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Windows Azure Services Platform Officially Announced
By Brian Nelson ⋅ October 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
A couple of weeks ago, I noted that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had mentioned during an interview ahead of the Professional Developers Conference that Microsoft would be releasing an operating system designed to help developers produce cloud-based applications and services. You can read about that here. This week, Microsoft higher-up (seriously, who keeps track of [...]
Microsoft’s getVIRTUALnow Conference in Chicago
By Kasia Lorenc ⋅ October 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
A few weeks ago I posted about two free upcoming Virtualization events. The first one, Microsoft’s Virtualization event, was in Chicago this week and I got a chance to go. This was my first IT conference and I have to say I was very impressed. It was a whole day of learning really cool stuff [...]
Microsoft Live Search Now With SearchPerks
By Brian Nelson ⋅ October 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
After the Yahoo deal fell through earlier this year, Microsoft began looking for other ways to improve its 3rd place presence in the search engine universe. If you spend any time following the various Internet sites dedicated to finding good deals like I do, you know that Microsoft has been paying people to use Live [...]
Microsoft Web Application Installer
By Dave Lawlor ⋅ October 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
The Microsoft Web Application Installer will allow you to quickly and easily deploy the most widely used web applications available for free to your Windows Server. If you have seen some of my other articles on installing the open source software out there on IIS, you will notice that while it can be done, it [...]
Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta
By Dave Lawlor ⋅ October 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
It isn’t often that a new piece of Windows technology takes me by surprise or really knocks my socks off, but I have to say the IIS team has really done it this time. If you have been around Apache Web servers for any amount of time you have probably seen or used a program [...]
Silverlight 2.0 Overview: Feature Report, Pros and Cons
By Brian Nelson ⋅ October 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
Silverlight is Microsoft’s answer to the currently dominant Adobe Flash. Silverlight 1.0 has been available for about a year now. It has had some successes, most notably when it was the exclusive way to view video and other multimedia from the Beijing Olympics. But, the truth is that this success was "purchased" by a Microsoft [...]
Ballmer "Announces" New Microsoft Initiatives
By Brian Nelson ⋅ October 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
Running a more subtle playbook in times past, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer made a pseudo-announcement ahead of the Professional Developer Conference by dropping newsworthy information into seemingly standard interviews. In doing so, Mr. Ballmer took advantage of the blogging universe’s "report anything" standard to spread the word about upcoming Microsoft services without having to actually [...]
The Future of Computing Part 1: OLEDs, LEPs, and OLEs
By Zach Monroe ⋅ July 30, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments
Hardware and software manufacturers have to be on the cutting edge of product innovation. It seems there is always someone out there trying to outdo what someone else has done, but, that’s how capitalism works. The end result is that the consumer reaps the technology benefits, the companies reap the financial benefits, and the capitalistic [...]
Microsoft Master Certs: Are You Ready for a Challenge?
By Kasia Lorenc ⋅ June 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
During a Tech-Ed session yesterday, Microsoft announced a new advanced certification: the Microsoft Certified Master Certification. The MCM will be offered for Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 and the training is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2008. The new MCM is one step up from the Professional [...]
Get Your Microsoft Developer and Designer Tools for Free!
By Kasia Lorenc ⋅ February 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
If you’ve been dreaming of scoring your very own Microsoft Expression Studio, Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2003, or XNA Game Studio 2.0 then this might be your chance to get it all for free! That’s right! Microsoft DreamSpark is giving away Professional Developer and Designer tools at absolutely no charge. As always, there is [...]
Microsoft Launches Beginner Developer Learning Center
By Dave Lawlor ⋅ March 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment
Microsoft’s new learning center for developers certainly looks like it could be a great resource for those trying to learn programming using the Microsoft tools. It offers two learning tracks with the lessons broken up over 3 tiers to make sure that you can find lessons within your skill level. They are also providing a [...]
New Training Release: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Training
By Dave Lawlor ⋅ February 21, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments
If you have already upgraded to Vista and tried to run Virtual PC 2004, you probably found that it was not quite the same experience that it was in Windows XP. The newest release of Virtual PC 2007 solves many of the difficulties that were found running on Windows Vista. Virtual PC 2007 has been optimized [...]
Lump of Coal in Microsoft’s Stocking
By Gary Eimerman ⋅ December 27, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Russian Programmers have recently delivered a Christmas Present to Microsoft. A full month prior to the public release of Microsoft Vista, the first security flaw has made its way public. The flaw was posted on a Russian site only weeks after the operating system was released to Microsoft’s large corporate users. While there has been [...]
Free From Microsoft?
By Gosia Grabowska ⋅ December 22, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Ok, well … it’s not completely free but it’s a free trial that lasts approximately 60 days. Microsoft will let you try it’s new 2007 Microsoft Office Enterprise system with no strings attached. It is a full version, but at the end of the free trial, MS Office will downgrade automatically and you will not [...]
Telephony by Microsoft
By Gosia Grabowska ⋅ December 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Live Communications Server is currently used mostly for Instant Messaging within the company. You may be able to message public IM members such as MSN, AOL, and Yahoo! depending on your company’s Live Communications Server configuration. It also integrates with MS Outlook and displays your current status according to your Outlook calendar, whether you are [...]
Microsoft Finds Its ‘Voice’
By Gary Eimerman ⋅ December 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Redmond has made its new enterprise voice communications server available to 2,500 companies under a private beta program… Follow Story…
Microsoft’s Miscalculation
By Gary Eimerman ⋅ November 28, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Maybe I’m just a nitpicker, but surely Microsoft could have upgraded calculator with Windows Vista…. Read More…
Microsoft’s Music Madness
By Gary Eimerman ⋅ November 27, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Zune is a mistake. While Microsoft’s Zune marketing beckons, “welcome to the social,” the device is instead antisocial with the existing Windows Media ecosystem…. Learn More…
Microsoft Resubmits Technical Documents to the EU
By Gary Eimerman ⋅ November 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Today, Microsoft submitted revised technical information to the European Union. The submission opens the documents to scrutiny by potential licensees and Microsoft competitors…. Continue…
Microsoft’s Antitrust Control Problem
By Gary Eimerman ⋅ November 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Microsoft’s legal work on two continents reveals contrasting responses to Windows Vista. Yesterday, US federal and state trustbusters cleared the new operating system of any dire anticompetitive concerns. By tomorrow, Microsoft must submit new legal documents to European Union regulators…. Read More…