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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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Our trend map for 2009: The vital Trends, Risks, and Red Herrings you must know

Trends in the Living Networks

Trend Blend 2009 ! Created by Future Exploration Network’s Chief Futurist Richard Watson, also of NowandNext.com , the 2009 trend map moves on from the subway map theme of the last years to show the multi-tentacled hydra that is the year ahead. GLOBAL RISKS include: Major Internet failure. Device convergence. Influenza pandemic.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009. The broader issue I am emphasizing in my current interviews and speaking is that 2009 will bring more change than any other year this decade. In these interviews for non-professional audiences I briefly covered six important forces that will shape business and society in 2009: 1.

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Internet car radio is here – internet radio may supplant broadcast

Trends in the Living Networks

At CES 2009 Blaupunkt is showing the world’s first in-dash internet car radio , powered by technology from Australian-based company miRoamer. The radio accesses the internet via Bluetooth to any mobile phone in the car which has 3G internet access. We are not quite there yet.

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Get Windows 10 for Free or Cheaper

Galido

Windows 7 was released in October 2009 and retailed for $199.99 To upgrade to Windows 10 for free (until Microsoft removes this loophole), you can use a PC with a genuinely licensed and activated copy of Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 Negotiate Volume Licensing. This licensing can be obtained from a Microsoft software distributor.

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The Ballad of Bull Cook, A Wacky Book

Crafty CTO

My father passed away in 2009, but his imprint is still palpable there on the lake—nowhere more strongly than on the bookshelves. Eventually, thanks to the Internet Archive’s Open Library, I was able to read the book online, in an awkward web UI, by checking out the one available virtual copy, one hour at a time.