eBay Turns to Microsoft for Cloud Computing
Microsoft and eBay made a joint announcement this morning, declaring that eBay will be one of Microsoft's first customers for its Windows Azure cloud computing platform appliance. eBay will incorporate...
View ArticleWindows Azure Brought Down Leap Year Bug
Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform for building and hosting web applications, suffered an outage yesterday that brought down several websites that rely on the service. The outage began sometime...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Twilio Join Forces To Offer Communication APIs
Skype changed the way we communicate online by offering an easy and affordable way to call anybody on a land line or other Skype users. Microsoft bought Skype last year to pump money into the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Announces Windows Azure Media Services
Microsoft definitely needs to give its cloud network - Windows Azure - a kick in the pants. If it wants to compete with the likes of Google's and other cloud businesses, it's going to have to step up...
View ArticleSamsung Smart TVs Will Use Windows Azure for Cloud
Samsung announced today that it has chosen Windows Azure as the software on which its Smart TV cloud infrastructure will run. The company claims that the choice will reduce its operating costs and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Updates The Windows Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has been very aggressive over the past year with its Windows Azure service. The cloud computing platform has been positioned as a worthy competitor to Google's App Engine service, and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Picks Up PhoneFactor For Multifactor Authentication
Microsoft announced today that it has acquired PhoneFactor, a provider of multifactor authentication. "The acquisition of PhoneFactor will help Microsoft bring effective and easy-to-use multifactor...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases Windows Azure SDK 2.0 For .NET
In its latest earnings report, Microsoft said Windows Azure and related products hit $1 billion in sales. It shows that Microsoft's cloud platform is starting to really take off. In its efforts to get...
View ArticleMicrosoft Talks Unified Application Store
Microsoft is reportedly forming an Super Store to offer apps for Windows 8 computers as well as Microsoft phones and tablets. According to ZDNet, Microsoft has been busy creating a single, new app...
View ArticleGet Ready For Lots Of Microsoft Enterprise Releases This Fall
Microsoft has announced a bunch of new enterprise cloud solutions coming this fall. On October 18th, the company will release Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 for businesses to create...
View ArticleWindows Azure Gets New Features, PCI DSS Compliance
It's a new year and Microsoft's cloud computing platform has gotten another update, complete with new features that asp.net developers can take advantage of. Microsoft Developer VP Scott Guthrie this...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Azure Reportedly About To Lose The 'Windows'
Update: It's official. Microsoft says: Today we are announcing that Windows Azure will be renamed to Microsoft Azure, beginning April 3, 2014. This change reflects Microsoft’s strategy and focus on...
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