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		<title>Steve Ballmer: 90 percent of Microsoft development will be focused on cloud within a year</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/03/05/steve-ballmer-90-percent-of-microsoft-development-will-be-focused-on-cloud-within-a-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Washington students were told that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would talk about the future of computing on campus yesterday. But his talk was all about the shift toward cloud computing.
Ballmer made a surprising statement when he emphasized how serious Microsoft is about this shift, telling the students that 75 percent of the company&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft and Cray collaborating on a low-power super-cloud design</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/03/04/microsoft-and-cray-collaborating-on-a-low-power-super-cloud-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supercomputers are supposed to solve big problems that require massive computations. Now Microsoft and Cray have put together a deal that is supposed to solve one of the biggest problems of all: how to reduce energy consumption in a meaningful way.
The specifics of the deal: Cray&#8217;s custom engineering group will work with Microsoft Research to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft gives NSF projects a free pass</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/02/05/microsoft-gives-nsf-projects-a-free-pass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoping to gain a toehold in the government&#8217;s move toward cloud computing, Microsoft has presented the National Science Foundation (NSF) with an offer that is difficult to refuse: any project approved by the  NSF can run on Windows Azure at no charge.
The NSF has already gained access to cloud-based software services from Google and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Azure emerges from beta, is a price war next?</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/02/03/azure-emerges-from-beta-is-a-price-war-next/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2010/02/03/azure-emerges-from-beta-is-a-price-war-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft kept to its schedule and has promoted Windows Azure from its very long beta status to full-fledged paid product. And the first market reaction came almost immediately, as Amazon dropped prices. 
The timing could not have been more obvious. The same day that Amazon agreed to change pricing policies on Kindle eBooks in reaction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft is asking Congress to legislate on cloud computing</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/22/microsoft-is-asking-congress-to-legislate-on-cloud-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/22/microsoft-is-asking-congress-to-legislate-on-cloud-computing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Brad Smith&#8217;s mother never told him, &#8220;Be careful what you wish for.&#8221; Mr. Smith went to Washington yesterday and spoke out in favor of federal laws to support cloud computing.
Smith is a senior vice-president and general counsel at Microsoft, and he was speaking at the Brookings Institution, one of the top think tanks in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese hack into Google mail may be a flaw in Microsoft browser, not cloud defences</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/21/chinese-hack-into-google-mail-may-be-a-flaw-in-microsoft-browser-not-cloud-defences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Google warned that it might not be able to provide secure email within China, a number of people considered it an indictment of the cloud computing model. However, it now appears that the security hole is in Microsoft&#8217;s IE browser, not Google&#8217;s security layer.
The WindowsSecrets tip site has the story on this Internet Explorer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New page on cloud computing stocks</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/15/cloud-computing-stocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent months, a number of technology companies have seen their share prices rise on positive news about cloud computing initiatives. To keep up, I&#8217;ve compiled a list of publicly traded companies with a significant cloud business. I&#8217;m not going to include every company that has made a cloud announcement. If their new initiatives turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft and HP say they&#8217;ll spend $250 million on cloudy collaboration</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/14/microsoft-and-hp-say-theyll-spend-250-million-on-cloudy-collaboration/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/14/microsoft-and-hp-say-theyll-spend-250-million-on-cloudy-collaboration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Specific plans were vague when Steve Ballmer and HP CEO Mark Hurd took the stage at Interop yesterday. But one number was very clear: 250 million. That&#8217;s the number of dollars the two CEO&#8217;s said they would commit to spending on a unified approach toward enterprise-level products over the next few years.
“This is all cloud-motivated,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NetApp and Microsoft partner on cloud infrastructure products</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2009/12/09/netapp-and-microsoft-partner-on-cloud-infrastructure-products/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2009/12/09/netapp-and-microsoft-partner-on-cloud-infrastructure-products/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This looks like another sign that Microsoft is serious about taking a leadership position in the cloud computing market. It is entering into a three-year relationship with NetApp covering sales and product integration. NetApp has been successful in winning some significant cloud computing platform customers. Its technology includes Unified Storage and Storage Vritualiation, which reduce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s cloud email services chosen by UK post office</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2009/11/30/microsofts-cloud-email-services-chosen-by-uk-post-office/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2009/11/30/microsofts-cloud-email-services-chosen-by-uk-post-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the battle to win market share for cloud computing services, one of the advantages in Microsoft&#8217;s can claim is its formidable partner network. So this should not come as a surprise: in the announcement that the UK Royal Mail Group is signing on to run 30,000 desktops with Microsoft&#8217;s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), [...]]]></description>
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