Microsoft mostly beat financial analyst expectations in its fiscal second quarter, reporting overall earnings of $19.9 billion.
Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and announces plans to jump into public cloud hosting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/27/2011
Microsoft filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a former general manager working in the public sector market who left for an executive position at Salesforce.com.
Future ARM-based servers could reduce power costs in the datacenter, helping cloud service providers such as Microsoft.
This week's links highlight some of the more annoying aspects of everyday Internet life (and a random video about the NES).
Microsoft announced today that it has rolled out a new support lifecycle policy for its Online Services offerings.
The Document Foundation today released LibreOffice 3.3, calling it the first "stable release" of the free, open source productivity suite.
Add transactional e-mail hosting and distribution to the list of services offered by Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/25/2011
Microsoft today highlighted some of its interoperability accomplishments reflected with the release of the open source Drupal 7 content management (CM) system.
Salesforce.com hired Microsoft GM Matt Miszewski as senior vice president for the global public sector.
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to enable its .NET Framework 4 on Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
A demonstration of an attack against an Apple iPhone at the Black Hat Technical Security DC 2011 Conference in Arlington, Va., demonstrated that software in many GSM-based smart phones contains vulnerabilities that could open the phones to remote exploits.
- By William Jackson
- 01/21/2011
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, will be stepping down from that position while continuing to serve the company as executive chairman.
Scammers have set their sights on tablets and smartphones, and away from Windows desktops, in response to rising consumer demand for mobile devices.
Brad Brooks, a Microsoft executive who helped promote Windows 7 to consumers, has signed up for a new marketing role at Juniper Networks.
This week's links have been sprayed with Microsoft Patrick McCarthy's perfume.
The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2011
Amazon Web Services this week took a significant step forward in making it easier for developers to deploy its apps to the company's widely used cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/20/2011
Version 5.5 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit was released early this week.
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