Microsoft on Thursday described in greater detail how it has optimized Windows Live SkyDrive.
Microsoft promoted its Azure Platform Appliance at last year's Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C., but the boxcar-size datacenter was just a bit player at this year's event, with no stage presence.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/14/2011
Here are the top stories IT pros can take away from Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2011.
A top Microsoft executive rallied the partner troops on Day 3 at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference by chiding the competition.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/14/2011
Microsoft rolled out the next test version of its cloud-based PC management solution on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/14/2011
Microsoft today announced some new Dynamics CRM Online capabilities to come this fall, as well as benefits that its partner community can expect.
vSphere 5, VMware's virtualization platform, will be receiving an upgrade. The company also announced a new suite of products for the cloud in a live announcement today.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/12/2011
Citrix Systems today said it has acquired Cloud.com, a provider of software for building public and private clouds. Terms were not disclosed.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/12/2011
IT pros weigh in on Microsoft's ambitious plans to deliver everyday productivity to the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/12/2011
Microsoft's CEO recounted concerns that partners might not have stayed with the company's move to the Internet cloud.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/11/2011
Cloud computing security concerns outweigh the potential cost savings by a two to one margin, according to a recent survey of government and industry IT professionals by nCircle.
- By William Jackson
- 07/11/2011
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has improved the document collaboration capabilities in its Word Web App service on SkyDrive.
Amazon Web Services today said it is removing the fees for inbound data transfers and lowering outbound data transfer among all its cloud services, including its CloudFront content delivery network.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/30/2011
The Google Apps team took on Office 365 the day before Microsoft had its big cloud launch.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/29/2011
Office 365 is now officially available in 40 markets around the world, Microsoft announced on Tuesday at a New York launch event.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/28/2011
Organizations looking to move to Office 365 got some of the finer points discussed during a Thursday Directions on Microsoft talk.
The state governor's office announced this week that Wyoming is the first state to "go Google."
Microsoft plans to change its Windows Azure pricing next month, offering free inbound data transfers during peak hours, in addition to off hours.
An outage affected Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange messaging service, which went down on Wednesday across North America.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/22/2011
Simon Crosby blogged that he's joining two other founders at Bromium; company will focus on security and virtualization solutions.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/22/2011