Microsoft’s stock price may stink but its P&L numbers are pretty much sweet perfume. In the June quarter, Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter and the end of its fiscal year it made $4.52 billion, 51 cents a share, up 48% on record revenues of $16.04 billion, up 22%.
Microsoft was supposed to terminate so-called XP downgrade rights with the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, which went to beta this week. But now it says it’s not going to because people continue to cling to the thing.
With 74% of the enterprise still on XP, Microsoft has to pay ...
Royally trumped in the tablet business that it couldn’t get off the ground – while Apple made it look easy – Microsoft is promising to return in force underneath the slates that 21 companies are supposed to put out within the year to dip their bread in the bubbling Apple-made gravy.
...
Microsoft announced Monday that it’s boxing the thing up as a server appliance so that companies and government agencies touchy about where their data is can have private Azure clouds, and service providers can set up public Azure clouds. It will also be the basis of hybrid Azure cloud...
Microsoft is going to charge 11 bucks a month for each desktop PC attached to Intune, the cloud service that manages SMBs, once it comes out of beta early next year.
And Microsoft will throw in upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise Edition.
Microsoft is moving to beta 2 with the s...
Bentley Radcliff, who used to work in marketing at Apple and Sun – no Microsoft fanboy he but curious about Redmond’s approach to the cloud – wanted to go to its Worldwide Partner Conference this week so we handed him a reporter’s notebook and sent him on his way. Miracle of miracle he...
GCommerce's Virtual Inventory Cloud (VIC) will transform the special order cycle, in some cases from 15 minutes to 15 seconds -- a 6,000 percent change. Built to scale rapidly at the industry level, VIC transforms the drop ship special order model for the distribution supply chain. Tha...
NetApp on Monday announced enhanced integration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise-class data protection solutions to cloud service providers by leveraging the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters. Although enterprise-class data protection has historically been too expen...
Fujitsu Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a new worldwide cloud computing partnership that enables Fujitsu to deploy the Windows Azure platform appliance in Fujitsu datacenters. Fujitsu will deliver a comprehensive set of new cloud services and solutions, including system in...
Microsoft Corp. and eBay on Monday announced that eBay will be one of the first customers of Microsoft’s new Windows Azure platform appliance for cloud computing. This is a significant joint engineering effort that will couple the innovation and power of the Windows Azure platform appl...
Dell and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a strategic partnership in which Dell intends to use the Windows Azure platform appliance, introduced by Microsoft, as a part of its Dell Services Cloud to develop and deliver next-generation cloud services. The Windows Azure platform applia...
According to the Nikkei July 10 morning edition, Fujitsu and Microsoft are planning to share data centers worldwide in a bid to catch up to the world's Cloud computing pioneers in the business of providing software and computing services online. The two companies are considering joint ...
Apparently Microsoft had a chin wag with computer makers in April about what Windows 8 might look like so they can make plans because a set of the “NDA” “Microsoft Confidential” PowerPoints used at the meeting seem to have turned up on an Italian web site called Windowsette over the we...
In what has become a typical negotiating tactic in patent cases, salesforce.com has answered Microsoft’s charge of patent infringement with a countersuit.
For amusement’s sake, it’s using Microsoft’s old nemesis David Boies for the job. He’s the hired gun the Justice Department broug...
Further cementing its position as The Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World, the organizers of the 7th Cloud Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, announced today that the event will also feature – on November 2nd, 2010 – a CloudCamp unconference....
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Server application virtualization pioneer AppZero and OpSource, a provider of enterprise cloud and managed hosting, on Wednesday announced a partnership that will make it easy for enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) to move their server-based Microsoft and SAP applicati...
Office 2010 went on sale to consumers and small businesses Tuesday and Microsoft’s free lightweight Office Web Apps version of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint, its answer to the three-year-old Google Apps, was made generally available. The webby stuff is good on Macs and phones as ...
If you’re looking for Xenocode, it’s morphed. Now it’s a warmer, friendly, consumer-y Spoon.
And Spoon has launched a Spoon Server that’s supposed deliver Windows desktop apps instantly over the web without installs, long downloads or dependencies such as .NET Framework, Adobe Air an...
According to CRN Microsoft has added 300–500 direct sales people to pitch its cloud strategy to both end users and partners starting July 1, the beginning of the company’s new fiscal year. Microsoft general manager, partner strategy for the US Public Sector Vince Menzione said at a con...
On July 13, Microsoft will officially retire Windows XP Service Pack 2. Although it will continue to provide security updates for XP Service Pack 3, it will stop providing patches for the older SP2. Microsoft offers support for its products for five years and extended support for anoth...
Azul Systems, the Java server appliance house, says Java, Ruby and, for that matter, .NET managed runtimes are pushed to their limits and basically crippled.
