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Microsoft exec: Challenging times play to our strengths Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop says the software giant is trying to get the message out that it can help its customers save money in tough times. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud Microsoft has been busy this year, rolling out Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in a push to expand its presence in the corporate data center. To be successful, the company must overcome an economic environment that appears increasingly difficult as well as tou Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Solaris exec touts Unix platform's strengths Solaris has been Sun Microsystems's bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992. While Unix platforms such as Solaris now are up against the open source Linux juggernaut, Sun maintains it has the technological advantages and accommodations for open source to keep Solaris Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's bid for FAST bolsters enterprise search In November, Microsoft representatives began to comment that the enterprise search market had reached "a tipping point"; on Tuesday, the company backed up that claim with a bundle of cash, offering to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer (F Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft exec touts mixed source ventures Microsoft has been making moves on the licensing front and accommodations with open source, such as its controversial 2006 agreement with Novell pertaining to Suse Linux. Looking to elaborate on Microsoft's activities, Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft vice president and d Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode Ozzie's top lieutenants at Microsoft's Windows Live Core offices are (from left) David Treadwell, Debra Chrapaty, John Shewchuk, Jack Ozzie, and Amitabh Srivastava. Photo: Lionel Deluy Microsoft, Ozzie wrote, had to think and operate more like an Inte Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode Ozzie's top lieutenants at Microsoft's Windows Live Core offices are (from left) David Treadwell, Debra Chrapaty, John Shewchuk, Jack Ozzie, and Amitabh Srivastava. Photo: Lionel Deluy Microsoft, Ozzie wrote, had to think and operate more like an Inte Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode Ozzie's top lieutenants at Microsoft's Windows Live Core offices are (from left) David Treadwell, Debra Chrapaty, John Shewchuk, Jack Ozzie, and Amitabh Srivastava. Photo: Lionel Deluy Microsoft, Ozzie wrote, had to think and operate more like an Inte Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Belichick Sells Team on Chargers’ Strengths - New York Times New York Daily NewsBelichick Sells Team on Chargers’ StrengthsNew York Times - 33 minutes agoBy JUDY BATTISTA FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Out in San Diego, at least one player, swimming in the giddiness of the Chargers’ upset of the Indianapolis Colts, thinks the Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy Microsoft this week launched its cloud computing environment, Windows Azure, which is the foundation of the Azure Services Platform for developing applications extending from the cloud to PCs, datacenters, phones, and the Web. Microsoft's goal is to let Windows develo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft: Developers will get Windows 7 alpha next month Microsoft confirmed today that it will hand out preview copies of Windows 7 to attendees at next month's Professional Developers Conference (PDC).In a post to the PDC Web site, Microsoft said that developers wou Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.CEO Steve Ballmer made the offer in a letter to Yahoo's board of di Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft and Powerset confirm deal Microsoft and Powerset confirmed Tuesday that Microsoft will purchase the search-engine startup. The news comes several days after a rumor about the deal circulated on the Web.[ See related video of Eric Knorr's Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft outlines plan to weather economic crisis Microsoft's chief financial officer outlined a three-part plan the company will undertake to weather the current economic crisis, which spurred Microsoft to lower its revenue and earnings expectations for fiscal 2009 on Thursday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Making sense of Microsoft's Azure Last week, Microsoft announced its cloud-computing effort, called Azure. Fitting between Google's and Amazon.com's current offerings, it represents a very big step toward moving applications off the desktop and out of a corporation's own datacenters. Whether or not it Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft: Mum's the word on Windows 7 Microsoft broke silence Tuesday about the next edition of its flagship operating system, but essentially all it said is it would not talk publicly about Windows 7.In both an entry posted to its Windows Vista blo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Data portability: a lofty but challenging goal It's hard to argue against data portability. After all, who could oppose giving people control over the data they load, publish, and store on Web sites?This is particularly timely now that average users have sta Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Yahoo acts to discourage Microsoft's proxy fight Yahoo has lifted next week's deadline for nominating directors to its board, an attempt to discourage Microsoft from launching a proxy fight to replace the current board with members willing to approve its Yahoo acquisition bid. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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AOL a less challenging buy than Yahoo for Microsoft While it still would present some integration challenges, AOL might be easier for Microsoft to absorb than Yahoo from a cultural and political perspective now that Microsoft's battle for Yahoo has gotten so ugly. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |