By Liz McMillan  Platform Computing announced a partnership and joint technology solution with Microsoft for organizations to take advantage of high performance computing (HPC) clusters independent of a cluster's operating system (OS). The combination of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster and Microsoft Wind... Nov. 4, 2009 02:15 PM EST Reads: 388 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft was in one of its interoperability moods Wednesday and said that developers using Eclipse, the great open source IDE, will be able to target Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, its Azure cloud operating system and Silverlight. This renewed open source invasion – Microsoft’s no... Oct. 30, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 638 |
By Data Recovery Software & Tools  A hard disk can be divided into at most four primary partitions, one of which can be an extended partition. The extended partition can be further subdivided into multiple logical drives. The following reading describes an issue when you can lose an NTFS formatted logical drive in a dua... Oct. 28, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 348 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million users. Not all Facebook update... Oct. 23, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,003 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Wall Street declared Microsoft the winner over the economy Friday morning when the results of its September quarter weren’t as bad as everybody thought they were going to be. As a reward, its stock price was pushed up to the highest point since June of last year. Still the economy put ... Oct. 23, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,204 |
By Salvatore Genovese  Day One Support Covers Wyse’s All Hardware and Software Portfolios LONDON, UK. – 22 October 09 - Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing and client virtualization, today announced Day One support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, the lates... Oct. 23, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 642 |
By Salvatore Genovese  SplendidCRM continues to evolve with the incorporation of the Silverlight 3 Toolkit to replace the previous flash-based and hand-made charts. “We continue to pioneer the use of XAML-only graphics as a means to promote rapid application development”, noted Paul Rony, President and Foun... Oct. 20, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,052 |
By Dmitry Sotnikov  Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart... Oct. 20, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,094 |
By Maureen O'Gara  A Rhode Island district court judge Tuesday struck down a jury verdict ordering Microsoft to pay an obscure Australian developer by the name of Ric Richardson $388 million, reportedly the fifth-largest patent infringement award in history. In a relatively rare and painstaking post-tria... Oct. 2, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 689 |
By Jeremy Geelan  "For years, we've talked about how information technology enables companies to do more with less," writes Microsoft supremo Steve Ballmer in his latest "Executive Email" to Microsoft customers and analysts. "But during this economic reset," Ballmer continues, "IT provides business lead... Sep. 29, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 878 |
By Flex News Desk  Akamai Technologies has announced the Akamai HD Network, its next generation video delivery offering and a platform to deliver HD video online to viewers using Adobe Flash technology, Microsoft Silverlight, and to the iPhone, at broadcast-level audience scale. The Akamai HD Network is ... Sep. 29, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 611 |
By Jayaram Krishnaswamy  Enterprise data can be of very different kinds ranging from flat files to data stored in relational databases and XML datasources. The extraordinary number of database related products, and their historic evolution, makes this task exacting. The entry of cloud computing has brought are... Sep. 28, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 692 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Intel is pushing Atom out of netbooks and into embedded applications like Daimler and BMW infotainment systems, cell phones and other devices in search of what it calls a $15 billion opportunity.
It wants its OEMs and other friends to take a page out of Apple’s book and create app s... Sep. 25, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 705 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Debra Chrapaty, Microsoft’s corporate VP of Global Foundation Services, the person responsible for the strategy and infrastructure platform under Microsoft Live, Cloud and Online Services worldwide including its physical infrastructure, security, operational management, global delivery... Sep. 21, 2009 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,455 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft’s share of U.S. searches jumped 22.1% in August to 10.7% of the market to Google’s 64.6%, up 2.6%, and Yahoo’s 16%, according to Nielsen. Yahoo was down 4.2%. Microsoft was up from 9% in July. That’s a sequential leap of 22.1% for Microsoft’s newfangled Bing search machine, b... Sep. 19, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,854 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Intel’s appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission’s monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn’t prove that it hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts. According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the weekend in the... Sep. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,152 |
By RIA News Desk  Keynote Systems, a provider of on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience, today announced that Keynote Transaction Perspective® 9.0 is now generally available to all Keynote customers. Transaction Perspective 9.0 is a mu... Sep. 16, 2009 08:23 AM EDT Reads: 650 |
By Maureen O'Gara  On September 23 the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is going to hear Microsoft’s expedited appeal for a stay of the Texas decision ordering Word and Office off the U.S. market by October 10 because they allegedly infringe an i4i patent. Microsoft got the date the day after it ... Aug. 28, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,115 |
By Pat Romanski  DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. CodeRush for Visual Studio® .NET helps you create sophisticated c... Aug. 27, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,595 |
By Liz McMillan  DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. DevExpress.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of... Aug. 27, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,624 |
By Todd Anglin  Optimizing website performance is a challenging task. Websites are composed of many moving parts – both on the client and on the server – and optimizing performance requires a multi-faceted approach that addresses potential problems in all moving parts. Performance bottlenecks are caus... Aug. 27, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,346 Replies: 1 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft Tuesday filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington looking for a stay of the permanent injunction ordering Word and Office off the U.S. market by October 10. It wants the stay while it appeals the decision. The order came do... Aug. 21, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 849 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Like every other budding cloud merchant Microsoft had this idea about having data centers scattered around the country and letting users pick the geography where they wanted their apps to run.
Currently it offers US-Northwest, US-Southwest and US-Anywhere, with others still to come ... Aug. 8, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,191 |
By Maureen O'Gara  According to WHOIS Microsoft as of Tuesday owned office.com, a domain name that it will presumably use in its cloud defense against Google Apps et al and replace the less streamline office.microsoft.com when it come time to field its lightweight Office Web versions of Word, PowerPoint,... Aug. 7, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 967 |
By Corey Roth  I needed to do a quick proof of concept of displaying search results in Silverlight recently and it actually proved easier than I thought it was going to be. I tried this once before in a beta version of Silverlight 2 and it was much more difficult at the time.
I was able to easi... Aug. 3, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,375 |
By Juan Rivera  We pleased to announce the release of VS.Php 2.7 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005. This release introduces a number of new key features and enhacements of existing features.
Silverlight
One of the most exciting new features is Silverlight integration. With VS.Php 2.7, ... Aug. 3, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 874 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft’s long pursuit of Yahoo has finally culminated in a 10-year deal. It’s not the deal people expected, which is why Yahoo stock took a 12% fall in the hours after the companies laid it out Wednesday. Yahoo is going to sell search ads for the both of them. It’s going to use Micr... Aug. 2, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,686 |
By Business Wire  Certiport today named Kankawin Kowsrihawat, 17, from Thailand this year’s World Champion in Word 2007 for culmination of the most prolific competition on Microsoft® Office to date. In its eighth year, the 2009 Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office boasts more than 80,000 student co... Aug. 2, 2009 03:13 AM EDT Reads: 865 |
By Liz McMillan  Certiport today named Fung Yin Sang, 20, and Fu Shing Kong, 18, from Hong Kong this year’s World Champions in Word 2003 and Excel® 2003 for culmination of the most prolific competition on Microsoft® Office to date. In its eighth year, the 2009 Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office ... Aug. 2, 2009 02:38 AM EDT Reads: 838 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft Monday released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community under the GPL 2 license, the mother of all open source licenses written when open source was still a pup by the brassbound Free Software Foundation. Jul. 24, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,258 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft released Windows 7 Build 7600 to manufacturing Wednesday afternoon, a day ahead of its numbers. Windows Server 2008 RC2 also RTM’d. Microsoft said the gold code will start going out to OEMs in a couple of days. It’s sticking with October 22 as the date for general availabilit... Jul. 23, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,106 |
By Brad Abrams  On July 30th @ 8pm I will be doing a virtual talk at the Linked .NET User’s Group. I encourage you to come and bring your questions on Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services..
Brad Abrams - Silverlight ready for business and .Net RIA Services
- Thursday July 30, 2009, 8:00PM PDT
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By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft's Amazon-like Azure public cloud is four months away from going live.
The company confirmed Tuesday the widely held supposition that Azure would go commercial at its Professional Developers Conference in mid-November.
Microsoft also deigned to start explaining what it's... Jul. 14, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,107 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Expanding further on its recent cloud services announcements, CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced a collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to utilize the Windows Azure platform. The platform provides a wide range of Internet services that can be accessed from on-premises or in the cloud. In re... Jul. 14, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,868 |
By Brad Abrams  Recently .NET Rocks! talked to Stephen Forte and covered a topic I have been interested in for a a couple of years: Data Access Options. Clearly this has been a space of a lot of innovation in the last few years. Stephen does a good job of explaining the benefits customers are gettin... Jul. 13, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 979 |
By Alin Irimie  Microsoft announced the rebranding of SQL Services to SQL Azure. SQL Server is the data platform of Windows Server so it made sense to align the name of the relational database platform of Windows Azure, SQL Azure. SQL Azure is built on the SQL Server technology foundation which delive... Jul. 13, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,103 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft is in negotiations with the European Commission, according to Bloomberg, trying to come to terms on what it will cost the company to get out from under the latest round of antitrust charges related to its browser and Office software. The wire service, citing four unidentified... Jul. 10, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 952 |
By Brad Abrams  With Silverlight 3 shipping and a brand new update to .NET RIA Services I thought I would update the example from my Jul. 10, 2009 01:06 PM EDT Reads: 801 |
By Marek Miesiac  Microsoft engineers began brainstorming concepts for an interactive table back in 2001. In early 2003 a new product was presented to Bill Gates the Microsoft Chairman. A year later, the MS Surface team grew and became the Surface Computing group. Finally in 2007 they had a prototype t... Jul. 3, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,496 |
By Glenn Rossman That makes six awards over the past two years, on the heels of the company’s best financial quarter in its history. Jun. 24, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 933 |