Microsoft's Brad Anderson on Tuesday talked about the company's management product strategies, while downplaying those of VMware, at investment banker-sponsored event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 11, 2009
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have simultaneously booted 1 million Linux kernels, all of which ran as virtual machines on the labs' Thunderbird supercomputer.
- By Joab Jackson
- August 05, 2009
Microsoft has released a beta version of its App-V 4.6 application virtualization technology.
- By John K. Waters
- August 04, 2009
The release candidate (RC) version of Windows XP Mode is now available, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 04, 2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the promotion of Brad Anderson, an executive who helped foster various server management products in the Microsoft System Center product line.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2009
Microsoft has taken the once unthinkable step of contributing 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community, allowing any commercial or community distribution of Linux to run as a virtual machine on top of Hyper-V.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 21, 2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced Volume Licensing program changes that supposedly simplify matters for IT shops, as well as hosting providers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 15, 2009
A Symantec survey reveals the "rising [disaster recovery] pressures on organizations caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service-level requirements to mitigate risk to the business."
- By Jim Powell
- June 30, 2009
The downturn in the economy is affecting the role and spending strategies of IT organizations, according to a Harris Interactive survey commissioned by Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2009
Microsoft has clarified its downgrade rights policies for Windows 7 purchasers when that operating system becomes generally available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 18, 2009
Microsoft executive Bill Koefoed answered some questions about the software giant's business prospects on Wednesday at an investment firm-sponsored technology conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2009
The release candidate of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available for public testing, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2009
Web hosting specialist and Microsoft shop MaximumASP went looking for a virtualization solution. After evaluating the field, the Gold Certified Partner ended up sticking with Microsoft for a new virtual hosting business.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 01, 2009
First Look: Book by Gold Certified Partner provides a good starting point for building a virtualization practice.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 01, 2009
Company plans to roll out iTunes-like interface where end users can access corporate applications.
- By Lee Pender
- June 01, 2009
A recent study from IT staffing specialist Robert Half Technology suggests that CIOs plan to invest in new IT initiatives over the next year, in spite of a bad (and possibly worsening) economic climate.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 27, 2009
Microsoft continued its foray into unified communications (UC) with an announcement last week of support for a virtualized topology in Microsoft Office Communications Server R2 (OCS R2).
- By Herb Torrens
- May 19, 2009
The opening keynote address at Tech-Ed on Monday featured Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Windows business, who described a number of upcoming milestones for Microsoft's new products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2009
ISVs provide the critical tools and applications that complete Microsoft solutions. Microsoft Tech-Ed is traditionally where many of those vendors announce their next products.
- By Lee Pender
- May 01, 2009
The release candidate (RC) of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, can be downloaded today by Microsoft TechNet and MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscribers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2009