Microsoft is taking its container approach to data centers a step further, making the building housing the data center itself a module.Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center VisionIn a blog posting on Tuesday, Microsoft detailed what the generation four data centers will look like.
Not one half-hour after Microsoft responded to BetaNews’ inquiry, the company reversed its position, effectively announcing that the first public betas of Vista SP2 not in February, but next Thursday.The word of a December 4 public beta release officially came from Microsoft Vice President Mike Nash at 4:23 pm this afternoon, moments after our story about rumors of a Q1 2009 beta release went live.
Microsoft this week revealed that its Xbox 360 video game console outsold its Sony PlayStation 3 rival 3-to-1 on Black Friday, which curiously describes the three day weekend after Thanksgiving, a period that unofficially kicks off the holiday selling season.
Microsoft has released a new wave of Windows Live services that adds more social-networking qualities to its set of online services.The company unveiled last month a plan to add Facebook-like qualities to its set of online services, which include e-mail, calendaring, instant-messaging, photo-storage and sharing and collaboration services, among others.
Have you ever wondered why Microsoft is currently offering overlapping products and services like Live Mesh, Windows Live FolderShare/Live Sync, and Windows Live SkyDrive? I mean, each of these things offers a similar feature set, and they seem to actually compete with each other in some ways.
Among Microsoft Windows 7’s features, a taskbar overhaul is arguably the feature in Microsoft’s upcoming OS that has aroused the most interest. But it’s also the most cloaked in mystery, as it was not part of the pre-betaWindows 7 software handed out to attendees at Microsoft’s PDC last month.
Facing criticism that the beta of its Web Platform Installer didn’t support Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft addressed that complaint with the release candidate made available yesterday.Web PI is a free tool designed to bring together the latest iteration of Internet Information Server, ASP.
A year ago last week, Microsoft hired Silicon Valley veteran Robert Youngjohns to head up its sales and marketing in North America.Youngjohns, who joined Microsoft from San Jose-based Callidus Software, where he was CEO, is now tasked with leading Microsoft’s 8,500-person sales force in the midst of a historic economic downturn.
Microsoft on Tuesday said it is changing its strategy for offering PC antivirus software, with plans to discontinue its subscription-based consumer security suite and instead offer individuals free software to protect their PCs.Code-named Morro, the new offering will be available in the second half of 2009 and will protect against viruses, spyware, rootkits, and Trojans, the company said in a statement.
Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash and Flex and several other RIA and AJAX frameworks, Silverlight arrived with a flourish just over one year ago. Silverlight 1.0 manipulated its multimedia-savvy, WPF user interface using JavaScript. Silverlight 1.1, which added support for compiled .