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Microsoft Targets Hardware Business With 7,800 Job Cuts

Seems like the Nokia acquisition was a bad idea? “As a result of the cuts, Microsoft said it will record an impairment charge of approximately $7.6 billion related to assets associated with the acquisition of the Nokia business in addition to a restructuring charge of approximately $750 million to $850 million.” Microsoft Targets Hardware Business With 7,800 Job Cuts

Just out: [Mobile] Developer Megatrends H1 2015

“Only 20% of mobile developers target enterprises, but 46% of them makes over $10K per month, versus 19% for consumer-oriented developers.” The other thing to note is how close we are to having “mobile developers” just upgraded to simply “developers.” Just out: [Mobile] Developer Megatrends H1 2015

Outlook is a good, mobile email client

And, when I actually think about what is going on, I’m using Microsoft Outlook on my Apple iPhone to read my Google Gmail. I’ve used it since back when it was Acompli. It’s good stuff! I’m looking forward to the desktop Outlook working well in OS X (I run the preview and last I checked it didn’t work with GMail, need to check again). What a world! Outlook is a good, mobile email client

I’m always wary of discounting Office: the closer you are to the corporate world, the more you appreciate its reach, but on the flip side, the further away I get from that world the more I appreciate how much of Office’s importance is based on habit rather than need.

Ben Thompson in his April 30th, 2015 newsletter.

Microsoft targeting $20bn cloud business by 2018, currently at $6.3bn run rate

Microsoft Corp. wants to reach annualized revenue of $20 billion in its corporate cloud business in the fiscal year that ends in June 2018. At the moment, it’s: The company last week said it has a current run rate of $6.3 billion for the cloud business, which includes its Azure data-center services and cloud versions of Office software and customer management programs. Microsoft targeting $20bn cloud business by 2018, currently at $6.
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Is OpenStack a Success?

From the data I have seen the number of production OpenStack deployments worldwide in 2014 was on the order of hundreds – not thousands or tens of thousands. Some criteria for “should I use OpenStack” as well. Is OpenStack a Success?