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		<title>Microsoft quietly buries Scroogled site</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/13/microsoft-quietly-buries-scroogled-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's much maligned "Scroogled" campaign is finally, completely dead, apparently. Winbeta spotted that the old Scroogled site (www.scroogled.com) now redirects to a higher-road "Why Microsoft" site. The vendor started pulling broadcast and print Scroogled&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Yup, 2014 was a big year in cloud</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/28/yup-2014-was-a-big-year-in-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2014 was the year in which both Microsoft and Google got serious about their public cloud options and taking on Amazon Web Services directly with their own Infrastructure as a Service&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Red Hat&#8217;s success aside, it&#8217;s hard to profit from free</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/19/red-hats-success-aside-its-hard-to-profit-from-free/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/19/red-hats-success-aside-its-hard-to-profit-from-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Whitehurst]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red Hat, which just reported a profit of $47.9 million (or 26 cents a share) on revenue of $456 million for its third quarter, has managed to pull off a tricky&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A milestone moment for Microsoft: .NET is now an open-source project</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/11/12/a-milestone-moment-for-microsoft-net-is-now-an-open-source-project/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/11/12/a-milestone-moment-for-microsoft-net-is-now-an-open-source-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Vanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[.NET Framework]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what probably never would have happened under the first two CEOs to lead the historic software company, Microsoft plans to announce on Wednesday that it is open sourcing the entire&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Nadella&#8217;s Microsoft now as the company decouples Windows and Office</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/11/06/its-nadellas-microsoft-now-as-the-company-decouples-windows-and-office/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/11/06/its-nadellas-microsoft-now-as-the-company-decouples-windows-and-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[office for android]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows and Office, locked at the hip, drove Microsoft's hugely profitable software business. Now the company is starting to decouple the dynamic duo.]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Ballmer made a seven-point to-do list when he retired. Here&#8217;s some of what&#8217;s on it</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/10/29/steve-ballmer-made-a-seven-point-to-do-list-when-he-retired-heres-some-of-whats-on-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janko Roettgers]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Ballmer binge-watched all 100 episodes of <em>The Good Wife</em> after stepping down from his CEO post at Microsoft. Then he made a list on what to do next.]]></description>
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		<title>Can Amazon keep investing in AWS as losses mount?</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/10/26/can-amazon-keep-investing-in-aws-as-losses-mount/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/10/26/can-amazon-keep-investing-in-aws-as-losses-mount/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2014 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week in cloud: Amazon's poor earnings cast some doubt on how much the company can continue to pour into pricey AWS cloud infrastructure. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ballmer: No one asked me to step down from Microsoft</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/10/21/ballmer-no-one-asked-me-to-step-down-from-microsoft/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/10/21/ballmer-no-one-asked-me-to-step-down-from-microsoft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his decision to leave the company was his alone and not made under pressure.]]></description>
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		<title>Social third quarter 2014: analysis and outlook</title>
		<link>http://research.gigaom.com/report/social-third-quarter-2014-analysis-and-outlook/</link>
		<comments>http://research.gigaom.com/report/social-third-quarter-2014-analysis-and-outlook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stowe Boyd]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Money flowed into workforce-as-a-service platforms, and work chat technologies continued their incursion on already-aging social media collaboration tools. Will Microsoft split itself up to better exploit these trends?]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft layoffs part deux: Coming soon</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/09/17/microsoft-layoffs-part-deux-coming-soon/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/09/17/microsoft-layoffs-part-deux-coming-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Microsoft is going to finish up promised layoffs on Thursday as it continues to reshape its board of directors.]]></description>
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