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Windows 9 Details Emerge

According to Paul Thurrott, the biggest announcement Microsoft will make at the BUILD developer conference in April will be its vision for the next version of Windows. Currently codenamed Threshold,

Execs Prefer Private Clouds, Survey Finds

An IDG Connect survey commissioned by Unisys recently found that 50 percent of C-level executives preferred private clouds to public or hybrid cloud computing environments. By comparison, 26 percent preferred

How Facebook Scaled Mercurial

In a recent blog post, Facebook’s Durham Goode and Siddharth Agarwal explained how they modified the Mercurial version control system to meet their company’s needs. At issue was the vast

Salesforce Reports Surging Interest in Salesforce1

Its Salesforce1 platform is still very young, but Salesforce.com says the mobile platform is already showing great promise. In the first month after Salesforce1 launched, the cloud computing company saw

Microsoft Buys Enterprise Software Firm Parature

Microsoft has purchased Parature, an enterprise software vendor, and plans to integrate its customer service knowledgebase into Dynamics CRM. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch pegs the