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Microsoft will discontinue development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) as of June 30, the company announced via a blog. The blog calls the elimination of this package of integrated Microsoft back-office programs a move to “streamline [Microsoft's] server product portfolio.” “[M]idsize businesses are rapidly turning to technologies such as … virtualization and cloud computing as [...]
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Microsoft Pulls Plug on Business Server Package
March 5th, 2010 
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Tags: Blog, business, EBS, Efficiency, Microsoft, Plug on, Server, Windows 
No Comments »Leak: Microsoft Pink phones coming to Verizon, on shelves April 20th?
March 5th, 2010 admin Details on Microsoft’s Pink phones seem to be leaking all over the place this week, and we just got a huge piece of the puzzle:..
Posted in Microsoft Tags: breaking news, BreakingNews, exclusive, leak, leaks, Microsoft, pink, pure, rumor, Rumors, Sharp, tmdp, Truly Madly Deeply, TrulyMadlyDeeply, turtle, Verizon No Comments »Microsoft Envisions Ultra-modular Data Centers
March 3rd, 2010 admin
In the years to come, Microsoft’s data centers may not be huge buildings tightly packed with server racks, but rather rows of small, stand-alone IT units spread across acres and acres of cool, cheap land. At the DatacenterDynamics conference in New York on Wednesday, Microsoft data center general manager Kevin Timmons outlined some prototype work [...]
Posted in Microsoft Tags: Chicago, Data Centers, Dublin, Microsoft, Sub-station, Ultra-modular No Comments »Microsoft Outlook to Add MySpace and Facebook Integration
February 17th, 2010 admin Microsoft Outlook has just become a lot more social through new partnerships with Facebook and MySpace and an existing one with LinkedIn.
You might remember back in November that Microsoft announced Outlook Social Connector, a new Office 2010 feature that hooks up social feeds into the Outlook inbox. The initial partner for the program was LinkedIn, [...]
Windows Mobile 7 details Released….
February 7th, 2010 admin The folks at PPCGeeks and MobileTechWorld got their hands on what they claim are some of the initial details on Windows Mobile 7. Without citing any sources other than their inbox, both websites claim that Windows Mobile 7 will be introduced at MWC 2010 on February 15th in Barcelona. The official unveiling will reportedly focus [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Windows mobile Tags: Microsoft, MWC, Rumors, windows mobile, zune phone No Comments »Microsoft, NSF Form Cloud Computing Collaboration
February 5th, 2010 admin Researchers selected by the U.S. National Science Foundation will have free access to Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform under a deal announced Thursday. Research projects focused on cloud computing will have access to Windows Azure for three years as part of the deal. The agreement will allow the U.S. scientific community “the opportunity to [...]
Posted in Microsoft Tags: Azure, Computing, Microsoft, NSF, Platform, Research projects, Windows No Comments »What Business Can Learn from Gates’ New Web Site
January 21st, 2010 admin
Want Bill Gates as a corporate advisor? Care to hear and read his thinking on the big issues facing the world today? Want to apply his approach to your own business? Then his new site–The Gates Notes–has something for you. Since leaving his fulltime job at Microsoft in mid-2008, Gates has worked fulltime at his charitable [...]
Critical Updates from Microsoft, Adobe, and Oracle
January 13th, 2010 admin
Today is the second Tuesday of 2010, which means it’s the second Tuesday in January, which makes it Patch Tuesday. Microsoft welcomed 2010 by taking things easy this month and released only a single security bulletin. Microsoft security bulletin MS10-001 affects a vulnerability in the embedded Open Type font engine. The security bulletin is rated [...]
Microsoft Arc Keyboard
January 8th, 2010 admin
Microsoft still has a bit more stuff in store for CES that didn’t slip out ahead of its big keynote, with it now announcing its new Arc Keyboard that will exclusive to Best Buy. Like its Arc Mouse, this one is slim and high on style, and relatively light on any extraneous features, although you [...]
Xbox Live Headed to Windows Mobile Devices?
December 30th, 2009 admin
Microsoft may be bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows Mobile devices perhaps as early as the launch of Windows Mobile 7 expected late 2010, according to recent job postings on Microsoft’s site. The software giant is looking for a program manager and software tester to join the LIVE team, and both positions would be focused on [...]
