session, John Zur of Brady Corporation and Rick Nucci of Dell Boomi discuss Brady's growing adoption of iPaaS. Learn More Should You Keep Using Windows XP? Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP on April 8, 2014. That's less than nine months away. Read More It's a New (Virtual) World with Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft included a number of features and improvements for managing virtual servers in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview. Read More Surface RT Can Help Small Businesses Reduce IT Costs It's not for everyone, but at $350 Microsoft's tablet could be used as a primary PC for many users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Panduit Corp. Big Data Requires an Optimized Physical Infrastructure This free white paper highlights a path for optimizing your current infrastructure, leveraging a major IDG study of some 400 global organizations to do so. Learn More. Microsoft Embraces Surface RT Price Cut -- and $900M Writedown -- by Poking Fun at Apple's iPad The day after Microsoft took a $900 million charge against its Surface RT tablet -- sparking rumors that it would dump the poor-selling device -- the company unveiled a new ad that again took on Apple's iPad, this time by touting the Surface RT's lower price of $349. Read More Microsoft Remains Shackled to Strategy After $900M 'Absolute Abomination' of a Blunder Microsoft's massive $900 million Surface RT gaffe may have been, as one analyst put it, "an absolute abomination" in operations, but the company will not -- cannot -- give up on the ARM-based platform, experts contended today. Read More Office Revenue Smells Sweet Even as PC Sales Stink it Up Microsoft's Business Division (MBD), the company's biggest money maker for 10 out of the last 11 quarters thanks to its Office cash cow, was not immune to the historic decline in PC sales, Microsoft acknowledged Thursday. Read More Microsoft Should Yank Windows RT for Windows RT's Own Good In the wake of horrific sales, the best thing for Windows RT's long-term viability would be to pull Windows RT hardware from shelves. Read More
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