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The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?

You can't be a good consultant if you can't even mention MSIf you really think MS is irrelevant in cloud computing then you have some serious bias issues to work out.The fact that throughout your entire blog you can't even get yourself to mention MS or Azure even once is...

Tags: Virtualization, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, cloud computing battleground, Microsoft Corp., cloud computing, Azure, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?

So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Microsoft puts more Azure cloud plumbing in place

Editing nitMary Jo - it always bugs me when you and others refer to 'Azure.' There is no such thing as 'Azure.' There is a Windows Azure product and a SQL Azure product but no Azure product. It seems confusing to use Azure along. If you want to talk...

Tags: Operating systems, Content management, Azure, Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Microsoft adds more choices for developers targeting its Azure cloud

Thats interesting...The MS fanboys would have you believe no one uses PHP or Eclipse for anything but here is MS courting those developers.On a serious note MS seems to be pulling ahead of Google with more platform choices. I don't hear much news like that out of Google now.

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure

Eclipse should decline the 'plug ins'M$ only ries to extend and extinguish here folks!Self interests always......Isn't that what most things revolve around? I'm sure that if Linux had a chance to extend and draw to its platform by working with Microsoft it would, unless they are too stupid to...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Eclipse, Linux, Mircosoft, Azure, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

What Windows7 could mean for Linux

Success becomes a problemIf Win7 is as trouble-free as advertised, then there will be a mass-migration to it. This will make M$ great money in the short term. But once customers are there, they are less likely to EVER upgrade again! They are "happy" with XP now - save for...

Tags: SOAP, Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Azure, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsofts, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-24

Meet the father of Microsoft SharePoint: Jeff Teper

SharePoint Alignment with Azure?Re: "Ozzie is especially focused on giving the team feedback and help around SharePoint?s alignment with Azure, he said."I'm curious about the relationship between SharePoint and Azure other than both use the ADO.NET Data Services RESTful API to expose data. Any ideas?--rjRE: Meet the father of Microsoft...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint, Azure, Jeff Teper

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Sidekick outage says more about the future of 'Pink' than Microsoft's cloud

This isn't about any service.This is about Microsoft in general. It brings up the question of whether they can manage a server environment. It doesn't matter what that environment is. Preservation of data is always job one. And this is the job where the failure occurred. So Pink, Azure, cloud,...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Corp., Azure, job, Pink, IT administration

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Microsoft to cut Live Framework and Services from its Azure cloud platform

MeshI hope that this move will finally resolve the duplicity of some Live services and more tight integration for Live which has been strongly requested by many of the Mesh testers . . .

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricing

Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricingCompared to Amazon...I compared the prices with Amazon's equivalent, the results are in my blog at http://bit.ly/OT7V8. Anyway, they seem to be approximately the same, which is probably the meaning that we should have associated with being "competitive" all along.Is that a lot or...

Tags: Six Sigma, Pricing, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Microsoft Windows, Process improvement, cloud computing, Azure, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

Microsoft to flesh out further its private cloud strategy

Microsoft to flesh out further its private cloud strategyNot a private cloudLooks more like they're taking their VM management tools and rebranding them as a private cloud infrastructure. There is nothing specified in the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit that is analogous to the Azure Fabric Controller or Azure Data Storage....

Tags: Azure, strategy, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Microsoft's Azure interoperability pieces start to fall into place

Microsoft's Azure interoperability pieces start to fall into placeSuch "Walmart" idea is lameWhen you try to do everything right, you often times end up doing everything half-butt-ly.

Tags: Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Azure pricing: How low will Microsoft go?

Azure pricing: How low will Microsoft go?The Zune of cloud computingI just can't get behind any service offered by Microsoft, regardless of the discount they attached to it. I'd be thinking about the Zune and Hotmail. And, if by some miracle they actually did field a well conceived...

Tags: E-mail providers, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Scripting languages, Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure pricing, Microsoft Zune, MSN Hotmail, pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Webcast: Demystifying Azure and Microsoft's cloud computing strategy

Webcast: Demystifying Azure and Microsoft's cloud computing strategyCan we say Mobile Me Hmmmm..... seems like Apple came up with this idea a few years ago where you been Microsoft?RE: Webcast: Demystifying Azure and Microsoft's cloud computing strategyWhy do Apple Fanboys point out things that are blatantly wrong: Mobile Me =...

Tags: Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, Middleware, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Azure, Mobile-Me, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Webcast: Demystifying Azure and Microsoft's cloud computing strategy

Azure is one of Microsoft's most intriguing products. Mary Jo Foley helps sort out what's real and what's not in a live Webcast on June 24. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Strategy, Cloud Computing, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Azure, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-06-23

All About Azure

Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing platform, is still a mystery to many Microsoft developers, customers, partners and even competitors. The final version of Azure is going to launch this fall -- with pricing, SLA terms and other details coming even sooner this summer. Now is the time to get...

Tags: Platform, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Azure, Blogging, Service Level Management, Internet, It Operations, It service Management

Webcasts 2009-06-09

Microsoft makes available PHP development kit for its Azure cloud

Microsoft makes available PHP development kit for its Azure cloudThats pretty interesting.MS has been putting alot into PHP the past year or so....more than Google and their app engine. Google went the Java route and have Groovy and Python to counter PHP. It will be interesting to see where the...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, PHP, Azure, development kit, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Windows Azure: a very difficult concept explained

Windows Azure: a very difficult concept explainedNot really an OS.An OS is something that allocates and manages the hardware, drives, memory and provides application startup and teardown task switching etc.Azure won't do any of these things for you but it does allow you to interact seemlessly with other PCs and...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Windows Azure, Azure, operating system, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

What is Microsoft doing to add Java support to Azure?

What is Microsoft doing to add Java support to Azure?Say what?The whole idea is that Java will go away in favor of MS.NETI'm surprised they're doing it at all.I'm surprised they're doing it at all. After the whole battle with Sun over their JVM, they pretty much gave up and...

Tags: Programming languages, .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Azure, Microsoft Corp., Java, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Doing, Java Support

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

Microsoft: No on-premise Azure hosting for business users

Microsoft: No on-premise Azure hosting for business usersThat ends any chance it ever had, way to go MS.They must take their time to make certain they have their foot in their sights before pulling the trigger...Sorta wonder what was going through your headwhen you came up with these questions.Did Cisco...

Tags: Data centers, cloud computing, Azure, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-23