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Cloud: Apprenda Joins Army of Microsoft Clouds (Sorta)
When Apprenda launched its "platform-as-a-service" for the Microsoft .NET framework in 2007, customers liked the platform, but they didn't like the service bit. So, in 2008, says CEO Sinclair Schuller,...
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Mobile: Microsoft Celebrates Surface Launch With ’2 Bitches’ Video (NSFW)
Mike Angiulo is not only the Microsoft executive in charge of planning and working with partners for the Windows operating system. He's also a pretty bad-ass rapper.
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Cloud: Apple and VMware Team Up to Kill Microsoft Office?
Does Apple see the iPad as a business device? Of course it does. It just doesn't like to say so in public.
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Cloud: Greenpeace Drops Clippy Bomb on Microsoft
Microsoft may have retired Clippy five years ago, but yesterday, the annoying Office icon popped up -- unwanted of course -- at the company's Palo Alto, California retail store.
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Cloud: Microsoft Cloud Floats to China (Without Microsoft)
Microsoft's cloud is coming to China. But Microsoft isn't coming with it. On Thursday, the software giant said that its cloud services Windows Azure and Office 365 will be served up from China to...
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Networks: Google Foretells Big Switch to Networks of the Future
Big Switch Networks is leading others towards a new world of programmable networks. On Tuesday, the startup officially unveiled a broad collection of OpenFlow software tools, and it would appear these...
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Tech Law: Why Microsoft Says the Patent System Is Peachy Keen
As companies such as Google and Twitter complain that the patent system is horribly broken -- bemoaning the quality of patents being issued, the "trolls" that do nothing but try and squeeze money from...
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Data Centers: Microsoft Uncovers Special Bond Between Computers and Toilets
After years of careful research, Microsoft has uncovered the data center's long-lost cousin: the sewage treatment plant.
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Data Centers: How Amazon Followed Google Into the World of Secret Servers
Chris Pinkham was walking through a data center that would one day house Amazon's seminal cloud computing service -- the Elastic Compute Cloud -- when he came face-to-face with a cage of Google machines.
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History: 12 Tech Moments of 2012 That Made You Say ‘WTF?’
The tech world never ceases to amaze. Sometimes, people build amazing things. And sometimes, the people who build amazing things do other stuff that leaves your jaw on the floor. Some of it's good....
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Software | Microsoft Cradles Linus Torvalds’ (Other) Baby
Microsoft is still playing catchup in the world of open source software, but it turned a corner on Wednesday, announcing that its Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 developer...
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History | The Greatest Hacker T-Shirts This Planet Has Ever Seen
It was a hacker conference, so just about everyone was wearing a T-shirt. And most of the T-shirts had something to say.
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Software | Microsoft, Yahoo Among Open Source ‘Rookies of the Year’
Each year, Black Duck unveils what it calls the Rookie Open Source Projects of the Year. The California company sells software for managing open source projects, and its annual list is a way of...
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Data Centers | Microsoft Jams Thousands of Servers Into Boxes, Building Out...
When Microsoft wants to quickly ramp up a new data center, it can move dirt, pour a foundation, and build one of the most boring buildings you’ve ever seen. Or it can load up a few of its...
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Cloud | Microsoft’s Data-Center Tab Tops $15 Billion
In 1989 Microsoft shipped its first version of its SQL Server database, bootstrapped a multimedia division and promoted a guy named Steve Ballmer to the role of senior vice president. It also built its...
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Software | Microsoft Backs Oracle’s Crusade Against Google Android
Yes, Microsoft is backing Larry Ellison and Oracle in their ongoing crusade to prove that Google infringed on Oracle's copyrights in building the Android mobile operating system.
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Cloud | Microsoft’s Cloud Goes Dark Across the Globe
Microsoft's cloud crashed on Friday. Big time.
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Cloud | Microsoft Munches Own Open Source Dog Food
In recent months, Microsoft has made some enormous strides in this area, letting developers run the open-source Linux operating system atop its Azure cloud service and working to build a new version of...
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Cloud | Did Microsoft Fry Its Cloud With an Air-Conditioner Update?
One of the great things about cloud computing is that you don’t have to worry about bumpy old software updates, except when they take down the entire cloud. That’s what happened on Tuesday when...
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Networks | You Can’t Have Google’s Pluto Switch, But You Can Have This
When photos of Google's mystery "Pluto Switch" appeared on the web early last year, it seemed like something from another world -- and not just because Google called it the Pluto Switch. But as alien...
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