Microsoft provided a strategic update at a financial analyst meeting in New York, describing prospects for the company's second half of the fiscal year, which ends in June.
Research institutions that are part of the Ontario Centres of Excellence have launched a "Tools as a Service" (TaaS) cloud computing pilot program with IBM in an effort to provide researchers, students and faculty with access to business software and software development tools.
A weakened economy will serve as a catalyst to push enterprises from on-premise computing to accessing services over the Internet cloud, according to Microsoft exec Doug Hauser, who delivered an address on Wednesday at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference.
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/11/2009
Research shows Software as a Service development is on the rise, especially in North America and the Asia-Pacific region.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/01/2009
A new framework for data synchronization.
Microsoft releases second CTPs for Windows Azure.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/01/2009
A survey of more than 300 open source software (OSS) developers found that many plan to distribute their solutions as services over the Internet cloud.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/20/2009
Microsoft released the second community technology previews of its Software Development Kit and Visual Studio extensions for the new Windows Azure cloud services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/16/2009
Microsoft announced a client update to the beta version of Live Mesh on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/16/2009
New global research forecasts a swift rise in development plans for Software as a Service applications in the next 12 months.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/12/2009
Bob Muglia was named president of Microsoft's $13 billion Server and Tools Business, Microsoft announced today.
- By Kathleen Richards and Ed Scannell
- 01/06/2009
Bob Muglia on Microsoft's new cloud programming model.
- By Kathleen Richards and Ed Scannell
- 01/01/2009
"Kilimanjaro" and "Madison" will enable centralized application- and systems-management and massive parallel processing in SQL Server.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2008
Developers face a long trek to Microsoft's ambitious "Oslo" modeling vision.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2008
Microsoft's Robert Wahbe on Azure and S+S applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2008
Engine Yard releases Merb, a new open source Web framework for building Ruby applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2008
New .NET libraries support data and task parallelism.
- By Stephen Toub
- 11/15/2008
A look back at the 2008 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/15/2008
IBM launches a cloud-computing initiative in an effort to evolve its software-delivery model into a mix of on-premises and online apps.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2008
Why Windows Azure and Windows 7 will change the way you work.
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/15/2008