September 2007 - Posts

• Halo 3 in Middleeast!

  'Halo 3', the final chapter of Microsoft Corp.'s epic video game trilogy, finally goes on sale across Middle East. Day-one sales of the highly anticipated video game are expected to shatter entertainment sales records and top the biggest entertainment Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 8:01 AM by gulf_itpro | 0 Comments Filed under: news items

• New version of Office 2008 of Mac in January

  Microsoft Corp. will release three versions of its Office 2008 for Mac suite in January, with the most expensive of them aimed at creative professionals overwhelmed by the task of organizing their digital media files. All three versions work on Intel-based Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:56 AM by gulf_itpro | 0 Comments Filed under: news items

• Microsoft discussing possible investment in Facebook

  Setting the stage for a possible bidding battle, Microsoft Corp. is considering an investment in social networking site Facebook Inc. that would value the rapidly growing online hangout at $10 billion or more, according to a report. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:54 AM by gulf_itpro | 0 Comments Filed under: news items

• Citrix Adopts Microsoft’s VHD virtualization format

  Citrix adopts Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk format as the common runtime environment for its Desktop Server and virtual application products. ( Additional information here ) Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:50 AM by gulf_itpro | 0 Comments Filed under: news items

• System Center (SC) Wave 2 Roll-out begins

  The successor to SMS – SC Configuration Manager and our Virtual management solution – SC Virtual Machine Manager have both released to manufacturing. These along with Data Protection Manager (DPM 2007) comprise SC Wave 2. ( Additional information here Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:49 AM by gulf_itpro | 0 Comments Filed under: news items

• Sun Microsystems To Sell Windows Server

  Sun last week revealed plans to sell Sun servers running the Windows Server operating system. ( Additional Information here ) Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:48 AM by gulf_itpro | 0 Comments Filed under: news items

• IIS Outserves Apache on Fortune 1000 Web Sites

  IIS 6 gained 9.5% since Aug 2006 outserving the open-source Apache server and all other Web servers among Fortune 1000 sites. ( Additional information here ) Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:47 AM by gulf_itpro | 0 Comments Filed under: news items

• Next Release of BizTalk – BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is Out

  BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is designed to allow a company to extend its business processes to the corporate "edge". ( Additional information here ) Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:45 AM by gulf_itpro | 0 Comments Filed under: news items