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Calculating how much revenue — or profit — commercial vendors wring out of open-source software is a tough nut to crack. One reason is that the vendors themselves muddy the waters… Read more »
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Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are Xbox game console and the Microsoft Surface series of tablets. It is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues.
MoreCalculating how much revenue — or profit — commercial vendors wring out of open-source software is a tough nut to crack. One reason is that the vendors themselves muddy the waters… Read more »
Sebastian Stadil has been managing cloud environments for years as the creator of the Scalr project and founder of the startup he built to commercialize it. It’s his business to know how… Read more »
It’s 1:00 am. You get an email from an “application migration manger” (automation tool) that says your inventory-control application containers successfully migrated from your AWS instances to your new Google instances… Read more »
Back in November, Dropbox announced a partnership with Microsoft and developed the hooks so that users could edit Office documents within Dropbox (see Dropbox partners up with Microsoft). Today, Dropbox has taken… Read more »
You can’t buy a Windows Phone with bitcoin, but now you can buy Minecraft for that phone with bitcoin. Microsoft announced today that it will now accept bitcoin (via BitPay) as… Read more »
As this past summer showed, all the big cloud players are gung-ho on workplace collaboration. After all, if you’re already storing tons of documents, it makes sense to layer features on top… Read more »
Ford is replacing the much-reviled MyFord Touch with a new infotainment system based on Sync AppLink, its more successful in-dash connected car platform. The new system will be called Sync 3,… Read more »
Even though I’ve been using the Sony Smartwatch 3 for nearly a week, I’m still learning about little features that aren’t readily advertised by Google or its Android Wear partners. The latest one… Read more »
In its continued effort to attract users for its apps and services, Microsoft released six of its MSN apps for Android and iOS devices on Thursday. Previously, the titles were specific… Read more »
Mass online surveillance and censorship of what people see on the web appear to be getting worse, according to the latest Web Index report from Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation… Read more »