Microsoft discourages Office 2019
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Will you just look at our cloud?

Software king of the world Microsoft has launched a marketing campaign which appears designed to discourage users from buying Office 2019 and get them to move to Office 365 instead.

Big Blue creates orange blockchain
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Tracking system has appeal

IBM trailed the use of blockchain technology to track a shipment of mandarin oranges as they journeyed from China to Singapore.

Aetna teams up with IBM on blockchain
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Cloudy health

Aetna and a host of other health insurers have signed up to Big Blue's plan to build a blockchain network aimed at cutting costs in the healthcare industry.

Microsoft snaps up open source database company
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Citus Data now makes Voleware

Microsoft said that it’s acquiring Citus Data, a startup that has commercialised open source database software called PostgreSQL.

IBM booms on cloud and services
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Better than Wall Street predicted

Big Blue beat Wall Street's quarterly earnings estimates, posted its first annual revenue growth since 2011 and forecast a 2019 profit above expectations.