Their response times are inconsistent, their scale is limited, and they’re unable to exploit modern commodity hardware with ...
Microsoft's Vince Menzione, General Manager for Microsoft's partner strategy in the US public sector, has been underlining his company's "end-to-end commitment to cloud computing." In a magazine interview this week Menzione declared: "All of our salespeople will be leading with cloud.....
Microsoft expects to have a public beta of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) out by next month. There won’t be any new Windows 7-specific features and most of the bug fixes have already been released making it a largely ceremonial milestone that many companies like to pass before they dep...
Ahead of general release June 15 and following release to the corporate world last month, Microsoft Monday said its browser-based Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland, SkyDrive being its free browser-based storage and document shar...
Microsoft has updated its Windows Azure SDK with support for the new and improved .NET Framework 4, Visual Studio 2010 tools and IntelliTrace bug tracking while its cloud database SQL Azure got spatial data support and 50GB worth of storage.
There’s a the public preview out of SQL ...
The unholy alliance of Microsoft and Novell says it’s got some HPC supercomputing cross-platform widgetry developed in their joint Interoperability Lab in Massachusetts that’s good for customers deploying server workload management across SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows HPC Se...
On Steve Jobs’ contention that this is now a post-PC world: “I think that people are going to be using PCs in greater and greater numbers for years to come.” But PCs will look different. They’ll evolve. They’ll get smaller, get touch, get different interfaces, their insides will change...
Microsoft has opened a Software and Services Excellence Center (SSEC) in Taiwan to created business opportunities in cloud computing for itself and its 100-odd local hardware friends.
The thing is supposed to result in next-generation connected devices and cloud data centers.
Micro...
Apprenda, a cloud middleware start-up, has released SaaSGrid Express, a free, downloadable version of its flagship SaaSGrid application server for software-as-a-service (SaaS).
SaaSGrid Express is supposed to be a complete foundation for delivering .NET applications as a service and ...
Microsoft last Friday hung price tags on its Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN), which has been in preview since November and therefore free.
The CDN service, which caches Azure blobs closer to the user to accelerate content delivery, is currently available at 19 locations g...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer likes India or even Indonesia way better than China, he told Bloomberg while in Hanoi, because China doesn’t have a handle on piracy or on IP protection in general, which makes it a “less interesting market to us,” he said. “There is no software market to sp...
In the name of interoperability, Microsoft Monday announced two open source projects that are supposed to go along with the technical documentation on Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) that it recently released.
It said that the documentation and tools together should advance interoper...
During salesforce.com’s Q1 call with Wall Street last Thursday CEO Marc Benioff demonized Microsoft as a “patent troll” and “alley thugs” when asked about the infringement suit that Microsoft had just filed against the company.
Benioff claimed the suit won’t have any impact on the co...
Financial analyst Trip Chowdhry, who’s frankly got a hit-or-miss track record, put in train the rumor – spread in turn like a virus by Barron’s – that Steve Ballmer will turn up at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco June 7 and share the keynote spotlight with Stev...
With the availability of fast, accurate barcode reading and writing toolkits, it’s quite easy to include barcodes within your applications to reliably transfer information. With some basic information about barcode technologies, you can determine how their use could streamline your doc...
Microsoft has confirmed that Robbie Bach, the head of its floundering Entertainment and Devices (E&D) Division, and J Allard, the unit’s CTO and father of Courier, the dual-screen tablet PC that Microsoft recently cancelled, are both out, retired, as the company’s battle over consumer ...
Microsoft Monday agreed to pay VirnetX Holding Corporation $200 million and take a license to the outfit’s virtual private network widgetry to resolve a patent dispute that saw VirnetX win a $105.8 million jury verdict in March.
The company complained in early 2007 that Windows and O...
Novell set this week as the deadline for acquisition offers, according to the Wall Street Journal followed by the New York Times.
Elliott Associates LLP spokesman Scott Tagliarino claims Elliott, whose $5.75-a-share offer put Novell in play a couple of months ago, knows nothing abou...
Azaleos Corporation on Wednesday announced that it has deepened its existing technical and business partnership with EMC Corporation. As part of the broader relationship, Azaleos has extended its patented ViewX monitoring system to provide advanced troubleshooting of EMC CLARiiON AX an...
Well, he said when he left Microsoft at the end of January that he wanted to run an end-to-end business and now it appears he's going to.
HP has named Bill Veghte, the former head of the $15 billion Windows business, the guy who managed the launch of Windows 7, to run its sorely lag...
