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Microsoft Partners With Cisco on New Unified Computing System
Today, Microsoft Corp. announced its support of Cisco’s Unified Computing System entrance into...
Author: mdingle Date: 03/16/2009
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 RC released
Microsoft today announced the release of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 RC to MSDN and...
Author: mdingle Date: 02/25/2009
VSLive! provides updates on Visual Studio 2010 and a partnership with Quest Software
Today at VSLive! during his keynote, Jason Zander, GM of Visual Studio for the Developer Division at...
Author: mdingle Date: 02/24/2009
SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse makes data warehousing deployments faster, easier, and more affordable.
Microsoft today announced the availability of SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. Partners and...
Author: grantkd Date: 02/23/2009
Microsoft, Red Hat to Offer Joint Technical Support
Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have signed agreements to test and validate...
Author: mdingle Date: 02/16/2009
Leading Independent Research Firm named Microsoft a Leader in Enterprise Data Warehousing Platforms
Forrester, a leading research firm, named Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise...
Author: mdingle Date: 02/12/2009
Virtualization Saves Microsoft Customers Nearly a Half-Million Dollars Per Year
Microsoft today announced that some business customers around the world have saved on average...
Author: mdingle Date: 02/09/2009
Enterprise Customers Choose Microsoft Platform to Run SAP Apps
Today, Microsoft announced the recent certification of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server...
Author: mdingle Date: 02/05/2009
Microsoft Presents "Green IT and Virtualization”
Microsoft completed its second monthly “Live and Virtualized” LiveMeeting series...
Author: mdingle Date: 02/05/2009
EMC and Microsoft Extend Strategic Alliance through 2011
Tuesday, in New York, NY, at an event for 80 CIOs and senior technical leaders from New York, New...
Author: mdingle Date: 02/03/2009
Microsoft Announces Premier Mission-Critical Support
Today, Microsoft Services announced the global availability of Premier Mission Critical, a new...
Author: grantkd Date: 02/03/2009
Microsoft Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Latest Magic Quadrants for Application Infrastructure
Microsoft has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of all three Gartner Application...
Author: grantkd Date: 01/27/2009
Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server Beta 3 Now Available
Today, Microsoft’s Identity and Security Division announced that Microsoft Forefront Security...
Author: grantkd Date: 01/23/2009
Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 provides support to physical/virtual environments, cloud capabilities and more
The holiday came early for some last month with the delivery of Service Pack 1 for System Center...
Author: grantkd Date: 01/13/2009
Microsoft and Marathon Technologies Expand Relationship for Customer Benefit
Microsoft and Marathon Technologies Corporation today announced a development agreement designed to...
Author: grantkd Date: 01/09/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 at CES
In conjunction with the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show, (CES), Microsoft today...
Author: grantkd Date: 01/07/2009
Microsoft Presents "Virtualization and Cloud Computing"
Microsoft completed its first monthly “Live and Virtualized” LiveMeeting series...
Author: grantkd Date: 12/10/2008
Microsoft Announces General Availability of BizTalk Server 2009 Beta and RFID Mobile
Today at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration (AADI) Summit in Las...
Author: grantkd Date: 12/08/2008
Microsoft and RSA announce their plans to expand an existing partnership
Today, RSA, the security division of EMC, and Microsoft Corp. announced their plans to expand an...
Author: grantkd Date: 12/04/2008
Expanded Technology Partnership announcement from Microsoft and RSA today at 8 a.m. PST
Today, Microsoft Corporation and RSA, the security division of EMC, will announce an expanded...
Author: grantkd Date: 12/04/2008
Announcing Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 beta availability
Today Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 beta. The...
Author: grantkd Date: 12/02/2008
Save the date! - "Live and Virtualized" LiveMeeting Series
Today Microsoft announced a new monthly "Live and Virtualized" LiveMeeting series that will kick off...
Author: grantkd Date: 12/01/2008
Microsoft Virtualization Announces Hyper-Green.com
Today Microsoft announced the release of a set of tools available at https://www.hyper-green.com/...
