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
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
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
An analysis of the Stuxnet worm shows it to be a combination of sophisticated and flawed work, most likely the product of a partnership between several entities with varying levels of expertise and resources.
- By William Jackson
- 01/19/2011
The Worldwide Web Consortium today unfurled an HTML 5 logo as part of an overall publicity campaign.
Microsoft today announced the formal product name of its next-generation Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning solution.
In its bid to take on Salesforce.com and Oracle in the hotly contested market for CRM software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Monday launched its Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/18/2011
Microsoft this week released Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 and a beta version of Windows Embedded POSReady 7.
The United States is responsible for almost one in five spam e-mails sent out, according to Sophos, a data protection and security company.
Analysts are thinking out loud in the wake of Microsoft's Windows ARM announcement last week.
Rackspace Hosting has turned to Akamai Technologies to provide Web acceleration and its content delivery network (CDN) to Rackspace's cloud and hosted services customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/13/2011
This week's links should appeal to every reader.
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.
Microsoft on Tuesday shared additional details about its next-generation Live@edu service offering for the education market.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/12/2011
Microsoft today announced its release plans for its forthcoming Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 shared computing product.
Microsoft's Live@edu software gained four million new student users over the last three months worldwide.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/11/2011
As expected, Microsoft today released two security bulletins in its January security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/11/2011
Microsoft plans to roll out the next version of its Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning solution in the latter part of this year.
Bob Muglia, head of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, and one of four Microsoft presidents, will be stepping down.