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Microsoft software still dominates the landscape and is important for many web workers. From Windows and Office to SharePoint and Project, we cover the tools that web workers use every day and how to get the most out of them.

Google algorithm guy, Microsoft DSP expert get NAE nod

By Feb. 10, 2012, 8:22am PT 4 Comments

Two industry luminaries — Google Fellow Amit Singhal and Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Henrique “Rico” Malvar — were elected to the The National Academy of Engineering this week. Singhal oversees Google’s search algorithms and Malvar specializes in signal processing and compression. Read More »

Report: Google gets Drive cloud storage ready to roll

By Feb. 8, 2012, 9:41pm PT 11 Comments

Google is close to announcing its own long-rumored cloud storage service for consumers, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The new Google Drive — which would offer some storage free — would compete head on with existing services like Dropbox. Read More »

While Amazon courts enterprises, Microsoft eyes startups

By Jan. 30, 2012, 12:00pm PT 3 Comments

Microsoft announced a partnership with TechStars today that will allow it access to more than 400 startups around the world so it can sell its Azure cloud platform. But as Microsoft tries to sell startups on its services, can it compete against Amazon? Read More »

Bill Gates: Open source champ?

By Jan. 30, 2012, 8:52am PT 8 Comments

Was Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft, the power behind the proprietary Windows-and-Office juggernaut, really an open source champion? A new Wired article lays Microsoft’s wider embrace of open source technologies — including Node.js and Hadoop — squarely at Gates’ feet. Read More »

Analytics startups sweep the field in IBM contest

By Jan. 27, 2012, 2:40pm PT 1 Comment

Nine out of the nine finalists for IBM’s Global Entrepreneur of the Year title are analytics startups. That’s either an anomaly or proof that analytics is hot. The winners will converge on San Francisco next week to meet with IBM and venture capital firms. Read More »

Davos does data

By Jan. 26, 2012, 6:20am PT 2 Comments

Big data has gotten very, very big if the elite talking heads at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are talking about it. And they are talking about it. Sessions include “Decoding the data deluge” and “Personal data: the ‘new oil’ of the 21st century.” Read More »

A CTO’s take on cloud

By Jan. 24, 2012, 6:20pm PT 27 Comments

Joe Coyle, CTO of global integrator Capgemini, sees a lot of cloud pitches from all the major technology vendors — and God knows they all have a cloud strategy. Here’s what he thinks of the current state of the market. Read More »

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IBM, Microsoft tout fat cloud progress, but proof is thin
By Jan. 23, 2012, 11:41am PT 1 Comment

To hear IBM and Microsoft tell it, their respective cloud strategies are coming along nicely, thank you very much. But given the hazy definitions of cloud computing and the lack of real numbers, it’s hard to tell if that really is the case. Read More »

Infographic: Linux lovers love big data
By Jan. 18, 2012, 9:00pm PT 2 Comments

For anyone thinking the big data trend is a flash in the pan, there’s some new evidence to the contrary. A hefty 75 percent of IT pros and developers responding to a new Linux Foundation survey have their eyes firmly on this big data phenomenon. Read More »

World IPv6 switch-over event scheduled for June 6
By Jan. 17, 2012, 6:28pm PT 2 Comments

The Internet Society is organizing a pow wow of big ISPs, web companies and networking equipment providers on June 6 to ceremonially bury the world’s current Internet protocol, IPv4, and permanently implement its successor, IPv6. Read More »

AWS offers free Windows on EC2 (kind of)
By Jan. 16, 2012, 5:37am PT 4 Comments

Amazon will let customers run micro-instances of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 for free on its EC2 service starting now, according to a new post to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog. Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts to its cloud platform. Read More »

Proposed spec aims to nix cloud lock-in
By Jan. 16, 2012, 5:00am PT 6 Comments

A group of tech companies led by IBM and including CA, Cisco, Citrix, EMC, NetApp, Red Hat, SAP — is throwing its weight behind a proposed standard to assure that applications can move between clouds. Amazon, RackSpace, Microsoft? They’re not on board, at least not… Read More »

Hands on with OnLive Desktop: Windows works surprisingly well on the iPad
By Jan. 13, 2012, 10:29am PT 10 Comments

Sometimes Windows is just what the doctor ordered, and with OnLive’s new Desktop app for iPad, I suspect it’ll be the prescription I’m looking for much more often. Here’s a look at what the fresh new Windows virtualization app for iPad offers. Read More »

Microsoft gets another Android maker to pay up: LG
By Jan. 12, 2012, 7:10am PT No Comments

Microsoft’s patent licensing machine is back in action, lining up another Android maker: this time, LG. The Korean manufacturer signed a patent agreement providing coverage for tablets, phones and other devices running the Android or Chrome OS. The terms were not disclosed. Read More »

Jaspersoft parlays Red Hat OpenShift in BI push
By Jan. 12, 2012, 5:00am PT 1 Comment

The free version of Jaspersoft’s analytics software will be offered as part of Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service. As Red Hat, Microsoft, Heroku, and Cloud Foundry PaaSes compete, watch for them to add more services and capabilities just as they’ve raced to add language support. Read More »

16 predictions for mobile in 2012
By Dec. 30, 2011, 10:24am PT 24 Comments

As expected, the past year was an exciting one for mobile tech. I did reasonably well on my 2011 predictions, but now it’s time to power up the crystal ball and gaze at what 2012 will bring. Here are my 16 predictions for the new year. Read More »

Your last task for 2011: Try Any.DO for Android
By Dec. 28, 2011, 7:19am PT 7 Comments

In half a dozen years, I’ve tried more task manager apps than smartphones — and I’ve tried dozens of phones. But Any.DO, a free app for Android, offers an elegant iOS-like interface and syncs with Google Tasks. If you do one last thing this year, try… Read More »

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