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In other words, VMware’s server density is higher. Boles suggests this means that customers should be “assessing virtualisation on a ‘cost per application’ basis. VM density has a sign
Traditionally, the way people have implemented high availability is by using a high-availability management package like Linux-HA[1], then configure it in detail for each application, file system moun
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Microsoft’s stock price may stink but its P&L numbers are pretty much sweet perfume. In the June quarter, Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter and the end of its fiscal year it made $4.52 billion, 51 cents a share, up 48% on record revenues of $16.04 billion, up 22%.
Microsoft was supposed to terminate so-called XP downgrade rights with the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, which went to beta this week. But now it says it’s not going to because people continue to cling to the thing.
With 74% of the enterprise still on XP, Microsoft has to pay ...
Royally trumped in the tablet business that it couldn’t get off the ground – while Apple made it look easy – Microsoft is promising to return in force underneath the slates that 21 companies are supposed to put out within the year to dip their bread in the bubbling Apple-made gravy.
...
Microsoft announced Monday that it’s boxing the thing up as a server appliance so that companies and government agencies touchy about where their data is can have private Azure clouds, and service providers can set up public Azure clouds. It will also be the basis of hybrid Azure cloud...
Microsoft is going to charge 11 bucks a month for each desktop PC attached to Intune, the cloud service that manages SMBs, once it comes out of beta early next year.
And Microsoft will throw in upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise Edition.
Microsoft is moving to beta 2 with the s...
Bentley Radcliff, who used to work in marketing at Apple and Sun – no Microsoft fanboy he but curious about Redmond’s approach to the cloud – wanted to go to its Worldwide Partner Conference this week so we handed him a reporter’s notebook and sent him on his way. Miracle of miracle he...
GCommerce's Virtual Inventory Cloud (VIC) will transform the special order cycle, in some cases from 15 minutes to 15 seconds -- a 6,000 percent change. Built to scale rapidly at the industry level, VIC transforms the drop ship special order model for the distribution supply chain. Tha...
NetApp on Monday announced enhanced integration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise-class data protection solutions to cloud service providers by leveraging the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters. Although enterprise-class data protection has historically been too expen...
Fujitsu Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a new worldwide cloud computing partnership that enables Fujitsu to deploy the Windows Azure platform appliance in Fujitsu datacenters. Fujitsu will deliver a comprehensive set of new cloud services and solutions, including system in...
Microsoft Corp. and eBay on Monday announced that eBay will be one of the first customers of Microsoft’s new Windows Azure platform appliance for cloud computing. This is a significant joint engineering effort that will couple the innovation and power of the Windows Azure platform appl...
Dell and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a strategic partnership in which Dell intends to use the Windows Azure platform appliance, introduced by Microsoft, as a part of its Dell Services Cloud to develop and deliver next-generation cloud services. The Windows Azure platform applia...
According to the Nikkei July 10 morning edition, Fujitsu and Microsoft are planning to share data centers worldwide in a bid to catch up to the world's Cloud computing pioneers in the business of providing software and computing services online. The two companies are considering joint ...
Apparently Microsoft had a chin wag with computer makers in April about what Windows 8 might look like so they can make plans because a set of the “NDA” “Microsoft Confidential” PowerPoints used at the meeting seem to have turned up on an Italian web site called Windowsette over the we...
In what has become a typical negotiating tactic in patent cases, salesforce.com has answered Microsoft’s charge of patent infringement with a countersuit.
For amusement’s sake, it’s using Microsoft’s old nemesis David Boies for the job. He’s the hired gun the Justice Department broug...
Further cementing its position as The Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World, the organizers of the 7th Cloud Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, announced today that the event will also feature – on November 2nd, 2010 – a CloudCamp unconference....
Server application virtualization pioneer AppZero and OpSource, a provider of enterprise cloud and managed hosting, on Wednesday announced a partnership that will make it easy for enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) to move their server-based Microsoft and SAP applicati...
Office 2010 went on sale to consumers and small businesses Tuesday and Microsoft’s free lightweight Office Web Apps version of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint, its answer to the three-year-old Google Apps, was made generally available. The webby stuff is good on Macs and phones as ...
If you’re looking for Xenocode, it’s morphed. Now it’s a warmer, friendly, consumer-y Spoon.
And Spoon has launched a Spoon Server that’s supposed deliver Windows desktop apps instantly over the web without installs, long downloads or dependencies such as .NET Framework, Adobe Air an...
According to CRN Microsoft has added 300–500 direct sales people to pitch its cloud strategy to both end users and partners starting July 1, the beginning of the company’s new fiscal year. Microsoft general manager, partner strategy for the US Public Sector Vince Menzione said at a con...
On July 13, Microsoft will officially retire Windows XP Service Pack 2. Although it will continue to provide security updates for XP Service Pack 3, it will stop providing patches for the older SP2. Microsoft offers support for its products for five years and extended support for anoth...
