Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a pre-beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
- By Becky Nagel
- October 29, 2008
Microsoft today articulated how it will bridge PCs and mobile devices with an extraordinary blitz of announcements that included the first demonstration of Windows 7, its Live Framework, a bevy of new offerings for developers including WPF support for Visual Studio, and the first preview of Office 14.
- By Michael Desmond and Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 28, 2008
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- October 27, 2008
Microsoft claimed on Tuesday that it did not release the next version of its Sync Framework on Oct. 13, as reported by some news outlets last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 21, 2008
New security appliance gives DBAs a leg up on flaws and vulnerabilities lurking in corporate database management systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 13, 2008
As Microsoft readies pre-release bits for its Professional Developers Conference later this month, the company's Connected Services division today announced key components of its "Oslo" modeling platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- October 10, 2008
Microsoft kicked off its BI Conference this week in Seattle with news that it's planning to enhance the BI capabilities in the next version of SQL Server database.
- By John K. Waters
- October 06, 2008
Some internal movements at Redmond might have BI heavyweights on their toes.
- By Joshua Greenbaum
- October 01, 2008
While many partners eagerly await the debut of the solution formerly known as "Centro," some grumble that Microsoft's midmarket server bundle leaves them with too few third-party options.
- By Fred Bayles
- October 01, 2008
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 01, 2008
Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout.
- By Kathleen Richards
- September 29, 2008
Microsoft cited top TCP-E benchmark results for SQL Server 2008, but there's just one problem -- the test fielded no other DBMS competitors.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 25, 2008
One thing you won't find underlying a cloud computing initiative is a relational database. And this is no accident: Relational databases are ill-suited for use within cloud computing environments.
- By Joab Jackson
- September 22, 2008
With RTM milestone met, Windows Essential Business Server is expected become generally available on November 12.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 18, 2008
Security firm Sophos disclosed on Monday that BusinessWeek magazine's Web site had been hacked.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 16, 2008