Category: Windows Security

Microsoft: Silverlight still has a future in an HTML 5 world

Should Web developers target Internet Explorer 9 or Silverlight when creating new Web and mobile applications? One Microsoft exec takes a new stab at an answer.

Microsoft, Intel deliver new distributed/parallel tools

Microsoft execs haven’t been beating the parallel-computing drum as loudly as they were a year or two ago, but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening in this space.

Microsoft BPOS down for 90 minutes; second outage in a month

Microsoft’s hosted suite of enterprise applications — the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) went down for 90 minutes on September 3 for a number of customers in North America.

Microsoft to add ActiveSync support for all Hotmail users

Microsoft officials are acknowledging that they are planning to add ActiveSync support to Hotmail on August 30.

A billion to launch Windows Phone 7? I bet Microsoft is paying a lot more

Combining guesswork with analyst estimates, TechCrunch is reporting that Microsoft may spend as much as a billion dollars to launch and develop Windows Phone 7 in its first year. I bet that number is low, if anything.

Windows Live whiplash: Live Sync reverts back to Live Mesh

Hold onto your hats, Windows Live fans. Microsoft is making a bunch of changes to what was going to be known as Windows Live Sync, its competitor to DropBox, that is slated to be part of Windows Live Essentials 2011.

Microsoft adds new printing, charting features to Office Web Apps

Microsoft has added some of missing and requested features to its Webified version of Office, known as Office Web Apps.

Is this Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 9 interface?

Microsoft Russia’s press site, on August 25, posted information and a photo that seem to be connected to the coming IE 9 beta. (The site has since pulled their post, but I grabbed the information and screen shot in the nick of time.)

Microsoft Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 ships

Microsoft announced general availability of the final version of Exchange 2010 Service Pack (SP) 1 on August 25.

Microsoft Research parallel programming project set to go commercial in 2011

Microsoft is planning to move its Dryad parallel/distributed computing stack from Microsoft Research to Microsoft’s Technical Computing Group and deliver a final version of that technology to customers by 2011.

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