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Application Appliances from Microsoft and HP save money and time, reduce IT complexity
Today, HP and Microsoft Corp. announced application appliances that will help organizations optimize...
Author: aearnest Date: 01/18/2011
January 13, 2011 News Thursday: WebMatrix RTM, Windows Azure PHP tool Updates, and more Server and Tools News
Microsoft announces the release of WebMatrix Today, Microsoft announced the worldwide availability...
Author: bpinder Date: 01/13/2011
Lokad Announces Cloud-based Sales Forecasting for the Retail Industry, hosted on Windows Azure
Today Lokad announced Salescast, a web application for sales forecasting hosted on Windows Azure, at...
Author: mdingle Date: 01/10/2011
December 23rd, 2010 News Thursday Holiday Edition: Client Technology Preview of Server Application Virtualization on Windows Azure, AVIcode 5.7, Silverlight Enhanced Movies and more Server & Tools news.
Microsoft Releases Client Technology Preview (CTP) of Server Application Virtualization on Windows...
Author: bpinder Date: 12/23/2010
Microsoft STB Products Recognized as Industry Winners in 2010
Looking back at 2010, the Server and Tools Business yielded numerous product announcements...
Author: bpinder Date: 12/17/2010
Windows Azure Customer and Partner News
There are many exciting new customers adopting the Windows Azure Platform, earlier this week we...
Author: mdingle Date: 12/16/2010
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Released: Converging Desktop Security and Management
Today, many organizations have separate endpoint security and management infrastructures, which...
Author: Lsteele Date: 12/16/2010
Transport for London moves to Windows Azure cloud computing platform
Today, Microsoft and Transport for London (TfL) announced the move of TfL’s Developers Area...
Author: mdingle Date: 12/14/2010
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Releases to Manufacturing
Today, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Small Business Server 2011...
Author: bpinder Date: 12/13/2010
VMblog 2011 Predictions series: Microsoft walks the cloud talk
VMblog’s 2011 Predictions series asks virtualization and cloud executives to take a look back...
Author: aearnest Date: 12/10/2010
Microsoft Shares Cloud Technology with Top Australian Research Organizations
Microsoft has announced new partnerships with three of Australia’s top research organizations...
Author: bpinder Date: 12/10/2010
December 9, 2010 News Thursday: Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, Windows Azure platform Client Technology Previews … and more Server and Tools news.
Windows Azure Platform Client Technology Previews Now Available As previously announced at PDC 2010,...
Author: bpinder Date: 12/09/2010
Microsoft delivers Windows Azure Platform updates
As previously announced at PDC 2010, Microsoft is now delivering updates to the Windows Azure...
Author: mdingle Date: 11/30/2010
November 23, 2010 News Tuesday: Thanksgiving Week Special Edition
Drive Extender Feature in SBS Products When we first started designing SBS 2011 Essentials (formally...
Author: bpinder Date: 11/23/2010
What's Next in Tech? NCBI BLAST on Windows Azure
As the Microsoft Technical Computing and eXtreme Computing groups close out their week at the...
Author: aearnest Date: 11/18/2010
Microsoft takes technical computing to the clouds at Supercomputing 2010!
Today Microsoft’s Technical Computing and eXtreme Computing groups kick off the...
Author: aearnest Date: 11/16/2010
November 11, 2010 News Thursday: PASS Summit and Tech•Ed Europe Special Edition
Q&A: Muglia Discusses the Latest News for Server and Tools For a snapshot of Server and Tools...
Author: bpinder Date: 11/11/2010
Bringing it all together at PASS Summit 2010
It’s been a busy few weeks for the Server and Tools Business, with announcements at PDC10,...
Author: mdingle Date: 11/09/2010
Today’s News at TechEd Europe 2010
TechEd Europe 2010 kicks off today in Berlin, Germany with a keynote by Microsoft’s Brad...
Author: mdingle Date: 11/08/2010
Coming Up Next: TechEd Europe and PASS Summit 2010
Last week at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced a number of new...
Author: aearnest Date: 11/05/2010
Announcing Windows Small Business Server 2011
Since we announced the availability of the beta version of Windows Small Business Server Code name...
Author: bpinder Date: 11/02/2010
Global “Cloud Power” Campaign Kicks Off Today
Hot on the heels of last Week’s Professional Developer’s Conference, Microsoft continues its heavy...
Author: mdingle Date: 11/01/2010
October 28, 2010 News Thursday: PDC Edition
Platform as a service is where developers and businesses will ultimately see the true value of the...
Author: bpinder Date: 10/26/2010
OpenStack is now open for Microsoft’s Hyper-V
Microsoft is partnering with Cloud.com and Rackspace to provide support of its virtualization...
