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ORLANDO, Fla.--Microsoft conferences used to be the launchpads for the company's latest overarching product "visions." Not so at this year's Tech Ed, Microsoft's conference for IT developers and managers.
Bob Muglia, the executive in charge of the company's server software business, kicked off the conference by co-starring in a skit with actor Christopher Lloyd that skewered some of Microsoft's more notorious failed visions like "Hailstorm," a controversial online service, and the company's ill-fated unified storage initiative.
In the place of grand plans, Microsoft on Monday talked nuts-and-bolts IT strategy, … Read more
