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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, network, Conference, Microsoft Corp., Developer
Developers wary of cloud lock-in
News Software developers want a standards-based cloud, and for platforms to provide tools that will allow them to deploy apps to the cloud quickly.
Tags: Security, Google Inc., Open Source, Tool, Abiquo, Azure, Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Environment, PaaS
Companies clueless about software architecture
News IT project failures can be prevented, if only businesses realize the benefit of having blueprints, says software industry association IASA.
Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management, Software engineering/development, Professional Development
US and UK experts launch anti-cybercrime plan
News At Infosecurity 2009, U.S. and U.K. government security agencies announce a high-level plan to tackle cybercrime.
Tags: Network security, Security, C, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, cyberthreats, software, U.K., knowledge, action plan, software architect
Google: Unicode vanquishes ASCII
News Unicode conquers ASCII on the Web and improves international search abilities.
Tags: Web sites, Protocols and platforms, Unicode, Google Inc., ASCII, News.com, blog, Web Site, software architect, typewriter
Microsoft sets Windows 7 pricing, upgrade programs
News The software maker will allow consumers to preorder Windows 7 at a big discount, while offering permanent prices at or below the retail prices for Windows Vista.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Service Pack, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Europe, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Best Buy Co. Inc., pricing strategy, PC
Microsoft is expanding and investing in Thailand
News The software giant will collaborate with the country's National Electronics and Computer Technology Center on research and development, among other initiatives.
Tags: Innovation, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Mobile, Thailand, software testing, memorandum of understanding, Nectec, software, R&D
Microsoft hires IBM's chief architect
News Ray Ozzie has appointed Donald Ferguson to spearhead platform development at the software giant.
Microsoft tools up Windows Live platform
News The head of Microsoft's Windows Live Platform Services group has offered an early description of services and tools that Microsoft will release at this week's Mix08 Web conference.
Tags: Web sites, Protocols and platforms
Is computing getting too complicated?
Insight commentary Vendors would do well to keep their technologies simple, even if the latest products promise better features and functions.
Tags: Data security
Macromedia preps Eclipse-based Flash builder
News Flex Builder 2, which goes into alpha testing later this month, will let Eclipse developers create Flash Web applications.
Tags: Authoring, Software engineering/development
Open source is greatest threat to Microsoft
News Google is a concern, but open source is the bigger worry for Microsoft, according to Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie.
Tags: Open source, Software engineering/development, Protocols and platforms, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Advertisement, software, shareholder, strategy
Pay checks for Gates, Ballmer fall short of US$1 million
News With slight salary hikes but reduced bonuses, they each pull in US$966,667 in the last fiscal year.
Tags: Pay-for-performance
Adobe names Macromedia exec to be CTO
News Kevin Lynch, who joined Adobe Systems through its 2005 acquisition of Macromedia, now is chief technology officer of the software company.
Tags: Software
Gates takes swipe at Apple, Linux security
News Microsoft chief software architect Bill Gates took a swipe at rival operating systems on Monday, as he reiterated the importance of security for Windows and in particular for the upcoming Longhorn version.
Tags: Network security, Antivirus software
