The Enterprise Agreement (EA) product promotion is one of a wide range of customer pricing incentives for businesses of various sizes now highlighted on the Microsoft Incentives Web site.
Under the EA promotion, customers can get 25% off the cost of the License and Software Assurance (L&SA) contract on subscriptions to the enterprise editions of Windows [...]
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At the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco on April 8-10, 2009, a meeting of the great OS minds will take place. There, sponsored by Intel, will be assembled together the Linux Foundation, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft representatives. For the first time ever, the three-way group will sit down at a single table to debate and [...]
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Microsoft Corp. said today that its upcoming hosted database service will switch from standard Web programming interfaces to the same relational one used by its on-premise counterpart.
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The software maker said it will give developers more control over manipulating data as well as make it easier for them to port existing database applications to the cloud.
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Samba project leader Jeremy Allison has accused Microsoft of trying to prevent people using and distributing software under the GNU General Public Licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals.
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Jose Barreto: In this blog post, we’ll cover the basics of the Distributed File System (DFS) in Windows Server 2008, which offers users simplified access to a set of file shares and helps administrators easily maintain the file server infrastructure behind those file shares, including options for load sharing, replication and site awareness.
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Microsoft on Wednesday is offering up more details on its would-be rival to the iPhone’s app store.
The software maker said it will charge developers $99 a year, plus $99 for each application they submit to get an app into the Windows Marketplace store. Through the end of this year, though, developers who register will be [...]
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Microsoft is trying to convince folks that its cloud operating system is more than hot air.
The software maker unveiled Windows Azure at its Professional Developers Conference in October. Since then, the company has said that pieces of Azure will be ready in final form by the end of the year, but the company has been [...]
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Windows 7 Release Candidate is at most a couple of months away, with April 2009 as deadline, while the RTM could be reached within half a year, as early as August, but Microsoft is looking beyond the next iteration of the Windows platform. That’s right, Windows 8 is already cooking over in Redmond, with the [...]
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