AUTHOR: Allen with the Office 365 Group at Microsoft Reposting from Microsoft Office 365 Blog It's no secret that the proportion of information workers who are mobile or working outside of headquarters continues to grow. Whether they are working...

Following Bill Hilf's earlier post about how the cloud is going to enable more customers to take advantage of technical computing (aka supercomputing), the New York Times recently posted an article about Microsoft making software tools and Windows Azure...

This morning I came across an interesting story on the On Windows site about how Volvo Cars used Microsoft Windows Azure to create an online campaign and game, Lost in Forks, to highlight the inclusion of Volvo automobiles in the Twilight series of books...

I wanted to highlight a post from the SQL Azure team, at this link , which describes a Forrester Research, Inc. published research piece titled " SQL Azure Raises The Bar on Cloud Databases ." The research describes how Microsoft listened to feedback...

Exciting news today related to how Microsoft is helping enable customers to connect with coworkers and information in new ways with the launch of Microsoft Lync . Allen, with the Microsoft Office 365 team, talks about the news in his post, which I've...

AUTHOR: Allen with the Office 365 Group at Microsoft Reposting from Microsoft Office 365 Blog With hundreds of millions of users, Microsoft Office is practically synonymous with business productivity. As the world grows more complex and interconnected...

The following is a guest blog post from Bill Hilf, General manager, Technical computing, Microsoft Every day there is a lot of interesting news and discussion around cloud computing. One area that I find important and exciting is thinking about...

Cloud computing in the enterprise has been available in niches the last couple of years, but the large scale move that companies are now considering for areas of their businesses is relatively new to many. Companies are looking at and analyzing the perceived...

AUTHOR: Allen with the Office 365 Group at Microsoft Reposting from Microsoft Office 365 Blog This is the first in series of posts about the value Office 365 provides to larger organizations. What do we mean by "larger"? Basically, if you employ...

While we've all heard the terms private and public cloud over the last year, those terms may still seem vague to some. So it's probably a good idea to discuss each concept in some detail, and since it's near and dear to my heart I'll start with private...

A co-worker forwarded me a story by Bloomberg news from late last week about Microsoft’s broad cloud strategy for both enterprise and mid-market business. Writer Dina Bass echoes some of the themes I was reading about in the last couple of weeks...

Some great bits and bytes I wanted to highlight in a CIO.com article published today featuring Tony Scott, Microsoft’s CIO and a video piece , where he talks about the benefits of trying out our own technologies and refining them before putting...