Happy New Year. Its getting harder to stay cheery these days. We've all tried to stay positive as the sub-prime crisis spawned the credit crunch which smothered the global economy. But its easy to lose heart as pensions and house prices tumble and mighty...

Mike Manos of Microsoft's Global Foundation Services has released some detail of ambitious plans for Microsoft's new generation of cloud compute infrastructure on his blog. This is the result of long painstaking multidisciplinary R&D from Dan Costello...