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With Microsoft, The SAP-Oracle Database Feud Is Now A Three-Way Battle (MSFT)

Source: The Business Insider, Nov 8 2012, 12:51pm CST

There's a technology called in-memory databases that is taking the enterprise by storm. And Microsoft wants in. Microsoft Ted Kummit will duke it out with Larry Ellison and Bill McDermott Today, Redmond promised users of its SQL Server database ...

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SQL Server 2012 Integration Services - Leveraging PowerShell in Package Deployment Model

Source: Internet.com  |   Jun 20 2013, 5:12am CDT

SQL Server 2012 Integration Services introduces an innovative approach to deploying SSIS projects, known as Project Deployment Model. This is the currently recommended (and the default) deployment technique, due to a number of benefits i ...

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Microsoft offers cash rewards for security bug hunters

Source: ComputerWeekly.com  |   Jun 20 2013, 2:51am CDT

Computer Weekly is the leading provider of news, analysis, and opinion for the UK IT community. Visit this site to learn about Oracle's innovative data center, business analytics, customer experience and cloud computing solu ...

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Microsoft Reportedly Trying to Buy Nokia [WSJ]

Source: Softpedia  |   Jun 20 2013, 2:45am CDT

Redmond-based technology giant Microsoft and its number one partner on the Windows Phone market have been involved in a new round of negotiations concerning a potential merger of the two. The Wall Street Journal writes ...

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Twitter Just Bought Mobile Local App Spindle And Is Shutting It Down (MSFT)

Source: Silicon Alley Insider  |   Jun 19 2013, 9:10pm CDT

You have successfully emailed the post. We've reached out to Spindle and Twitter to see if they have a time frame for shutting it down. For example, the app could help newcomers to a city find nearby happy hours, dinn ...

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Xbox One DRM Removal: Is It A Game Changer?

Source: Cinema Blend  |   Jun 19 2013, 9:08pm CDT

Earlier today, Microsoft announced that they were revising many of their planned restrictions for Xbox One. 24-hour authentication through Microsoft's servers? Gone. Region-locking? Gone. Restrictions on game trading? Gone. It was ...

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Microsoft reverses course on Xbox One

Source: CNN/Money  |   Jun 19 2013, 7:03pm CDT

The original plan was to have the Xbox One console check in with its central servers at least once a day (and more frequently if users were accessing their account from a different system). If the console were not able to do so, ...

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It Doesn't Get Any Easier for Microsoft and Sony

Source: Motley Fool  |   Jun 19 2013, 6:30pm CDT

The video game industry continues to slide. NPD Group reported on Monday night that hardware and software sales fell 31%, and that's bad news for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) and Sony (NYSE: SNE ) as the two companies gear up to release their ne ...

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Microsoft caves on Xbox One DRM and used-game controls

Source: The Register  |   Jun 19 2013, 6:24pm CDT

Faced with a growing tide of angry gamers, Microsoft has pulled a U-turn on its forthcoming Xbox One console's terms and conditions to allow game sharing and internet-free gaming. Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft's interactive entertain ...

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Microsoft Responds To Fan Outcry, Changes Xbox One Policies

Source: NPR  |   Jun 19 2013, 5:42pm CDT

Don Mattrick, president of Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft, greets the crowd at the Xbox One reveal event on May 21, 2013, in Redmond, Wash. Don Mattrick, president of Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft, greet ...

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Games: The Gameological Society: Microsoft announces that you ingrates can have your used Xbox One games after all, if you shut up about it already

Source: The A.V. Club  |   Jun 19 2013, 5:34pm CDT

The statement “We believe in the benefits of a connected, digital future,” Mattrick writes in his opening paragraph, reflecting wistfully on the utopia-in-the-cloud that Xbox One might have ushered in if it weren’ ...

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