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Hundreds of orgs urge Microsoft: don’t kill off free Windows 10 updates

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Petitions pile up on Satya’s desk while Windows 7 mysteriously surges back from the grave

With Windows 10 support set to expire on October 14, hundreds of repair shops, nonprofits, and advocacy groups are urging Microsoft to extend free and automatic security updates instead of stranding hundreds of millions of PCs.…

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What Is Cerebras Going To Do With That $1.1 Billion In New Funding?

3 months 1 week ago

What does Cerebras Systems, the first successful waferscale computing commercializer and a contender in the race to provide compute for the world’s burgeoning AI inference workload, do for an encore? …

What Is Cerebras Going To Do With That $1.1 Billion In New Funding? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Nadella Appoints New CEO To Run Microsoft's Biggest Businesses

3 months 1 week ago
Microsoft is promoting Judson Althoff, currently executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Microsoft, to a new role as CEO of its commercial business. From a report: It's the latest shakeup inside the company, as Microsoft navigates what CEO Satya Nadella calls a "tectonic AI platform shift." It's also a move that will allow Nadella to focus on more technical work at Microsoft, while still remaining overall CEO. In an internal memo to employees today, Nadella announced Althoff's promotion and said it's linked with the need for Microsoft to reinvent itself in the AI era and "bring together sales, marketing, operations, and engineering to drive growth and strengthen our position as the partner of choice for AI transformation." Althoff has led Microsoft's global sales organization for the past nine years, helping the company build out its Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) division. He will now also be responsible for the operations and marketing teams that help sell Microsoft's software and services to businesses, but not the engineering teams that help build them.

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