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Last evening, November 9th, the Oracle Corporation proudly announced the immediate availability for download of their brand-new Oracle Solaris 11 cloud operating system.Oracle Solaris 11 is the first cloud OS from Oracle, supporting the security, scalability and performance requirements of cloud-based deployments.Wit... |
10 November 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Joli OS 1.2, formerly known as Jolicloud, has been released. The Ubuntu-based operating system geared towards web applications and services has not only changed its name, but is now part of the broader cloud ecosystem that is Jolicloud. Joli OS 1.2 comes with several new features, high on the list is the new Dropbox... |
10 March 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Jolicloud 1.2 and Joli OS 1.2 are now available, the first releases following the new strategy at the cloud desktop company. First of all, the operating system has now been renamed Joli OS. Second, Jolicloud plans to expand beyond the Chrome Web Store.Just before Joli OS 1.2 came out, the company announced that the O... |
10 March 2011
13:43 GMT |
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The Cloud is inevitable, and Microsoft makes it quite easy for customers and developers to see the advantages of this new paradigm in computing. The Redmond company expanded a free offering designed to offer a taste of Windows Azure free of charge. The Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special has already gone li... |
24 February 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Whether it’s Windows or Office, or even Windows Azure, Microsoft is offering customers a chance to test drive the products before they decide whether to embrace them or not, and most certainly without requiring them to pay a single cent. Free trial versions of Windows 7 and Office 2010 continue to be available ... |
4 January 2011
09:58 GMT |
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Social game developers that intend to leverage Microsoft’s Cloud for their offerings might want to know what it´s like to build gaming experiences designed to run on top of Windows Azure. This is why a member of the Windows Azure team recommended a free event dubbed ‘Windows Azure and Cloud for Soc... |
4 January 2011
08:13 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to allow customers to test drive its Cloud platform free of charge for limited periods of time, just to get a feel of what the company has to offer. Time and again the software giant has boasted the most complete set of Cloud offerings on the market, including, platform as a service (PaaS), infra... |
27 December 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Microsoft has updated a resource designed to help customers make the best out of Cloud offerings such as Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric services. The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - November Update went live on the Microsoft Download Center recently and is available free of charge as... |
2 December 2010
08:53 GMT |
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Over 60 of Microsoft’s health customers and partners will participate in the Health Users Group European Summit which the company is hosting in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday, 29 and 30 November. According to Elena Bonfiglioli, Microsoft Director of Citizenship, the event is designed to underline the going mom... |
29 November 2010
05:58 GMT |
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Microsoft’s next iteration of the Windows client will come in a world a tad different from today, in the sense that there will be a new rival to take into account beyond Linux and Mac OS X. Google is putting the finishing touches on Chrome OS, its Chrome browser-based open source operating system, designed wit... |
26 November 2010
12:29 GMT |
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Microsoft is not only pushing Windows Azure hard around the world, but the company is also baking up the marketing with some special deals for new customers. Normally, the basic offering from the Redmond company is Windows Azure Platform Consumption, which offers a “Pay As You Go” pricing plan, and is de... |
5 November 2010
07:59 GMT |
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Earlier this week Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect shared a piece of Windows history, offering the public a peak at the press kit which accompanied the launch of version 1.0 of the company’s proprietary operating system. 1985 was a pivotal year for Microsoft and for its Window platform, and now, with... |
16 October 2010
06:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has teamed up with Avanade Cloud Lab to offer customers in the United Kingdom a chance to get their Windows Azure projects off the ground and into the Cloud. The two companies are offering UK developers a chance at winning free Windows Azure support and services in a new contest whose grand prize is estima... |
7 October 2010
04:57 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering developers in Romania a chance to win o total of $15,000 in prizes via a new contest focused on building Cloud applications for Windows Azure. At the same time, the company is also offering resources and training aimed to get local devs to embrace the Cloud. The Cloud School has been intro... |
5 October 2010
04:33 GMT |
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Microsoft traditionally makes available a variety of resources designed to streamline development of applications for its platform, with Windows Azure making no exception to this rule. In addition to the software development kit (SDK) offered by the Redmond company, devs building projects for its Cloud platform can ... |
6 September 2010
05:53 GMT |
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A new whitepaper made available free of charge by Microsoft is designed to offer developers and technical decision makers insight into the security of the company’s Cloud platform. The Windows Azure Security Overview whitepaper (that can be accessed via this link) will certainly prove useful to customers lookin... |
12 August 2010
07:23 GMT |
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A new promotion from Microsoft is designed to allow a number of 1,500 developers to test drive its Cloud platform free of charge for a whole month. Via the Windows Azure One Month Pass USA devs in the United States can effectively request a Windows Azure one month pass, that will allow them to use Windows Azure and S... |
