Microsoft has placed in the Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for SSL VPN, North America, 3Q07 Report (SSL VPN stands for secure socket layer virtual private network). Gartner finds that “The consolidation of vendors and competition in...

Ron Moritz, a senior executive at CA International, is joining the Microsoft Forefront team as the new General Manager for the Edge Security and Access Group. Ron joins Microsoft from CA (formerly Computer Associates), where he was the Senior Vice President...

The Windows Server Division unveiled a holiday surprise for customers and partners this morning, delivering a public beta for Microsoft’s hypervisor-based server virtualization technology called Hyper-V, a feature with some versions of Windows Server...

The NBA is rolling out a new Silverlight experience to provide fans with a richer online experience as they enter the 2007-2008 season. NBA.com will feature a full-screen NBA photo gallery, offer video highlights and deliver additional interactive applications...

Today Microsoft announced the release of Beta 3 of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, and a preview of ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions. Designed to make it even easier for developers to build data-centric applications and services regardless of the underlying data...

Microsoft will hold the next Professional Developers Conference (PDC) October 27-30, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. More information on registration will be available shortly. The PDC is the definitive Microsoft event for software developers...

Windows Server 2008, which is scheduled to release to manufacturing (RTM) by the Feb. 27 launch event, reached the RC1 milestone today and is available to customers for download at http://www.microsoft.com/ws08eval . With RC1, Microsoft is enhancing Group...

Today, at the Gartner AADI, Microsoft announced the addition of ILOG and SOA Software to the Microsoft Business Process Alliance (BPA), which now features 12 of the industry’s top players in the Business Process Management (BPM) space. Members of the...

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be available to customers on Thursday, November 29th. Exchange Server 2007 SP1 features anticipated enhancements such as support for Windows Server 2008, better integration with Office Communications...

Microsoft today released the first public beta of Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, a server operating system and tools designed for the fast-growing high-performance computing (HPC) market. Microsoft also kicked-off the Parallel Computing Initiative...

Today at IT Forum in Barcelona, Microsoft announced the General Availability of Forefront Server Security Management Console. The Forefront Server Security Management Console is a centralized, Web-based management solution for onsite and remote administration...

Also at IT Forum, Microsoft announced three new third party products that will extend Network Access Protection (NAP) to Linux and Mac Desktops as well as the first NAP-powered appliance. The new products will extend NAP, a policy enforcement platform...

Today Microsoft unveiled a series of improvements to the TechNet and MSDN online experiences, which provide comprehensive tools to help IT professionals and developers evaluate, plan, deploy and maintain complex systems and develop advanced software solutions...

Today, Microsoft announced the General Availability of three Microsoft System Center products: Configuration Manager 2007, Virtual Machine Manager 2007 and Data Protection Manager 2007, expanding Microsoft’s management offerings which also include System...

Today at IT Forum, Bob Kelly, corporate vice president in the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, announced pricing, packaging and licensing for Windows Server 2008 and introduced a new product, Microsoft Hyper-V Server. Specifically: The Windows...

Microsoft’s MIX event is back and registration is now open. MIX08 is the event for professionals in the consumer Web space – Web developers, designers, business and digital marketing professionals – to come together to explore new ways to build next generation...

There are approximately 1.4 million midsized businesses in the world and their IT needs are unique. But, in order to maintain growth, they require the same powerful technology solutions used by large companies. That was the thinking behind ‘Centro,’ Microsoft...

Today at TechEd Developers in Barcelona, Spain, S. “Soma” Somasegar , Corporate Vice President in Microsoft’s Developer Division, announced Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 will be released by the end of November 2007. Soma also unveiled...

On Tuesday, October 30 th , at the fifth annual Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference, Microsoft shared its vision and road map to simplify the effort required to design, build, deploy and manage composite applications within and across organizations...

Microsoft today announced that it will extend the Open Specification Promise to the hypercall application programmer’s interface (API) within Windows Server virtualization (codename Viridian), and will be available when Windows Server virtualization is...

Today at Storage Networking World (SNW), Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM). DPM 2007, the new standard for Windows data protection, enables rapid and reliable recovery through...

IDC has published a new whitepaper, “Understanding the Business Benefits Associated with x86 64-Bit Windows Server” that demonstrates that in addition to increasing performance and efficiency, customers can recoup investment in their x64 transition to...

Last week marked the launch of the Application Platform blog hosted by Steve Guggenheimer. The blog, called Crossbar , is a forum for Steve and guest bloggers to increase awareness for the Application Platform and the actions customers/partners should...

Microsoft is releasing the source code for .NET Framework base class libraries under the Microsoft Reference License, which is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/referencelicense.mspx . This license allows...

On October 2nd in Chicago, Kevin Turner keynoted EPC Connection 2007, one of the largest Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) events. Kevin’s roles as COO of Microsoft and formerly as CIO of Wal-Mart Stores have given him a unique perspective on the...