Today at MIX09, Microsoft announced a set of platform investments to help companies more efficiently and affordably engage with their customers through a rich, interactive presence on the Web. This includes the release of Silverlight 3 Beta, Expression...

Today at the Microsoft event MIX09, we are announcing the availability of a number of new IIS Extension releases in addition to the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta and the Windows Web Application Gallery . IIS Extensions add value to the Microsoft...

Today, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS). Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server provides fast and effective protection against IM...

Today, Microsoft announced the first beta release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (SCVMM R2). With feedback from our customers, Microsoft has made a number of new feature enhancements in R2 that support using a Windows platform including...

Today, Microsoft Corp. announced its support of Cisco’s Unified Computing System entrance into the server datacenter market as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). Through this agreement, Cisco will pre-package, resell and support Windows Server...

Microsoft today announced the release of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 RC to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, SP2 provides integrated fixes into a single service pack. SP2 RC is an update to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that, along...

Microsoft Corp. announced today that Lionbridge Technologies Inc., a $461 million (U.S.) translation, development and testing services company, was able to save more than $200,000 last year, enhance security and accelerate the use of customer services...

Today at VSLive! during his keynote, Jason Zander, GM of Visual Studio for the Developer Division at Microsoft made two announcements about increasing developer efficiency with the next version of Visual Studio and provided an update on the community...

Microsoft today announced the availability of SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. Partners and customers using SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse benefit from the power of SQL Server 2008 combined with a variety of hardware configurations from partners...

Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another's hypervisors. In short, this means that customers with valid support agreements will be able to run...

Forrester, a leading research firm, named Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Data Warehousing Platforms (EDW), Q1 2009. The Forrester Q1 2009 Wave reports concludes that Microsoft is challenging “the EDW market leaders with...

Microsoft today announced that some business customers around the world have saved on average $470,000 (U.S.) per year through IT projects using Microsoft virtualization software. Microsoft’s business customers have been able to use virtualization to...

The Web is simultaneously becoming more important and more dangerous to businesses. Today Microsoft released Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Beta 2 for download . Forefront TMG, the successor to ISA Server , helps organizations take full advantage...

Today, Microsoft announced the recent certification of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 to fully support SAP NetWeaver 7.0 and the newly released SAP Business Suite 7. Microsoft remains committed to delivering world-class enterprise capabilities...

Microsoft completed its second monthly “Live and Virtualized” LiveMeeting series Wednesday, January 28 th , 8:00am PST. The LiveMeeting topic was “Green IT and Virtualization” presented by Francois Ajenstat , Director, Environmental Sustainability at...

Tuesday, in New York, NY, at an event for 80 CIOs and senior technical leaders from New York, New Jersey and states in the Southeast, Steve Ballmer, Bob Muglia, Joe Tucci, chief executive officer, EMC Corp. and Howard Elias, president, Global Services...

Today, Microsoft Services announced the global availability of Premier Mission Critical, a new add-on for Premier Support customers that delivers the highest level of responsiveness, service availability and support for Windows Server and SQL Server components...

Microsoft has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of all three Gartner Application Infrastructure Magic Quadrants. The Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects , Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure...

Today, Microsoft’s Identity and Security Division announced that Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) Beta 3 is now publicly available for download , with release to manufacturing (RTM) scheduled for March 2009. For more...

The holiday came early for some last month with the delivery of Service Pack 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) available for download . This release delivers multiple enhancements to the Microsoft System Center portfolio of management...

Microsoft and Marathon Technologies Corporation today announced a development agreement designed to address the fault tolerant and high availability computing needs for business customers running Windows Server-based applications in enterprise information...

In conjunction with the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show , (CES), Microsoft today released the public beta of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2008 R2 is an update release and the next version of the Windows Server...

Microsoft completed its first monthly “Live and Virtualized” LiveMeeting series yesterday, December. 9 th , 8:00am PST. The first LiveMeeting topic was titled “Virtualization and Cloud Computing” presented by Mike Neil , general manager of virtualization...

Today at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration (AADI) Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, Microsoft announced the general availability of BizTalk RFID Mobile and BizTalk RFID Standards Pack, as well as the first public beta of BizTalk...

Today, RSA , the security division of EMC, and Microsoft Corp. announced their plans to expand an existing partnership that will offer companies a better way to protect their sensitive information and share it in a secure manner. The partnership will...