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<item><title>Why Windows 8 Will Be a Hit for Microsoft</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is scheduled to launch later this year. And when it does, consumers and even enterprise users can expect to adopt it fairly quickly, without the significant holdouts such as Microsoft faced with Vista.   -  The  anticipation surrounding Microsoft's upcoming launch of Windows 8 is running  high. The company's operating system is easily the biggest departure from  earlier versions Microsoft has ever launched, and it could very well be the  answer to Apple's iPad and Android-based tablets in the mobile ma...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft's Office 15 Now in Technical Preview</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's Office 15, the next version of its popular Office software, has entered the technical preview stage.   -  Microsoft  s next version of Office has reached its technical preview stage. Codenamed Office 15, the platform is being distributed to a select group of testers; a public beta will reportedly arrive this summer.  Office 15 is apparently an ambitious project. &quot;For the first time ever, we will simulta...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft Offers $60K in Azure Cloud Services to Startups, Launches BizSpark Plus</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-Offers-60K-in-Azure-Cloud-Services-to-Startups-Launches-BizSpark-Plus-526498/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft announces BizSpark Plus, an extension of its BizSpark program, and teams with startup accelerator TechStars to offer $60,000 in cloud computing services to startups.   -  Microsoft  announced its new BizSpark Plus, an extension to its BizSpark program to help  startups get off the ground faster, as well as a new partnership with startup  accelerator TechStars  to make free cloud computing services available to select, high potential  startups.  Microsoft and  TechSta...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft Business Software Sales Up, Windows Weak</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's quarter saw robust business software and entertainment-product sales, although Windows sales remain soft.   -  Microsoft's  results for its second quarter 2012 offered little in the realm of the  unexpected: Xbox 360 and Kinect hands-free controllers continued to sell at a  steady clip, as did business software, while Windows revenue dipped on  softening PC sales. All told, quarterly revenue topped $20.89 bi...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft System Center 2012 Bridges Hybrid Cloud</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:40:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft rolled out the release candidate for System Center 2012, the company announced, enabling customers and partners to build out private cloud infrastructure and benefit from a single pane of glass management for hybrid clouds.   -   
This week Microsoft announced that it made its System Center
2012 Release Candidate available to better help its customers and partners
build out private cloud infrastructure and provide a single pane of glass
management for hybrid clouds.
According to Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's ...]]></description>
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<item><title>What Steve Ballmer Must Prove This Year to Save His Job</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has the next 12 months to prove himself. Or maybe less. Among investors, confidence in Ballmer is slipping. He may not believe that matters much. After all, theyve been complaining about him for years. But a difficult 2012 for Microsoft could be the final straw that makes for the board replace him with someone new. Ballmer has a little time to make things right and. a host of products are coming this year to help him achieve his goal of turning Microsoft around and cementing its position as the dominant company in the industry again. On his to-do list, Ballmer must get Windows 8-based tablets on store shelves, prove his Nokia deal makes sense, and deliver improvements to his companys cloud solutions to take on Google. Its do or die time. Heres what Ballmer must prove if he wants to save his job.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft CEO Talks Windows in CES Keynote</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spent his possibly last Consumer Electronics Show keynote playing up Windows Phone and the upcoming Windows 8.   -  LAS VEGAS--Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer  took the stage here Jan. 9 for what could very well be his last keynote address  at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). As predicted by many in the tech media,  his talk focused primarily on Windows Phone, Microsoft's designs on living-room  entertainment and...]]></description>
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<item><title>CES: Windows Phone, Windows 8 Likely Focus of Ballmer Keynote</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Jan. 9 keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show will almost certainly focus on Windows 8, Xbox and Windows Phone.   -  When  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer takes the stage for his Jan. 9 keynote address at  the Consumer Electronics Show, he  ll almost certainly whip the curtain back  from a few company projects in development.  Chief  among those will be Windows 8, the long-gestating operating system due to  arrive som...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft to Allow Linux on Windows Azure: Report</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-Prepping-for-Linux-on-Windows-Azure-Report-466403/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to published reports, Microsoft is working on delivering a capability to run Linux on its Windows Azure cloud platform.   -  Microsoft is preparing to give its cloud platform users the capability to  run Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012, according to a report.  The All  About Microsoft blog reports that Microsoft is poised to enable customers  to make virtual machines (VMs) persistent on Windows Azure and is slate...]]></description>
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<item><title>Windows Phone Road Map Details 'Tango,' 'Apollo'</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's Windows Phone will undergo two significant updates in 2012, according to a purportedly leaked road map for the smartphone platform.   -  A leaked Windows Phone road map purports to trace the smartphone platform's evolution over the next year.  The road map was first posted Dec. 27 by the blog WMPoweruser, which declined to mention the source. Nonetheless, if taken at face value, the document suggests that Microsoft will follow up its...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft Releases Workarounds for DoS Zero-Day Bug in ASP.NET</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The newly disclosed vulnerability in Web application frameworks such as Microsoft's ASP.NET can be exploited to trigger a denial of service on vulnerable Web servers.   -  Microsoft  has released a workaround for an ASP.NET vulnerability to help protect Websites  against potential denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, according to a security  advisory.  The  publicly disclosed vulnerability affects all supported versions of the .NET  framework, but Microsoft is  quot;not a...]]></description>
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<item><title>The State of Windows 7 Deployments: 2011 </title>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:56:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Still working on a Windows XP machine?  Youre not alone. Even though Windows 7 was released more than two years ago, plenty of users are still stuck on older operating systems. And thats in spite of the fact that Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 8 in 2012.  But thats beginning to change, finally. Microsoft partner Softchoice recently released 'in the wild' data from over 1.6 million PC systems it managed over the past year to provide some perspective on what the real Windows 7 adoption rate is like in corporate North America. While Windows XP has been &quot;an operating system that has been the 'comfortable pair of jeans' for corporate North American desktops for the better part of a decade,&quot; says Dean Williams, manager of services development. Heres a look at the state of Windows.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Windows Phone Marketplace Reaches 50,000 Apps</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Windows-Phone-Marketplace-Reaches-50000-Apps-771901/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has passed the 50,000 apps mark, according to a report.   -  According  to All  About Windows Phone (AAWP), the Windows Phone Marketplace now has more than  50,000 apps.  Although  50,000 is less than one-tenth of what Apple  s iOS App Store has and also a  fraction of the more than 400,000 apps in Android Market, Microsoft  s ascent to  50,000 apps is a soli...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft, MasterCard Partner on Office 365 Program</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:15:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[MasterCard will provide a 10 percent savings to small business cardholders when they purchase Office 365.   -  Payments
and technology company MasterCard Worldwide and technology giant Microsoft
extended their pledge to increase technology and payment services to small
businesses through a new strategic initiative that sees MasterCard become a
member of the partner program for Office 365, a cloud product...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft Giving Final CES Keynote in 2012</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsofts-CES-2012-Keynote-Booth-Will-Be-Its-Last-893767/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[After 2012, Microsoft apparently will no longer be the commanding presence that it has been at the Consumer Electronics Show.   -  A keynote by Microsoft's CEO has long anchored the beginning of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and the company usually accompanies that speech with a huge booth on the convention floor.   Starting in 2013, however, Microsoft will decline to provide a keynote speech or booth at CE...]]></description>
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