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Microsoft steps up cloud momentum
News At developer conference, Redmond announces production availability of Windows Azure and unveils new services running on its cloud platform.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Ray Ozzie, Muglia, Windows Identity Foundation, Microsoft Corp., network, Conference, Developer
Azure evangelist tackles cloud doubts
Insight newsmaker Microsoft's Mark Taylor talks about issues ranging from risk and resilience to private clouds and interoperability.
Tags: Business applications, Cloud computing, Service level management, Cloud, Akamai Technologies Inc., Database, Azure, SLA, Community Technology Preview, Cloud computing
Microsoft readies Windows Embedded 'Quebec'
News The software giant is working on a Vista-based successor to its Windows XP-based embedded operating system, scheduled for release in 2010.
Tags: Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Cellular phones, Microsoft Corp., device manufacturer, phone, processor, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows, 32-bit
Microsoft pulling Live Framework test bits
News Introduced at last fall's developer conference, Live Framework, which is essentially the developer side of Live Mesh, is being folded into Windows Live.
Tags: Business applications, Conference, Microsoft Windows Live, Web-based Application, Developer, Community Technology Preview, Microsoft Windows, blog, desktop, blog posting
Microsoft releases preview for next SQL Server
News Preview of the next version of Microsoft's database product, SQL Server 2008 R2, has been delivered to developers and will soon be made generally available.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft SQL Server, Database, Community Technology Preview, Environment, Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, business intelligence, blog
Microsoft rolls out SQL Azure Database preview
News Database component of Microsoft's cloud platform is now available as a free trial until the service goes fully live in November.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Windows, Cloud computing, Microsoft SQL Server, RDBMS, Database, SQL, Web Application, Community Technology Preview, Cloud computing
PowerShell 2.0--Community Technology Preview 3 released
Techguide Sporting vast improvement, PowerShell 2.0 seems to be shaping up as a robust, reliable choice for admins with enterprise-grade features critical for many firms. Here are some highlights.
Tags: Server platforms, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows PowerShell, GUI, Community Technology Preview, scripting language, PowerShell 2.0, Integrated Scripting Environment, Microsoft Windows, Server platforms
Windows Server 2008 R2 features PowerShell 2 by default
Techguide For the Windows OS, few tools hold more weight than the PowerShell scripting environment. In this tip, Rick Vanover breaks down the new environment for Windows Server 2008 R2.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows PowerShell, Quest Software Inc., Ohio, Community Technology Preview, Rick Vanover, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows
Microsoft updates Vista test build
News Slightly updated beta version provided to some current business testers. More widely distributed test version still planned.
Microsoft to release Visual Studio 2008
News Microsoft has said it will release the latest version of its flagship development tool Visual Studio 2008 by the end of November.
Tags: Software engineering/development
Microsoft releases new Longhorn Server build
News Release makes tweaks in performance and stability, but there's still another beta to come before launch of server OS.
Tags: Microsoft Server 2003
Microsoft lifts curtain on Indigo
News Though a technology preview, software developers get their first look at Windows' new communications plumbing.
Tags: Longhorn
No Vista Beta 2 this year
News Testers won't get hands on the second beta of the next Windows until early 2006, Microsoft says.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Longhorn
Microsoft's hypervisor beta arrives early
News Microsoft made available a beta version of its Hyper-V hypervisor technology, a release that had been originally scheduled for early next year.
Tags: App servers
Microsoft opens window for new Vista test
News The software giant releases another preview of Vista and tries to alter the perception that the operating system is for consumers only.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Software engineering/development