5 August 2010
07:47 GMT |
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Microsoft had promised to offer customers of its Cloud platform a new tool designed to streamline the building and administration of SQL Azure databases even before Windows Azure was commercially available. The company previewed the project codenamed “Houston” in November 2009, and then offered updates on... |
22 July 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Windows Azure had already passed the 10,000 customer milestone before June 2010, but Microsoft is nowhere near the goals it has set for its Cloud platform. The Redmond company has big plans for Windows Azure, as revealed by Kevin Turner, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2010... |
20 July 2010
10:15 GMT |
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Customers will not be able to dismiss responsibilities related to the security of their offerings and protecting their users just because they move away from on-premise environments. A new resource available from Microsoft is designed to provide insight into the process of bulletproofing applications running on top o... |
16 June 2010
06:55 GMT |
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SQL Server 2008 R2 is not the only Microsoft platform that received an updated Training Kit this month. The Redmond company is offering not only the SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (June 2010 Update), but also a refreshed version of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. Both are available thr... |
15 June 2010
07:48 GMT |
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In just a couple of weeks, customers that are currently leveraging Microsoft’s Cloud platform will be able to take advantage of two new editions of the company’s Cloud-based relational database service. Come June 28, 2010, the Redmond company will make available the SQL Azure 50 GB Business Edition Databa... |
15 June 2010
07:05 GMT |
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When building Windows Azure, one of the aspects of the operating system emphasized time and time again by the company was interoperability. And, indeed, early adopters but also customers of the Cloud platform from Microsoft can testify to the fact that Windows Azure plays nice with a range of non-Microsoft technologi... |
2 June 2010
05:12 GMT |
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With its Cloud platform having been commercially available to customers worldwide since the start of 2010, Microsoft has been working to catalyze an increase in adoption for its new offering. In this regard, the Redmond company has been wooing developers with Windows Azure Firestarter Events designed to get them to w... |
25 May 2010
06:10 GMT |
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A tool designed to streamline the management of Windows Azure hosted services and storage accounts has been upgraded to version 2. Windows Azure Management Tool (MMC) 2 is currently available for download, having been updated on the MSDN Code Gallery since May 10th. Softpedia readers already received a heads-up in re... |
11 May 2010
08:51 GMT |
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While Microsoft continues to work on the first Windows Azure Architecture Guide, the company is making a variety of resources available, designed to help customers, partners and developers embrace its Cloud platform. An illustrative example in this regard is the patterns & practices Windows Azure Guidance site hosted... |
27 April 2010
06:14 GMT |
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Microsoft has expanded the availability of its Cloud operating system to 20 new markets worldwide. As of today, April 12, 2010, the Windows Azure platform is available to customers in a total of 41 countries and regions globally. Microsoft Windows Azure includes components such as Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Window... |
12 April 2010
03:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up for the moment when it starts billing customers that leverage the Windows Azure platform AppFabric. In this regard, the Redmond company has introduced a testing release of the billing system designed to allow customers to get familiar with the costs they will incur as the use Windows Azure pla... |
10 March 2010
09:14 GMT |
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If you thought that mice equipped with the BlueTrack technology from Microsoft delivered the next-generation interaction model based on the mouse concept, then perhaps you need to think again. Fact is that, with the evolution of technology, the mouse will need to be aligned with emerging computing experiences. Micros... |
9 March 2010
09:52 GMT |
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Windows Azure is by no means isolated in an ivory tour and accessible exclusively through Microsoft technologies. Generally available as of February 1st, 2010, Windows Azure comes with the promise that interoperability is a priority, a move designed as an invitation for developers, but also partners, customers and g... |
2 February 2010
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As of February 1st, 2010, Microsoft’s Cloud platform is generally available in no less than 21 countries around the world. Windows Azure graduated from Community Technology Preview (CTP) to production release at the start of January 2010, but only as of January 2nd, 2010, Microsoft started billing customers lev... |
2 February 2010
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On January 4th, Microsoft’s Cloud platform graduated from Community Technology Preview phase to a subscription based offering. Although Microsoft continued not to charge customers for Windows Azure for the month of January 2010, as of today, February 1st, users leveraging the Cloud OS will have to pay for all W... |
1 February 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Microsoft is making consistent efforts to warm up to PHP developers and to get them to leverage its Cloud operating system. The company has worked together with Zend Technologies in order to make sure that version 1.10 of the open source Zend Framework 1.10 plays nice with Windows Azure. On January 28th, Zend techno... |
29 January 2010
05:42 GMT |
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Although Microsoft officially launched its Cloud platform at PDC09 in Los Angeles in November, the Community technology Preview label was only removed from the product at the start of January 2010. At this point in time, there is only a single release of Windows Azure available to customers, but the promise from Micr... |
