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• Bill Gates Trashes Apple iPad, Lauds Microsoft Surface Tablet
  4:26 PM EST Tue. May. 07, 2013
  Microsoft's Bill Gates said a lot of Apple users are frustrated by the iPad's lack of functionality and productivity applications.
• Windows 8 Sells 100 Million Licenses, But Challenges Persist For VARs
  3:09 PM EST Tue. May. 07, 2013
  Microsoft has added incentives to sell Windows 8, which combined with the stat that more than 30 percent of desktops still run Windows XP, should provide opportunity for VARs, Microsoft said.
• Intel, Lenovo Make Windows 8 Training Push (Video)
  11:40 AM EST Tue. May. 07, 2013
  Intel and Lenovo each used their recent partner events to urge partners to take part in Windows 8 training this year in order to boost PC sales. How will solution providers respond?
• 10 Key Android Jelly Bean Traits For VARs
  10:00 AM EST Mon. Apr. 29, 2013
  Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean delivers thousands of new features, including beaming, multiple users and lock-screen widgets, and is the most powerful and versatile version yet.
• Microsoft Wins Patent Ruling Vs. Google, Motorola Mobility
  2:43 PM EST Fri. Apr. 26, 2013
  On Thursday, U.S. District Judge James Robart ruled that Microsoft should pay Google's Motorola unit about $1.8 million, or several cents per unit as a reasonable and nondiscriminatory rate.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:10 AM EST Fri. Apr. 26, 2013
  For the week ending April 26, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Microsoft Slashes Retail Store Prices Of Windows 8 Ultrabooks
  5:12 PM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  Microsoft has cut the prices of several Windows 8 Ultrabooks. Are Ultrabook prices too high, or is Windows 8 demand too low?
• 8 Signs That Amazon Is In Other Cloud Vendors' Heads
  2:00 PM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  Amazon Web Services has a multiyear head start on the competition, and everyone knows it. Some vendors are openly taking on Amazon, while others are pretending they're not. But really, they all are.
• Apple Schedules WWDC 2013 For June 10, Is iOS 7 Attending?
  10:23 AM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  This year's Worldwide Developer Conference could be the official unveiling of iOS 7, as Apple first introduced the current iOS 6 mobile OS at last year's event.
• Firefox OS Developer Phones Already Sold Out
  7:12 PM EST Tue. Apr. 23, 2013
  The new Firefox OS phones are currently only available to developers, but even they are going to have a hard time getting their hands on them.
• Start Button Returns (Sort Of) In Microsoft's Windows Blue
  5:07 PM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  The Start button is back ... sort of. Microsoft's Windows Blue will have a version of the Start button that looks similar to previous versions of Windows.
• Microsoft Stock Up 4 Percent After Investment Firm Takes $2B Stake
  12:15 PM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  Microsoft shares reached $31.18 Monday, up $1.42 compared with the previous close. It isthe first time Microsoft shares have hit the $30 mark since last October.
• Despite Windows 8 Availability, Enterprises Transitioning From XP To 7
  7:48 PM EST Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
  Non-OEM Windows revenue increased 40 percent, thanks in large part to sales of Surface and continued double-digit growth in Windows volume licensing.
• Microsoft 3Q Earnings Beat Estimates, Revenue Misses
  5:32 PM EST Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
  CEO Steve Ballmer said the company's growth was due in part to bets on cloud services that are starting to pay off.
• VMware, Canonical Teaming Up For OpenStack Compatibility
  4:45 PM EST Tue. Apr. 16, 2013
  VMware and Canonical unveiled a new collaboration that will allow vSphere and Nicira to work with Ubuntu cloud infrastructure, in the last example of VMware getting open source religion.
• Red Hat Nudges Its OpenStack Release Closer To Finish Line
  2:43 PM EST Tue. Apr. 16, 2013
  Red Hat moves its commercial OpenStack preview into a 90-day free evaluation program for early adopters and begins looking for hardware and software partners to support it.
• Mini Me Too: Microsoft Reportedly Building 7-Inch Surface Tablet
  11:55 AM EST Thu. Apr. 11, 2013
  Microsoft hadn't planned on a mini-Surface model but did an about-face after seeing the success of Apple's iPad Mini, Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire, according to a report.
• Five Companies That Dropped The Ball This Week
  1:50 PM EST Fri. Apr. 05, 2013
  For the week ending April 5, CRN looks at five companies that were either asleep at the wheel or just didn't make good decisions.
• Facebook Unveils 'Home' Software For Android Phones
  4:00 PM EST Thu. Apr. 04, 2013
  It's not a "Facebook Phone" but a new software product that will sit on top of Android's lock and home screens and more deeply integrate Facebook into the mobile device.
• Pivotal CEO Maritz Denies Any Knowledge Of VMware's Project Zephyr
  3:48 PM EST Wed. Apr. 03, 2013
  Pivotal Initiative CEO says he has "no idea" what VMware's Project Zephyr IaaS is, but according to sources, he was the main driver of the VMware-run IaaS initiative.
• Red Hat Taps Ex-Microsoftie To Lead OpenStack, Virtualization Efforts
  6:02 PM EST Tue. Apr. 02, 2013
  Red Hat names former Microsoft Azure exec to lead its global virtualization infrastructure business, as well as its increasingly close work with the OpenStack community.
• Facebook Phone? Social Networking King To Hold 'Android' Event Next Week
  4:57 PM EST Fri. Mar. 29, 2013
  Facebook won't be building its own smartphone hardware or mobile OS, according to reports, but instead will be introducing something else related to Android.
• Tablet Timing: HP Delays Slate 7 Launch
  3:10 PM EST Fri. Mar. 29, 2013
  Originally scheduled for April, the HP Slate 7's release date has been pushed back to June. No word yet on what has caused the delay for HP's first Android tablet.
• MapR, Canonical Team To Offer Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux
  12:24 PM EST Fri. Mar. 29, 2013
  The two companies also are developing a Canonical Juju Charm for deploying MapR Hadoop within private and public cloud computing environments.
• BlackBerry Ships 1 Million Z10s But Subscriber Base Declines
  3:32 PM EST Thu. Mar. 28, 2013
  BlackBerry's Z10 numbers are looking up, but the smartphone company is still leaking subscribers.