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Microsoft plans for 2012: to buy LinkedIn & Netflix

Posted by: altabel on: December 7, 2011

Market research firm IDC predicts a large number of transactions and purchases in 2012. This is due to the fact that companies want to increase their presence in cloud computing, social networking and online content. Among other IDC predicted past Thursday that Microsoft would buy Netflix to give it a stronghold in online video entertainment [...]

The influence of mobile on Apple and Microsoft’s software is clear, but their approaches are different. Which one is better? Gary Wicker, Technical Director/Software Engineer, Qhorus, Inc. thinks: «No one knows for sure, but my observation is that the market is waking up and realizing that newer desktop Linux distributions like Ubuntu have rendered the [...]

Microsoft, Google Suffer Outages: Can You Trust the Cloud?

Posted by: altabel on: October 4, 2011

Definitely, there are certain benefits of using cloud services, but the cost of these benefits may be too high if you can’t rely on the cloud. So do you trust the cloud? It’s not so much to the cloud itself – you really have to consider the number of dependencies between you and the cloud [...]

Windows 8: Five reasons people might want to stay away

Posted by: altabel on: September 28, 2011

We all have heard that Windows 8 will have more tablet and touch-like features and that it will erase the interminable boot up time that it currently takes a PC to start up. Windows 8 will be available for desktops, laptops, and tablets. However W8 is not such a good thing as it seems to [...]

Apple’s iPad will have overwhelming majority of 2011 sales, but by end of 2015, Android expected to run on 36 percent of tablets. Apple created the modern tablet market, and its iPad has become the undisputed king of tablet computers. The iPad promises to hold that dominance for years to come, research firm Gartner said. [...]