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A New Deal from Microsoft?

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On October 20, 2010, Microsoft signed a headline-grabbing deal with New York City that may be a bellwether for how Microsoft technology will be purchased in 2011. During the press conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stood shoulder to shoulder with Mayor Michael Bloomberg to announce a $100M, 100,000-user deal with the city. Surprisingly, while the…

Microsoft’s ‘All In’ the Cloud

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Just like the late winter sky outside the Paul G. Allen building on the campus of the University of Washington, Microsoft’s future is in the clouds–Cloud computing to be exact. “For the Cloud, we’re all in,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said to students in his first-ever speech on the campus that sits just across Lake…