Rackspace has agreed to buy Mailgun, a San Francisco-based startup that provides e-mail server tools.

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The customers include Lionbridge, Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA), and EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffered Services, and the post focuses on how they use a combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V server virtualization and System Center management tools to optimize their IT infrastructure and experience the benefits cloud computing has to offer.

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The office suite includes Exchange, Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Lync Server, among other web-based productivity tools.

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Business software sales grew 7%, server and tools revenues grew 12%, and XBox-driven entertainment and devices business grew 30% over the year ago period.

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Ballmer said the shift to online software and services will mean changes for all of Microsoft's businesses, which range from desktop productivity tools to database and e-mail server software.

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The program will on-ramp new technologies, Moonshot Server cartridges, applications, tools, and OSes that plug into the Moonshot environment.

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