Earlier today, Microsoft and SAP announced plans to help .NET Framework developers more easily build applications connecting to SAP, as well as help customers harness the power of the cloud.  This news was announced at SAPPHIRE® NOW, being held in Orlando, Florida, May 15-18, where Microsoft was also named SAP Global Technology Partner of the Year.  For additional perspective and information about this news, check out today’s post on The Official Microsoft blog by Ted Kummert, senior vice president of the Business Platform Division.

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Silverlight, MSN and Bing teams have been working with NBCOlympics.com to deliver 2010 Winter Games to the online audience. Check out the NBC Sports press release for all the details. Silverlight , a cross-browser, cross-platform Web plug-in, and Internet...

Today Microsoft published ‘The 5 Steps to Secure Collaboration' on the MS blog and announced the general availability of Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 for Windows Server . These products are new...

On Tuesday, June 23rd from 10:30am – 11:00am (PDT), join a teleconference with Bob Kelly , corporate VP of Infrastructure Server Marketing. Bob will talk about the state of IT within the context of results from a new Harris Interactive study of 1,200...

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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Essar Group Unleashes Power of the Cloud with Windows Azure
In an effort to offer its customers Web-based applications with high performance and scalability while maintaining low infrastructure and management costs, multinational conglomerate Essar Group has announced it has selected Windows Azure to deliver some of its applications.

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Security is often reported as one of the top concerns or barriers to cloud adoption for businesses. To help dispel this perception, today Microsoft released research that shows that small and medium sized businesses (SMB) are gaining significant IT security benefits from using the cloud.

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MIX10 kicked off on Monday, March 15 th with a keynote from Scott Guthrie , corporate vice president .NET Developer Platform and Joe Belfiore , corporate vice president and director of Windows Phone Program Management. During the keynote, Microsoft unveiled...

Today, at RSA 2010, Scott Charney, vice president of Trustworthy Computing, keynoted about Microsoft's continued efforts to create a safer, more trusted Internet. He spoke about cloud security, highlighting the importance of identity technologies and...

Considering all of the new opportunities the cloud opens up for application development, Microsoft continues to look for ways to make it even easier for developers - including .NET, Java and PHP developers - to start building cloud-based apps. That's...

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• Microsoft Virtual Academy - Private Cloud Scenarios, SQL Server 2012, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Course Previews: In this episode of TechNet Radio, Alan Le Marquand discusses upcoming MVA courses on Private Cloud System Center 2012 scenarios such as Application Management, Orchestrator, Data Protection, Operations and Service Manager as well SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2 courses. He also lays the foundation for an upcoming Microsoft Solution Accelerators course on the MAP toolkit and how you can get involved in hands on training at your local IT Pro Camps. View the full episode here.

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As the Microsoft Technical Computing and eXtreme Computing groups close out their week at the Supercomputing 2010 event in New Orleans, the Next in Tech takes a look at how NCBI BLAST on Windows Azure is helping take cloud advancements out of Microsoft’s...

Today, Microsoft announced the final release of IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 RTW . URL Rewriter is an extension for IIS that makes Web addresses simple for customers to remember and search engines to find. URL Rewriter will help Web administrators implement...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) are available to all MSDN subscribers; the RC will be made available to the public on Wednesday, February 10. The goal of this RC is to get more feedback from developers and ensure we've addressed...

Download the New Windows Cache Extension for PHP Beta Today, Microsoft is announcing the Windows Cache Extension for PHP Beta – a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. Once...

Microsoft released the 5 th coding milestone of .NET Services, a component of the Azure Services Platform. This release further enhances support for web standards and interoperability, making it simpler for developers to connect cloud applications and...

Windows Azure is helping enterprise customers like Outback Steakhouse and Ireland-based Aer Lingus drive business value through new customer interactions via social media or web. To read more, check out the customer spotlight feature on the Microsoft...

Today, Microsoft announced a features story with Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft Server and Tools business, providing guidance on smart ways businesses of all sizes can control IT costs in tough economic times. The piece specifically focuses on how...

Delivering on our announcement at the 2011 PASS Summit in early October, today we are announcing the availability of the SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC).

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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...

Temenos, the global provider of banking software, today announced the availability of TEMENOS T24 (T24) on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, making T24 the first core banking system to go into production with customers on Azure. This technological...

Today, as Oracle touts their CRM offerings at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, the Microsoft Dynamics team is asking customers why they should settle for a customer resource management (CRM) solution that is expensive, inflexible and hard to use while continuing on the forced march toward Fusion.

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Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Azure Media Services. Now, customers have everything they need to quickly build great, end-to-end media services for streaming on-demand video to consumers on any device.

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On Tuesday, April 28 at 11:00am PDT, Microsoft will continue its webcast series on ‘How to Invest in the IT Infrastructure You Have While Preparing for Tomorrow’ with Part 2 : “Is There a Cloud in Your Future?” Register here In the current economic...

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...