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- 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
- 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...
- Tags: Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Outlook Attachment Manager 2.2 (Windows)
- Attachment Manager is a MS Outlook add-in program, that can transparently detach/re-attach attachments and embedded images to/from the Cloud, for example by using the Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure service. In addition, it can send large attachments (up to 5GB with Amazon S3) through Cloud directly from your email program....
- Tags: Microsoft Azure, S3 Inc., Microsoft Windows, Attachment, OutlookCloud, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Mice, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2009-10-08
- Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state
- Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington stateWhat next, they'll terminate everyone's licensing agreements and thenhit the kill switch?Governments should be bullying corporations. Not the other way around. (or perhaps neither side should bully the other?)Typical MicroshaftHire foreigners, make the taxpayers foot the bill...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, government, Microsoft Corp., Washington State, Quincy facility, Microsoft Azure
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state
- Microsoft is making preparations to move applications that developers are hosting on its Azure cloud infrastructure out of its Washington state datacenter, due to a change in the tax laws there. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Azure, Washington, Microsoft Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Data Centers, Financial Planning, Finance, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- 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
- Microsoft's Azure interoperability pieces start to fall into place
- One of Microsoft's key promises for Azure, its cloud computing platform, was that it wouldn't be a Windows/.Net-only affair. This week, the company and its partners moved ahead with new test builds of some of the promised Azure interoperability components. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Azure, Interoperability, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Microsoft Azure cloud suffers first crash
- Microsoft Azure cloud suffers first crashat least the users did not see BSODthat's a big step forward for M$...good job!"Quality MS Software"Yet another reason you don't bet your company on MS.If you do, you deserve to be fired.MS has no place in high performance computing.OMG, I am so shocked.Not really.Pre-beta...
- Tags: cloud computing, way this article, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Azure, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-16
- Ozzie responds: Is Microsoft Azure just 'Hailstorm' revisited?
- Ozzie responds: Is Microsoft Azure just 'Hailstorm' revisited?Yes... in theoryAlright, to ansswer your question, I believe Microsoft has an answer, in theory. We need to see it work in the real world.This will work, if for example, I am user A, and I own Data A. And User B is...
- Tags: RSS, Ozzie, User B, Hailstorm, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Azure
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed
- Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexedHead in the clouds...So, Microsoft "cloud computing" is another huge boon to IT Departments who want to hire more staff? I wonder if anyone will eventually wake up and realize that IT departments can usually be replaced by a dozen temp...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Databases, Windows Azure, Azure, PDC, Microsoft Corp., data center, server, ISV
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
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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
- Microsoft Windows Azure and SQL Azure
- Windows Only? You have not done your research...To quote: "Microsoft?s APIs and services are still closed and proprietary. They still assume a Windows-only world.""A Windows-only world" - this is not true in the least... Spend 10 minutes and do a review of the documentation on MSDN. PHP is not "windows...
- Tags: Construction, Research & Development, window, Windows Only, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Microsoft Windows Azure and SQL Azure
- Microsoft's Windows Azure and SQL Azure address part of organizations requirements for an open, standards based platform that can support local, private and public clouds. by Dan Kusnetzky
- Tags: SQL, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Programming Languages, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- A PDC peek at a Microsoft server container (photos)
- At its developer conference, Microsoft shows off the fourth generation of its data center design as it moves toward Azure and the cloud. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-11-18
- So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?
- Project name changedIt's Microsoft Live Mess now under Ballmer's leadership.RE: So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?i hope they don't get rid of or just leave it alone because i really like it. Actually, it works very well.It might be stuck in some pre-release limbo but whats already available to use does...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Live Mesh
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds
- In a lengthy interview, Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talked about clouds, lessons Microsoft learned from the recent Sidekick outage as well as why people are wrong to count Microsoft out of the smartphone race. When Ray Ozzie penned his Internet Services Disruption memo back in 2005, he had a...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Microsoft, cloud, Ina Fried CNET News
- News items 2009-11-18
- Three new codenames and how they fit into Microsoft's cloud vision
- They are named V / W / TThey came up with some good names:VirusWormTrojan;)Wow! Did you figure that out all by yourself? You get a gold star! [nt].Windows 'BOT CLOUD' now that is NEW!Instead of the MILLIONS of compromised Windows servers/desktop world wide and growing.The Windows cloud will pollute the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Windows Azure, Microsoft Corp., operating system, vision
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Rackspace adds Windows Server support to its cloud
- That is pretty awesome. Just goes to show how viable of a platform Microsoft Windows really is. Its a very robust operating system and scales well.RE: Rackspace adds Windows Server support to its cloudI see 3 possibilities in this; which one do you think this is?1. RackSpace has received...
- Tags: Servers, Rackspace, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Bing 2.0 debuts
- Bing Image SearchSpeaking of Bing, I recently did some Bing Image Searches, and found that they produced better results than Google Image Searches.Just keeps getting better.I don't know how anyone using Bing could find anything to complain about. In fact all the complaints I do see come from people...
- Tags: SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
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