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Microsoft Azure took an unexpected dirt nap last week. This is not good news for Microsoft, which identified the Azure IaaS and PaaS cloud as key to its success. Azure competes against Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Verizon, and others, with AWS and Google as the main rivals. Among such contenders, Azure can't afford many missteps.

Even by Microsoft standards, this month's botched Black Tuesday Windows 7/8/8.1 MS14-045 patch hit a new low.

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It's time for a fall tune-up, not for your car, but for your career.

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Fearmongers warn that capturing data means capturing noise and well-tended gardens are the only way to manage data. Well, guess what? Sometimes noise is the point.

Java and JavaScript are two very different programming languages, albeit with similar names. Java is generally associated with enterprise application development and the Android mobile platform. JavaScript, meanwhile, is the lingua franca of Web development.

The Pro version of Dropbox ups its game once again, to the tune of 1TB of storage for $9.99 a month.

The biggest surprise found in IDC Worldwide's Quarterly Server Tracker numbers, released yesterday, isn't that big names like IBM and Dell are hurting.

A consensus of leaked details -- hardly infallible -- now places a technical preview of the next version of Windows in late September or early October.

The prescription for continuous testing is deceptively simple: Automated unit tests, version control and a continuous integration server.

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Developers love open source. So why don't they love the open source leader?

Michael Heil remembers when network convergence began to make sense to him. A few years ago, the manager of infrastructure engineering for Cone Health, a regional health care provider in central North Carolina, was asked to stand up a large virtualized SQL environment running Microsoft Amalga in 90 days with no additional resources. About the same time, he was also asked to implement a new document management system — again, with no extra hands on deck.

One of the hallmarks of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is that it overwhelmingly favors stability over currency. As such, RHEL generally ships with packages and frameworks that are years behind the current releases.

When it shows up in the coming weeks, Apple's iOS 8 is set to bring several new features, including its HealthKit and HomeKit platforms, to the iPhone and iPad.

A petition has been circulating for nine months demanding that Apple fix what seems to be a defect in its 2011 Mac

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