Microsoft's quandary: Big profits from software or shrinking margins with devices

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	Microsoft's quandary: Big profits from software or shrinking margins with devices For all his talk of "devices and services," when Steve Ballmer hands over the reins to a new CEO, he will leave an economic powerhouse that prints money by making software, but makes little on anything else. Read More   WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc Gartner's Unified Communications as a Service Report See what Gartner Inc., the world's leading information technology research and advisory firm, has to say about choosing the right Unified Communications solution for your business. Gartner's Magic Quadrant compares 16 of the leading UCaaS providers and names 8x8 a leader based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Learn more >> In this Issue Power to the portable: 3 high-performance mobile workstations Amazon and Microsoft drop cloud storage prices by up to 50% Microsoft says law enforcement documents likely stolen by hackers An open letter to Microsoft's next CEO: 12 wishes from the Windows faithful Microsoft retains weapon to silently scrub XP Microsoft grows revenue, improves profits in Q2, helped by Xbox, enterprise products How Microsoft can save itself in the mobile world Microsoft cloud server designs for Facebook's Open Compute Project Microsoft loses money on each Surface sold With BYOD smartphones on the rise, IT headaches will become migraines Microsoft's SkyDrive becomes OneDrive after trademark dispute WHITE PAPER: IBM The Top 10 Secrets to Using Data Mining to Succeed at CRM This white paper address how data mining is used to get more value from CRM systems -- particularly focused on application of predictive analytics to the customer lifecycle (acquire, grow, retain). Read Now Power to the portable: 3 high-performance mobile workstations When you're running a large-scale simulation or editing a professional video, you need more computing power than most laptops can give. In this roundup, we review three high-powered Windows mobile workstations. Read More   Amazon and Microsoft drop cloud storage prices by up to 50%   First, Amazon dropped the price of its S3 cloud storage service by 22%. Now, Microsoft has followed suit by cutting the price for Azure by up to 50% to keep up. Read More   Microsoft says law enforcement documents likely stolen by hackers Documents linked with law enforcement inquiries appear to have been stolen in recent phishing attacks on certain employee email accounts, Microsoft said. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Optimizing Mobile Client Performance As mobile devices continue to expand in business use, ensuring these devices have optimal performance is becoming an IT imperative. This EMA paper examines mobile client accelerators. It provides an overview of how the technology works, its business benefits and cites three examples of real-world use cases and their individual costs and ROI. Read More An open letter to Microsoft's next CEO: 12 wishes from the Windows faithful We billion-plus customers would like the next head honcho in Redmond to address these dozen action items. Read More   Microsoft retains weapon to silently scrub XP Microsoft will be able to silently reach into Windows XP PCs for more than a year after it stops patching the aged OS to clean malware-infected machines, sources close to the company confirmed. Read More   Microsoft grows revenue, improves profits in Q2, helped by Xbox, enterprise products A big jump in sales in Microsoft's consumer hardware devices unit, which includes its Xbox gaming console and Surface tablets, helped the company grow its revenue 14 percent and slightly improve profits year-on-year in its second fiscal quarter. Read More   WEBCAST: Code42 Differences between Consumer and Enterprise File Sync/Share The consumerization of IT combined with the rapid pace of the modern mobile workplace is forcing enterprise IT teams to evaluate file sync and share solutions. But many of today's sync/share technologies are consumer-grade at best, making enterprise adoption a scary proposition. View Now How Microsoft can save itself in the mobile world Microsoft continues to pursue its fatal attraction to proprietary mobile devices, much like Michael Douglas pursued Glen Close in the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction. Read More   Microsoft cloud server designs for Facebook's Open Compute Project Microsoft is contributing the designs of the cloud servers that run some of its services like Bing and Windows Azure to the Open Compute Project, in a bid to help standardize and reduce hardware costs. Read More   Microsoft loses money on each Surface sold Microsoft lost $39 million last quarter selling its Surface tablets, the company acknowledged in filings today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read More   With BYOD smartphones on the rise, IT headaches will become migraines The bring-your-own-device trend will only get more nerve-wracking for IT managers in 2014 because of the 30% annual growth expected for smartphones purchased under a BYOD approach, and the further emergence of Windows Phone as a third platform behind Android and iOS. Read More   Microsoft's SkyDrive becomes OneDrive after trademark dispute Microsoft has chosen OneDrive as the new name for its SkyDrive cloud storage service, which it had agreed to rebaptize after losing a trademark dispute last year with British broadcast TV and broadband provider BSkyB. Read More
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