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Microsoft and Toyota have once again joined forces to improve the Japanese automaker’s Gazoo.com website in order to attract more local young drivers. Using Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform, the upgraded website will be available from a wider variety of devices, including smartphones and tablets, thus ... |
26 April 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Microsoft and NBC Sports Group have signed an agreement to implement Windows Azure Media Services on web-based sports digital platforms, including NBCSports, NBCOlympics, and GolfChannel.
As a result, Microsoft’s customers will get quick access to more than 5,000 hours of games and events on basically every si... |
10 April 2013
18:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently announced the acquisition of MetricsHub, a cloud monitoring startup that participated in the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure program.
MetricsHub is the company behind the so-called Active Cloud Monitoring, a technology designed to automate cloud performance management.
While no financ... |
5 March 2013
09:20 GMT |
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Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure suffered a major outage on Friday due to what seemed to be an expired SSL certificate and, even if the company fixed the issue in approximately 12 hours, it’s now planning to offer compensation to its clients.
The company confirmed in a post on its website that all custom... |
28 February 2013
04:36 GMT |
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Microsoft recently announced general availability of the Windows Azure Media Services, a brand new service that allows registered users to stream on-demand video to consumers on any platform or device, including Windows 8, iPhones, Android, Flash, HTML5 and Windows Phone.
While this particular feature has been avail... |
23 January 2013
19:01 GMT |
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Completely unsurprising, Microsoft has announced that Windows Azure storage pricing is taking a cut. The price cut varies, but it can be as much as 28 percent Microsoft announced.
This after both Google and Amazon dropped prices as well. Google, in fact, did it twice, once before and once after Amazon's announc... |
6 December 2012
10:48 GMT |
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In an attempt to show everyone how fast Windows Azure could be, Microsoft hired the world’s fastest rapper to sing about the service in a way no one can understand.
The rapper starring in the new Microsoft commercial calls himself “Noclue” and although some may laugh when hearing his name, we can&r... |
11 October 2012
08:57 GMT |
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Japanese carmaker Toyota today announced that 200,000 employees around the world will use Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud services for the next two years, as part of the company’s efforts to enhance communication and collaboration between its workers. In addition to Office 365, Toyota will also install Micr... |
2 October 2012
16:20 GMT |
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Microsoft executives announced on Thursday that more than 1,000 new employees would join the Chinese division of the company in the next fiscal year, as part of their efforts to fight Apple and Google in the mobile market.
China is one of the countries that survived the economic recession with minimum losses, mostly... |
13 September 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Windows Azure Online Backup, the service that was designed to provide support for server data to be easily backed up and recovered straight from the cloud, has received some enhancements this week. Following the release of Windows Server 2012 and the availability of a beta version of System Center 2012 SP1, the ser... |
12 September 2012
09:52 GMT |
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Microsoft is taking several big risks with the upcoming Windows 8 and to a degree with Windows Phone 8. It's also making several bets, one of them being on apps and an app store.
Granted, Microsoft is late to the party so maybe it's not exactly a bet as it is catching up. Whatever the case, apps are a big... |
29 August 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready for the availability of new Azure services for Windows Server, and has already pushed these out to the public as Community Technology Preview (CTP) test builds on Tuesday.
