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Microsoft rewriting applications for hosted offerings Microsoft is rewriting many of its applications to offer them in a hosted fashion, an executive said on Tuesday.In order to efficiently host applications for customers, Microsoft must support multitenancy, whic Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Yahoo a mere front end for Microsoft hosted apps? While dealing logistically and technically with their overlapping online offerings will certainly prove troublesome if its bid to purchase Yahoo succeeds, Microsoft will at least have an immediate outlet for bringing more of its traditional desktop portfolio to the Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft rewriting applications for hosted offerings Microsoft is rewriting many of its applications to offer them in a hosted fashion, an executive said on Tuesday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld WS |
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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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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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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 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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Microsoft points to slimmer future for Windows client Microsoft is putting the Windows client OS on a diet as a way to bring the PC OS into the age of cloud computing.Windows 7, Vista's follow-up, already will be a thinner, more streamlined OS, replacing some of th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Despite Yahoo drama, Microsoft forges ahead with search Microsoft is pushing ahead with plans to expand its enterprise and Internet search offerings even as its quest to purchase Yahoo remains uncertain and could get uglier.On Wednesday, Fast Search and Transfer ( Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft prepares 'Albany' to compete with Google Docs Facing pressure from hosted productivity suites like Google Docs and Google Apps, Microsoft is planning a new package of low-end productivity software and hosted services through a secretive project code-named Albany. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft completes Danger acquisition Microsoft hinted that it might keep the software and hosted architecture built by Danger, the mobile company that designed the software behind the Sidekick. The software giant announced the completion of its acquisition of the mobile developer on Tuesday. 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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Who owns the cloud business inside Microsoft? To understand Microsoft Corp.'s cloud software strategy, look not just to what the software maker plans to deliver, but how.For instance, its massive data center investments show the seriousness of Microsoft 's 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 SharePoint taking business by storm Microsoft's SharePoint Server is on a billion-dollar quest to potentially become the next must-have technology, offering companies tools for building everything from collaborative applications to Internet sites and potentially handing Microsoft its next cash cow. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft rolls out HPC Server 2008 on Wall Street This may seem like a weird time to go to Wall Street to announce a new operating system, but that's what Microsoft did Monday. At a technology conference in New York, the software vendor formally detailed its Windows HPC Server 2008 software, a high-performance comput 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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Microsoft eyes Visual Studio advancements Microsoft's Visual Studio software development system is getting a makeover.With the planned Visual Studio 2010 software development environment, Microsoft intends to offer a new editor based on the company's Wi 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'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 |