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...

Last night at CES Microsoft announced a new update for Windows Home Server. The update, called Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (formerly code named UR1) will ship in the first half of 2008 and hit servers via Windows Update. This update will include...

Gartner recently issued its annual Magic Quadrant Business Intelligence Platforms and in it, thanks in part to customer feedback, elevated Microsoft's position within the Leader's quadrant. For more information on Gartner's 2011 Business Intelligence...

Today Bob Muglia , president of Microsoft Server and Tools Business, announced changes to its product development organization so that engineering better aligns with its Windows platform and cloud services strategies. The changes will take effect July...

Pack your clogs because we're excited to announce the dates for the next TechEd Europe, which will be held June 25 - 29, 2012, at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands. TechEd is Microsoft's premier technical education...

Expanding on the company’s commitment to help customers manage any data, any size, anywhere, Microsoft today announced that new previews are available for the company’s Hadoop-based solutions for Windows Server and Windows Azure, Microsoft HDInsight Server and Windows Azure HDInsight Service.

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by STB Blogger MediaWiki and phpBB now available on Windows Azure Web Sites Windows Azure continued its broad support for open source technologies this week with new options for Windows Azure Web Sites: MediaWiki and phpBB. MediaWiki is the open source...

by STB Blogger Microsoft is pleased to announce the beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1), which offers integrated solutions for datacenter, cloud and client management. The SP1 is now available for download and evaluation on the Microsoft...

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...

Today at MMS 2008 in Las Vegas, Microsoft and its Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business, Bob Muglia outlined the next phase in the company’s strategy to enable dynamic IT organizations. (Watch the Day 1 keynote webcast ). As part of this...

Today, the Identity and Security Business Group unveiled its Business Ready Security strategy and disclosed product and service updates, including the introduction of Forefront Online Security for Exchange , “Stirling” beta 2 availability and expansion...

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Microsoft Announces Reduced Pricing for Windows Azure Storage

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced reduced Windows Azure Storage pricing, offering customers as much as 28% savings beginning Dec. 12.

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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...

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...

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This morning, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Ted Kummert, will take the stage at the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) Summit 2012 in Seattle to announce new capabilities for Microsoft’s data platform that will help businesses accelerate their time to insights with any type of data.

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See Gartner’s newly released Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers (Gartner, June 3, 2008). The report outlines how service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, international e-commerce, proliferating business-to-business projects and changing user...

Microsoft has been placed in the Challengers Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms report. Gartner finds that “Point products for antivirus, anti-spyware, personal firewalls and host-based intrusion prevention (HIPS) are...

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Great news!  We reached another important milestone on the road to the final release of Windows Server 2012 Essentials:  the Release Candidate (RC) is available now for download and evaluation.  

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Today at TechEd EMEA Microsoft made several announcements to help customers evolve their IT infrastructure for the next generation of Dynamic IT environments: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 beta. Microsoft's new platform includes cross...

Today in Taiwan, Microsoft announced the availability of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 , along with releasing new ESB Guidance and the BizTalk Adapter Pack Beta 2. This product includes advancements for radio frequency identification (RFID) and electronic data...

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 Corp. and HP will host a teleconference tomorrow, Jan. 13, at 8:15 a.m. PST, where Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, and Mark Hurd, chairman and CEO of HP, will take questions regarding a new joint agreement and joint investment to prepare customers...

This week at VS Live!, the Visual Studio team announced Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch, a new offering in the Visual Studio product family enabling developers of all skill levels and organizational sizes to easily build business applications that...

Windows Azure Mobile Services releases SDK

As of last week, the Windows Azure Mobile Services SDK is available on GitHub for C# developers.

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Today Microsoft announced that the official launch date for Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 will be November 12, 2008. In addition, pre-release versions (Release Candidate 1s) of Small Business Server 2008...