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Making sense of Microsoft's Azure

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-06 16:30 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Last week, Microsoft announced its cloud-computing effort, called Azure. Fitting between Google's and Amazon.com's current offerings, it represents a very big step toward moving applications off the desktop and out of a corporation's own datacenters.

Making sense of Microsoft's Azure

Yang to Ballmer: Microsoft should buy Yahoo

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-06 16:30 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has a message for his Microsoft counterpart Steve Ballmer: Microsoft should buy Yahoo, and Ballmer only has to say the word and Yang will be sitting at the negotiating table. To this day I would say that the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo, Yang said during a keynote appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.

Yang to Ballmer: Microsoft should buy Yahoo

DirectX SDK - (November 2008)

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-06 13:06 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft has released the November 2008 issue of the DirectX Software Development Kit

Microsoft: Moving to Windows 7 easy for device makers

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-06 11:41 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Hardware and device makers that hadn't developed drivers compatible with Windows Vista when it was released shouldn't have the same problem with Windows 7, a Microsoft product manager said Wednesday. Microsoft is building Windows 7 to ensure a high level of compatibility with Windows Vista, so device makers that invested in creating drivers for Vista won't have to rebuild them from the ground up for Windows 7, said Jeff Price, senior director, Windows product management, in an interview.

Microsoft: Moving to Windows 7 easy for device makers

Windows 7 takes center 'stage'

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-05 23:00 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft focuses on a feature called "device stage" that makes it easier to tweak settings for add-ons. Also, company shows off support for sensors and touch.

Windows 7 takes center 'stage'

Microsoft launches BizSpark to boost Azure

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-05 17:20 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Looking to boost Web-based ventures and its new Windows Azure cloud services platform, Microsoft on Wednesday is announcing Microsoft BizSpark, a program providing software and services to startups. "The cornerstone [of the program] is to get into the hands of the startup community all of our development tools and servers required to build Web-based solutions," said Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Development at Microsoft. Participants around the globe also gain visibility and marketing, Lewin said.

Microsoft launches BizSpark to boost Azure

Microsoft offers free software for start-ups

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-05 15:13 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Software maker will allow certain companies to use Windows Server and other products for three years at no charge.

Microsoft offers free software for start-ups

Microsoft: Trojans are huge and China is tops in browser exploits

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-03 17:37 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows Trojans continue to dominate the field of malware, emerging markets are at greater risk for infection, and vulnerability rates are going down overall.

Microsoft: Trojans are huge and China is tops in browser exploits

Microsoft: Data shows Vista more secure than XP

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-03 17:36 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsofts latest security report shows that the number of new vulnerabilities found in its software was lower in first half of the year than the last half of 2007, with the Windows Vista OS proving more resistant to exploits than XP.Microsoft reported 77 vulnerabilities from January to June compared to 116 for the last six months of 2007, according to the companys fifth Security Intelligence Report.

Microsoft: Data shows Vista more secure than XP

Windows 7 surprise: DivX built in

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-03 10:19 by Philipp Esselbach 0

No more trawling the web for the latest media codecs. Windows 7 comes ready to play all your favourite "downloaded" videos.

Windows 7 surprise: DivX built in

Microsoft's Manhattan Project

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-03 10:18 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie is leading a risky but unavoidable Manhattan Project effort to build a planetary scale cloud computing platform.

Microsoft's Manhattan Project

The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-03 10:17 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft this week launched its cloud computing environment, Windows Azure, which is the foundation of the Azure Services Platform for developing applications extending from the cloud to PCs, datacenters, phones, and the Web. Microsoft's goal is to let Windows developers transition from Windows client development to Windows cloud development, using familiar tools, both those from Microsoft and other sources such as Eclipse. Developers would continue to develop apps on their desktops, but the Azure platform would handle the app deployment in the cloud.

The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy

Microsoft points to slimmer future for Windows client

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-02 11:04 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft is putting the Windows client OS on a diet as a way to bring the PC OS into the age of cloud computing.Windows 7, Vista's follow-up, already will be a thinner, more streamlined OS, replacing some of the software Microsoft previously included with the OS with Web-based Windows Live Services. And if comments made by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week are any indication, Windows will slim down even further in the future, returning to the original intent of an OS -- a way to optimize the hardware it runs on -- instead of being a bloated piece of software whose performance and value rely on compatibility with installed applications.

Microsoft points to slimmer future for Windows client

Windows 7 pre-beta hits BitTorrent

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-11-02 11:03 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Thousands of enthusiasts around the world are downloading the version from BitTorrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Mininova. And they're not shy about offering their opinions.

Windows 7 pre-beta hits BitTorrent

Windows 7 themes: glass, basic and classic

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-10-29 12:24 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Long Zeng published screenshots of glass, basic, and classic themes in Windows 7

Introducing the Windows 7 UI

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-10-29 12:21 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Neowin published an introduction to the Windows 7 UI

Windows 7 Preview Video

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-10-28 13:05 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft published a preview of the upcoming new Windows version

Microsoft earnings beat estimates, outlook lower

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-10-24 00:29 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Software maker says enterprise and consumer demand both remain "relatively healthy," but it says it's keeping a close eye on expenses.

Microsoft earnings beat estimates, outlook lower

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 due in spring '09

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-10-24 00:27 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft said via a company blog Wednesday that Service Pack 2 (SP2) of Office 2007 will ship between February and April of next year. The software maker had already said that SP2 will introduce support for the Open Document Format (ODF) used by Office's chief competitor, OpenOffice.org, the Portable Document Format (PDF) created by Adobe Systems, and its own XML Paper Specification (XPS) that is meant to compete with PDF.

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 due in spring '09

Windows 7 targets October 2009 RTM, retail soon after?

Microsoft 11927 Published 2008-10-22 12:21 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The I started something blog reports that Windows 7 is scheduled to be released to manufacturing most likely in late October 2009.