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- Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloud
- For a while now, Microsoft has been courting open-source software makers to convince them of the wisdom of offering their wares on Windows. So it's not too surprising that many of those same apps also are being moved to the Windows Azure cloud platform. The Ruby on Rails framework is...
- Blog posts 2009-12-01
- Office Web Apps access comes to Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry and more (with some caveats)
- For the past year, Microsoft officials have said repeatedly -- without offering any specifics -- that Office Web Apps will work on mobile phones. But now that the public beta of Office Web Apps is available (as of mid-November), the Redmondians are revealing, with a little prodding. a bit more...
- Blog posts 2009-12-01
- SQL Server 2008 R2 gets an official due date
- Speaking of roadmaps, Microsoft (either "by design" or by mistake) has provided a due date for SQL Server 2008 R2, the next version of its database. Up until recently, the Softies have been saying SQL Server 2008 R2 would be a "first half" 2010 product. But in a new benchmark...
- Blog posts 2009-11-30
- Microsoft updates its enterprise ABC (Active Directory, BizTalk and Communications Server) roadmaps
- Microsoft has released many of the products that officials promised earlier this year would be its biggest release wave in the company's history. But there are still a number of key Microsoft enterprise products in development which haven't reached the finish line yet. Microsoft updated the roadmaps for some of...
- Blog posts 2009-11-30
- Microsoft CFO Liddell to leave by year-end
- Microsoft Chief Financial Officer CFO Chris Liddell is leaving Microsoft after four years to pursue other interests, company officials announced via a November 24 press release issued quietly just before the start of the Thanksgiving holiday. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Microsoft isn't the only one developing a hardware-accelerated browser
- Microsoft, with IE 9, isn't the only browser provider planning to harness hardware acceleration. Mozilla is planning to do the same with Firefox. Firefox developers have posted a prototype demonstrating the ability to take advantage of Direct2D and DirectWrite. Google is interested in the possibilities of hardware-accelerating Chrome, as well,...
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Can (and will) Microsoft keep Silverlight compatible across platforms?
- Microsoft is adding more and more WPF features to Silverlight and vice versa. But there is a downside to this strategy: By adding technologies like COM support to Silverlight, Microsoft is doing damage to its story that Silverlight is a cross-platform browser plug-in that supports Windows, Mac -- and, thanks...
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Office Starter 2010: The fine print on Microsoft's Works replacement
- More information is coming in from various testers regarding the Office Starter 2010 build that Microsoft released to a group of selected testers late last week -- including details on macro and file type support. Do any of these make Office Starter a non-starter, in your book? by Mary Jo...
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Office Starter 2010 private beta, with 'Office to GO,' goes to testers
- Microsoft released a bunch of public betas of various Office 2010 products this week. But it also released another one under non-disclosure to a select group of testers: Office Starter 2010. Microsoft made the code for Office Starter 2010 available to select testers via its Connect Web site late this...
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?
- I'm not one of those ready to write Windows an RIP certificate now that Google has finally taken some of the wraps off its Chrome OS. In fact, after reading through industry watchers' questions and Google's answers about it, I'm thinking that Chrome OS may not look quite so appealing...
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Microsoft still working on an Adobe Lightroom competitor, but with a social twist
- It's been almost two years since I first got tips about Microsoft "SmartFlow," a product which allegedly was going to be a competitor with Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom post-production software for professional photographers. I had thought that incubation project may have been quietly eliminated somewhere along the way. But it's still...
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Pivot: Microsoft's experiment to 'view the Web as a web'
- Microsoft's Live Labs -- its Research and MSN mash-up -- fielded a new test project on November 18 known as "Pivot." Pivot (not to be confused with Microsoft's recently renamed PowerPivot) is meant to combine search, browsing and recommendations to create a more unified Web experience, according...
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Microsoft shares a few tidbits on IE9 and (lots) more on Silverlight 4
- Microsoft shared some information about what's coming in Internet Explorer 9 and Silverlight 4 during its November 18 Professional Developers Conference PDC keynotes. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download
- Microsoft released on November 18 the public beta of Office 2010. It can be downloaded by anyone for free, as of 1 pm ET today, as can new public betas of SharePoint Server 2010 and Office Web Apps. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?
- One noticeable no-show at this week's Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is Live Mesh. Live Mesh, Microsoft's synchronization service that is the pet project of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, was one of the main attractions at previous Microsoft developers' conferences. I asked Ozzie for an update on it this...
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Microsoft PDC Live Blog Day Two: IE, Silverlight 4.0 and more
- The second day of keynotes at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is about to begin, and expectations are running high that MIcrosoft might share some details on what's coming with Internet Explorer 9, Silverlight 4 and Office 2010 Beta 2 today. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?
- In the past year, customers and developers testing Windows Azure have been running primarily brand-new (and largely Web 2.0 style) apps on Microsoft's cloud operating system. But when will Azure be tuned to handle host legacy enterprise apps? And when and how will users be able to take advantage of...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Three new codenames and how they fit into Microsoft's cloud vision
- Any Microsoft Professional Developers Conference PDC wouldn't be complete without a few new codenames. On November 17, Microsoft introduced three new ones that all are related to Microsoft's evolving cloud-computing vision and infrastructure. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Microsoft to share some details on IE 9 at PDC show this week
- Microsoft is on tap to share some information about its Internet Explorer IE 9 browser at its Professional Developers Conference this week, but isn't yet ready to deliver any bits. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Microsoft PDC: Live blogging the Day One keynotes
- It's that time again: Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 Day One kicks off today. Join in our live blog with a bunch of us Microsoft bloggers will be live blogging this morning's keynote, which will feature Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and Server and Tools President Bob Muglia, among other...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
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