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The Motley Fool[^]:

Hewlett-Packard now sees Microsoft as a competitor. For years, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft had a strong partnership -- but evidently, those days are over. The widespread backlash to Windows 8, combined with Microsoft's decision to release its own, competing hardware, has alienated Hewlett-Packard.

Medium[^]:

I wanted to do everything right. I had ideas on how to make this place better than my earlier workplaces. I had studied the literature. Well tested and documented code, continuous integration, service oriented architectures, lean methodology—you name it.

Tech Radar[^]:

Of all the criticisms leveled at Microsoft, the "you're no innovator!" one must hurt the most: Microsoft has the Forrest Gump-esque ability to be present at every major technological development, and in many cases it was shipping innovative hardware, software and services years or even decades before the rest of the world caught up.

VentureBeat[^]:

Yet literally billions of dollars are wasted due to excess project failures, bug fixes, and maintenance nightmares. Surveys and studies have consistently shown that 50 to 75 percent of software projects are consumed by bug fixes and maintenance. One underlying root cause of this significant problem is the use of traditional imperative languages (Java, C family, Python, Ruby etc.), whose manual, low-level approach is very error-prone and generates spaghetti code that eats up the backend costs.

Reuters[^]:

State-controlled telecoms group Rostelecom plans an internet search engine named after the Sputnik satellite, Vedomosti newspaper said on Friday, though analysts said the aim to muscle into the highly competitive Russian market was doomed.

Infoworld[^]:

The files were encrypted but still sitting on an open Web server, security expert says

Information Week[^]:

Microsoft and other major software companies are producing major updates at faster speeds, putting pressure on IT to adapt.

Computerworld[^]:

In a world where smart machines do most of the work, expect high unemployment, unrest and tumult

Apple Insider[^]:

Over the last five years, Post-PC devices have displaced conventional Windows PCs so rapidly that Microsoft's dominance over personal computing has plummeted from roughly 90 percent share to less than a third.

The Verge[^]:

In the days leading up to the Surface RT release last year, Microsoft had largely failed to explain the differences between Windows 8 and Windows RT to consumers. The software maker picked the Windows RT moniker to power its own ARM-based Surface RT tablet alongside others from PC makers. Dell urged Microsoft to drop the branding, and Samsung opted not to launch its own Windows RT tablets in the US because of confusion and weak demand. Now Microsoft has admitted its decision to drop the "RT" brand from its upcoming Surface 2 tablet was to address consumer confusion.

ReadWrite[^]:

Facebook isn't the only company that's tweaking its privacy policies this week. Google has just announced new Terms of Service that will enable advertisers to display user names, photos and comments made about a products or services on any Google site, including Google Plus and YouTube. Users make the recommendation, and advertisers will reap the rewards.

The Register[^]:

Tim Berners-Lee has warned against the risk of not standardising digital rights management (DRM) in the HTML specification, saying an approach that “does the least harm” might be the best approach.

Telerik[^]:

Despite trying to achieve simplicity, Agile teams may still run across difficult issues. In this section some of the more common challenges are explored.