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 Centrify, which made its bones making Microsoft’s popular Active Directory accessible to Redmond’s enemies list, is spreading its wings and snuggling up closer to Microsoft at the same time by throwing it something of a lifeline.
See, Microsoft expects Office 365 to be one of the fas...Jun. 10, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,695 |
 Microsoft wants to buy Nook Media LLC, the Barnes & Noble’s digital and college books joint venture, for a billion dollars according to TechCrunch, which says it’s got internal documents to prove it.
With Windows 8 in mind Microsoft bought 16.8% of the operation last year for $300 mi...May. 13, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,906 |
 Roughly six months after Windows 8 came out at the end of October, Microsoft Tuesday confirmed reports that it’s been tinkering with the operating system to make it more popular.
The radical redesign is supposed to have confused the buying public and created enough of a learning curv...May. 13, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,579 |
 A mini Y2K event for applications stranded on those old, obsolete servers. The challenge is clear. EOL means no more patches and security vulnerabilities increase on a daily basis. For those wishing to keep their machines running, this is a situation that requires action..
There are t...May. 8, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,553 |
 In this version of the book the author still starts off by answering the question, "Why do we need another C# book?". I was asking myself that very question when I turned to the introduction of C# 4.0 Unleased which was the first version of this book I read. He says "In short, what set...May. 3, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,439 |
 Microsoft announced Tuesday that ZTE, one of the world’s biggest handset producers, had come to terms and signed a worldwide patent license agreement that will see Microsoft paid a royalty on all of the phones, tablets, computers and other devices the Chinese company makes that run Goo...Apr. 25, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,869 |
 Microsoft recently announced the PolyBase technology as part of SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse solution. PolyBase is a breakthrough new technology on the data processing engine in SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse designed as the simplest way to combine non-relational da...Apr. 24, 2013 09:41 AM EDT Reads: 1,667 |
 Microsoft shrugged off the precipitous downturn in PC sales and the diffident reception given Windows 8 Thursday when it posted record fiscal Q3 results.
It returned 72 cents a share, up 19%, on revenues of $20.49 billion, up 18%, beating expectations of 68 cents, but coming up light...Apr. 22, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,802 |
 Asian suppliers told the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft has been sampling components including a 1.5-inch display for a potential touch-enabled smartwatch that would compete with a purported watch from Apple and others coming from Google and Samsung as well as the Martian Passport ...Apr. 22, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,859 |
 With Windows Server 2003 end of life approaching, companies will be faced with moving large numbers of enterprise applications. We provide the only way to upgrade existing server applications from WS2003 to WS2008 or WS2012 in a cost effective and time saving way.
AppZero, the fastes...Apr. 18, 2013 01:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,547 |
 Foxconn’s parent company Hon Hai, the world’s largest contract manufacturer, is going to pay Microsoft royalties on all the Android and Chrome widgets it makes including smartphones, tablets and televisions under the broad worldwide patent licensing agreement they’ve just cut.
Hon Ha...Apr. 18, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,518 |
 I have upgraded the tool I created for reverse engineering SharePoint 2007 and 2010 into HTML, Text, and DGML Sitemaps to work with SharePoint 2013. The tool is now versioned at 1.5. You have to copy the appropriate folder instead of just the file (Version 1.0 was only one file) becau...Apr. 4, 2013 09:23 AM EDT Reads: 1,301 |
 “You need two groups when dealing with cloud compliance,” explained Rob LaMear IV, CEO and Founder of Fpweb.net, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “First,” LaMear continued, “you need a provider that is willing to operate transparently and work with ...Apr. 3, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,482 |
 A move to the cloud brings serious benefits, particularly for startups who often need to ramp up their IT capacity quickly without the burden of investing in new hardware or training staff. If your company is ready to offload its applications to the cloud, how do you decide which provi...Mar. 23, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,032 |
 No one is going to argue (at least not strongly) in favor of running business applications on an operating system that does not get security updates. Compliance teams will see this as a huge risk and will move heaven and earth to remediate it. In the next 12 months many IT departments ...Mar. 20, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,437 |
 SharePoint is a popular choice for intranet applications and therefore it is important that it performs well to ensure employee productivity. Waiting ten seconds just to load the initial dashboard doesn’t necessarily support that. At a recent customer engagement we identified an intere...Mar. 16, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,435 |
 iSCSI? No problem! Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 include native support for a software iSCSI initiator as well as MPIO ( Multipath IO ) for resiliency and load balancing of storage IO over multiple network paths.
In this article, we’ll walk through the process of connec...Mar. 14, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,667 |
 After fining Microsoft $733 million for unintentionally flouting an antitrust settlement with regulators, the European Commission took some of the blame.
Antitrust czar Joaquín Almunia said the EU had been “naïve” to let Microsoft monitor its own adherence to the 2009 deal that let i...Mar. 10, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,751 |
 Recently the Windows Azure Mobile Services team released official support for Android. Along with the SDK Microsoft has also written a number of tutorials to help you get started. The best place to start if you’ve never used Windows Azure Mobile Services before is the Getting started w...Mar. 8, 2013 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,394 |
 In this post, I will cover adoption - one of the key things to be aware of when you're aiming for high adoption levels is that without focus on the aforementioned requirements, adoption will be low. I've been writing these in order for a reason - in order to drive high adoption levels,...Mar. 9, 2013 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,491 |
 This article is a summary of a seminar I attended on the key to an engaging presentation.
