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Microsoft’s recent Professional Developer’s Conference is arguably Microsoft’s most important conference in the past decade, as a number of new offerings and strategies were announced, including Microsoft’s unveiling of its cloud services platform and vision and the first distribution of Windows 7 code to developers. Join us, as a team of Gartner analysts assess the [...]

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During this morning’s Mastermind Keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a Yahoo acquisition makes “economic sense,” a comment that caused Yahoo stock to jump more than 15%. Check out the webcast of Ballmer’s Mastermind interview with Neil MacDonald and David Mitchell Smith.
For the record, Microsoft says it has “no interest” in acquiring Yahoo.

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