With more than 600,000 downloads of Visual Studio 2012 in a less than 4 weeks, the new IDE has the fastest download rate in the product's history.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/12/2012
The first public preview of Windows Azure Mobile Services is designed to provide an on-ramp for Windows 8 developers who want to build connected applications--without the learning curve.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/07/2012
Initial hardware partners include Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM and NEC.
The Kansas City-based startup wants to make it easier for developers to examine the network stack and find problems in code.
Microsoft launched a developer contest on Wednesday with a top prize of $10,000 for the winning Office or SharePoint 2013 app.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/10/2012
The company has added an Azure Authentication Library for .NET to the Developer Preview of its cloud-based identity management service.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/06/2012
Team Foundation Service takes what's good about TFS and cloud-enables it.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 07/18/2012
This preview release only supports the PowerShell-based IT administrator tool, but support for a GUI-based management module is coming.
Microsoft has cooked up a feast of value-added big data cloud apps featuring Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive and Pig, as well as free apps and utilities for numerical analysis, publishing data sets, data encryption, uploading files to SQL Azure and blobs.
- By Roger Jennings
- 07/01/2012
On June 7, Microsoft introduced its revamped Windows Azure cloud computing platform to the world.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/29/2012
The service is free until Aug. 1.
Other upgrades include cloud services, Windows Server and System Center.
By adding IaaS to its Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio, Microsoft is also mounting its most formidable challenge yet to Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/07/2012
Integrating with SkyDrive can help your Windows Phone application save a user's settings to the cloud, and retrieve them across multiple devices and platforms.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/05/2012
Visual Studio test tools, profiling, performance counters, and the SQL Azure Management Console provide a snapshot as to how the app performs.
- By Joseph Fultz
- 05/17/2012
While we often talk of how we can leverage OSS to deliver a higher-quality product, rarely do we talk about how we can give back to the OSS community.
In Microsoft's last fiscal third quarter, Server and Tools delivered $4.57 billion in revenue to the company, up 14 percent. The division is large, growing and increasingly profitable
The cloud wars heat up as Amazon promises easier deployment and scalability for database and application developers.
On Wednesday Microsoft announced that it has signed a deal with Twilio to give developers the ability to have voice and SMS-enabled applications run on the Windows Azure cloud service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/03/2012
Twilio's APIs let developers build the ability to initiate and receive phone calls from mobile and Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/03/2012