Category Archive: Industry News

Jan
31

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 – First Look

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Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2012 will be released in the first half of 2012 in three versions: Standard (for basic database and reporting capabilities), Business Intelligence (a new version providing premium corporate and self-service BI) and Enterprise (for large scale data warehousing and mission critical applications). Microsoft is holding a “virtual launch event” for …

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Jan
18

National Internet Blackout Day – The Fight Against Censorship

Orwellian laws make Gandalf sad...

For the past few months, the internet has been abuzz with news of some controversial -many would say dangerous- pieces of legislation:  The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). If you are not yet familiar with these proposed pieces of Orwellian control, you can read the full text of the Stop …

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Jan
13

Adobe CS6 Upgrade Policy – Changing the Rules (Again)

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Back in November 2011 Adobe announced that you would need the most recent versions of Creative Suite, 5 or 5.5, in order to upgrade to CS6. This policy meant that if you had an older version, such as CS3 or CS4, you would need to upgrade to CS5 or CS5.5, which could run you anywhere …

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Nov
18

Adobe CS6 Upgrade Policy – Changing the Rules

Discounts now, so you can save more later.

2011 has been a crazy year for software. Between hacktivists, anti-trust litigation, software subscriptions and Final Cut Pro X (hahahahaha), we thought we’d seen it all. That was, of course, until earlier this week when our Adobe contact informed us that the makers of such beloved creative software as Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects would …

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Sep
08

Cougar Mountain Software

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Since 1982 Cougar Mountain Software has provided business accounting software and hardware solutions to more than 20,000 retail, wholesale, nonprofit, and service-based businesses throughout the world.

Jun
22

Final Cut Pro X Released to Negative Reviews

Final Cut Pro X

Survey says… Yesterday, Apple launched the newest incarnation of it’s professional Non-Linear Editing System, Final Cut Pro X. The long awaited release came amid a throng of negative reviews among app store reviewers and professional video editors. According to the angry mobs, Final Cut Pro X has been over-simplified to appeal to more casual, home-video editors …

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May
24

Alliance Betters Microsoft .NET Integration for SAP Software

SAP and Microsoft Alliance

Those of us in the software industry know that Microsoft and SAP are typically in competition, mostly for products like business intelligence software. It seems the two have turned a new leaf. Earlier this year they created Duet, which enables users of Microsoft Sharepoint software to pull some data from SAP documents. Now they are …

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May
11

Microsoft Office 365 Beta

Office 365 beta

Microsoft has recently announced the release of Microsoft Office 365 beta, a subscription service that allows users to use Microsoft Office tools on nearly any device.

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Apr
14

Adobe Subscription Editions – New Software Trend?

With the recent announcement of the upcoming Adobe CS5.5 release, we at Software News Daily have been running ourselves ragged in an attempt to bring you all the latest Adobe news. We have discovered, in our tireless quest for knowledge and power (we shall rule the software market with an iron fist!), that with the …

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Apr
12

Adobe CS5.5 New Features

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Update: Adobe CS5.5 has been officially released! Buy Adobe CS5.5 for less at SoftwareMedia.com! Adobe announced yesterday the upcoming release of Adobe CS5.5, and we here at Software News Daily have been scrambling to find out as much information as humanly possible. Since the release of CS5.5 is coming only a year after CS5, we …

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