Microsoft Financials show cloud growth, Nokia loss
Microsoft has announced its financial results for the quarter ending June 30th 2013. How is it doing?
Quarterly revenue is up to $23.38 billion from $20.49 billion year on year, though $1.98 billion of that is phone hardware – Nokia, in other words. Operating income is up to $6.48 billion from $6.07. Net income is
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promises “One Windows” in place of three, but should that be two?
Microsoft released its latest financial results yesterday, on which I will post separately. However, this remark from the earnings call transcript (Q&A with financial analysts) caught my eye:
In the year ahead, we are investing in ways that will ensure our Device OS and first party hardware align to our core. We will streamline the
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Farewell Nokia X? Not quite, but the signs are clear as Microsoft bets on Universal Apps
I could never make sense of Nokia X, the Android-with-Microsoft-services device which Nokia announced less than a year ago at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona:
If Nokia X is a worse Android than Android, and a worse Windows Phone than Windows Phone, what is the point of it and why will anyone buy?
Nokia X
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A note on Azure storage and downloading large files
I have written a simple ASP.NET MVC application for upload and download of files to/from Azure storage.
Getting large file upload to work was the first exercise, described here. That is working well; but what about download?
If your files in Azure storage are public, you can simply serve an URL to the file. If
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