Free software is now available that enables Internet connections to be shared using Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems.
In the Q1 2011 sales figures for mobile devices, released by Gartner today, shows that Android-based devices have taken the lead with 36 percent of the market thanks to the more than 36 million units sold.
Kemp Technologies, which makes load-balancing appliances, released this week Virtual LoadMaster Exchange for Hyper-V, a load-balancer designed to work exclusively with Exchange 2010 and Microsoft's hypervisor.
Microsoft hasn't yet said much about its tablet and mobile device strategy in the Windows 8 timeframe, but some details appear to have come out thanks to Intel.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/19/2011
Wednesday at Tech-Ed in Atlanta, Rick Bakken, senior director of data center evangelism at Microsoft, revealed during a breakout session that the next generation of Microsoft data centers will be smaller, air-cooled facilities that will use less power and cost less to operate.
Microsoft's annual Tech-Ed conference ended today in Altanta, Ga. Here's a round-up of our (and our sister sites') coverage from this week:
I accidentally placed two pirate-related items to bookend this IT Fun, so I'm calling it our pirate edition.
Security management is possible in Windows, but it's not always easy.
San Francisco plans to migrate 60 departments and agencies to Microsoft Exchange Online over the next 12 moths.
It's only a matter of time before most companies make the move to Windows 7, especially with XP losing support in a few years.
Scheduled for release in the second half of 2011, Microsoft's Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was the focus of a session at Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta, Ga.
According to an American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) released today, customer satisfactionfor Microsoft software has reached an all-time high of 78 on the 100-point scale.
The U.S. Government's guidelines for interagency and international cooperation to establish norms for responsible behavior in cyberspace, called International Strategy for Cyberspace, was released on Monday.
- By William Jackson
- 05/17/2011
Microsoft took the opportunity at Tech-Ed 2011, currently underway in Atlanta, Ga., to announce new improvements to Exchange 2010 that will avoid supported scenarios when running the software in a virtualized environment.
Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 will be receiving their first service pack (SP1) by the end of June, Microsoft announced today at the Tech-Ed 2011 conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/17/2011
During Microsoft's keynote at Tech-Ed North America conference on Monday, the company focused on the cloud and opened the door for vendors to showcase devices designed to manage applications and services in a hybrid environment.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/16/2011
Bloomberg News is reporting this morning that the hackers who attacked Sony's PlayStation Network -- which was down for almost a month -- used Amazon's cloud service to stage their attacks.
Microsoft announced today that the company has added support for a Linux distribution to Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/16/2011
Virtualization and cloud provider VMware this morning announced that it's buying Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for desktops and servers.
Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference for IT pros in Atlanta Monday morning highlighted the company's plans for Windows Phone 7, System Center 2012 and Visual Studio, among other products.