Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are Xbox game console and the Microsoft Surface series of tablets. It is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues.
Amazon is making efforts to provide highly predictable performance outputs and to match its C4 family’s price-performance with that of its earlier generation C3 family. Read more »
How enterprises find and provide enterprise mobility management services varies greatly from organization to organization, creating a number of distinct product strategies. Read more »
Microsoft has released a free ‘preview’ edition of Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac. Users on Windows, Android, and iOS have had numerous updates, but Mac users have had to wait four… Read more »
In the beginning, public cloud was the only choice. If you had an existing environment on-premise, colocated or with another web hosting company, you couldn’t connect it up to the public… Read more »
Although having a laugh at so-called “enterprise clouds” is a respected pastime in some circles, there’s an argument to be made that they do serve a legitimate purpose. Large-scale public clouds… Read more »
Hui Wang has seen the nature of online fraud change a lot in the 11 years she’s been at PayPal. In fact, a continuous evolution of methods is kind of the nature of… Read more »
The “FREAK” vulnerability that downgrades and weakens secure web connections doesn’t just affect Google and Apple users — according to a security advisory from Microsoft, all supported versions of Windows are… Read more »
Microsoft continues to fill in the check boxes for its Azure cloud. Example: Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft’s take on NoSQL databases a la Couch or MongoDB, will be generally available April 8,… Read more »
Dropbox has added the social design element of Groups to Dropbox for Business. This is not currently available for other Dropbox accounts. In essence, Groups provide a shorthand way to share… Read more »
The notion that pay-as-you-go cloud computing will eliminate shelfware — paid-for but unused computing resources — has always been suspect. Last year I wrote that the proliferation of unused compute instances resulting in… Read more »