Microsoft recently announced the quarterly recipients of the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award, which recognizes exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing their real world expertise wit...

Microsoft has cut a cloud deal with EDS - the consultancy now in HP's hands - that it figures could be worth more than a fluffy $3 billion in cloud and professional services to the two of them. It didn't say over what period of time but by way of insurance - because sales are kinda in ...

Alin, the points you are making are very reasonable, and are largely due to being a service in Community Technology Preview (CTP) rather than a launched service. Unfortunately some of your questions we are not able to answer while still in this mode, but will be resolved as we reach c...

After more than two “azure” months, with lots of new stuff to learn, a whole new alphabet soup to digest and a dozen or so Microsoft evangelists trying to navigate us through the plethora of “cloud services” that seem to pop up every day from Microsoft’s software-making machine, I beli...

This educational webinar from Novell will provide .NET ISVs with an overview of how to port .NET-based applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise. Mono is the open source, cross-platform .NET application framework. Sponsored by Novell, it provides all the necessary software to develop and r...

HP has blended its Insight Control suite with Microsoft’s System Center, a k a ICE-SC, to create what it calls the industry’s first integrated management environment, a perch it will occupy until its rivals copy the move. It’s supposed to lower infrastructure costs and improve uptime. ...

This educational webinar from Novell will provide ISVs with an overview of the UNIX application porting process to SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. This tutorial will cover the required steps to successfully port your applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise including Application Scoping, Portin...

Windows 7 is going to virtualize XP so 7's pretty much completely compatible with XP. Microsoft says there's a secret XP Mode (XPM) for its new rep-redeeming operating system that hasn't been part of any beta code or even disclosed before that's "specifically designed to help small bus...

The official Release Candidate of Windows 7 will be available for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers from April 30, according to the Windows Team Blog, but public availability won't begin till May 5th.

What happens when your cloud provider has multiple datacenters and has the ability to move your code around based on their need (read: not your need)? One thing that any enterprise IT buyer knows how to say is “who’s throat do I choke?” When you have a composited application, who exact...

In Moscow when the Oracle-Sun news broke, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Reuters that he was “very surprised” and that having just heard about it, he needed to think about it. Evidently they didn’t warn him ahead of time. Having thought about it for a couple of days, he told the Amer...

Microsoft's in some amount of pain that it blames on the recession and deteriorating spending and says it doesn't expect things to get better this quarter, maybe longer, maybe into the next calendar year, a forecast it's made before.

Lower operating expenses narrow revenue gap in difficult economic environment.

This webinar from Novell will provide Linux ISVs an overview of the Linux Standard Base (a working group of the Linux Foundation) and a tutorial on how to easily port applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise using such tools as the Linux Standard Base Database Navigator and Linux Standard...

People who use Google's free e-mail service, People who use Google's free e-mail service, Gmail, may be getting more than they bargained for, according to a story in today's edition of the Windows Secrets Newsletter. Contributing editor Scott Spanbauer reports that a vulnerability in ...

Now is the time for Independent Software Vendors to join the SUSE Linux Enterprise ISV Partner Program. In this white paper, you will learn how you can expand your market and your partnership with Novell by developing on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 while benefiting from the services and r...

There’s been quite a bit of chatter on the web about Microsoft's Azure Services Platform. Obviously I’m excited to see people talking about our new platform, especially when there is plenty of good, some bad, and some good if not somewhat rambling. There will be no shortage of guessing...

Back in March of 2004, Eric Lippert of Microsoft explained in his “Fabulous Adventures In Coding” blog how Microsoft divides the developer community into three groups, each which is designated by a personality. Apparently, this is a practice recommended by Geoffrey Moore in “Crossing t...

Microsoft's Azure Services Platform is a cloud platform (cloud computing platform as a service) offering that "provides a wide range of Internet services that can be consumed from both on-premises environments or the Internet" - Microsoft's first step into cloud computing based on its ...

With the advent of mobile technology, more and more people are using an iPhone as their on-the-go method of connecting to the World Wide Web. For those who develop Web applications, the task is to build Web applications that mimic the user interface (UI) of the iPhone and iPod touch de...

Novell has updated its Client for Windows, the widgetry that enables Novell Open Enterprise Server connectivity. Novell calls it a major revision of the Novell Client and says it allows a Vista workstation to log in to Open Enterprise Server or NetWare. It includes performance enhancem...