Following up on my prior article, how to deliver effective demos, here are some guidelines how to deliver effective presentations. This is a summary of an excellent seminar I attended, given by T...Mar. 7, 2013 10:45 AM EST Reads: 1,185 |
 The European Commission Wednesday levied a fine of €561 million ($733 million) on Microsoft for failing to keep its legally binding 2009 promise to offer European Windows users a choice of rival browsers.
Microsoft claimed an accidental technical glitch prevented the new Windows 7 Se...Mar. 7, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 1,687 |
 Although I started with ColdFusion for application development, I did plenty brochureware sites with HTML. I believe the version was HTML 2.0 for IE 2.0. I lived in the browser world for years doing Cold Fusion, ASP, and HTML sites. When winforms and Smart Client with web services emer...Feb. 28, 2013 08:15 AM EST Reads: 2,323 |
 Like Samsung, LG, HTC, Acer and Barnes & Noble before it, Nikon has signed up to pay Microsoft royalties for certain of its cameras running Android.
The deal gives Nikon broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio.
Microsoft said the agreement “demonstrates the value that bot...Feb. 27, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,909 |
 Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Role introduces a new capability, Hyper-V Replica, as a built-in replication mechanism at a virtual machine (VM) level. Hyper-V Replica can asynchronously replicate a selected VM running at a primary site to a designated replica site across LAN/WAN. Here bot...Jan. 15, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,600 |
 When people think of "compliance" from a Microsoft SharePoint perspective, it can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. Every organization will have different considerations for compliance: Essentially, which regulations they need to comply with according to their specific...Feb. 25, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,708 |
 To continue this series, I want to focus on another key area called Discoverability. What does this term mean?
Now, you would think with an enterprise search engine, managed metadata service application, content types with site columns, and versioning that this wouldn't be so difficul...Feb. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,088 |
 Tech Crunch got it from Extreme Tech which got it from Phoronix which got it from a source at the big FOSDEM open source conference in Brussels that Microsoft – which is reportedly planning to release Office for Android, a Linux distribution, this year – is taking a “meaningful look” a...Feb. 10, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,028 |
 With IaaS combined with the many features Windows Azure offers, the opportunities for enterprise IT as well as small and medium businesses are real and exciting to employ cloud as a delivery platform for LOB services including media and phone apps. Feb. 9, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,702 |
 SharePoint Gone Wild: When Governance Lacks Training will give a look into how training requirements - or lack of them - can affect governance for SharePoint.
So far in this series, we've looked at business requirements that drive governance - including accountability, quality, approp...Feb. 8, 2013 09:15 AM EST Reads: 1,476 |
 Avanade, the global enterprise IT services company started by Accenture and Microsoft in 2000 to focus on Microsoft widgetry, has acquired the software written by a young 15-month-old SaaS operations start-up by the name of Opstera that helps manage cloud solutions, the underlying plat...Feb. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 4,854 |
 While enterprise IT is transitioning form on-premise deployment to an emerging architecture of hybrid cloud, IT professionals are facing unprecedented challenges to change from managing servers deployed on premise to managing services in hybrid cloud, at the same time extraordinary opp...Feb. 8, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,990 |
 “Microsoft has provided a $2 billion loan to the group that has proposed to take Dell private. Microsoft is committed to the long-term success of the entire PC ecosystem and invests heavily in a variety of ways to build that ecosystem for the future.
“We’re in an industry that is cons...Feb. 5, 2013 12:39 PM EST Reads: 3,588 |
 The Financial Times claims that Silver Lake’s buyout offer for Dell has gone to $15 a share, up from somewhere between $13 and $14.25, if a tablet-induced leveraged buyout can be put together.
Barron’s thinks large stockholders are pressing for $20 and the Wall Street Journal says Mic...Feb. 4, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 4,439 |
 Over a series of posts, I will focus on horror stories, from some of our 8,000+ customers we have here at AvePoint, which provided the genesis for these business drivers. The intention of this series is to proactively help your organization understand what "could happen" and what the b...Feb. 2, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,672 |
 Microsoft Tuesday released its late-to-the-party touch-enabled Office-as-a-Subscription for consumers nearly seven years after Google started flogging its “good enough” Google apps. The business version follows late next month.
Of course, Microsoft dragged its feet to protect its sec...Jan. 31, 2013 10:15 AM EST Reads: 3,035 |
 Despite all the happy post-PC talk and the 4.9% drop in worldwide PC shipments last quarter, Windows is alive and well.
Microsoft posted the numbers from its December quarter Thursday and revenues from its Windows Division were up 24% to $5.88 billion year-over-year while Windows pro...Jan. 28, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 4,225 |
 Microsoft is in talks to help Dell finance a buyout, according to both CNBC and the Wall Street Journal.
It could kick in somewhere between $1 billion and $3 billion.
The rumored price to take Dell private remains around $13-$14 a share.
Private equity house Silver Lake Partners ...Jan. 23, 2013 08:15 AM EST Reads: 2,619 |
 For many companies, the business benefits that cloud computing promises are too compelling too ignore: improved agility, lower costs, better resource allocation, and fewer operational issues. As a result, organizations have been moving commodity infrastructure and services to cloud-bas...Jan. 21, 2013 03:15 PM EST Reads: 4,686 |
 Not long ago, customers and prospects had to find a computer to visit your website. But today they’re online 24/7 via mobile devices. Serving your customers is now a continuous interaction, and this phenomenon will only grow in the coming years as customers and prospects demand reliabl...Jan. 21, 2013 02:45 PM EST Reads: 2,753 |
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