Microsoft today rolled out its "Mango" beta, plus a new software development kit (SDK) beta, for Windows Phone 7 developers.
The Google Apps team took on Office 365 the day before Microsoft had its big cloud launch.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/29/2011
Google Labs quietly released Swiffy yesterday, a development tool that allows SWF files (used in Flash elements) to be converted to HTML 5.
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
Microsoft today released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010.
Microsoft today chalked up yet another intellectual property win against the Linux-based Android mobile operating system.
Organizations looking to move to Office 365 got some of the finer points discussed during a Thursday Directions on Microsoft talk.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google's business practices, an announcement by the company acknowledged today.
The FBI this week announced the arrest of two people suspected of being involved in a "scareware" scheme that extorted $74 million from about one million computer users over the last three years.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/24/2011
The state governor's office announced this week that Wyoming is the first state to "go Google."
Google on Monday announced the availability of a test version of its Google Chrome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer that installs without requiring administrative privileges.
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
Microsoft's new president of the Server and Tools Business Division answered some cloud questions today at the GigaOM Structure event, which is happening today and tomorrow in San Francisco.
Microsoft upgraded its free consumer-oriented Windows Live SkyDrive personal cloud storage and file-sharing service on Monday.
According to a newly released forecast by IDC, the IT segment is projected to grow its spending in public cloud services by a compound annual growth rate of 27.6 percent over the next four years.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced what President Rod Beckstrom called "one of the biggest changes ever to the Domain Name System" at the opening of its 41st annual meeting, being held in Singapore.
- By William Jackson
- 06/21/2011
Microsoft released a beta of System Center Orchestrator 2012 last week.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission indicated on Friday that Microsoft received U.S. governmental approval to buy Skype, estimated at $8.5 billion.