By: Nicholas Kolakowski
Microsoft experienced a cloud-centric week with Windows Azure, which is now generally available in 21 countries and no longer available for free. Microsoft hopes that the cloud-based platform and its application-building tools for developers will allow it to gain market share in the cloud computing arena, where it faces strong competition from the [...]
by Ina Fried
LAS VEGAS–Aiming to better compete against a growing [...]
By Sylvie Barak
Amazon.com may be a bookseller but its heart is in the cloud, according to Dr. Werner Vogels, vice-president and CTO at Amazon.com. In a keynote speech at CeBit, the Dutchman said the firm’s [...]
By MIGUEL HELFT
SAN FRANCISCO — Accusing Microsoft of unfairly sidelining competitors, Google said on Tuesday that it would apply to join a European Union antitrust case against Microsoft over the company’s Web browser.
Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
Microsoft warned enterprise customers this week that the migration path from XP to Windows 7 won’t be any easier than it is to Vista, and offered recommendations for how companies can move from older versions of Windows to one of its newer client OSes.
By Ryan Faas
January 29, 2009 (Computerworld) There’s no doubt that Apple Inc.’s iPhone has changed the landscape of the smart-phone industry, and indeed the mobile phone business as a whole. But one of the most revolutionary advances that Apple offered up isn’t in the iPhone itself: It’s the mechanism the company developed to distribute [...]
By Rosalie Marshall
Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Yahoo’s search business may be back on the cards, according to fresh reports.Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said in an interview with The Financial Times that now is a good time for the software company to buy, while both firms are in the midst of management transitions.
By SAUL HANSELL
LAS VEGAS — If there was one overarching theme from the Consumer Electronics Show here last week, it was that absolutely every device in our lives is becoming a computer connected to the Internet
“TV is interactive TV these days. You will use the same TV and the same remote control, but have completely [...]