Microsoft's reorg does one thing well: mask its failures

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	Microsoft's reorg does one thing well: mask its failures Microsoft's most recent reorganization does nothing to solve some of the functional problems Microsoft has, nor establish a successor for Steve Ballmer as CEO. The one thing it does seem to do is hide failure. Read More WEBCAST: IDG Mobile Device Performance in High-Density Environments Industry analyst Joanie Wexler explores this topic with Özer Dondurmacıoğlu from Aruba Networks and Bruce Miller from Xirrus, discussing how a high-density Wi-Fi design can handle the flood of traffic from smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. View now. In this Issue Microsoft, Google not doing enough on phone thefts, says San Francisco district attorney Windows To Go: the forgotten version of Windows 8 Office revenue smells sweet even as PC sales stink it up Microsoft embraces Surface RT price cut -- and $900M write-down -- by poking fun at Apple's iPad Windows RT not making it to BYOD party Microsoft remains shackled to strategy after $900M 'absolute abomination' of a blunder Chambers: Cisco will become the number 1 IT company Microsoft to feds: Let us explain our dealings with the NSA Open-Xchange to double development team, speed up feature rollout WHITE PAPER: F5 Drive Out Bottlenecks in the Application Delivery Chain Fueled by users who are hyper-sensitive to delays in application delivery, organizations are seeking solutions that can help them root out and eliminate delivery latency. This paper examines the role of Application Delivery Optimization to improve application performance in the data center and beyond. Learn More! Microsoft, Google not doing enough on phone thefts, says San Francisco district attorney San Francisco's district attorney says he's optimistic that Apple and Samsung are making progress on a system that would render stolen smartphones unusable, but the same isn't true of Microsoft and Google. Read More Windows To Go: the forgotten version of Windows 8 The ability to carry a Windows 8 image on a USB stick, plug it into any Windows 8 PC and separate corporate and personal data should appeal to anyone who frequently travels or simply hates lugging a laptop around. But Windows to Go isn't catching on. Will Windows 8.1 change that? Read More Office revenue smells sweet even as PC sales stink it up Microsoft's Business Division, 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. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE Vblock Solution for SAP Mobility Enterprises can utilize Vblock Infrastructure Platforms technologies to deploy application and workload mobility for large-scale SAP databases, with no impact on business continuity. Learn More. Microsoft embraces Surface RT price cut -- and $900M write-down -- by poking fun at Apple's iPad The day after Microsoft took a $900 million charge against its Surface RT tablet -- sparking rumors it would dump the poor-selling device -- the company unveiled a new ad that took on Apple's iPad by touting the Surface RT's lower price of $349. Read More Windows RT not making it to BYOD party IT pros can stop worrying about whether and how to support Windows RT tablets should any come through the door as part of BYOD programs; it's likely not to become an issue. 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 cannot give up on the ARM-based platform, experts said. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report Riverbed is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. In this report, Gartner evaluates vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. Read Report Now Chambers: Cisco will become the number 1 IT company Think software-defined networking will change the industry? You're thinking way too small, according to Cisco CEO John Chambers. In Cisco's strategy, SDN is just a single element in a holistic architecture that brings intelligence, programmability and application awareness to every facet of your infrastructure and spans the data center to the cloud. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Chambers spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the power of Cisco's Unified Framework and how delivering on that vision could make Cisco the number one IT company overall. No small ambition there. Read More Microsoft to feds: Let us explain our dealings with the NSA Frustrated by laws that prevent it from talking about how and when it turns over customer information to the federal government Microsoft is asking Attorney General Eric Holder to clear the way to publicly share more details about that process. Read More Open-Xchange to double development team, speed up feature rollout Collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange has received a $20 million investment that it will use to expand its development team to speed up feature rollouts for its Web-based office suite, the company announced. Read More
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