Redmond giant has been chastised for failing to take the lead when new technology rears its head or for being ‘out of touch’ in general. On that note, Microsoft took a bit of a hit earlier this week, when the company’s general counsel lamented the shortage of good IT workers. His solution? Petition the U.S. […]
Posted on August 7th, 2011 by admin
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Salesforce is announcing a new key hire today—former Microsoft vet Matt Miszewski will join the CRM giant as Senior Vice President Global Public Sector. In his new role, Miszewski will help lead Salesforce.com’s global public sector initiatives to help governments adopt cloud computing. Miszewski was formerly the general manager of Worldwide Government for Microsoft, where […]
Posted on January 20th, 2011 by admin
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When Mayor Bloomberg wants to make an announcement with Microsoft, CEO Steve Ballmer gets on a plane and flies to New York City. That’s because he’s Mayor Bloomberg, but also because New York City is a very large customer with 100,000 city employees. Today Ballmer and Bloomberg are in City Hall announcing a new five-year […]
Posted on October 21st, 2010 by admin
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com Microsoft plans to cut its workforce by 10 percent, or about 9100 employees, in order to increase the markets’ confidence in the company. The move is hoped to show that profits are more important than revenue growth in the current times. The software giant had close to 91000 employees on its payrolls at the […]
Posted on October 16th, 2010 by admin
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It’s no secret that Microsoft and Salesforce just plain don’t like each other (remember when Microsoft communications head Frank Shaw basically said that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is obsessed with them?). In fact, the two companies have spent the last year suing one another over patents. But today they’re announcing that they’ve settled the suit. […]
Posted on August 4th, 2010 by admin
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During its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft introduced (a limited production release of) the Windows Azure platform appliance, the company’s cloud services platform for deployment in customer and service provider datacenters. The company is touting partnerships with some big-name early adopters of the appliance, namely Dell, eBay, HP and Fujitsu. In his keynote address, Microsoft […]
Posted on July 12th, 2010 by admin
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In response to a patent lawsuit filed by Microsoft last May, Salesforce is countersuing with its own patent infringement claims. But a mere countersuit isn’t enough for CEO Marc Benioff. He is also bringing a big-gun lawyer to the knife fight, Microsoft’s nemesis from the antitrust trial of the 1990s, David Boies. During Salesforce’s last […]
Posted on June 25th, 2010 by admin
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Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products, is spreading its wings beyond the search giant to Microsoft land. Today, the startup, which launched its Google Apps-focused product at TechCrunch50 last year, is rolling out the Socialwok Social Connector for Microsoft Office Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003. Similar to the […]
Posted on May 16th, 2010 by admin
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Ruby Cloud Platform as a Service provider Heroku has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Ignition Partners with existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital participating. John Connors, General Partner with Ignition and former CFO/CIO of Microsoft has joined the company’s board of directors. This brings the company’s total […]
Posted on May 14th, 2010 by admin
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This guest post was written by Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box.net. Box.net was founded in 2005 with the goal of helping people and businesses easily access and share information from anywhere. He has a few suggestions for how Microsoft can better embrace the cloud. In the coming days, weeks, and months, Microsoft will […]
Posted on May 8th, 2010 by admin
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