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Microsoft misses CES opportunity to wow industry with tablet innovation, but shows new foundations for future Windows-based devices. COVER STORY Clouds Collide Microsoft and Google have radically different cloud strategies. The outcome of their battle is still very much up in the air. 10 Embedded Entertainment Windows Embedded Standard 7 products featured at CES. Page 24 12 Top 10 Important Dead Technologists Though they’re no longer with FEATURES us, these men had a lasting infl uence on the IT industry. 33 IT Graduates Find Diffi cult Job Market TECHNET PRACTICAL APP The class of 2010 struggled to get a foothold, and the challenges 19 Protecting Workgroups facing the class of 2011 could with Microsoft Forefront be just as diffi cult. But new IT You can use Microsoft pros and veterans alike can forge Forefront Threat Management careers if they take the right steps. 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First Sales Figures for Jeff rey Schwartz Windows Phone 7 Redmond Editor at Large Jeff rey n its Web site, Microsoft debuted its fi rst Windows Phone 7 Schwartz reports that Osales numbers in an interview with Achim Berg, VP of Microsoft is launching business and marketing for Windows Phones. Berg said: “We are its newest cloud pleased that phone manufacturers sold over 1.5 million phones in services-dedicated the fi rst six weeks.” datacenter. Read more Jeff rey However, reports Becky Nagel, that fi gure could be misleading. Nagel writes: about the new facility Schwartz “What Berg failed to mention, as ZDNet blogger and Redmond magazine on his blog, The columnist Mary Jo Foley pointed out, is that those sales are to carriers, not end Schwartz Cloud Report, at RCPmag.com/Schwartz0211 users. ... In the interview, Berg did not release details on how many Windows . 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