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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Clean Harbors’ CIO: Hybrid approach to the cloud is a win-win

CIO Business Intelligence

For many organizations, the recent rush to the cloud has also given pause to strategic considerations around what best to leave in house. Cautious, methodical approach to the cloud. Moving aggressively to the cloud is not a high priority for Clean Harbors.

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Holiday ‘Bliss’: Microsoft’s latest ugly sweater features iconic Windows XP desktop image

GeekWire

The famous image is a real photograph of a rolling green hill and blue sky with white clouds in Sonoma County, Calif. The story of the Bliss hillside location in wine country north of San Francisco has been told previously in the years since XP was released in October 2001 and retired in 2014.

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FOS CIO shakes up IT department, starts cloud migration

CIO Business Intelligence

Established by the UK Parliament in 2001 to settle complaints about financial-services companies, the Financial Ombudsman’s Service (FOS) has served an increasing number of consumers, recently dealing with more than a million people a year. Going ‘cloud preferred’ with Microsoft and Workday. Closing on-premises data centres.

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Absolute Software to buy Seattle-based NetMotion for $340M

GeekWire

Founded in 2001, NetMotion helps employees at more than 3,000 organizations access resources from devices both on premises or remotely in the cloud. The news: Absolute Software , a publicly-traded security software company, agreed to acquire Seattle-based security startup NetMotion for $340 million.

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A history of tech adaptation for today’s changing business needs

CIO Business Intelligence

The company has been on a continuous journey to adapt its internal and external processes to new business needs and opportunities since 2001.” This project aims to enable the company to transform its insight delivery by using a cloud-enabled infrastructure and proprietary reporting engine, built on open standards.

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What Will Smartphones Be Like in 10 years?

Gizmodo

Recall that in 2001 the biggest thing in cell phone technology was the Nokia 8250, the chief selling point of which was its colorful display. If you’d asked a panel of experts 10 years ago what smartphones would look like in a decade, you’d have gotten all kinds of wild responses. Instead of black-and-white, this… Read more.