Microsoft co-founder dings Windows 8 as 'puzzling, confusing'

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	Microsoft co-founder dings Windows 8 as 'puzzling, confusing' Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today called Windows 8 "puzzling" and "confusing initially," but assured users that they would eventually learn to like the new OS.Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, left the company in 1983 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. He is best known in the Pacific Northwest as the owner of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the NBA's Portland Trailblazers, and as a part-owner of the MLS' Seattle Sounders FC. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial In this Issue Ellison hawks Oracle's cloud stack, calls out Salesforce.com IBM rolls out Power7+ in high-end Unix servers IETF starts work on updating HTTP Web standard WHITE PAPER: Accelrys Accelerate Science-Led Innovation for Competitive Advantage Companies adopting an approach that effectively connects the innovation cycle and commercialization cycle with high fidelity data that maintains the context as a project moves through discovery into manufacturing should experience greater operational visibility and improved decision making in all areas. Learn More Now! Ellison hawks Oracle's cloud stack, calls out Salesforce.com Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a vigorous sales pitch on Tuesday for his company's next-generation Fusion Applications and underlying technology platform, saying they constitute a more modern approach to cloud-based software than offerings from rivals like Salesforce.com. While Ellison didn't provide much news during his talk at OpenWorld in San Francisco, his remarks served to crystallize Oracle's market message for SaaS (software as a service), PaaS (platform as a service) and IaaS (infrastructure as a service). Read More IBM rolls out Power7+ in high-end Unix servers IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a staggered affair that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a higher clock speed than its predecessor, at up to 4.4GHz, but the biggest change is in the Level 3 on-chip memory cache, which IBM has expanded to a sizeable 80MB, from 32MB on the Power7. Read More IETF starts work on updating HTTP Web standard With an eye towards updating the World Wide Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), the underlying protocol for the Web. "It's official: We're working on HTTP/2.0," wrote IETF Hypertext Transfer Protocol working group chair Mark Nottingham, in a Twitter message late Tuesday. Read More
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