Author: aearnest Date: 10/22/2010
October 14th, 2010 News Thursday: System Center Configuration Manager R3 released, Wipro partners with Citrix and Microsoft… and more Server and Tools news.
Microsoft releases System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Today Microsoft announced the release...
Author: mdingle Date: 10/14/2010
Day 2 of VMworld Europe 2010: Microsoft and Citrix V-alliance
Day 2 of VMworld Europe begins, with Microsoft's Patrick O'Rourke and Citrix's Klaus Oestermann...
Author: aearnest Date: 10/13/2010
New Release of Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse/PHP and new tutorial
Today the Microsoft Interoperability Technical Strategy team is shipping a new Community Technology...
Author: mdingle Date: 10/12/2010
Microsoft at VMworld Europe 2010
Following a great week at Citrix Synergy in Berlin, the jet-setting Microsoft Virtualization team...
Author: aearnest Date: 10/12/2010
Microsoft Releases WebMatrix Beta 2
Today, Microsoft continued to reinforce its investment in the Microsoft Web Platform by releasing...
Author: mdingle Date: 10/06/2010
Microsoft acquires AVIcode Inc. to extend application management to the cloud
Today, Microsoft announced the acquisition of AVICode, Inc., a market leader in application...
Author: mdingle Date: 10/06/2010
MIX10: jQuery Templates, Data Link, and Globalization Accepted as Official jQuery Plugins
At the MIX10 Conference in Las Vegas, Scott Guthrie and jQuery developer John Resig announced that...
Author: mdingle Date: 10/04/2010
Bringing Technical Computing to the Cloud
Since last week's launch of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, Microsoft's technical computing group...
Author: mdingle Date: 10/01/2010
News Thursday: BizTalk Server RTM, Visual Basic CTP and more of the week’s Server and Tools news
Microsoft announces BizTalk Server 2010 RTM and General Availability date Today Microsoft has...
Author: mdingle Date: 09/23/2010
Microsoft at Oracle OpenWorld this week
The SQL Server team traveled to San Francisco for the Oracle OpenWorld conference this week armed...
Author: aearnest Date: 09/21/2010
Windows SBS 7 Preview Available Today
Today Microsoft announced that the Windows Small Business Server (SBS) “7” public...
Author: mdingle Date: 09/21/2010
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Now Available
Today during the keynote address at the High Performance Computing Financial Markets Conference,...
Author: mdingle Date: 09/20/2010
News Thursday: Expression Encoder and Rackspace Announcements
Welcome to News Thursday, a blog we’ll be posting the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month to...
Author: mdingle Date: 09/09/2010
Microsoft at VMworld 2010: Observations from Day 1 and on to Day 2
For those of you wondering how things are going for the Microsoft Virtualization team in San...
Author: aearnest Date: 09/01/2010
Microsoft and Citrix respond to VMware's opening keynote at VMworld 2010
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbqGMgXu850]
Author: aearnest Date: 08/31/2010
Microsoft heads to VMworld 2010; kicks things off with TweetUp party
VMworld 2010 kicks off tomorrow and the Microsoft Virtualization Team is headed to San Francisco to...
Author: aearnest Date: 08/30/2010
Fortune 500 Company CH2M HILL Switches to Microsoft from VMware to Save Millions
Microsoft today announced that CH2M HILL switched to Microsoft virtualization and management...
Author: aearnest Date: 08/25/2010
Microsoft Releases Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta Today
As announced at VS Live! earlier this month, the beta version of Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch...
Author: smcculle Date: 08/23/2010
Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 now available
As announced at VS Live! earlier this month, Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 has Released to Web...
Author: mdingle Date: 08/19/2010
Announcing the Availability of Windows SBS Codename Aurora Preview and Windows Home Server Codename Vail
Today, Microsoft has released the preview of Windows Small Business Server Codename...
Author: mdingle Date: 08/16/2010
Moving to the SQL Azure Cloud from Access or MySQL
Today Microsoft is releasing to web an important update to the SSMA (SQL Server Migration Assistant)...
Author: mdingle Date: 08/12/2010
Microsoft Services Launches New Offerings for Mission Critical Customers
Today, Microsoft Services announced an enhanced Premier Mission Critical add-on for customers...
Author: mdingle Date: 08/10/2010
Microsoft vs. VMware – You Vote for the Winner!
In a head-to-head challenge not seen since the original Rocky, Microsoft takes on VMware in...
Author: aearnest Date: 08/10/2010
Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0 Released Today
Microsoft announced today the release of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0. The major...
Author: mdingle Date: 08/05/2010