Just weeks before Microsoft is expected to launch SQL Azure, Amazon on Tuesday said it will let customers host relational data in its EC2 cloud service using MySQL.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 27, 2009
Microsoft released additional resources last week for IT pros planning to use the new desktop virtualization solution in Windows 7.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 27, 2009
The president of Microsoft's Business Division got the hot seat at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo event last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- October 26, 2009
Microsoft disclosed its fiscal first-quarter results, reporting an 18 percent decrease in net income compared with 1Q 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 23, 2009
Customer Interaction Cloud combines Salesforce.com's Service Cloud 2 and Cisco's UC stack.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 23, 2009
Attendees at SMB Nation 2009 assert their independence from Microsoft amid slowly improving market conditions.
- By Rich Freeman
- October 23, 2009
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer formally unveiled Windows 7 on Thursday at a ceremony in New York City.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 22, 2009
An independent security researcher and a prominent figure in open source exploit data collection now has a new commercial home.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 21, 2009
Microsoft is responding to problems with a fix for Office Communications Server and Live Communications Server.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 21, 2009
Organizations struggling with the complexities of Microsoft's unified communications solution have a new outsourcing option.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 21, 2009
Microsoft and Red Hat have validated that their respective Windows and Linux operating systems will run on each other's virtualization platforms.
- By John K. Waters
- October 20, 2009
Spam-based malware traffic increased dramatically last month, surging by 900 percent between August and September.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 20, 2009
Microsoft last week reported positive numbers for its new consumer antivirus solution, but security vendors haven't heaped much praise.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 19, 2009
Microsoft will hatch Windows 7 as a full-fledged commercial operating system this week, and IT professionals should be making plans for it.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 19, 2009
Scaring computer users into buying and installing potentially malicious security programs is becoming a big business, according to a study of rogue software by Symantec.
- By William Jackson
- October 19, 2009