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Google Drive outage reminds us that cloud services aren't perfect

Google Drive outage reminds us that cloud services aren
  • Posted March 18, 2013, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Reports this morning of Google Drive becoming inaccessible sent ripples through social media. Shortly after complaints surfaced, Google confirmed Drive was experiencing a noteworthy disruption. The company subsequently resolved the issue and all Google services appear to have returned to normal…

Microsoft offers Office 365 to university students for $20/year

Microsoft offers Office 365 to university students for $20/year
  • Posted October 19, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Software
  • Microsoft has announced plans to offer unusually deep discounts to individuals eyeballing Office 365 University, its upcoming cloud-based productivity suite geared toward academic users. Students and professors alike will be able to snap up four-year subscriptions for just $79.99 --…

Weekend Open Forum: Do you use cloud storage? If so, for what?

Weekend Open Forum: Do you use cloud storage? If so, for what?
  • Posted September 21, 2012, 6:30 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in WOF
  • Cloud storage has grown in popularity in recent years, with Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and others providing an affordable means of backing up or sharing data online. While all of them can store your files, most have unique features. For instance, SkyDrive is geared toward...

Canonical partners with Microsoft, Azure to provide Ubuntu, Linux images

Canonical partners with Microsoft, Azure to provide Ubuntu, Linux images
  • Posted June 8, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Microsoft
  • Microsoft announced Wednesday that Azure, technically a cloud-based IaaS (infrastructure as a service) platform, will host not only Windows Azure but provide images for a number of Linux variants as well, namely SuSE, CentOS, Red Hat and Ubuntu. Microsoft had…

Microsoft to drop "Windows Live" brand alongside Windows 8 release

Microsoft to drop "Windows Live" brand alongside Windows 8 release
  • Posted May 3, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft
  • Were you finally getting used to the idea of Microsoft integrating its products and services under the "Windows Live" umbrella? Well, if you're someone who's gotten comfortable with the Windows Live brand, you're about to be jettisoned into the zone…

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