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Microsoft bulks up Azure to make it easier to build, expand cloud services
Microsoft is making it simpler for business applications in its Azure cloud to automatically turn services up and down as demand requires and for apps to incorporate features of Office 365, company executives told the Build 2013 developer conference. Read More

WHITE PAPER: AccelOps

Enabling Efficient Data Center Monitoring
Enabling Efficient Data Center Monitoring -- How IT Organizations See the Big Picture of Their Infrastructure Using AccelOps' Unified SIEM, Performance and Availability Monitoring Software. Read Now

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WHITE PAPER: IBM

A Guide for a Successful ERP Strategy in the Midmarket
Combining an experienced service partner with an informed ERP strategy helps to maximize ROI. This helps midmarket organizations to contain costs, communicate effectively, and improve to grow into more successful organizations. Learn More.

10 factors that hobbled Windows 8 and what Windows 8.1 might do to fix them
Microsoft is making a big effort to resuscitate Windows 8 with a preview of the first major upgrade to the operating system since it launched last October, but it has a lot to overcome. Read More

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How to use Azure's new connectivity features
Here's what you need to know about the recent point-to-site and site-to-site VPN upgrades to Windows Azure. Read More

Microsoft shutters TechNet subscriptions
Citing a change in the way IT professionals consume information, Microsoft has closed down its long-running TechNet subscription service. Read More

WHITE PAPER: IBM

A Smarter Approach to CRM: An IBM Perspective
Read this white paper, created in collaboration with Frost & Sullivan, to see how a customer relationship management (CRM) solution can help you respond on the customers' terms. Learn More.

11 highlights from Microsoft's BUILD conference
Microsoft kicked off it's BUILD developers conference Wednesday with a two hour keynote. Here are some of the takeaways. Read More

Windows 8.1 deep-dive review: Well, it's a start
Although the preview of Windows 8.1 fixes some of the problems users complained about in the previous version of the OS, is it enough? We take a close look at Microsoft's update. Read More

Microsoft: Desperately wooing developers with new app features, gifts
Microsoft is desperately courting developers, holding its second Build developer's conference in less than a year and this time giving attendees not one but two free Windows 8 devices to take home to develop apps for. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

Big Data Requires a Remodeling of the Data Warehouse
Take a few moments to learn about a data warehouse appliance that is a massively parallel server optimized to run Microsoft's SQL Server that delivers enterprise scalability, ease of maintenance, and a single version of the truth, all for a low cost. Read Now!

Game over for Mark Pincus as Zynga CEO; Xbox chief to take over
Mark Pincus is stepping down as CEO of Zynga and will be replaced by the head of Microsoft's Xbox business, Don Mattrick, Zynga announced on Monday. Read More

Ballmer: Happiness is a Windows 8 device with a touchscreen
Windows 8 on a touchscreen device makes users happier than Microsoft's currently most popular operating system, Windows 7, CEO Steve Ballmer says. Read More

One year in, Yammer grows in importance to Microsoft
For a product once described as Twitter with a business model, Yammer is becoming more nuanced, morphing into an important feature set that will cross over among Microsoft applications. Just as important, it continues seeing growth and popularity among businesses, where it can act as a hook that can encourage current Microsoft customers to upgrade and adopt Microsoft cloud services. Read More

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Ultimate ultrabook shootout

Testing of eight Windows 8 ultrabooks reveals that users looking for a sleek form factor will have to accept tradeoffs.

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