After participating in a panel discussion at TechCrunch Disrupt SF about the enterprise market, Box CEO Aaron Levie said to me in an interview that the industry needs an innovative and more prosperous Microsoft. However, while he writes passionately about Microsoft and its direction, he laughed at the idea of replacing Steve Ballmer. Levie wrote […]
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Amazon Web Services has added support for Redis, an in-memory, key-value store, popular with developers for its superior caching and ability to support multiple data types. The news is significant for AWS users but dampened by Azure’s announcement yesterday about a new data store offering of its own. Redis will integrate with Amazon ElastiCache and accompany Memcached, another in-memory caching engine. […]
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Microsoft went big on pushing cloud services this week at its Build conference, but today it was dealt a blow for how it might get to market them in Europe. BSkyB, the pay-TV broadcaster part-owned by News Corp., won a judgement in the England and Wales High Court against the U.S. software giant, for infringing […]
Posted on June 28th, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft showed the new Visual Studio 2013 at its Build developer conference today. The new independent development environment (IDE) features include performance tools for power consumption, asynchronous calls for debugging and an overall focus on the connected app. The new tools in Visual Studio, now available for download, are meant to appeal to mobile developers. […]
Posted on June 26th, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer, its Azure chief Satya Nadella and Oracle’s president Mark Hurd are holding a joint press conference next week, just two days before Microsoft’s Build developer conference is scheduled to kick off in San Francisco. The press event follows Oracle’s earnings call that featured remarks by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison about a […]
Posted on June 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Windows 8.1, which will launch in preview on June 26th, isn’t just about bringing the Start button back. For Microsoft, it’s also an opportunity to get businesses of all sizes to take another look at an operating system they have mostly ignored. Today, at its TechEd conference in New Orleans, the company provided new details […]
Posted on June 3rd, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft announced today that two of its big-name communications services – consumer-facing Skype and enterprise-ready Lync – will now interoperate, meaning users can access their Lync contacts via Skype and vice versa, and then message them or place an audio call. Support for video calling and other features, as well as support for additional platforms, […]
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