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Savvis Appoints New Americas Sales Senior VP and Cloud VP

By admin | November 16, 2011

Savvis Strengthens Cloud and Sales Management Teams by Hiring Former Microsoft, Amazon Web Services Executives

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Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL Announce Display Advertising Agreements

By admin | November 9, 2011

Yahoo!, Microsoft Corp. and AOL have announced agreements that should dramatically improve the process of buying and selling premium online display inventory. The agreements will allow ad networks operated by Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL to offer each other’s premium nonreserved online display inventory to their respective advertising customers. While agencies and advertisers can continue to choose [...]

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Finance

Microsoft Reports Record Q1 Earnings of $17.37 Billion

By jason | October 21, 2011
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Microsoft has reported record fiscal first-quarter revenues of $17.37 billion, a 7% increase over the same quarter the previous year. The company’s operating income for the quarter was $7.20 billion and diluted earnings per share were $0.68, representing a 10% jump compared with the previous year period. Microsoft surpassed the analysts’ revenue forecasts which were at [...]

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Announcements | Mobile | Technology

Microsoft Starts Rolling Out Widows Phone 7.5 Mango

By marijana | September 28, 2011

Microsoft has started to roll out Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, the newest release of its mobile operating system. The software giant first previewed Mango in May, and the latest software includes 500 new features all centered around delivering an improved user experience. According to Windows Phone Blog, the update will be delivered gradually, and is [...]

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News | Software as a Service

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Launches New “Cloud CRM for Less” Offer

By jason | September 3, 2011

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) today announced a new “Cloud CRM for Less” offer that helps customers of Oracle, Salesforce.com Inc. and SAP switch to the familiar, intelligent and connected experiences delivered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. Building on the momentum of the global launch of Microsoft’s online CRM service in the first half of 2011, [...]

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News | Technology

Microsoft Commits $5.8 Billion Partner Investment for 2012

By admin | July 14, 2011

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will invest a total of $5.8 billion in the Microsoft Partner Network in fiscal year 2012 to help its partners grow their businesses through combination of tools, training and incentives. Corporate vice president of the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft, Jon Roskill, spoke at the Microsoft WPC 2011 and announced new solutions and online service incentives [...]

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Cloud Computing | News | Technology

Microsoft: Building Business in the Cloud

By admin | July 13, 2011

During the first day of this year’s Microsoft WPC the company’s execs discussed how partners can benefit from the transition to cloud the cloud by helping customers improve agility, focus on business goals and reduce costs. Emphasizing that cloud computing is the biggest shift ever seen in the IT, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella said that  together with the [...]

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Events | Technology

Summary of Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft WPC 2011 Keynote

By | July 12, 2011

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at the 2011 Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles and delivered a keynote speech summarizing the company’s greatest accomplishments of the year, and also gave the audience a quick look into the future. Ballmer spoke in front of 15,000 Microsoft partners from across the world and revealed that, [...]

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Cloud Computing | News | Technology

Microsoft Launches Office 365 Cloud Service Globally

By admin | June 28, 2011

Microsoft has officially launched its cloud service Office 365. The software giant announced the availability of its latest cloud-based offering today at the media events across the world. Office 365 is now available in 40 markets, and it unifies Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online in an always-up-to-date subscription based cloud service. Microsoft [...]

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Announcements | Technology

Microsoft Releases Kinect for Windows SDK Beta for Noncommercial Apps

By admin | June 17, 2011

Microsoft has rolled out Kinect™ for Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) beta, a free release for noncommercial applications. The SDK is designed for developers, researchers and enthusiasts to create new experiences, including depth sensing, human motion tracking, and voice and object recognition using Kinect technology on Windows 7. The Kinect for Windows SDK can be [...]

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Internet | News

Microsoft Survey Reveals Extent of Emerging Internet Phone Scam

By admin | June 16, 2011

Microsoft released findings of a survey* into a new form of Internet scam that targets English-language markets and costs victims on average $875. The scam works by criminals posing as computer security engineers and calling people at home to tell them they are at risk of a computer security threat. The scammers tell their victims [...]

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Technology

Microsoft Previewed its New OS “Windows 8″

By greg | June 2, 2011

Microsoft has previewed the next generation of its operating system at the D9 conference in Palos Verdes, California. The software giant says that the new version code-named “Windows 8” is a “reimagining of Windows.” Microsoft’s upcoming OS will scale touch-only small screen devices to larger screens, with or without a keyboard and mouse. Windows 8 [...]

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Microsoft Highlights New ERP Public Sector Capabilities

By admin | May 23, 2011

At the Government Finance Officers Association Annual Conference, a premier event for government financial management education and training, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) highlighted new public sector capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. “Public sector organizations have long experienced inflexible, legacy ERP systems, hindering their ability to support open government, compliance [...]

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