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  • Blog Post: Windows Server Hyper-V drivers now supported in Ubuntu

    Posted by Geoff Sullivan Managing Sales Director, Open Solutions Group As you may have heard , the recently released Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has been engineered with the drivers needed to run on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. We are pleased to support customers running Ubuntu on Hyper-V in their virtualized...
    on1 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Advancing Interoperability in the Cloud

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Open Solutions Group I’m excited to be at the Open Source Business Conference today and to announce that in collaboration with SUSE , and based on our longstanding alliance , we are releasing a beta version of the SUSE Manager Management Pack for System...
    on21 May 2012

  • Blog Post: OpenStack + Hyper-V

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Open Solutions Group Two weeks ago the OpenStack community announced the release of Essex . I want to congratulate the community on reaching this key milestone. Microsoft is working with the OpenStack community to restore and enhance Windows Server Hyper-V support...
    on18 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Private Cloud: Cross Platform from the Metal Up

    Posted by Kerry Godes Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Operations For a growing number of businesses, the journey to cloud computing starts with a private cloud implementation. In his keynote today , Microsoft’s Brad Anderson kicked off the Microsoft Management Summit by discussing this...
    on17 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages Open Sourced

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations ASP.NET is a free web framework for building web sites and web applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Microsoft announced this week the release of source code for ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages (aka Razor) under...
    on29 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Movideo: Java a First-Class Citizen on Windows Azure

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Movideo , the only end-to-end SaaS online video platform based in the Asia Pacific region, has announced a four-year strategic alliance with Microsoft , migrating its integrated online video platform to Windows Azure. Movideo...
    on23 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Expanded Hadoop Preview for Big Data Customers

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Earlier this month, Microsoft announced plans to release an additional limited customer preview of the Apache Hadoop-based service for Windows Azure in the first half of 2012. Since the first limited preview was released in...
    on19 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Windows Server “8” Beta: Every App, Any Cloud

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Last week, Microsoft’s Bill Laing, Corporate VP of Server and Cloud, announced the availability of Windows Server “8” Beta . This is exciting news for IT managers looking for a scalable web platform and the...
    on9 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Windows 8: Open for Developers

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Last week, the winners of the Windows 8 First Apps Contest gave us a glimpse into what Windows 8 makes possible for independent developers, who can utilize their existing skills and familiar technologies to quickly build apps...
    on8 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Cloud Computing's Role in Job Creation

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations An interesting new study from analyst firm IDC found that spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide from 2011 to 2015. The Microsoft-commissioned study also found that IT...
    on6 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Evolution of PHP on Windows

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Over the past several years, Microsoft and its partners have worked diligently with the PHP community to improve the experience PHP developers and users have on Windows Server and Windows Azure . Now the PHP community supports...
    on1 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Navigating the New World of Data

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Just ten years ago, most business data was locked up behind big applications. We are now entering an era when unlocking this data and its potential to drive new knowledge and insights is becoming a key success factor for many...
    on1 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Drupal + Windows Azure: A Winning Combination for SAG

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations In the thick of Hollywood’s awards season, the Screen Actors Guild debuted its Drupal-based website hosted on Windows Azure . The SAG Awards site is a highly visible, high-traffic website and hosting it on Azure provides...
    on29 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Live@edu Plug-in for Moodle

    For educational institutions, meeting accelerating technology demands with limited budgets is tough. However, today the task seems a bit less daunting for millions of education customers worldwide. Moodlerooms released an open source plug-in that integrates Microsoft Live@edu with Moodle , the world...
    on23 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: CRM Anywhere: Windows Phone, iPad, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Perhaps no trend has affected IT managers and developers more over the past year than the consumerization of IT. With seemingly every customer and employee tethered to a different device, it’s more critical than ever...
    on14 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: More Choices for Building Apps on Windows Phone

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations This week, we announced another developer toolkit to support Windows Phone interoperability : the beta release of the open source Windows Phone toolkit for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This release is another example of the open...
    on4 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: The Journey with Open Source

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Wired ran this story today on Microsoft’s internal thought processes and changes that have taken place over the last eight years on the journey with open source software. Cade Metz examines how Microsoft has been making...
    on30 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Hotmail for the Kindle Fire

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations We’re getting a little love for tweaking a version of Hotmail specifically for the Kindle Fire, announced this week. Kindle Fire users can now enjoy the familiar benefits of Hotmail. Mary-Jo Foley at ZDNet’s “All...
    on26 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: On Cloud9 with Node.js

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations At yesterday’s Node Summit , Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie presented a new way to deploy to Windows Azure: Cloud9 IDE . Cloud9 IDE is a cross-platform, browser-based development environment for Node.js. It is one of...
    on25 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Collaboration with Open Source Partners Leads to Streamlined, Affordable Cloud

    Posted by Matt Theodores General Manager, Marketing Strategy, Open Solutions Group Yesterday Microsoft announced a significant milestone in its cloud computing strategy and solutions: the availability of System Center 2012 Release Candidate (RC), which customers can start using now to build private...
    on18 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Kinect: The Openness of an Invisible Technology

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations A recent Computer World story described how Microsoft has evolved to discover the virtues of openness . The article touched on one of my favorite examples of openness: Kinect. You may know how Kinect has captivated millions...
    on16 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft and Openness: You May be Surprised Too

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations Bill Toulas of OSArena interviewed Microsoft's Brian Swan, PHP Developer Advocate and was surprised to learn about Microsoft’s openness efforts and the many projects across Microsoft that improve interoperability between...
    on13 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Open in the Cloud: Windows Azure Update

    Posted by Colette Stallbaumer Director, Worldwide Marketing and Operations This week’s Windows Azure update highlighted Microsoft’s commitment to interoperability and an enhanced developer experience on its cloud platform. Josette Rigsby at CMSWire dubbed this “ a friendlier, more...
    on14 Dec 2011

  • Blog Post: Microsoft and AgreeYa Mobility: Working Together to Address Demands of IT Consumerization

    Posted by Sandy Gupta General Manager, Open Solutions Group As part of the ongoing dialogue we have with our enterprise IT customers at Microsoft, we’re hearing more and more about the interoperability demands stemming from the consumerization of IT. This rising trend isn’t just about...
    on29 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Keeping it Real in a Virtual World: Interop Collaboration Continues in the Cloud

    Posted by Frank Rego Senior Product Manager for SUSE and Fabio Cavalcanti da Cunha, Technical Product Manager at Microsoft In November 2006, Microsoft and Novell signed an interoperability agreement and an innovative laboratory concept was created -- a place where architects and developers from both...
    on15 Nov 2011
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