Developers got an indication of Microsoft's unfolding cloud platform strategy at this week's VSLive! conference in New York. Several conference sessions outlined the company's plans for Software plus Services and platforms-as-a-service, which offer hosted development and runtimes.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/10/2008
Virtualization industry leader VMware, already facing challenges on multiple fronts, took another body blow last night when Chief Scientist Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, a company co-founder, resigned.
Redmond on Tuesday rolled out four critical fixes, as expected, for as many as eight remote code execution exploits for various Windows applications.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2008
Microsoft on Monday issued its first service update to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, a hosted sales database and collaboration solution unveiled in April.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/09/2008
As hackers continue to focus their attention on virtualized environments, those looking to adopt virtualization technologies should proceed with caution, according to report from InfoWorld.
- By GCN.com Staff
- 09/09/2008
Microsoft launched the first TV commercial in its new $300 million ad campaign that's designed to spur consumer interest in Microsoft operating system products.
Microsoft, following its earlier announcement about new virtualization products and imminent releases, has filled in some details that give more shape to its vision.
Microsoft described its next service-oriented architecture solution, which is "on track for availability during the first half of 2009."
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- By Greg Shields
- 09/08/2008
Microsoft kicked off its virtualization push with a number of product announcements, including a key virtual management tool.
Microsoft touted the success of its online extension to Microsoft Office, a free browser-based application that's still in beta release.
Sun Microsystems this week rolled out version 2.0 of its xVM VirtualBox.
Network goliath Cisco Systems last week stepped further into the cloud-computing space by announcing the acquisition of privately held PostPath, a provider of hosted e-mail and calendaring solutions based in Mountain View, Calif.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/04/2008
Open source server distributor Red Hat Inc., which is carving out a virtualization path unique in the industry, added another arrow to its quiver today with the acquisition of Qumranet Inc.
Microsoft plans to roll out just four "critical" fixes in September's security bulletin release expected on Tuesday, according to an advance notice.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/04/2008
Google's Chrome Web browser -- complete with quirky marketing comic book -- made a splash when announced on Tuesday, but what a difference a day makes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/04/2008
A former senior group program manager for Microsoft Office Business Applications has joined Dallas-based BizNet Software, a provider of a real-time financial reporting and analysis solutions that integrate with Microsoft Excel.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/03/2008
More grouping tricks, this time with the -groupby parameter of the Format-List and Format-Table cmdlets.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 09/03/2008
One report suggests that IE could account for less than half of all browsers in use by enterprises within the next year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/02/2008
Microsoft is continuing its investigation into a vulnerability that could allow hackers to gain superuser privileges on various flavors of the Windows OS.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/02/2008