In his strongest public statement to date, CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft is "all in" when it comes to the cloud.
The speaker lineup at this year's annual RSA Security Conference and Expo, underway this week in San Francisco, is packing some serious federal heat.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/02/2010
More than 8,000 developers have downloaded the first test build since its release at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in November.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/01/2010
Bob Muglia's talk at a Goldman Sachs technology event on Tuesday was chock full of forward-looking statements.
Microsoft released a new version of its Windows Azure Service Management (WASM) Cmdlets for PowerShell last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2010
Microsoft has launched an ambitious new mobile platform that is a major departure from its existing Windows Mobile offering.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/15/2010
Academic researchers can now apply for free access to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud services.
Microsoft's Windows Azure and SQL Azure cloud services are now generally available, ending the free test period.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2010
Public safety managers must begin moving into the cloud, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday at the company's annual Public Safety Symposium.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 01/28/2010
Microsoft is aligning with former rival Intuit to help bring Intuit's large contingent of QuickBooks users into the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/21/2010
A Microsoft official said this week the government must revise out-of-date statutes and lay new legislative groundwork to keep pace with technology.
The company updates its Quince community-based patterns portal with a professional service for collaboration and storage.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/21/2010
At the inaugural meeting of the New York Technology Council, representatives from Google and Microsoft debated their views on how data will be stored and shared in the future.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/15/2010
Microsoft and HP disclosed a $250 million, three-year partnership to develop and market next-generation datacenter technology and application infrastructure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/13/2010
A free toolkit helps database users migrate from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server database on-premise or in the cloud.
The company announced on Monday that users can now upgrade their Windows Azure preview accounts to commercial subscriptions, or register for new services.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/06/2010
Still rooted to traditional dev models? Learning the skills and processes to span on-premises and cloud scenarios is fundamental for Visual Studio developers in 2010.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/01/2010
HP for the first time is enabling infrastructure and application provisioning services to third-party cloud providers, initially Amazon's EC2.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/17/2009
As CIOs largely reject the early crop of cloud services for business-critical apps, Redmond readies private and hybrid cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/17/2009
Microsoft formed a new organization within its Server and Tools Business last week called the Server and Cloud Division (SCD).
- By Anne Watkins
- 12/14/2009