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Linked-Out: Microsoft’s acquisition could open a box of trouble

Microsoft bought LinkedIn for your relationship data

Combining LinkedIn’s business identity and relationship graph with Microsoft’s commercial cloud and business analysis tools makes a lot of (dollars and) sense.

The future of Office may lie in ‘decomposable’ documents

Julie Larson-Green expects we'll be able to find content based on its component parts

Microsoft covets LinkedIn’s algorithms

They're even more valuable than the data in the $26B deal, says analyst

Microsoft and LinkedIn: A match made in uncool heaven

The profitable but staid maker of Windows and productivity tools buys the career-oriented social network. The two companies are made for each other!

Deutsche Bank: Nearly a third of finance workloads could hit cloud in 3 years

Big banks’ public cloud use will grow from “very low” to “material” in the coming years, Deutsche Bank says

Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2B to expand its business products

LinkedIn will remain largely independent, and its CEO will report to Satya Nadella

Microsoft’s open source .Net Foundation eats Cake

Cake allows .Net developers to write build scripts in C# and run them on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X

Meet Microsoft’s ‘planet scale’ NoSQL database

Forget the name: Microsoft says DocumentDB is more powerful than Cassandra and has more paying users than MongoDB – and it’s not actually for documents.

Did the free Windows 10 upgrade push hamstring PC sales?

PC sales have dropped—four quarters in a row—and IDC says the Windows 10 giveaway is one reason why.