Author: grantkd Date: 11/20/2008
Microsoft Online Services solution that will provide IT Management and Security Capabilities for Businesses
As part of yesterday’s announcement of Exchange Online and SharePoint Online availability in...
Author: grantkd Date: 11/18/2008
Microsoft Breaks Into Top 10 of World's Most Powerful Supercomputers
Today at the Supercomputing 2008 conference, Microsoft Corp. debuted in the top 10 of the world's...
Author: grantkd Date: 11/18/2008
Microsoft Participation at ApacheCon 2008
Last week, Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft, presented a keynote at...
Author: grantkd Date: 11/14/2008
Microsoft Announces General Availability of Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008
As part of Microsoft's $6.5 billion annual investment in products, support programs and incentives...
Author: grantkd Date: 11/12/2008
Microsoft to Launch Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 Tomorrow via Live Webcast
You are invited to join Microsoft for the virtual launch of Windows Small Business Server 2008 and...
Author: grantkd Date: 11/11/2008
TechEd EMEA- Interoperable “Geneva” Platform to Simplify Identity - on Premises and in the Cloud
Today at TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft announced a big step forward in...
Author: grantkd Date: 11/10/2008
TechEd EMEA- Latest Innovations from Microsoft Help Developers Build Better Applications, Faster
During the keynote address at Microsoft TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers, Jason Zander, General Manager...
Author: grantkd Date: 11/10/2008
Windows Server Takes Center Stage at WinHEC 2008
This morning Bill Laing, corporate vice president, Windows Server and Solutions Division, updated...
Author: grantkd Date: 11/06/2008
Microsoft Kicks Off WinHEC 2008
Today in Los Angeles, CA, Microsoft kicked off the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference with...
Author: grantkd Date: 11/05/2008
Cisco and Microsoft Deliver Simplified Branch Infrastructure Solution
Microsoft and Cisco announced that the Windows Server on WAAS (WoW) appliance is available to order....
Author: grantkd Date: 10/31/2008
Introducing the TechEd Global Pressroom
The Tech·Ed Global Pressroom on Microsoft PressPass is a new online destination for press,...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/31/2008
Oslo at PDC 2008
Oslo, a set of technical investments that simplify designing, building, managing, and scaling...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/29/2008
PDC 2008- Microsoft Research Demonstrates Software-driven Technology Breakthroughs
On stage at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2008 today, Rick Rashid, senior vice...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/29/2008
PDC 2008- Microsoft Delivers Pre-Beta Release of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to Developers
Today at its Professional Developer Conference 2008 (PDC2008), Microsoft Corp. rallied software...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/28/2008
Microsoft Silverlight and Akamai Innovate To Bring HD Video Experiences Online
Only two weeks after the release of Silverlight 2, Microsoft is working to up the ante once again...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/28/2008
PDC 2008- Microsoft announces its Azure Services Platform
Today, during a keynote at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC 2008), Ray...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/27/2008
SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack Released
A collection of 26 free stand-alone tools, components and frameworks has been released. This...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/24/2008
It All Comes Together: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTMs
Microsoft’s virtualization solutions span the desktop to the data center including the management...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/21/2008
IDC Announces Q2 Worldwide Server Virtualization License Shipments
Industry analyst firm IDC today announced worldwide virtualization license shipments in the second...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/16/2008
Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie Announces the Release of Silverlight 2
Just over one year ago Silverlight debuted to the world - today, one in four consumers worldwide has...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/13/2008
Customer increases ROI with Microsoft Application Virtualization
Today Microsoft and Aspen Technology announced that the first deployment of aspenONE software using...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/06/2008
Microsoft Announces Updates to Windows Application Server and .NET Framework 4.0
Today, Microsoft announced a set of new enhancements to the .NET Framework and Windows Server. The...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/01/2008
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Virtualization Services, Certifications and Training Offerings Now Available
Today Microsoft announced the final release and availability of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, a new...
Author: grantkd Date: 10/01/2008