The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), the front organization for IBM, Oracle, Sun, Red Hat, RealNetworks, Opera as well as other companies on the Redmond enemies list, has become a party to the European Commission’s latest antitrust complaint against Microsoft. ECIS,...

Infobright, the Toronto-based open source data warehousing company, is pushing out rev 3.1 of its low-cost software. It adds x86 Solaris 10 support to its Enterprise Edition and an enhanced SQL Framework to both its Enterprise and Community Editions so the widgetry should appeal to a w...

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, authors, and the newly born Ulitzer community for making our March 29 beta launch an astonishing success! Ulitzer is on its way to becoming one of the fastest growing professional viral sites on the Internet.

According to the latest numbers out of Gartner and IDC, HP has overtaken Dell in the US PC market for the first time since, gee, 2001. Dell lost the lead worldwide to HP in 2006. In Q1 Dell's US market share dropped to 26.3%, down 4.1%, while HP captured 27.6% of American shipments, up...

Microsoft Wednesday sent Exchange 2010 out into public beta. It’s its first server built from the ground up, according to Microsoft, to be deployed in the cloud as an online service as well as on-site. It will be available as a cloud service from both Microsoft and third parties.

While server virtualization appears to have gone mainstream, the case for desktop virtualization is often less clear. However, the potential opportunity is significant with the number of client devices far exceeding the number of servers. Primary reasons why organizations will embrace ...

In reporting the company's numbers Tuesday evening Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that "We believe PC sales bottomed out during the first quarter and that the industry is returning to normal seasonal patterns." If true, there will be dancing in the streets but even if true there are goin...

Quoting unnamed sources the Dow Jones All Things Digital blog reported Friday that Yahoo and Microsoft have started sounding each other out again about a search and ad partnership and said Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz met the week before last.

Microsoft’s unreleased Azure cloud is not meant for private on-premises hosting, the company said. It’s strictly a Microsoft data centers-only thing supposedly because some of the new Azure widgetry Microsoft invents is bound to turn up in Windows Server – from which Azure derives anyw...

Despairing of getting an answer from just about anybody's customer service these days, people are turning instead to Twitter to solve their product problems. And seeing an opportunity to monetize that fact Salesforce.com has promised an extension of its two-month-old Service Cloud call...

Gumusluk is a traditional fishing village on the Bodrum peninsula in the south west end of the Aegean part in the Turkish riviera. Bodrum or the ancient city of Halicarnassus of Caria is a well known center of tourism and yachting. Bodrum peninsula is also well known for the lovely bay...

VMware has taken on the distinct scent of Microsoft again. It just hired another ex-Microsoftie for its senior ranks. Besides CEO Paul Maritz and second-in-command, COO Tod Nielsen, both Microsoft émigrés, there's now chief development officer and EVP Richard McAniff, late corporate VP...

Microsoft and IBM, estranged over IBM’s high-handedness in dictating a seemingly innocuous Cloud Manifesto that’s read as Big Blue’s attempt to stamp itself the ultimate leader of the cloud movement met Monday and parlayed at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York.

The Linux kernel apparently does in fact infringe on Microsoft’s patents – at least that’s certainly the way it looks to the casual observer because TomTom has agreed to yank the offending widgetry out of its GPS devices over the next two years. That’s part of the deal it made with Mic...

The Wall Street Journal, flourishing its unidentified sources, said Thursday afternoon that the price IBM is willing to pay for Sun had drop from between $10 and $11 a share to between $9 and $10 and that Sun is willing to accept the cut - yeah, like it wouldn't - provided IBM gives it...

Microsoft and IBM, estranged over IBM's high-handedness in dictating a seemingly innocuous Cloud Manifesto that's read as Big Blue's attempt to stamp itself the ultimate leader of the cloud movement met Monday and parlayed at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York. Tuesday morning they r...

Microsoft has emitted a squeal of protest much like a stuck pig over a secret "Open Cloud Manifesto" that it says is quietly being handed around the industry seeking signoffs. It doesn't identify the author or authors of this manifesto but figures its supporters - one would guess organ...

A new agreement with Microsoft Corporation gives ArcGIS users fast access to Microsoft Virtual Earth for their geographic information system (GIS) projects. As part of ArcGIS Online at the ArcGIS 9.3.1 release, ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server users will be able to connect directly to ...

BackWeb Technologies Ltd has sued Microsoft for patent infringement, alleging that Microsoft’s Background Intelligent Transfer Service, otherwise known as BITS, introduced in 2001 in Windows XP and now in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, treads on four of its patents...