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	Nadella joins Ballmer and Gates in making silly predictions A year into his tenure, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has now joined both of his predecessors, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, in achieving the dubious distinction of issuing spectacularly unlikely predictions. Is doing this kind of thing on some sort of Microsoft executive checklist? Read More In this Issue Skype fails: 5 of the worst problems and how to fix them Microsoft kicks off preview of Office for Windows 10 Microsoft and others are paying Adblock Plus creator to stop blocking them iPhone still king of enterprise mobile as usage skyrockets, study finds Microsoft moves Intune to a monthly update schedule Microsoft hopes to make hybrid clouds less scary with more extensive testing Microsoft backs Java for cross-platform mobile apps EU Parliament blocks new Outlook apps over privacy concerns Microsoft and Samsung make up in patent contract dispute OS X Yosemite's adoption tempo must make Microsoft smile WHITE PAPER: Corvil On the Radar: Corvil On the Radar is a series of research notes about vendors bringing innovative ideas, products, or business models to their markets. On the Radar bear watching for their potential impact on markets and could be suitable for certain enterprise and public sector IT organizations. Learn More Skype fails: 5 of the worst problems and how to fix them Skype is an essential business and communications tool, but it can also be a pesky one. Here's how to get its more annoying features under control. Read More   Microsoft kicks off preview of Office for Windows 10 Microsoft today released previews of its touch-centric Excel, Word and PowerPoint apps for Windows 10, making good on the pledge two weeks ago to give customers an early look this month. Read More   Microsoft and others are paying Adblock Plus creator to stop blocking them A few weeks back, it was rumored that web content giants Microsoft, Google, and Amazon might sue the maker of Adblock Plus, the Firefox/Chrome plugin that blocks ad content on web pages. Instead, they are bribing the company. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Corvil Transform IT Data into Real-time Operational Intelligence An Enterprise Management Associates(R) White Paper Prepared for Corvil. Find out how a promising new technique translates IT data into direct business performance insights in real time, using a method known as streaming analytics. Learn More iPhone still king of enterprise mobile as usage skyrockets, study finds Apple's iPhones and iPads are still the most-used mobile devices in the enterprise, even as the market expands at high speed, according to a Citrix mobile analytics report released this morning. Read More   Microsoft moves Intune to a monthly update schedule   To keep up with the ever-quickening pace of technological innovation, Microsoft has started updating its Intune IT management service on a monthly basis. Read More   Microsoft hopes to make hybrid clouds less scary with more extensive testing Step by step, Microsoft is working to make its hybrid cloud offerings more attractive. With a new set of how-to documentation, it intends to inspire more application development and experimentation with different IT workloads. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Corvil Streaming Analytics to Run Electronic Trading Systems This technical white paper by the experts at Corvil delves into the technology requirements critical to provide tight control over processes executing over shorter time-frames, and to ensure precision in the predictability of outcomes, in order to safeguard and optimize business performance, revenue and profits. Learn More Microsoft backs Java for cross-platform mobile apps Over the years, Microsoft has not been the biggest advocate for Java, no matter how pervasive it has become. In fact, the company was entangled in a bitter legal battle over the platform with Java founder Sun Microsystems many years ago. But times have changed. Read More   EU Parliament blocks new Outlook apps over privacy concerns Access to Microsoft's new Outlook apps has been blocked for members of the European Parliament because of "serious security issues." Read More   Microsoft and Samsung make up in patent contract dispute Microsoft and Samsung Electronics have settled a dispute over payment of royalties to the software giant, but the terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More   OS X Yosemite's adoption tempo must make Microsoft smile Three and a half months after its release, Apple's OS X Yosemite powered almost half of all Macs, a statistic that may predict success for rival Microsoft later this year when it issues its own free OS upgrade. Read More
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