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• Bullish SAP gains ground on Salesforce and Oracle in the cloud

  Software giant reports upbeat results in the seasonally tough first quarter, saying it was gaining ground on competitors Salesforce and Oracle in the cloud.

• Microsoft boosts anti-phishing skills of Chrome, the IE and Edge killer

  Redmond releases add-on for Chrome – dubbed 'Windows Defender Browser Protection' – effectively giving up a major asset in its own Edge browser.

• Partner surge triggers trans-Tasman expansion for ConnectWise

  Arnie Bellini has offered his largest endorsement of the channel in A/NZ to date, as ConnectWise unveiled increased investment in local operations.

• Unit4 names first-ever A/NZ country manager

  Unit4 has appointed Chris Tithof as the company's first country manager and sales director for Australia and New Zealand.

• Public cloud spending skyrockets as SaaS shines

  The worldwide public cloud services market is projected reach US$186.4 billion in 2018, growing 21.4 per cent as customers increase SaaS deployments.

• GitHub's new features aim for business and open-source users

  GitHub, the popular code repository service, has to serve two masters. It's well-known for hosting popular open-source projects, but it's also working to acquire more large and small business users to privately store and manage their proprietary code.

• Meg Whitman tells IT leaders everything they need to know about HP Enterprise

  In a recent interview, HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman discusses her firm's RD strategy and how it differentiates itself from other IT vendors in areas including cloud computing and hyper-converged infrastructure, among others. She also talks about HP's image problem.

• 5 things to expect from Microsoft's big developer conference

  Microsoft executives will take the stage at Moscone West in San Francisco on Wednesday for the first of two keynote addresses to the company's big Build developer conference. Here are five key things to expect from the next two days of Microsoft announcements.

• Microsoft shortchanges Office for Mac customers on support

  Although Microsoft crafted Office 2016 for Mac to be much more like its Windows sibling, one thing hasn't changed: Mac Office 2016 users continue to get the short end of the support stick.

• 10 things Windows 10 does better than Windows 8 (+8 photos)

  Did the PC market collapse because Windows 8 sucked, or did Windows 8 suck because Microsoft overcompensated for the PC market's collapse? It's a bit of a chicken-or-the-egg scenario, but one thing's certain: Windows 8 sucked.

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