Future ARM-based servers could reduce power costs in the datacenter, helping cloud service providers such as Microsoft.
One year after announcing a $250 million, three-year pact to deliver next-generation data center technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft today unveiled five appliances that offer Exchange and SQL Server in turnkey configurations.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/19/2011
Microsoft this week released Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 and a beta version of Windows Embedded POSReady 7.
Analysts are thinking out loud in the wake of Microsoft's Windows ARM announcement last week.
Google announced on Tuesday that it plans to support open video codecs in its Chrome Web browser going forward, and it will drop support for the H.264 video codec.
Windows Embedded Standard 7 made the scene at the Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
Worldwide spending in the IT field is estimated to grow by 5.1 percent compared to 2010 numbers, according to Gartner, a Stamford, Conn.-based technology research and advisory company.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night with lots of positive stats, along with a few gizmos.
Microsoft announced today that it is integrating its next-generation Windows client operating system on system-on-a-chip hardware and will use the ARM architecture.
These new desktop PC models offer plenty of power and room for more.
Microsoft is planning to unveil plans to address the rapidly growing tablet market with a new version of Windows, according to published reports.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/22/2010
Gartner, the Connecticut-based IT technology research and advisory company, released its newest analysis on worldwide PC sales on Monday.
Microsoft today confirmed that its hardware partner, Hewlett-Packard, will not produce a future product using the upcoming code-named "Vail" version of Windows Home Server (WHS).
The parallel data warehouse edition of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 R2 solution will soon see the light of day.
The big news out of BMC Software Corp.'s fifth annual survey of mainframe shops is that there is no big news.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/04/2010
With a low price and a high level of functionality, Faronics Power Save can help any business go green.
- By Stuart Fordham
- 11/01/2010
Microsoft has reached a deal for the acquisition of Canesta, a 3D chip maker based in Sunnyvale, Calif., for an undisclosed amount.
Experts described optimal preparations for deploying Exchange 2010 at the TechMentor Las Vegas event last week.
Hewlett-Packard's long-awaited slate PC is now available but with a different target audience than originally planned.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/25/2010
Software security provider Symantec commissioned a study on Windows 7 migration experiences that was published this month.