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Angry Microsoft customers have created a petition that calls for the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) to investigate the tactics the company has employed to persuade people to upgrade to Windows 10. Petition organizer Todd Kleinpaste said Microsoft’s tactics are in fact more …
Microsoft to kill off VM conversion tool, hustle users onto Azure
Microsoft is to retire its Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) in favor Azure Recovery Services. The company has set a deadline of June 3, 2017, after which time MVMC will no longer be available to download, and all references of it will …
Microsoft taps into Apache Spark to drive its Big Data & analytics services
Microsoft is making what it claims is an “extensive commitment” to the Apache Spark Big Data processing engine, launching several new offerings out of preview and into general release. The move is the latest in Microsoft’s embrace of open-source technologies, a trend …
Lenovo renews data center push with enhanced networking, storage, server offerings
It’s no secret that China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. has its sights set on becoming a major player in the data center. That became apparent when the company bought out IBM’s x86 server business last year in a XXXX deal. Now, in advance …
Angry investor turns on Oracle over fake cloud revenue claims
An angry investor is suing Oracle and its top executives after the company’s share price plummeted in the wake of allegations that it doctored its cloud revenue figures. The complaint, filed on behalf of Oracle shareholders by investor Grover Klarfeld, alleges that …
Four top Cisco execs, collectively known as MPLS, leave the company
Cisco Systems Inc. announced a major organizational reshuffle last week that saw four of its leading names transferred to advisory roles within the company. One week later, all four have said they’re leaving the company for good. The leaders said they decided …
Maersk wants to use drones to resupply its fleet of tankers
Shipping giant A.P. Moller–Maersk Group is betting on the idea of using drones to resupply its vessels as they sail the seven seas. The conglomerate made headlines earlier this year when it used a drone to fly a bucket of cookies out …
HPE takes pole position in storage market as rivals slump
The latest enterprise storage market tracker from International Data Corp. (IDC) shows that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has done extremely well, bucking a trend that saw the wider market decline, with ODM supply to hyperscalers also on a downward spiral. Overall, the enterprise …
Google adds standard SQL support to BigQuery
Google has rolled out a new beta of BigQuery, the data warehousing and analysis service available on Google Cloud Platform, which lets admins use standard SQL instead of one of its dialects. BigQuery’s revamped SQL dialect replaces the existing dialect as the …
Microsoft arms Office 365 with advanced threat detection capabilities
Microsoft has introduced a new set of tools that can identify and eliminate potential security threats in Office 365. Office 365 Advanced Security Management is based on the capabilities of Microsoft’s Cloud App Security offering, which provides insights into whether or not …