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
IDC predicts that Windows Phone will surpass iPhone sales in four years; Android still out front.
The second hands-on look at Microsoft's upcoming compilers-as-a-service technology is now available to developers in a June 2012 Community Technology Preview.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/05/2012
Proposed deal comes amid discouraging financial news for Dell.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/25/2012
The Release Candidate of Microsoft's object-relational mapping framework for .NET is available via NuGet.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/18/2012
Businesses are under pressure to respond much faster to customer requirements and competitive threats.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/17/2012
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 "release candidate" of Windows Server 2012 is expected at about the same time.
Lele shares his take on Azure development and how other .NET devs might want to get started.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/24/2012
Four of five groups show a profit, with the Entertainment and Devices Division the lone money-loser.
Only three editions for Windows 8 on traditional devices.
The products are part of a raft of new releases that also include Exchange, Project and Visio.
When Microsoft talks about application lifecycle management (ALM), it's always in the context of its Visual Studio IDE, especially with Visual Studio 11.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/16/2012
While there's lots of talk about big data these days (a lot of talk), there currently is no good, authoritative definition of big data, according to Microsoft Regional Director Andrew Brust.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/10/2012
The new datacenters currently support Azure Compute and Storage services.
Microsoft TechNet and MSDN subscribers only have access to the Evaluation edition; or they can purchase the product.
If you didn't make it to the show, here are some highlights from the event's keynote presentations.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/03/2012
It may not happen tomorrow, but sooner or later you're going to find yourself writing multitouch, gesture- and audio-input-based applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/29/2012
Scott Hanselman, senior program manager in Microsoft's Developer Division, said that the decision wasn't really about open source: "This is about open development."
- By John K. Waters
- 03/28/2012
Microsoft today unveiled a new cloud-based build service for its upcoming hosted Team Foundation Service.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/27/2012