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.
It’s a cloud, cloud world. But making pragmatic choices about deploying IT infrastructure sometimes involves embracing the more cost effective cloud, and sometimes requires some old-fashioned bare metal. Read more »
To ensure that ARM or other alternative architectures don’t gain ground in the data center, Intel is launching a customizable chip that marries its Xeon CPUs with an FPGA. Read more »
With CenturyLink’s new managed services deployment model customers can pay for things like Active Directory, RHEL, and SQL Server by the hour. Read more »
Google I/O is next week and we expect to hear about or see some big changes in the Chrome OS user interface thanks to Project Athena. Meanwhile, Jolicloud thinks its Drive… Read more »
Amid a perfect storm of market drivers and use cases like the BYOD phenomenon and the emergence of cloud technologies, this year we have seen enterprises overcome the inertia to start… Read more »
After launching to Jolicloud users last year, cloud-storage aggregator Drive is being re-introduced with a Pro version and a Chrome extension, helping to bring more cloud data support to Google’s Chromebooks… Read more »
Microsoft(s msft) continues to refine the Facebook(s fb) experience on Windows Phone with both a standard and beta version of the social networking app available. The latest beta software, version 5.3,… Read more »