The state of Minnesota has embraced Microsoft's Internet cloud services by agreeing to an application outsourcing deal.
Microsoft today released BizTalk Server 2010 to its hardware manufacturing partners, which means that products will ship to customers soon.
Cloud computing services accounted for 12.5 percent of overall IT budgets, according to a research report released this week by Gartner.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/23/2010
New release aimed at broadened use of Windows HPC Server.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/21/2010
Microsoft this week disclosed that its Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) had three service outages that affected BPOS customers in North America in August and September.
Microsoft today released a beta of its upcoming customer relationship management (CRM) solution.
Microsoft received a "strong positive" rating in a study of e-mail system vendors by Gartner, which was released in mid-August.
Software as a Service (SaaS). Hosted services. "The Cloud." These are terms that have been flying around the IT industry more and more frequently of late, and if you haven't been paying attention, it's time to start.
Exec oversees "dog-fooding" of Redmond's new technology and migration to the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/01/2010
In a move aimed at extending its Open Cloud infrastructure, Citrix Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire VMLogix Inc.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/31/2010
Microsoft provided more information about security for Windows Azure, publishing a talk and white paper.
Microsoft announced on Monday that a "preview" of Windows Small Business Server codenamed "Aurora" is now available for download.
Microsoft today updated some of its free tools to help users move to Microsoft SQL Server and released a new Oracle MySQL migration tool.
Microsoft used the occasion of an open source conference last month to advance its vision of an open cloud by breaking it down into four basic principles.
Microsoft and Salesforce.com have reached an out-of-court settlement concerning alleged patent violations.
Google yesterday pulled the plug on Wave, the company's effort to provide a shared online communications hub.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/05/2010
Microsoft today said it is readying a tool that will let non-programmers develop desktop- and cloud-based business apps.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/03/2010
Microsoft's business strategies were described at the company's Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday.
After a year of working on security steps to comply with federal government regulations, Google today launched Google Apps for Government.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 07/26/2010
Microsoft on Monday announced two new "previews" to come for its Windows Small Business Server product suite.