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Microsoft has found its future…

Microsoft Azure, Office, Windows, Xbox revenue growth: CHART – Business Insider

These are seriously good results and a massive confirmation of their strategy.

In the last few weeks; Microsoft, Amazon and IBM have all knocked the ball out of the park. I get the feeling that we know what the B2B market will look like for the next decade.

Twitter is in takeover talks…

Twitter is in takeover talks with Google, Salesforce.com, and other potential buyers

Twitter is in takeover talks with Google, Salesforce.com, and other potential buyers

If it’s just Twitter on the block then Disney is the right home for Twitter.

However, what really makes sense to me is that Google basically hires Jack Dorsey. This means buying Twitter and Square. Google has a poor payments system and has struggled for years trying to build a social network. Jack is the answer to both.

Paris est la quatrième ville la plus attractive au monde…

La métropole française est la seule à être classée dans le top 10 pour neuf familles de critères sur dix.

Source: Paris est la quatrième ville la plus attractive au monde

Analysis of Last.fm Passwords…

Passwords were stored using unsalted MD5 hashing. This algorithm is so insecure it took us two hours to crack and convert over 96% of them to visible passwords, a sizeable increase from prior mega breaches made possible because we have significantly invested in our password cracking capabilities for the benefit of our users. Here are the top 50…

LeakedSource Analysis of Last.fm Hack

Are you using unique passwords yet? If not you should be.

A Reality Check on “Everyone’s Moving Everything To The Cloud”…

Across a large enough population of really talented and experienced individuals emerged ten reasons for each position. You can argue the viability of certain ones, but all-in-all it’s an interesting outcome given the hype about companies moving to public cloud and CIOs all claiming they’re looking to exit the data center business.

A Reality Check on “Everyone’s Moving Everything To The Cloud”

This is well worth 15 minutes of your time. I hear similar things every day as I wander from client to client. However, it’s good that JP has taken the time to put them on paper.