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Yesterday we announced that we've completed upgrading all Hotmail customers to Outlook.com. Coupled with the growing organic excitement for Outlook.com, this has pushed us to over 400 million active Outlook.com accounts, including 125 million that are accessing email, calendar and contacts on a mobile...

Over the next couple days we will roll out a major upgrade to Microsoft account, including optional two-step verification to help keep your account more secure. Microsoft has increasingly focused on delivering connected devices and services that are currently used by more than 700 million people around...

Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President for the Windows Server & System Center division, launched a new blog yesterday called In the Cloud . With regular posts, podcasts, and videos, Anderson plans to use this space as a venue for discussing how IT decision makers can assemble best-of-breed cloud...

Today’s news from VMware about a “hybrid cloud” future is just another example of how IT vendors have been rearranging the furniture to more effectively deliver what they already have on the shelf. You don't want to place your bets – and the future of your IT department –...

This past weekend, Microsoft rolled out a variety of enhancements for Windows Azure. These changes include support for Android devices, availability monitoring for cloud services, updates to the management portal, and many other features that enable more powerful metrics and management capabilities....

Microsoft has announced the immediate availability of the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012. This is a new set of tools that enable developers to build powerful apps for all current versions of Microsoft Office and SharePoint, including Microsoft Office 365. This new offering includes an...

With O'Reilly Strata underway, Microsoft has had a lot to say about Big Data over the past few days. Throughout the conference, the Microsoft SQL Server Team has been posting a series of articles looking at some of the myths and misunderstandings about big data that prevent many organizations from fully...

Today, Microsoft announced worldwide availability of the new Microsoft Office 365 services. This update includes new features designed for businesses of all sizes. In addition to updated Microsoft Lync Online, Microsoft Exchange Online, and Microsoft SharePoint Online services, business users can now...

Last summer, Microsoft released a preview of Outlook.com . It was a bold step for Microsoft, as the company built a brand new, modern e-mail service from the ground up. Since then, the adoption rate has been incredible with over 60 million people already actively using Outlook.com. This week, Microsoft...

Tony Bates, President of the Skype Division at Microsoft, delivered the keynote address yesterday at the Lync Conference . He wrote an accompanying blog post that outlines Microsoft's vision for the future of communications stating: "It’s about re-humanizing communications 'from the living room...

The Texas Department of Information Resources is adopting Office 365 for more than 100,000 employees in the largest state-wide deployment of e-mail and collaboration services in the U.S. The state will consolidate systems in an effort to improve its communication and collaboration capabilities across...

Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit , in collaboration with Symantec, has taken down the harmful Bamital botnet. In the last two years, more than eight million computers have been attacked by Bamital, and its search hijacking and click fraud schemes have affected major search engines and browsers, including...

The Visual Studio F# Team has released a new tutorial that demonstrates how to use F# and C# in a Windows Azure cloud service to create an Internet game. The sample is a crossword game — called WordGrid, which is reminiscent of Scrabble or Words with Friends. This is an excellent primer if you...

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. Inc. and other affiliates in North America began deploying Microsoft Office 365-dedicated cloud services as their exclusive environment less than a year ago. (In other regions, such as Japan, Toyota will leverage a hybrid model, with on-premise editions of Microsoft Exchange...

In October 2012, I wrote a letter to shareholders outlining how the full value of our software will be seen and felt in how people use devices and services at work and in their personal lives. This is a fundamental shift in our business that began several years ago and continues today with the release...

Today, Microsoft introduced modern.IE, a free set of tools and resources that make it easier for developers to test their sites on various versions of Internet Explorer. Additional tools are also available through a partnership with BrowserStack, a service that lets developers test their sites on any...

To mark Data Privacy Day 2013 , Microsoft commissioned research to help better understand people’s online privacy perceptions and expectations. One big takeaway from this study is that people need and want more information about their privacy options and help controlling their personal information...

The Windows Azure Store makes it incredibly easy to discover, purchase, and provision premium add-on services—provided by our partners—for your cloud-based applications. You can, for example, setup a MongoDB database or quickly configure an analytics service for deeper insight into your application’s...

Want to use the same technology various broadcasters relied on to stream the London 2012 Olympics ? Good news. Microsoft is excited to announce that Windows Azure Media Services is now available and live in production. It is supported by a new media services dev center, backed by an enterprise SLA, and...

From time to time Microsoft VP, Frank Shaw, likes to do a blog post that has some numbers to indicate the scope of what we do at Microsoft. We thought you might enjoy a few numbers around our Cloud services. If the graphic above is too small, go ahead and click it and the full sized version will be fetched...

We are excited to announce Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, is now available. You can install it either from the download page (see "Visual Studio 2012 Update 1" under the "Additional software" section) or via the Extensions and Updates dialog in Visual Studio 2012. With this and future updates, we’re...

Today at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, we shared significant updates to these tools, with a range of improved support to make building new Office 2013, Office 365, SharePoint 2013, and SharePoint Online in Office 365 more flexible and productive. Over the last few months we’ve been...

Skype and Messenger are coming together. Millions of Messenger users will be able to reach their Messenger friends on Skype. By updating to Skype, Messenger users can instant message and video call their Messenger friends. This effort started with the release of Skype 6.0 for Mac and Windows a few...

The average gamer probably doesn’t think about the virtual machines, cloud services and other technologies that power their fun – at least not as long as everything runs smoothly. When “Halo 4” launches Nov. 6, millions of fans around the world will simultaneously push the game’s...

Today we kicked off the //build/ Conference in Seattle on the Microsoft campus. If you weren’t aware, you can watch a lot of the action live at Channel9.MSDN.com . Head on over and check out the Keynote sessions from Monday or tune into the Tuesday morning Keynote from Microsoft Server and Tools...