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What Has Changed Since Support for Windows XP Was Retired? April 8 marked the end of Microsoft's official support for its most successful operating system, Windows XP. However, 25 percent of desktop operating system users still run it, and Microsoft just released a security patch that supports it. What's really changed with XP for developers and testers? |
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A Look at Microsoft’s New CEO Joe Townsend examines what the tech media and experts are saying about Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella. Joe waited two months to write this story to give Satya Nadella some time at the helm to see in what direction he is taking the company. |
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Nokia Sells Off Mobile Business for More Than $7.5 Billion The Nokia Corporation unloaded its mobile phone sector to Microsoft. The Finnish company sold off its once industry-leading telecom section to Microsoft for more than $7.5 billion. The transaction for Nokia's handset assets, now a mobile afterthought, has taken about eight months to finalize. |
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Humility in the Workplace Google recently shared a list of five hiring attributes that it deems important for its employees. Interestingly, one of the attributes is intellectual humility. Anuj Magazine examines humility in the workplace and looks at recent examples from Microsoft and Google. |
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Strong Competition in Cloud Computing Means the End User Wins Cloud computing continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Although Amazon had quite a bit of a lead early on, a lot of competition—from commercial players such as Google and Microsoft as well as open source contenders—has made a strong competitive market. These choices mean the end user benefits. |
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Apple and Google Enter the Connected Car Market A new battle has begun in which the combatants are familiar and the prize is your car’s dashboard. Steve Vaughn explains that in 2014 Google and Apple have decided to bring the fight to Microsoft with a major push in the area of connected cars. |
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Can Innovation Be a Result of SMART Goals? Adopting innovation as a driving theme for an organization raises the important question of how best to set goals for achieving innovation. One of the popular philosophies of goal setting is better known as SMART goals, which stands for specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. |
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Why You Should Be Worried about Stress in Your Workplace Venkatesh Krishnamurthy writes that the stress and work expectations that led to Steve Ballmer's resignation from Microsoft are not uncommon in the IT world. The same pressure trickles down from the top to the delivery teams, spreading the negative effects throughout the company. |
