Microsoft Expanding Dynamics ERP as Cloud Services

Microsoft will deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as cloud-based services, company executives said today. 04/11/2011

Microsoft Disputes Google's Government Certification Claims

A Microsoft lawyer on Monday suggested that Google's claims of having achieved U.S. government security certification for its Apps for Government products are false. 04/11/2011

Intel To Release Oak Trail Processors for Tablets

Specially designed for tablet and netbook PCs, Intel's upcoming processor, updated from a previous version of its Atom chip, claims to be 60 percent smaller than previous models. 04/11/2011

Study: Security IT Pros Have Higher Earning Average Than Other IT Fields

According to a recent study by Clearancejobs.com and Dice.com, cybersecurity and other qualified IT security skills are in high demand, especially in the federal government. 04/11/2011

StatCounter: Windows 7 Overtakes XP in U.S.

For the first time since its release in October 2009, Windows 7 has surpassed XP in U.S. market share, according to one source. 04/11/2011

Predicting the Unpredictable

Where are these numbers coming from? 04/11/2011

Doug's Mailbag: New Browser Thoughts, Part 2

Enterprises That Say 'No' to Windows 7 Migration

Go away, Microsoft. 04/11/2011

Let's Get Small Server

Smaller equals cheaper. 04/11/2011

Welcome, IT Decision Makers

Welcome to Don Jones' new blog for IT decision makers on Redmondmag.com. 04/10/2011

Friday IT Fun: 'Such Language in a High-Class Establishment Like This!'

> Open links I don't know the word "links." 04/08/2011

SP1 for Office, Office Mac and SharePoint Coming This Summer

Microsoft is readying the delivery of Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in mid-summer, plus SP1 for Office for Mac 2011 next week. 04/08/2011

Microsoft Preparing 'Ugly' Security Patch on Tuesday

Windows security experts had been expecting a large April security update after last month's thin offering, and Microsoft's advance notice appears to meet those expectations. 04/08/2011

Wake Up, Microsoft! Consumers Aren't Going To Wait for You...

Mary-Jo Foley calls to task those at Microsoft who still don't get that the company's slow roll-out pace for its consumer offerings, like WP7 OS updates and Windows tablets, will eventually leave it out of the race entirely. 04/08/2011

Windows Phone Second to Android by 2015

The Android mobile operating system will hold the No. 1 smartphone OS market position over the next four years, but Microsoft's mobile OS will climb to second place by 2015, according to a report announced on Thursday by Gartner. 04/08/2011

HP Printer Hate

Share your thoughts. 04/08/2011

Patch Doomsday

Prepare thyself. 04/08/2011

Where Should Microsoft Drop its Billions?

The money is burning a hole in its pocket. 04/08/2011

Doug's Mailbag: New Browser Thoughts, Part 1

We received a ton of responses to Doug's post about his Firefox 4 thoughts. 04/08/2011

Toyota and Microsoft Ink Cloud Telematics Deal

Microsoft and the Toyota Motor Co. have embarked on a strategic partnership on car telematics technologies that will tap into Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform. 04/07/2011

Dell Pushes Into the Cloud with $1 Billion Investment

Dell today said it plans to spend $1B in cloud technology over its next fiscal year. 04/07/2011

IBM Extends Both Public and Private Clouds

IBM today accelerated its cloud push with the announcement of enhanced infrastructure services and a new private cloud solution. 04/07/2011

Capossela Gets Top Microsoft Marketing Position

Chris Capossela now serves as senior vice president for the Consumer Channels and Central Marketing Group, Microsoft announced today. 04/06/2011

NYSE Plans To Roll Out Cloud

A planned community cloud would let member firms acquire compute, storage and network capacity. 04/06/2011

Start-Up Exoprise Assesses Cloud Readiness

Exoprise's CloudReady Insight product monitors a company's Exchange implementation to see if it should stay with the on-promises version or move to a hosted one. 04/06/2011

FireFox 4: Bad Software by Committee

Or is it just me? 04/06/2011

Someone's Got My Data

Give it back! 04/06/2011

Doug's Mailbag: Allen's Comments, Windows Phone 7 Future

Sketchy Acronyms

Do you have any more for the list? 04/06/2011

The Disappearing Windows Server GUI: The PowerShell Takeover

Knowing Windows PowerShell is no longer a bonus for IT professionals who work with Windows Server -- it's a requirement. As Windows PowerShell becomes more prominent, the Windows Server GUI is fading away. 04/05/2011

Review: System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 Beta 1

The forthcoming version of Microsoft's SCCM will have plenty of features aimed at improving user access and easing deployment. 04/05/2011

IEEE Initiates Cloud Portability and Interop Specs

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers yesterday kicked off a new "cloud computing initiative," with an initial focus on cloud portability and interoperability standardization. 04/05/2011

Microsoft Releases SBS 2011 and WHS 2011 for Testing

Microsoft on Tuesday released its 64-bit Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS 2011) to its professional services subscribers, and it also released Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (SBS 2011 Essentials) for general evaluation. 04/05/2011

Microsoft Releases Dynamics SL 2011 ERP

Microsoft announced the general availability of its Dynamics SL 2011 enterprise resource planning solution late last week. 04/05/2011

Microsoft Releases Beta of DaRT 7 Recovery Tool

Microsoft today released a beta of its new Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 7 (DaRT 7) support tool that can help IT pros remotely fix unbootable PCs. 04/05/2011

Cloud Security: Understanding Security Account Management in Windows Azure

Cloud computing relieves some of the security burden, but you still have an active role in managing access, securing communications and ensuring data protection. 04/04/2011

Will Microsoft Reshape Business Intelligence?

Business intelligence has long been the domain of big companies with lots of resources. Microsoft wants to change that, but it faces a daunting task. 04/04/2011

Rapid Backups: Transitioning from Tape to Disks

If you're still using tape-based backups, read on. 04/04/2011

Review: Cyber-Ark Privileged ID Management Suite

The suite manages to win over our reviewer despite his cynical view of network-management tools. 04/04/2011

Virtualization & Higher Availability: Getting to 'Always On'

Using hypervisors and other virtualization technology to help you reach your HA goals. 04/04/2011

Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 Released

Microsoft today released an addition for Windows Server 2008 R2 that enables shared block storage in storage area networks using the iSCSI Protocol. 04/04/2011

Surveys Show IT Spending On Rise, Except for Datacenters

Surveyed datacenter managers responded that their budgets will not be increasing for 2011, while a second study points to rising overall IT spending budgets. 04/04/2011

Gartner: Plan Now for Windows 7, Office 2010 Migrations

IT organizations worldwide likely can't escape "the big migration," which means having to upgrade from Windows XP and Office 2003, according to Gartner. 04/04/2011

E-Mail Marketing Firm Hacked, Customer Data Accessed

Epsilon, a worldwide marketing service firm, reported on Friday that its clients' customer data, used in e-mail campaigns, have been compromised. 04/04/2011

No Foolin'

Was anybody tricked? 04/04/2011

Doug's Mailbag: Microsoft's Licensing Confusion

More readers share. 04/04/2011

Ballmer's Lost that Lovin' Feeling?

Something is weird with this survey. 04/04/2011

Microsoft: The Trust Buster

And if anybody knows a thing or two about monopolies, it's Microsoft. 04/04/2011

Nostrabarney: My Tech Predictions

Doug Barney on Ballmer's future and Apple in the enterprise. 04/01/2011

Three Commercial Cloud Vendors Push Open Source

Opening the source of cloud. 04/01/2011