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Microsoft Shows Off Windows 8, Dev Strategy at BUILD
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Having promised to shed more light on its developer story for Windows 8 at its BUILD conference, Microsoft gave developers a peek at the direction it is going with the upcoming operating system along with more details about the OS itself. At an invitation-only pre-conference workshop here, Microsoft showed off a new…
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Software Companies Get $24 Million Investment from Intel
Intel is investing more than $24 million in software companies that touch on areas that the giant chip maker is particularly interested in, including cloud computing. In all, Intel Capital–the vendor’s investment arm–will spread the money among seven software makers. The investments, announced Sept. 8, highlights Intel’s ongoing interest in building out its software capabilities,…
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Microsoft, Google Both Suffer Cloud Computing Outages
It was not a banner week for cloud computing. Cloud computing rivals Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) suffered brief outages that knocked off some of their key messaging and collaboration products. Google Sept. 7 saw its Google Docs word collaboration application cramp up for one hour, shutting out millions of users from their document lists,…