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Microsoft's OneDrive For Business Throws Down Gauntlet For Box, Dropbox | TechCrunch - 0 views

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shared by John Lemke on 03 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • be unshackled from its other services, and sold as a standalone cloud storage solution for corporate customers. 
  • Now, with OneDrive for Business — the new SkyDrive Pro — Microsoft is selling cloud storage directly to businesses, no other strings attached. If you don’t want to buy into an Office-as-a-service contract, you can still buy cloud storage from Microsoft.
  • Microsoft is offering a deep discount — 50 percent
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  • Dropbox has raised $607 million. Box has raised $414 million. That’s more than a billion for just two players in the market.
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Microsoft Announces Windows 10 | TechCrunch - 0 views

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shared by John Lemke on 01 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Starting tomorrow, Microsoft will launch a Windows Insider Program that will give users who are comfortable with running very early beta software access to Windows 10. This first preview will be available for laptops and desktops. A build for servers will follow later.
  • The company went on to detail that its new operating system will have a tailored user experience between different screen sizes — that’s to say that if you are on a smaller device, you will see a different sort of user interface. The code will run across all device categories: “One product family. One platform. One store.”
  • Put more bluntly, the company is going for the enterprise crown.
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  • bringing back a few features of Windows 7
  • ncluding a redesigned start menu that combines the basic Windows 7 menu with the (resizable) tiles of the Windows 8 start screen. Windows 8 Metro apps can now also open in a windowed mode on the desktop, so you aren’t taking into the full-screen mode by default and you can use a “modern” Windows 8 side by side with a standard Windows desktop app.
  • multiple desktops
  • command line, too, which has also been improved quite a bit.
  • John Lemke on 01 Oct 14
     
    "the last 943 people to cover the operating system got the name wrong."
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