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	11 Things Microsoft is Actually Doing Right From Office to Hyper-V to Azure, the much-maligned 'dying dinosaur' has a lot going for it as the Ballmer era winds down. Read More WEBCAST: HP HP Mobile App Development Survey Join John Jeremiah, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, HP and John Jackson, Research Vice President, Mobile & Connected Platforms, IDC for an interactive discussion on the results of the HP Mobile Application Development Maturity Peer Assessment Tool. Date: September 18 @ 1:00pm EDT Register Now In this Issue Only an Outsider CEO Can Help Microsoft 10 Scenes From Ballmer's Microsoft Will Microsoft Office Finally Play Nice on the iPad? Ballmer Forced Out After $900M Surface RT Debacle 7 Classic Steve Ballmer Videos With Ballmer Retiring, Tech World Awaits White Smoke From Redmond Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Retirement Announcement Letter Next Microsoft CEO Faces Rocky Road in Easing NSA-Fueled Privacy Worries Steve Ballmer's Replacement Must Be a 'Product Person' if Microsoft is to Thrive Windows 8 Stains Ballmer's Legacy Microsoft Windows 8 is Not Ballmer's Biggest Regret Microsoft Will Craft XP Patches After April 8, 2014, But Not for You Hackers May Cash in When XP is Retired The Cloud Just Keeps Growing--Microsoft Bumps SkyDrive Pro to 25GB Microsoft Declares Windows 8.1 Ready for OEMs Even Though Work's Not Finished WEBCAST: BMC Software Be Ready for Big Data Big Data Analytics has become synonymous with Hadoop. As with any new technology, there is many times a lack of expertise – and at a minimum a learning curve. Learn about the choices you have for implementing a Big Data environment. Metascale, a Big Data service provider, manages all of Sears Big Data processing along with other companies. View Now Only an Outsider CEO Can Help Microsoft Unless Microsoft finds its next CEO outside its current and former ranks, it won't change, say analysts. Read More 10 Scenes From Ballmer's Microsoft As word spread of Steve Ballmer's impending retirement, Microsoft shares soared 8% higher. Read More Will Microsoft Office Finally Play Nice on the iPad? For all the success the iPad has enjoyed, it's only big drawback has been that Microsoft Windows software - and Microsoft Office, in particular - doesn't perform well. However, now Parallels has unveiled an app that brings full versions of Windows desktop software to the touch-based iPad. Read More Ballmer Forced Out After $900M Surface RT Debacle Steve Ballmer was forced out of as CEO by Microsoft's board of directors because of a $900 million write-off the company took to account for an oversupply of Surface RT tablets. Read More 7 Classic Steve Ballmer Videos Retiring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is one heck of a character . Read More With Ballmer Retiring, Tech World Awaits White Smoke From Redmond Speculation is sizzling over who will take over as Microsoft CEO Read More Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Retirement Announcement Letter This is the text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding his plan to retire. Read More WEBCAST: Microsoft Corporation Faster Business Insights for Big Data, Small Data, All Data In this webcast, we'll explore the data science process that underlies today's quest for insight from data, and learn the keys to using big data for better business outcomes. View Now >> Next Microsoft CEO Faces Rocky Road in Easing NSA-Fueled Privacy Worries Ballmer's replacement will have to build trust overseas, especially after report Germany advised to not use Windows 8 because of backdoor. Read More Steve Ballmer's Replacement Must Be a 'Product Person' if Microsoft is to Thrive The hunt for Microsoft's next CEO is already underway, and as pundits bandy about the names of possible replacements, I'm struck with an overwhelming sense of dread. Read More Windows 8 Stains Ballmer's Legacy Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer survived the flop that was Windows Vista, but he wasn't able to do the same after the disappointment of Windows 8. Read More Microsoft Windows 8 is Not Ballmer's Biggest Regret Even though Windows 8 incited hordes to call for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's ouster, the operating system is not what he regrets most about his 33-year tenure at the company. Read More Microsoft Will Craft XP Patches After April 8, 2014, But Not for You Just because Microsoft doesn't plan on giving Windows XP patches to the public after April 8, 2014, doesn't mean it's going to stop making those patches. Read More Hackers May Cash in When XP is Retired Hackers may bank their Windows XP zero-day exploits and cash them in after Microsoft stops patching the aged operating system next April. Read More The Cloud Just Keeps Growing--Microsoft Bumps SkyDrive Pro to 25GB Microsoft announced an increase in available storage for users of its Office 365 cloud-storage service SkyDrive Pro, from 7GB to 25GB. Read More Microsoft Declares Windows 8.1 Ready for OEMs Even Though Work's Not Finished Microsoft today declared Windows 8.1 ready for computer and tablet makers, saying the update had reached its RTM, or "release to manufacturing" milestone. Read More
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