March, 2011

Today at the Microsoft Hosting summit, we announced license mobility, to offer customers the flexibility to deploy application servers on-premises or hosted by Service Providers in the cloud. Effective on July 1, 2011, this will give customers...

Today, Microsoft and Telefonica, one of the world's largest broadband and telecommunications providers, announced they are collaborating to release the BlueVia SDK for .NET developers. Not only does the SDK provide access to Microsoft developer tools...

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This week’s edition of News Thursday provides news from the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2011.  For information on additional MMS news from Tuesday and Wednesday, visit the Cloud Virtual Pressroom.

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Microsoft’s Management Summit 2011 is in full swing and there have been some exciting happenings. Today in his Day 2 keynote, Brad Anderson announced the general availability of Windows Intune , which helps businesses manage and secure PCs...

Microsoft’s Management Summit 2011 begins in full force this morning at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. During today’s keynote, corporate vice president Brad Anderson introduced the new System Center 2012 to enable enterprise IT organizations...

Microsoft’s annual Management Summit kicks off today and approximately 4,000 attendees are arriving in Las Vegas for the event. As the show begins, today Microsoft highlighted the experiences of retailer Target Corp. using Microsoft virtualization...

Today, we are proud to announce that Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 Standard and Premium Add-On are now fully available through all channels from Volume Licensing to our largest OEM partners. This all-in-one solution is designed to address key...

S. Somasegar Announces Updates to Visual Studio Family at TechEd MEA on March 8 On March 8, S. Somasegar keynoted at TechEd MEA in Dubai, where he announced a variety of updates to the Visual Studio product family. News included...

In honor of Cloud Connect 2011 taking place this week, Microsoft’s David Greschler considers the cloud readiness continuum in a guest post on VMblog, using examples of Microsoft virtualization customers to illustrate when and how to dive in: “...

Yesterday during the "Cloud Computing in Retail Breakfast" at the Euroshop Retail Design Conference in Dusseldorf, Germany, Microsoft partner BEDIN Shop Systems announced that their Windows Azure-based aKite® Vers.2.0 software services suite has...