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Microsoft: Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. (Source:wikipedia.org)
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There are lots of companies of all sizes still using Windows XP – and they seem relatively happy with it. According to W3Schools (an online education resource), over 38% of desktops are still running Windows XP - an impressive show of loyalty for Microsoft, but one that is causing problems in its drive to move people to a more modern platform.
Those still on Windows XP should have that decision under review.
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The news last week that more than half a million Apple Macs had been infected with a botnet-building trojan known as Flashback had many PC users secretly sniggering into their computer screens. For decades now, Mac users have managed to remain pretty smug about the misconception that Macs were incapable of becoming infected with malware, but now they have.
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Microsoft has announced its most significant update to search engine Bing since its launch in 2009, to include a social sidebar. The new-look search page will begin rolling out over the next couple of weeks and will be split into three sections.
This "focuses on bringing you information from the web to help you take action and interact with friends and experts without compromising the core search experience.” In the centre of the new page, is ‘Snapshot', with web results on the ... read more
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A study funded by Microsoft has found that cloud computing will create 9.62 million jobs in Asia Pacific alone by 2015.
The research also estimates that the technology will create 14 million new jobs internationally by the same year, which is good news for the global economy. The study was carried out by global analysts IDC, who say that revenues from cloud innovation could reach $1.1 trillion by 2015.
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German investment bank Deutsche Bank has completed the first phase of its migration to the cloud. The firm decided to adopt the new technology as a way of streamlining internal application development.It is hoped that the cloud computing infrastructure will help the bank's developers boost the turnaround of software creation. The cornerstone of the move is the ability for ... read more
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Facebook have teamed up with five leading anti-virus vendors to create Facebook Antivirus Marketplace in an attempt to slow the spread of malware around the site. Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec are the security firms involved and the new page offers cut price and free antivirus solutions to interested surfers.
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HP and Microsoft have joined forces in order to offer a private cloud solution suitable for even the largest enterprises. The news comes in the wake of Microsoft's recent announcement of their cloud strategy and the release of licensing for System Center 2012, which has now become generally available.
System Center 2012 has been updated in order to integrate core cloud capabilities and speed up deployment. read more
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) has continued to lose web browser market share as users adopt offerings from rivals - particularly Google's Chrome browser. Experts predict that IE's market share will slip below 50 per cent by March of this year.Use of IE has been declining relatively steadily for many months - albeit with a one-month pause in December of last year. It currently holds 51.9 per cent of the market share, according to Net Applications, a company based in Cal ... read more
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Microsoft believes that firms are not being flexible enough when it comes to the adoption of cloud computing solutions and thinks employers are missing an opportunity to boost mobile working as a result. Martin Cullen, sales director of Microsoft Ireland, claimed that read more
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Microsoft's $8.5 billion (£5.4 billion) takeover of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) specialist Skype has been approved by the European Commission (EC). The body has claimed that the acquisition would not restrict competition in the online communications technology marketplace because there is plenty of end user choice when it comes to VoIP solutions.
Placeholder0In a statement issued by the EC, the organisation said: "The deal would not impede effective compe ... read more
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Video conferencing specialist Polycom has extended its partnership with software giant Microsoft in a deal that will see the latter's Lync software integrated into Polycom VoIP phones. The move is part of the pair's desire to boost video conferencing outside the boardroom.The focus wi ... read more
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Video conferencing technology has reached a point where it is more effective than traditional conference call solutions - offering much better collaboration potential, according to IDC. The research organisation said the market for telepresence and video conferencing solutions ... read more
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