The new services are meant for the company’s service providers and hosting partners, yet chances are that they ... |
11 July 2012
11:19 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft has made available for download the Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure Customer Technology Preview version 1.1, designed to provide the option to include antimalware protection agent in each Windows Azure VM. The new tool comes as an extension of the Windows Azure SDK through enabli... |
10 July 2012
10:46 GMT |
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This week, Microsoft announced the addition of a new company on the list of Windows Azure customers, namely Samsung Electronics, who will be using the platform for the management of its Smart TV infrastructure. According to Microsoft, the adoption of Windows Azure is meant to provide Samsung with the possibility to... |
4 July 2012
16:51 GMT |
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One of the strong points in Microsoft's server strategy moving forth includes the availability of new, modern applications for its customers and for their users. Thus, the company is bringing together Visual Studio and System Center, to help developers come up with new, better apps. Moreover, the company notes... |
26 June 2012
16:25 GMT |
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In addition to presenting some of the latest features added to the Windows Azure and Windows Server 2012 platforms, Microsoft also provided some info on its private cloud offering during the keynote at its TechEd EMEA 2012 conference in Amsterdam.The same as with the desktop and phone platforms, the cloud is moving t... |
26 June 2012
15:03 GMT |
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Microsoft kicked off the 2012 edition of its TechEd EMEA conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where Brad Anderson, corporate vice president, management and security division, presented some of the latest advancements the company has made in the server platform area. Today's environment requires for new, con... |
26 June 2012
11:22 GMT |
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A refreshed flavor of Microsoft’s Windows Azure Training Kit is now available for download for all developers interested in leveraging the capabilities of this platform. The Windows Azure Training Kit was made available for download as a comprehensive set of technical content aimed at offering help to those w... |
19 June 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft officially debuts the 20th annual TechEd North America conference. In the opening keynote, Microsoft Server and Tools Business President Satya Nadella talked to the audience about the era of the cloud operating system (OS) for infrastructure. He explained that the cloud OS drives modern datacenters... |
11 June 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Last week, Microsoft announced various enhancements for its Windows Azure platform, such as a set of new services and overall improvements meant to make the life of developers much easier than before. The company was very happy with the changes it brought to its cloud-based platform – so happy, in fact, that i... |
11 June 2012
05:27 GMT |
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Microsoft is betting big on the cloud moving forth, and is ensuring that it can deliver all the necessary features and services that meet user’s needs.
Recently, the company introduced the concept of “Hybrid cloud,” which involves the use and building of applications that connect to data across mu... |
8 June 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft announced the availability of a new set of services and enhancements for its Windows Azure platform. Among the new services that are now available as a preview for Windows Azure, Microsoft lists Virtual Machines, Virtual Network, and Web Sites. Additionally, SQL Reporting has been made generally ... |
8 June 2012
10:43 GMT |
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A new version of Windows Azure SDK for .NET is now available for download, for all those who are looking to implement simple web applications using ASP.NET MVC with support for creating, editing, and listing to-do items from a database. The new release is available for manual download and installation of SDKs, basic... |
7 June 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently started to provide details on the high-level cloud identity management plans, including info on what the Windows Azure Active Directory is all about. The company has provided a glimpse at the technology a few months ago, but without offering all the info that the world wanted to receive. Howe... |
30 May 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft announced that Herbalife Ltd. Inc. has decided to have its global distributors’ websites hosted on Windows Azure. Through this move, the company is providing its independent distributors with the possibility to come up with custom retail websites aimed at helping them to expand their business... |
29 May 2012
10:48 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up for the release of a new version of its Visual Studio tool, one that will include enhancements to make it fit for the development of applications for all Windows platforms. The upcoming Visual Studio 11 will also include a new version of Visual Studio Express, which arrives with support for ... |
22 May 2012
08:54 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Windows Azure Libraries for Java has been released to enable developers to access the Windows Azure service from their client-side Java code. Delivered as version 0.2.2 Feb12 CTP, the new iteration of these libraries weighs only 3.2 MB and can be downloaded via the link below. The Windows Azure... |
10 May 2012
09:08 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to make some changes to the naming scheme of its Azure services, the company has informed customers. The modification should take place in the coming weeks, and will not affect the services themselves, or the prices they are available at. In the new naming scheme, the “Azure&rdquo... |
8 May 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has just announced a series of enhancements brought to its Windows Azure Marketplace. The enhancements brought to the portal are expected to result in a far better experience provided to all involved parties, including publishers, developers and their customers. Among the ch... |
7 May 2012
10:27 GMT |
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This week, Microsoft announced a series of changes to its Bing Search API offering, including the fact that it will become available through the Windows Azure Marketplace. The API will remain the same resource that developers can adopt to innovate and build upon, only that it will be offered through the Windows Azu... |
13 April 2012
05:05 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft has made available for download a refreshed flavor of Windows Azure Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs release, in an attempt to bring along more innovation on Windows Azure. Windows Azure Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs comes with integration capabilities for Microsoft’s Windows Azure to provide rich... |
10 April 2012
10:01 GMT |
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This week, Microsoft made available for download the final flavor of SQL Server 2012, which was accompanied by a second Preview of their Hadoop-based service for Windows Azure. Last year, the company announced plans to come up with Hadoop-based distributions for customers using Windows Server and Windows Azure to e... |
7 April 2012
06:52 GMT |
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The latest installment of Microsoft’s Cloud Fundamentals Video Series is focused on a second self-assessment in the STAR, destined for Windows Azure. The new episode of the series comes as a follow-up of a video published in early January, which was meant to discuss the problem of transparency, Tim Rains, di... |
5 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Last week, Microsoft made available for download the Customer Technology Preview of its Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure.
