The big announcement from TechEd 2010 Europe was that Microsoft had partnered with a group of hardware partners representing more than 80% of the hardware market in order to democratize private Clouds. While in Berlin earlier this week I had the opportunity to get insight into the partnership between HP and Microsoft over Hyper-V Cloud which resulted in offerings such as the HP CloudStart for … [Read more...]
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Microsoft not amused by open source Kinect drivers
DIY hardware company Adafruit Industries recently offered a $3,000 bounty to encourage the development of open source drivers for Microsoft's Kinect motion control camera. Developer Hector Martin claimed the prize this week and has published his source code under the terms of the GPL in a public git repository. Martin's implementation includes code for initializing the camera, capturing live … [Read more...]
Windows 8 Could Feature Cloud Backup via Windows Azure
The next major iteration of Windows could feature an entirely different level of backup leveraging Cloud computing. At least this is hinted into a job post from Microsoft which discusses a possible connection between Windows 8 or Windows vNext, and Windows Azure. Although the details for what could end up being Windows Azure-based Windows 8 storage come from Microsoft, fact is that the … [Read more...]
Windows 8 in 2012
Microsoft has purged all mentions of Windows 8 from a company site in the Netherlands which revealed that the next major iteration of Windows is right on track for availability in 2012. After confirming officially, but inadvertently, that the successor of Windows 7 is only a couple of years away, the software giant managed to easily go back to its traditional silence related to upcoming Windows … [Read more...]
Windows 8 (Windows vNext) Riskiest Product Bet for Microsoft
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is considering the next version of Windows as the riskiest product bet by the Redmond company, according to a Mary-Jo Foley report. Windows 8, or Windows vNext as Microsoft would prefer it, is for the most part a great unknown. In the post-Longhorn/Vista era, the software giant is extremely careful with the details it shares about Windows operating … [Read more...]
Forget Windows 8/Windows 9, Microsoft’s Future Is in the Cloud
Windows and Office continue to be Microsoft™s main cash cows, with a range of additional offerings also qualifying for positions of top earners. There are a range of company divisions pulling in over $1 billion in revenue each year, including Xbox, SQL Server, System Center, Unified Communications, SharePoint, Developer Tools, Dynamics, and Online Advertising. And yet, Microsoft is looking past … [Read more...]
Microsoft Is Superior to Google : Steve Ballmer
Microsoft Is Superior to Google, Says Steve Ballmer Talking about the Cloud The rivalry between Microsoft and Google has only accentuated in the past years, with the software company climbing into the Cloud and expanding its territory on the search market, and with the search giant producing operating systems to compete with Windows client and Windows mobile platforms. Microsoft Chief Executive … [Read more...]
U.S. Air Force starts long trek to Windows 7
The U.S. Air Force has begun a major transition from Windows XP and Vista to Windows 7. When the process is complete in December 2011, all of the service™s 600,000 desktop and laptop computers will be upgraded. Speaking at a Pentagon press briefing on Nov. 2, Air Force Chief Information Officer, Lt. Gen. William Lord described the process as œa daunting task. He added that the transition is not … [Read more...]
UniBrows:New add-on puts IE6 in your IE8
Browsium, a Washington-based startup composed of ex-Microsoft employees and partners, is planning to release an add-on that lets customers run the most-hated version of Internet Explorer within a more modern Microsoft browser. That's right: UniBrows will put IE6 in your IE8. Currently in beta, the add-on will ship later this month and will sell for $5 per user per year. "Companies need something … [Read more...]
Microsoft Malware Protection Center
" At the recent Virus Bulletin 2010 Conference in Vancouver, BC, I made a presentation highlighting infection data collected from the Malicious Software Removal Tool and data collected from Microsoft Security Essentials in its first year. The presentation (coincidentally on the Security Essentials one year anniversary), entitled "Observations and lessons learned from comparing point-in-time … [Read more...]
The Customize Windows : Announcement
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