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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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Microsoft cloud revenue up 22%, Windows business plunges 27% in first report since job cuts

GeekWire

Windows revenue fell 27% to $4.8 billion, including a decline of 39% in revenue from versions of Windows licensed to computer manufacturers. This is the business unit run by Charlie Bell , the former Amazon Web Services exec. However, other parts of Microsoft’s business experienced significant declines.

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‘Amazon Q’ and the new era of AI for business: A conversation with AWS VP Matt Wood

GeekWire

Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services VP of Product, shows some of the third-party services that Amazon Connects with in its new Amazon Q artificial intelligence tool for work. We sell a lot of Windows licenses on EC2 as an example, and through Amazon WorkSpaces,” he said. “NEED GPU?”

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Follow the countdown to the first launch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites

GeekWire

Forecasters say there’s a 70% chance of acceptable weather for launch, and there’s a two-hour launch window to accommodate potential delays. ET (11 a.m. ULA is providing live updates on what it calls the Protoflight mission on its website. Live streaming coverage will be made available via YouTube beginning at about 1:40 p.m.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Last month, on the anniversary of the landmark memo, Microsoft patched nearly 120 holes in Windows and other products. Beaumont also cited the enterprise licensing issue.

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Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list

Trends in the Living Networks

Has licensed the platform in Australia, Canada and Germany, and is also run as a stand-alone social network. Description: Web service application that creates 'attention profiles' of users, and enables these to be used in customising services and content for users. that allow multiple applications in the same window.

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Windows •Control panel > System 52. mkdir $wd/commands Commands Dir 67. // Copyright © 2014 Steve Francia. // // Use of this source code is governed by an Apache2 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. ! spf13 •Author of Hugo, Cobra, Viper & More •Chief Developer Advocate for MongoDB •Gopher 2. hugo.spf13.com.

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