The new release provides all the necessary tools to add antimalware protection in Windows Azure Web and Worker roles.
It can offer protection for each of the Windows Azure virtu... |
2 April 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is preparing the release of a new hosting framework for Web apps that would be accessible from both Windows Azure and private cloud datacenters, the latest reports inform. It comes from Microsoft’s Azure App Platform Team, and features the codename of “Antares.&rdq... |
2 April 2012
09:51 GMT |
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One of the companies who have recently migrated to Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform to ensure increased efficiency and time and cost savings is Gradatim.
An independent software vendor, the company has specialized in creating technology solutions for businesses that offer microfinance products and services... |
31 March 2012
06:34 GMT |
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Windows Azure is one of the products that Netherlands-based startup Crumbtag has adopted to become more efficient when it comes to targeting its customers’ online advertising.
Choosing Microsoft’s platform Crumbtag has adopted a platform that will deliver cost-effective processing power and agile scala... |
27 March 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Recently, Microsoft and Movideo have announced a four-year strategic agreement according to which Movideo will bring its integrated online video platform to Windows Azure, in an attempt to ensure business growth in Asia Pacific (APAC) and beyond.
As a media-centric and integrated online video platform, Movideo deli... |
24 March 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering 33 percent credit to all of its customers who have been affected by an outage that hit the Windows Azure platform on February 29th.
On that day, the Windows Azure management system went down due to a software bug that Microsoft identifies as the “leap day” bug.
Basically, due to... |
13 March 2012
11:05 GMT |
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Windows Azure’s management portal went down for several hours on February 29th, the very day Microsoft was launching the Windows 8 Consumer Preview operating system flavor at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
At the time, the company was keeping customers informed on how the restoration of the s... |
12 March 2012
11:12 GMT |
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The Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud service, has had its management system down for the past several hours in various regions around the world. Apparently, even if the system was meant to be redundant, and the outages supposed to affect only small regions, it all went down worldwide. Microsoft already ann... |
29 February 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft made available for download the Codename Trust Services SDK and Management Tool, for those interested in offering increased protection for sensitive data. With this utility, you should be able to easily encrypt stored content.
Offering support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the new tool... |
3 February 2012
10:13 GMT |
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Developers and professionals interested in learning more on autoscaling, transient fault handling and logging in Windows Azure can now download a set of Hands-on Labs to get started. We’re referring here to the set of Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure that ... |
2 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Support for Linux is coming to Windows Azure, and the latest job listing found on Microsoft’s website points exactly in this direction. The Redmond-based company is currently hiring a SR Software Development Engineer to help ensure “interoperability between Windows and Linux in Microsoft virtual and cl... |
26 January 2012
10:49 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced the opening of registration for the 2012 edition of the Windows Azure BootCamp (powered by Tech.Days UK).
Two such events are planned for next month, one in London on Friday, February 3, and another one in Bristol, on February 10.
At these events, participants can learn some more info... |
9 January 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Windows Azure is expected to gain an appealing new feature in the near future, namely support for a new persistent virtual machine that will enable support for Linux. Through this new feature, the Redmond-based company will provide customers with the possibility to run Windows or Linux in VM on its Azure platform wi... |
3 January 2012
11:29 GMT |
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Following the release of the first flavor of Windows Azure SDK for Node.js earlier this month, Microsoft has just announced the availability of an updated version to enhance the developer experience. The new release packs a variety of enhancements based on the feedback that was received from the community after the ... |
29 December 2011
10:00 GMT |
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The latest Steven Spielberg film, War Horse, has hit theaters in the United States and is expected to kick off in Europe in January.
The film’s action takes place during the World War I and aims at offering the story of a horse’s journey to the battlefields of Flanders.
To promote it, Shropshire-based ... |
28 December 2011
09:36 GMT |
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Cloud is the future, it seems, and Microsoft is set to take full advantage of it. Web applications represent one way to go, but there are also a series of other cloud offerings that its customers can benefit from.
Lately, the Redmond-based company has been focused on moving its applications and infrastructure to t... |
27 December 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has just made available for download a new Windows command line application aimed at enabling customers to easily migrate Windows Azure Access Control Service 1.0 namespaces to the newer Access Control Service 2.0.
The tool is very simple to use, and was made available for download with compatibility with... |
21 December 2011
08:31 GMT |
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