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Open Networking User Group looks to rein in ‘Wild West’ of hybrid cloud

Fortune 500 companies complain about lack of standards between public and private clouds

Feb 4, 2016 3 mins

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Benchmark tests: How the Brave browser compares with Chrome, Firefox, and IE 11

The new Brave browser is impressively fast for its early state. How does it stack up with Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 11 in speed and benchmark tests?

By Andy Patrizio

Feb 4, 2016 4 mins

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Windows 10 quick tips: 5 ways to speed up your PC

Try these methods to make your machine zippier and less prone to performance problems.

By Preston Gralla

Feb 4, 2016 8 mins

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Microsoft launches IoT Hub to ingest data from the physical world

The service helps companies manage a massive fleet of embedded devices

By Blair Frank

Feb 3, 2016 2 mins

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Microsoft’s Power BI visualizations go public with new ‘publish to web’ feature

Publish to web functionality lets businesses share live-updating, interactive visualizations

By Blair Frank

Feb 3, 2016 2 mins

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Microsoft pushes Windows 10 upgrade using tactic it once called ‘a mistake’

Maker of 'GWX Control Panel' tool reports that Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs receiving upgrade as pre-selected 'Optional' item in Windows Update

By Gregg Keizer

Feb 3, 2016 6 mins

Microsoft Small and Medium Business Windows

Why Microsoft continues to embrace the freemium model

Microsoft's business strategy for the cloud appears to amount to this: ‘Be more like Apple.’ Here’s why that approach works.

By Paul Rubens

Feb 3, 2016 6 mins

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What works where: Outlook vs. Outlook vs. native apps

Office 2016 starts to unify the Exchange experience on the desktop, but native apps do better on mobile clients

By Galen Gruman

Feb 3, 2016 6 mins

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Microsoft confirms SwiftKey buy, says it will continue developing Android and iOS apps

Microsoft may bring SwiftKey's keyboard to its Windows platforms too

By Peter Sayer

Feb 3, 2016 2 mins

Android Microsoft Smartphones

Satya Nadella lights a fire under the brainiacs at Microsoft Research

The boss tells them to get a good idea out of the labs.

By Andy Patrizio

Feb 2, 2016 3 mins

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