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Thursday, February 26, 2015

What's a consumer Office 365 subscription worth to Microsoft?

20 epic Microsoft Windows Automatic Update meltdowns | Microsoft says use Skype as it kills support for Facebook, Google chat in Outlook

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What's a consumer Office 365 subscription worth to Microsoft?
As Microsoft has added more consumer subscribers to the rolls of Office 365, the amount of revenue per subscriber has fallen. The downward trend in revenue-per-subscriber hints at a significant shift to the less expensive rent-not-own plans available to consumers, such as Office 365 Personal, a $69.99 annual deal that provides one Office license for a personal computer and one license for a tablet. Read More


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Hadoop for Dummies
Today, organizations in every industry are being showered with imposing quantities of new information. Along with traditional sources, many more data channels and categories now exist. Collectively, these vastly larger information volumes and new assets are known as Big Data. Read Now

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Building a Complete View of Your Account Information
Answer a few simple questions about your business and your environment and download a paper that's personalized to help your business leverage all of its customer information for deep customer insight. Learn More

20 epic Microsoft Windows Automatic Update meltdowns
Fifteen years ago, Microsoft introduced automatic updating to the unwashed Windows masses. Fifteen years later, it's hard to find a Windows user who hasn't bumped into at least one problem with a Windows update or knows someone who has. That's a billion and a half people. Read More

Microsoft says use Skype as it kills support for Facebook, Google chat in Outlook
Microsoft started sending out emails to announce that in the 'next couple of weeks' it will discontinue support for Facebook and Google chat in Outlook.com. Read More

Microsoft brings machine learning to Azure
At the Strata + Hadoop World conference in San Jose last week, Microsoft announced new and enhanced Microsoft data services for Azure. This includes a preview of Azure HDInsight running on Linux, the general availability of Storm on HDInsight, the general availability of Azure Machine Learning, and the availability of Informatica technology on Azure. Read More


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Master Data Management: The Key to Leveraging Big Data
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management software helps support large transaction loads and high-availability operational environments. Learn More

INSIDER
How enterprises can use artificial intelligence
Enterprise IT shops are finding that artificial intelligence isn't just for robotics anymore. Science fiction may portray A.I. technologies as the brains running robots trying to take over the human race, but the technology today is being used for far more benign purposes. Read More

'Everyone's going container crazy'
It's a busy time for container technology in the cloud computing market. Read More

Apple, Linux, not Windows, most vulnerable operating systems in 2014; IE wins worst app
A whopping average of 19 security vulnerabilities were reported every day in 2014. Read More


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Enhanced 360-degree View of the Customer
A true 360-degree view of the customer enables businesses to turn a swell of data into precise insights to drive engagement, revenue and loyalty. Learn More

Interns loving life at Facebook, Google & Apple
For the second year in a row, Facebook is the highest rated company by interns based on the feedback they share on jobs and career online marketplace Glassdoor.Other tech companies also rated well, with Google (#3), Yahoo! (#6), Apple (#11), Microsoft (#13), Intel (#14) and Qualcomm (#16) among those in the top 25. Read More

5 Chromebook tips and tricks to fine-tune your productivity
While Chrome OS started life as a simple, stripped-down browser and little else, Google's operating system now has tons of tools, tweaks, and customizations that let you tailor your Chromebook to your specific workflow needs. Read More

Critical remote code execution flaw patched in Samba
Security researchers are urging users to install new Samba security updates in order to address a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Read More

Startup Flex Logix aims to score big in a niche chip market
In Silicon Valley, where software startups are the rage, it's unusual to see a new hardware company set up shop. But venture capital-backed chip design company Flex Logix has some big ideas about how to speed up a whole range of software applications and hardware. Read More


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