Dean Hachamovitch and Scott Guthrie headline Microsoft's 11th Web dev conference, emphasizing HTML5 interoperability and strong ties to open source solutions.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/12/2011
As with any big shift in technology, a lot is at stake for developers. No one wants to make significant investments of money, attention and free time on something that will be a mere flash in the pan -- or even a stable, yet niche, technology.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2011
Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology Previews.
- By Roger Jennings
- 03/01/2011
Microsoft today announced the appointment of Satya Nadella as president of the company's Server and Tools Business.
Cloud computing solutions vary considerably, yet claim superior privacy, security and scalability over on-premises deployments that also require the expense of an IT department to manage them.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 01/01/2011
Rackspace Hosting is looking to make cloud computing appealing to a broader set of customers that might not have the resources or acumen to manage systems and apps in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2010
BizTalk Server is a blockbuster product, but it's also a sleeper. Andrew Brust explains why BizTalk could be headed for big things in the cloud.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/01/2010
Novell last week announced it will be sold to Attachmate, a business software company based in Seattle, for $6.10 per share.
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 to allow data centers to tap Windows Azure server resources in the cloud.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/19/2010
CollabNet made a self-described "aggressive move" into cloud-based developer services recently by announcing it is acquiring Codesion, which hosts software version control services such as Subversion.
Microsoft kicked off its 2010 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) today by offering developers worldwide an update on its emerging cloud computing, Windows Phone and Internet Explorer 9 development platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/28/2010
According to a Microsoft financial report released today, the first fiscal quarter of 2011, ending on Sept. 30, brought in 16.20 billion in revenue.
Ray Ozzie, renown for jumpstarting Microsoft's move to the Internet cloud, described a new vision for the company in a "post-PC world."
A recent survey shows that one of the greatest challenges facing the adoption of cloud computing is that the industry isn't selling it very well.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Baltimore-based AVIcode Inc., a provider of .NET application performance monitoring software.
Microsoft today released BizTalk Server 2010 to its hardware manufacturing partners, which means that products will ship to customers soon.
The dog days of August are a good time to take stock of some of the major themes and trends likely to shape the development space toward the end of 2010 and into 2011.
- By Bola Rotibi
- 08/23/2010
OutSystems this week released version 5.1 of its Agile Platform, featuring "1 Click" provisioning designed to help developers quickly get projects up and running on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service.
Microsoft provided more information about security for Windows Azure, publishing a talk and white paper.
Application lifecycle management (ALM) provider Collabnet rolled out a new version of its flagship TeamForge ALM platform this week, as well as a general-availability release of its free Subversion Edge product.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/11/2010