11 January 2010
03:55 GMT |
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Although launched officially in mid-November 2009, Windows Azure was only stripped of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) label as of January 1st, 2010. Earlier last year, in August, Microsoft kicked up a notch the Windows Azure Blob features, streamlining the usage of the Windows Azure platform component that all... |
4 January 2010
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Customers and developers preparing to embrace Microsoft’s Cloud platform have a wide variety of resources to take advantage of in order to familiarize themselves with the technology. Case in point: the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. With the Kit, Microsoft offers what it referred to as a comprehensive col... |
29 December 2009
04:43 GMT |
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Customers already embracing Microsoft’s Cloud platform need to be aware of a range of modifications that the company is planning to introduce with the evolution of Windows Azure platform AppFabric. The software giant underlines that the latest Community Technology Preview of Windows Azure platform AppFabric wil... |
15 December 2009
05:02 GMT |
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Microsoft has melted the groups behind the Windows Server & Solutions and the Windows Azure Cloud platform into a single organization. Dubbed the Server & Cloud Division, the new Server & Tools Business unit which will jointly develop both the server-side and the Cloud-based flavors of what is essentially, at the cor... |
9 December 2009
10:00 GMT |
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At the Professional Developers Conference 2009, in Los Angeles, earlier this month, Microsoft announced the official launch of Windows Azure. The Redmond company’s Cloud platform is composed of the Windows Azure operating system delivered as a service and SQL Azure, as Microsoft describes it a fully relational ... |
30 November 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Along with announcing the official launch of its Cloud platform at the Professional Developer Conference 2009 in Los Angeles, Microsoft also released an update to the collection of technical content it has built around Windows Azure. In this regard, the November 2009 update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit ... |
27 November 2009
03:32 GMT |
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One year after it first announced that it was evolving its Software plus Services with the development of a Cloud-based platform, Microsoft officially announced the launch of Windows Azure at this year’s Professional Developer Conference. From all perspectives, Windows Azure is extremely young and yet the Commu... |
26 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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One of the major concerns customers have when it comes down to transitioning from on-premise solution to hosted services is availability. Let’s be clear on this, not even on-premise solutions have 100% uptime. But running all solutions on local servers or in their own database gives customers a stronger feeling... |
23 November 2009
08:35 GMT |
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One year after Microsoft first unveiled its Cloud operating system to the world, Windows Azure has been officially launched. The Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles acted as the stage for the Redmond company to release, what it referred to as critical pieces of its Cloud services strategy, namely t... |
18 November 2009
07:09 GMT |
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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not the only operating systems that Microsoft is readying for general availability. Soon after the launch of Vista’s successor, the Redmond company will also make its first example of a Cloud operating system available for customers. In mid-November, Microsoft will launc... |
5 October 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Customers already testing Microsoft’s upcoming Cloud operating system, or testers interested in giving the platform a spin in the final stages before finalization can now download an updated version of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. The August update of the Training Kit for Windows Azure is available ... |
18 August 2009
05:24 GMT |
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The past weekend Microsoft's Cloud operating system suffered an extensive outage lasting approximately 22 hours. Microsoft fessed up to the malfunction, which lasted from Friday until Saturday, and which had the potential of affecting all Windows Azure Community Technology Preview (CTP) participants. In fact, so... |
18 March 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Microsoft's latest move related to its cloud operating system is designed to position the platform as a global service. In this regard, the Redmond company announced that Windows Azure would be migrated to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The Cloud platform that the software giant introduced at the end of Octob... |
26 February 2009
05:34 GMT |
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It seems that there are some people who believe that we might see netbooks running the newly-introduced Cloud OS, developed by Good OS, at CES next month. The new operating system is said to be able to allow users to access simple applications, like Google Apps, in a browser. The company is the developer of the OS us... |
6 December 2008
04:26 GMT |
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How can you explain a cloud operating system in just 145 seconds? Microsoft has the perfect answer to this, and you will be able to find the video embedded at the bottom of this article. Moreover, the Redmond company also managed to add comic value to its inhouse developed video explanation of Windows Azure, codename... |
24 November 2008
13:03 GMT |
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Windows Azure was introduced during the opening day keynote address at the professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of October. Following the departure of Bill Gates from his day-to-day role with the company, Microsoft embarked on the path of Software-plus-Services under the leadership of C... |
10 November 2008
15:11 GMT |
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