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- Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?
- Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?Its such a mix mash of thingsA lot of the Services/Cloud efforts Microsoft is spearheading seems too conflicting at times. I personally started to use Live Mesh to store documents and other files, yet it does so many of the things...
- Tags: Programming languages, SkyDrive, Microsoft Corp., stand-up
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Microsoft's renamed Windows Live SkyDrive service gets a refresh
- As LiveSide.net predicted, Microsoft has, indeed, decided to dump the "Windows Live Folders" branding and go with Windows Live SkyDrive for its cloud-storage service that is in beta test.SkyDrive was one of the codenames Microsoft used for its storage service during its development. (Microsoft is saying that LiveDrive also was...
- Tags: Storage, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Service, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- You say SkyDrive, I say LiveDrive
- You say SkyDrive, I say LiveDriveBrand Names 'nothing to write home about' ...... why then is your electronic pen in evidence?Windows Home Server must, by definition, be in the class of home-writeable entities ;-)Live Sky Dive To LinuxMicrosoft can't even get the desktop software right; would you really trust your...
- Tags: Branding, LiveDrive, SkyDrive, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
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- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OS
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OSThe cloud providers fully support the platform the provide. On the otherhand, try to get help from MS for problems with your application hosted on Rackspace. It will be a LONG wait.And, end users have to pick their poison. No matter which platform they...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows Strata, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- US spam levels up, state of Illinois is the worst offender
- From MessageLabs: Spam levels for the US in June have reached 86% compared to spam levels at 81.5% in the rest of the world. Breaking this information down further, MessageLabs reports that some US states are more affected than others. Varying socioeconomic factors are thought to affect the spam...
- Tags: MessageLabs Ltd., State, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Are all (Microsoft and Apple) sync services created equal?
- Apple's introduction of the successor to .Mac -- a k a, MobileMe -- raises the question as to what's taking Microsoft so long to roll out Live Mesh. There aren't a whole lot of details yet available on MobileMe, other than that it will allow cloud-based synchronization...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Windows Live Service, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Mobile computing vs. cloud computing
- There has been for some while "heated debates" amongst fellow blogospherians (probably not a word, don't comment and bitch about it please) about all these cloud services we're hearing about. First we had Windows Live SkyDrive which now offers 5GB of storage space, and rumours of GDrive keep hitting the...
- Tags: Device, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless, Marketing, Hardware, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- Microsoft making inroads against Google Apps for Education
- Although Microsoft's Live@Edu collaboration tools are only in use at about a third of the universities claimed by Google Apps for Education (2000 vs. 6000), Microsoft is rolling out new features to make it's Exchange- and Office-based products more competitive. According to eWeek, ...
- Tags: Education, Google Inc., Google Apps, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Microsoft Office, E-mail Providers, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Office Suites, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh
- Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. (Here's a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its...
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- There's more than one way to mesh
- On April 15, startup Syncplicity, was hatched. Syncplicity's management team includes a number of former (and near-former) Softies -- including Steven Hazel, a former employee of FolderShare. Microsoft acquired FolderShare, a file-sync vendor, from ByteTaxi in 2005 and recently updated the service for the first time in...
- Tags: Web, Groove Networks Inc., Advisor, Microsoft Corp., Syncplicity, FolderShare, MJF, Synchronization Service, Peer To Peer (P2P), Groupware, Storage, Investment, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- xRM: Microsoft's other platform-as-a-service play
- xRM: Microsoft's other platform-as-a-service playI like Microsoft Cloud amazing: SkyDrive cautions for downloads and memory"Great Company comeback to be American proud of the Microsoft Global Network.
- Tags: xRM, PaaS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Microsoft to deliver first Live Mesh beta in late April
- Microsoft to deliver first Live Mesh beta in late Aprilthere is this repeat typo in this article:[i]According to sources, Windows Live Mesh will be an amalgamation of FolderShare and SkyDrive and possibly unify those two services, which would provide users with a way to keep their local and cloud-based data...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Live Mesh, late-April
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Microsoft to deliver first Live Mesh beta in late April
- After dangling some vague promises about its plans to create seamless social and device "meshes," Microsoft is set to deliver more details about its mesh-syncrhonization strategy -- and deliver its first Live Mesh beta to external testers -- later this month. In a Web 2.0 Expo keynote...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., FolderShare, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Middleware, Internet, Software, Enterprise Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Elastra emerges to make cloud computing more attainable for enterprises
- Elastra emerges to make cloud computing more attainable for enterprisesCloud will be perfect 128bit and secured runtime environment;I use SkydriveGreat stuff and full of sausy Partners of Microsoft input as needed from their assigned bid on operations. We'll all grow to meet our individual demands and leisure time. It may...
- Tags: Elastra, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Cloud computing hasn't gone Fortune 500 yet, but it's coming
- Cloud computing hasn't gone Fortune 500 yet, but it's comingWhat's perilous is cloud computing.Trusting a third party with your data and IT is dangerous. No one will put their heart behind anything like its owner. Corporations know better than to trust their IT to third parties for two...
- Tags: Small-Company, cloud computing, IT IS, server
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Untangling the Microsoft mesh
- "Mesh" was Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's word of the day last week at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference. Ozzie waxed prolific on "social mesh," "device mesh," "seamless mesh" and more. But what are the technological underpinnings that will allow users and developers to bring everything together...
- Tags: WinFS, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Sync Famework, Microsoft Horizon, Microsoft Windows, RSS, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Vista Ultimate team releases new discounts, but no new freebies (yet)
- Vista Ultimate team releases new discounts, but no new freebies yetYou bet I am!A legal owner of three licenses, I've found Vista to be the most stable MS operating system to date. Yeah, it's a RAM hog, and hopefully they'll address that one day, but the pros outweigh the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Blogging, blog, Vista Ultimate team, new freeby, new discount, freeby, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft Windows Vista, explorer, team
- Discussion threads 2008-03-09
- Windows Live Platform Services: A guide for the perplexed
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie outlined during his Mix '08 keynote this week a very high-level vision about how Microsoft is moving to be more of a utility-computing/cloud-computing vendor. Ozzie didn't talk specifics about any of the plumbing that makes it possible. But David Treadwell, Corporate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Service, Horizon, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Students Use Online Collaboration to Improve Study Habits and Learning Outcomes
- In Joplin, Missouri Southern State University MSSU offers students a high-quality education while striving to keep costs down. To reduce spending, the IT department decided to replace its aging, expensive, in-house student e-mail solution with a hosted solution. To provide e-mail and related services for students and alumni, MSSU chose...
- Tags: Online Collaboration, Student, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Microsoft refreshes beta of its Google Docs competitor
- Microsoft refreshes beta of its Google Docs competitorwhy is this a competitor to google DocsThe lsat time i checked and even form your statement office live workspace is basically an online storage center where users can view and track changes to a document created in office. so how does this...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
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