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Gartner: Windows revenue to drop in 2016
Despite rising Windows 10 adoption, the analyst firm says Windows revenue will drop to $13.5 billion this year.
By Justine Brown • April 12, 2016 -
Microsoft's browsers losing their edge as users move to adopt Chrome
For the fourth consecutive month, Microsoft's browsers—Internet Explorer and Edge—saw a decline in user share.
By Justine Brown • April 5, 2016 -
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TrendlineTop 5 stories from CIO Dive
Shifts in enterprise software use, ongoing generative AI adoption plans and budget pressures ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.
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Slack raises $200M in funding on $3.8B valuation
As of April 1, the workplace collaboration platform has 2.7 million daily active users and 800,000 paid seats.
By Justine Brown • April 4, 2016 -
Deep Dive
5 announcements Microsoft made at Build 2016
From Ubuntu to an advanced stylus to bots, Microsoft showed off its new tricks at its developer conference.
By Naomi Eide • March 31, 2016 -
Oracle seeks $9.3B from Google in long-running lawsuit over Java use
The amount Oracle is seeking is about 10 times more than what the company asked for the last time the case went to trial.
By Justine Brown • March 30, 2016 -
Google shopping for 'middle market' businesses to boost enterprise offerings
The company is looking at a number of possible acquisitions, including startups, to help grow its cloud computing and workplace applications.
By Justine Brown • March 21, 2016 -
IBM buys Optevia in continued effort to offset legacy business declines
Optevia specializes in customer relationship management solutions, particularly around implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM in the public sector.
By Justine Brown • March 20, 2016 -
Financial messaging app Symphony expects 150,000 users by end of 2016
The app works to streamline communication between financial institutions while reducing IT and compliance costs.
By Justine Brown • March 20, 2016 -
FTC warns app makers over smartphone audio monitoring
The agency maintains that companies should tell people what information is collected, how it is collected, and with whom it's shared.
By Justine Brown • March 18, 2016 -
Salesforce integrates machine learning app with Microsoft Outlook
The new application is designed to help salespeople better manage large amounts of data.
By Justine Brown • March 11, 2016 -
Microsoft to make SQL Server for Linux. Yes, Linux
The company's former CEO once compared Linux to "communism" and a "cancer."
By Justine Brown • March 8, 2016 -
Gartner: In enterprise cloud email, Microsoft is more popular than Google
The two companies have been battling to attract business customers to their cloud-based productivity tools.
By Justine Brown • March 6, 2016 -
Apple's new iOS allows more control over company issued devices
With the new operating system, companies will be able to dictate homescreen layouts and the use of applications.
By Justine Brown • March 3, 2016 -
Slack brings voice calls to its messaging platform
Paying users can start voice chats with up to 15 people.
By Justine Brown • March 3, 2016 -
Reuters: EU to grant 'unconditional' approval for Dell-EMC deal
Though Dell has recently hit a financing snag, the European Union is set to approve its $67 billion bid to purchase EMC Corp.
By Naomi Eide • Feb. 19, 2016 -
UPDATE: Lawmaker's proposed legislation for tech companies refusing court orders will not include criminal penalties
The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee is working on legislation to punish companies that won't help authorities decipher encrypted messages.
By Naomi Eide • Feb. 19, 2016 -
Defense Department "rapidly" transitioning to Windows 10
The agency is looking to transition its 4 million devices by Jan. 2017.
By Naomi Eide • Feb. 18, 2016 -
If their gender is unknown, a woman's code is accepted more often than a man's
Researchers found that on GitHub, a female user's code acceptance rate declines if their gender is identifiable.
By Naomi Eide • Feb. 16, 2016 -
Dell's plan to acquire EMC hits financing snag
Demand isn't as strong for an initial $10 billion multi-tiered debt offering as Dell had hoped, and it's been given a short extension.
By Randy Lilleston • Feb. 15, 2016 -
Microsoft reports a "critical" vulnerability in every supported version of Windows
The company said the vulnerability could allow "an attacker to run arbitrary code on the user’s system."
By Justine Brown • Feb. 10, 2016 -
Microsoft previews enterprise synchronization offering
Enterprise State Roaming gives administrators choice over what is synced, for whom and to what devices.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 8, 2016 -
Google sunsetting its Search Appliance
The company is retiring one of its original enterprise offerings to make way for a cloud-based solution.
By Naomi Eide • Feb. 8, 2016 -
Microsoft brings Yammer to Office 365
Yammer will help businesses enable new user experiences among productivity applications, the company said.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 2, 2016 -
Salesforce announces new CRM, increases one executive's duties
The cloud-based CRM company has continued to make strategic moves to further grow its market share.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 2, 2016 -
Microsoft works to attract SMBs to Office 365
As the marketplace battle over cloud-based workplace collaboration rages, Microsoft is extending its offerings to smaller businesses.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 2, 2016
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