Today, Microsoft and Dell are announcing a strategic partnership expansion to help customers more quickly deploy and manage virtualization technologies. This partnership will bring together the strong hypervisor technology of Hyper-V with integrated...

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Microsoft and Toyota Motor Corp. (TMC) announced today that together they are utilizing the Windows Azure platform to build a global platform for next-generation applications that support in-car communications, GPS and information systems - commonly known as telematics.

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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...

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...

Microsoft Releases Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 At TDWI last week, Microsoft released Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0. Building on Fast Track Data Warehouse 2.0, the solution helps customers accelerate their data warehousing projects to achieve much...

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...

Today, customers can download the Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) via Windows Update or the Windows Server 2008 R2 Download . General availability closely follows the RTM announcement on 2/9, where Microsoft announced the delivery...

Release to Manufacturing of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to manufacturing and announced that it will be available to customers on February 22, 2011. Windows Server...

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Today, Microsoft released Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to manufacturing and announced that it will be available to customers on February 22, 2011.

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 enables sophisticated desktop virtualization capabilities that build on the comprehensive virtualization functionality already included in the Windows Server operating system. Specifically as a result of customer feedback, Microsoft has enabled:

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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 we are pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate for Windows Small Business 2011 Essentials . Ideal as a first server for small businesses with up to 25 users, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials provides a cost-effective...

Microsoft announced today that T-Mobile USA and Xerox have adopted the Windows Azure platform and are creating new services and gaining greater efficiencies through cloud computing. This announcement comes as Microsoft celebrates the one year anniversary...

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...

Drupal 7 launches with support for SQL Server and Windows Azure and availability within WebMatrix This week Microsoft welcomed the launch of Drupal 7, which was released earlier this month and marks an important milestone with great improvements resulting...

VRX Studios is a full-service photography company that provides content production, licensing, hosting, and distribution services to the global travel and hospitality industries. The company serves more than 10,000 hotels across the globe, including those...

With growing interest around the cloud, we wanted to extend an invitation for you to learn more about Microsoft’s Cloud strategy and product portfolio through a technical lens. During the week of January 24 – 28, 2011, Microsoft would like...