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Top 10: iPhone 3G, DNS flaw, Microsoft's cloud Apple stole the IT news show yet again this week with the Friday launch of the iPhone 3G in 22 countries. But there was other news as well, including warnings that a DNS vulnerability really is serious and the ouster by VMware's board of cofounder and CEO Diane Greene Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's cloud forms At the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Microsoft made its biggest foray yet into cloud computing with pricing and partnership arrangements for Microsoft Online Services, a family that includes Online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications, Of Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Experts: Microsoft's online service push has holes Microsoft's plunge into the hosting arena isn't sending shock waves through partners who welcome the visibility the move brings but say many corporate users will find the Exchange and SharePoint services fall short of the mark. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft sets hosted-services pricing, irks partners Microsoft on Tuesday revealed pricing for its forthcoming hosted business productivity services and unveiled its channel model for allowing partners to resell those services. However, while the company painted a rosy picture for the partner opportunity around its evol Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Gartner: Seven cloud-computing security risks Cloud computing is fraught with security risks, according to analyst firm Gartner. Smart customers will ask tough questions and consider getting a security assessment from a neutral third party before committing to a cloud vendor, Gartner says in a June report titled Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Live Mesh may emerge as Microsoft 'cloud' platform Originally positioned as a Web-based service for synchronizing files and data folders across different devices, Microsoft's Live Mesh is poised to emerge as a cloud-based development environment at the company's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's play for cloud computing At a press briefing this week, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner put some meat on the bones of Microsoft's "software plus services" strategy to deliver cloud computing capabilities to customers. Turner reviewed Microsoft's current on-demand offerings -- mainly Microsoft Dyna Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Ozzie: Microsoft needs Yahoo for Web, advertising plan Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie attempted to clarify Microsoft's Web-based advertising and services strategy and lay a case for why buying Yahoo is integral to that plan on Wednesday.In his keynote Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Coreflood, more Microsoft-Yahoo, iPhone plans A Trojan horse program that has been around for about six years is now being used to steal system-administrator passwords, including those at banking and brokerage houses, according to security researchers. And it could be that six years from now we'll still be talkin Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft adds workflow to cloud-based SOA platform Microsoft added this week workflow capabilities to BizTalk Services, the company's platform-in-the-cloud project for SOA and business process management.The R12 Community Technology Preview for BizTalk Services, Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft finally stays on message about services The deadline Microsoft gave Yahoo for making a deal or facing a proxy fight came and went this weekend without a word from either party. But even if Microsoft doesn't succeed now in its bid for Yahoo, the company made clear last week, both in private meetings with r Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sizing up Microsoft and Yahoo: Did anybody win? Now that Microsoft has dropped its bid to take over Yahoo, industry analysts assessed what happened and what to expect from the two companies.Microsoft gave up its effort to acquire Yahoo because the software co Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft to host partner software Microsoft will soon detail ways that partner companies will be able to deliver their services based on Microsoft's hosted services, the software company said on Tuesday.When Microsoft earlier this year announce Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Putting a mule on a cloud: one man's battle with Amazon S3 Are we there yet? The phrase “cloud computing” has been subjected to unnatural forms of marketing abuse. The buzzword pros have taken two nouns that we all recognize, combined them and formed a nebulous, hideous beast that means many things to many people.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Microsoft prepares for end of Windows with Midori With the Internet increasingly taking on the role of the PC operating system and the growing prevalence of virtualization technologies, there will be a day when the Microsoft Windows client OS as it's been developed for the past 20-odd years becomes obsolete. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's play for cloud computing At a press briefing this week, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner put some meat on the bones of Microsoft's "software plus services" strategy to deliver cloud computing capabilities to customers. Turner reviewed Microsoft's current on-demand offerings -- mainly Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, plus hosted ver Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld WS |
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Microsoft's ISO win may worsen its antitrust woes Microsoft may have won a year-long quest to make its OOXML (Office Open XML) document format an ISO-recognized international standard, but claims of foul play in the voting process may come back to haunt the software giant when the European Commission concludes its Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft allows developers to examine .Net source code Microsoft said this week that it is now allowing developers to examine source code for .Net Framework libraries as a way to help developers build better software. But developers first will need to upgrade to the newly released Visual Studio 2008 software development p Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Can Microsoft be beaten in the cloud? Microsoft has the desktop forever. Period. But can it leverage this advantage into the cloud? Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Can you trust your data to storage cloud providers? Michael Witz, founder of online file-sharing site FreeDrive, knows the horror of that proverbial middle-of-the-night call: "The site is down."He lived the nightmare last fall when a fiber link between a Web serv Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |