October, 2010

Platform as a service is where developers and businesses will ultimately see the true value of the cloud, and the OS for Platform as a service is Windows Azure. The Windows Azure platform, comprised of Windows Azure and SQL Azure, is supported by a rich...

Microsoft is partnering with Cloud.com and Rackspace to provide support of its virtualization platform, Hyper-V, to the OpenStack project. This allows customers and service providers to use Windows Server R2 2008 Hyper-V virtualized environments running...

This week, Microsoft launched a new tool for information on mission critical applications called Today's Enterprise . Designed to help CIOs and IT decision makers share ideas and best practices and analyze their platform options, the site features case...

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Today Microsoft announced the release and availability of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3. Organizations of all sizes use System Center Configuration Manager for better insight and control of their servers, PCs and devices across physical, virtual and distributed environments. Now, R3 brings a complete set of power management tools for Green IT, enabling customers to centrally manage PC power setting and to reduce energy consumption and costs. Configuration Manager R3 also provides the licenses for mobile device management, so administrators can run comprehensive asset inventories, deploy software, manage settings and enforce password policies for Windows phones.

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Day 2 of VMworld Europe begins, with Microsoft's Patrick O'Rourke and Citrix's Klaus Oestermann sharing a video update from the show. Read more news from Copenhagen on the Virtualization Team Blog .

Today the Microsoft Interoperability Technical Strategy team is shipping a new Community Technology Preview (October 2010 CTP) of the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP. This Eclipse plug-in provides PHP developers using Eclipse with tools to create...

Following a great week at Citrix Synergy in Berlin, the jet-setting Microsoft Virtualization team headed to Copenhagen for VMworld Europe 2010. Lucas Searle, virtualization product manager at Microsoft-UK, and Dave Austin, director of product marketing...

Today, Microsoft continued to reinforce its investment in the Microsoft Web Platform by releasing beta 2 of WebMatrix. WebMatrix was first announced in July, and is a free tool that gives developers the ability to create new sites, by either writing the...

Today, Microsoft announced the acquisition of AVICode, Inc., a market leader in application performance monitoring and diagnostics of .NET applications and services. AVIcode will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft and the technology acquired...

At the MIX10 Conference in Las Vegas, Scott Guthrie and jQuery developer John Resig announced that Microsoft would be working with the jQuery team to contribute features such as client templating and data linking to the jQuery project. Less than six months...

Since last week's launch of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, Microsoft's technical computing group continues to deliver against its initiative to empower a broad group of people to solve some of the world's biggest challenges by bringing technical computing...