Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Who's ahead: Microsoft Corp.'s .NET or Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Platform Enterprise Edition?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/30/2008
Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/29/2008
What is clickjacking? Security pros are trying to make sense of a new bug found by researchers that apparently affects various Web browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/29/2008
Microsoft released on Monday Windows HPC Server 2008, the datacenter-class operating system that promises to broaden the development and implementation of high-performance computing applications on the Windows platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/22/2008
One thing you won't find underlying a cloud computing initiative is a relational database. And this is no accident: Relational databases are ill-suited for use within cloud computing environments.
- By Joab Jackson
- 09/22/2008
Despite speculation that Microsoft might make an announcement around its Silverlight runtime environment at Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, the company's profile was lower than past events.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/19/2008
Security firm Sophos disclosed on Monday that BusinessWeek magazine's Web site had been hacked.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/16/2008
Cray Inc., in conjunction with Intel and Microsoft, on Tuesday unveiled a relatively low-cost supercomputer that works in office environments.
The annual VMworld user conference gets underway today in Las Vegas, with the event's host betting big on a new strategy that redefines its market-leading virtualization management products.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2008
The newly released Google Chrome Web browser beta is a completely open source solution and a potential challenger to Microsoft's proprietary-code Internet Explorer browser, but Microsoft's Senior Program Manager Scott Hanselman found a little bit of irony in Google's browser as well.
The sluggish global economy has migrated to the IT industry, according to a survey released this week by Forrester Research.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/12/2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was released late last month, so I gave it a test run.
Sun Microsystems today launched the latest salvo in the virtualization wars with the release of new and upgraded tools and services around its xVM technology.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/10/2008
Developers got an indication of Microsoft's unfolding cloud platform strategy at this week's VSLive! conference in New York. Several conference sessions outlined the company's plans for Software plus Services and platforms-as-a-service, which offer hosted development and runtimes.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/10/2008
Microsoft, as part of its overall initiative to support modeling capabilities, especially in its .NET Framework, today joined the Object Management Group (OMG), a nonprofit organization that fosters integration standards for the enterprise.
As hackers continue to focus their attention on virtualized environments, those looking to adopt virtualization technologies should proceed with caution, according to report from InfoWorld.
- By GCN.com Staff
- 09/09/2008
Sun Microsystems this week rolled out version 2.0 of its xVM VirtualBox.
Google's Chrome Web browser -- complete with quirky marketing comic book -- made a splash when announced on Tuesday, but what a difference a day makes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/04/2008
Just days after Microsoft released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, Google unexpectedly made what could be its largest assault on Redmond to date -- the release of its own Web browser.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/02/2008