Azul Systems, the Java server appliance house, says Java, Ruby and, for that matter, .NET managed runtimes are pushed to their limits and basically crippled.
Their response times are inconsistent, their scale is limited, and they’re unable to exploit modern commodity hardware with ...
Microsoft's Vince Menzione, General Manager for Microsoft's partner strategy in the US public sector, has been underlining his company's "end-to-end commitment to cloud computing." In a magazine interview this week Menzione declared: "All of our salespeople will be leading with cloud.....
Microsoft expects to have a public beta of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) out by next month. There won’t be any new Windows 7-specific features and most of the bug fixes have already been released making it a largely ceremonial milestone that many companies like to pass before they dep...
Ahead of general release June 15 and following release to the corporate world last month, Microsoft Monday said its browser-based Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland, SkyDrive being its free browser-based storage and document shar...
Microsoft has updated its Windows Azure SDK with support for the new and improved .NET Framework 4, Visual Studio 2010 tools and IntelliTrace bug tracking while its cloud database SQL Azure got spatial data support and 50GB worth of storage.
There’s a the public preview out of SQL ...
The unholy alliance of Microsoft and Novell says it’s got some HPC supercomputing cross-platform widgetry developed in their joint Interoperability Lab in Massachusetts that’s good for customers deploying server workload management across SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows HPC Se...
On Steve Jobs’ contention that this is now a post-PC world: “I think that people are going to be using PCs in greater and greater numbers for years to come.” But PCs will look different. They’ll evolve. They’ll get smaller, get touch, get different interfaces, their insides will change...
Microsoft has opened a Software and Services Excellence Center (SSEC) in Taiwan to created business opportunities in cloud computing for itself and its 100-odd local hardware friends.
The thing is supposed to result in next-generation connected devices and cloud data centers.
Micro...
Apprenda, a cloud middleware start-up, has released SaaSGrid Express, a free, downloadable version of its flagship SaaSGrid application server for software-as-a-service (SaaS).
SaaSGrid Express is supposed to be a complete foundation for delivering .NET applications as a service and ...
Microsoft last Friday hung price tags on its Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN), which has been in preview since November and therefore free.
The CDN service, which caches Azure blobs closer to the user to accelerate content delivery, is currently available at 19 locations g...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer likes India or even Indonesia way better than China, he told Bloomberg while in Hanoi, because China doesn’t have a handle on piracy or on IP protection in general, which makes it a “less interesting market to us,” he said. “There is no software market to sp...
In the name of interoperability, Microsoft Monday announced two open source projects that are supposed to go along with the technical documentation on Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) that it recently released.
It said that the documentation and tools together should advance interoper...
During salesforce.com’s Q1 call with Wall Street last Thursday CEO Marc Benioff demonized Microsoft as a “patent troll” and “alley thugs” when asked about the infringement suit that Microsoft had just filed against the company.
Benioff claimed the suit won’t have any impact on the co...
Financial analyst Trip Chowdhry, who’s frankly got a hit-or-miss track record, put in train the rumor – spread in turn like a virus by Barron’s – that Steve Ballmer will turn up at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco June 7 and share the keynote spotlight with Stev...
With the availability of fast, accurate barcode reading and writing toolkits, it’s quite easy to include barcodes within your applications to reliably transfer information. With some basic information about barcode technologies, you can determine how their use could streamline your doc...
Microsoft has confirmed that Robbie Bach, the head of its floundering Entertainment and Devices (E&D) Division, and J Allard, the unit’s CTO and father of Courier, the dual-screen tablet PC that Microsoft recently cancelled, are both out, retired, as the company’s battle over consumer ...
Microsoft Monday agreed to pay VirnetX Holding Corporation $200 million and take a license to the outfit’s virtual private network widgetry to resolve a patent dispute that saw VirnetX win a $105.8 million jury verdict in March.
The company complained in early 2007 that Windows and O...
Novell set this week as the deadline for acquisition offers, according to the Wall Street Journal followed by the New York Times.
Elliott Associates LLP spokesman Scott Tagliarino claims Elliott, whose $5.75-a-share offer put Novell in play a couple of months ago, knows nothing abou...
Azaleos Corporation on Wednesday announced that it has deepened its existing technical and business partnership with EMC Corporation. As part of the broader relationship, Azaleos has extended its patented ViewX monitoring system to provide advanced troubleshooting of EMC CLARiiON AX an...
Well, he said when he left Microsoft at the end of January that he wanted to run an end-to-end business and now it appears he's going to.
HP has named Bill Veghte, the former head of the $15 billion Windows business, the guy who managed the launch of Windows 7, to run its sorely lag...
