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In the absence of a fully functional Microsoft Office app, a small ecosystem of substitutes has accumulated millions of users with similar products. One startup, Cloudon licensed the actual office tools from Microsoft making their suite of tools as close to the real deal possible. That is until of course Microsoft announcement that it has […]

Microsoft’s “Windows in the Classroom Surface Experience” is providing individuals linked to educational institutions with an inexpensive way to obtain their tablets. Microsoft will offer the device to the first 10,000 people who registers at the International Society for Technology in Education being held this month in San Antonio, Texas. This offer includes the Surface […]

By Carsten Eilers WebSockets are intended to build bi-directional connections between a web browser and a server. This must be done in a safe way. In addition, the WebSockets have a huge disadvantage (to say it politely). WebSockets, the Safe Way For WebSocket connections you must follow the same rules as for all network connections: […]

Microsoft will offer Azure pricing with new pricing offers by the minute including no minimum buy-in Microsoft announced at this year’s Tech-Ed conference. This announcement fulfills Microsoft’s promise to match Amazon Web Services current pricing offers also similar to the announcement Google made late May in regards to their public release of Google Compute Engine […]

SAP and Microsoft’s joint venture announcement came at this years Microsoft TechEd in New Orleans and as a result of the joint development, SAP and Microsoft have incorporated manufacturing data and contextualized it with real-time enterprise data, and are delivering it through a flexible self-service analytical user experience into Office 365. Customers of both SAP […]

Earlier this month Microsoft announced their new Xbox One and they did so with a focus on the new entertainment features of the cutting edge gaming console. What they didn’t mention is that they will be investing upwords of $1,000,000,000.00 on just games alone for the new system. This includes the development of 15 games […]

Microsoft’s public preview of Windows 8.1 is due later this month with most users are wondering what Microsoft plans are to provide an upgrade path. Windows 8 and Windows RT users will now be able to upgrade to Windows 8.1 ‘Blue’ preview final via Microsoft’s Windows App Store starting June 26th later this month with […]

Microsoft expands on Team Foundations Server with the purchase of InCycle’s InRelease business unit A Canadian company which specializes in the application lifecycle management and release management solutions market for Microsoft’s .NET platform. InRelease enables agile .NET teams to automate the release cycles of their apps. It automates deployments directly from Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server, […]

Microsoft puts the focus on Team Foundation Server and an even heavier emphasis on the application lifecycle management (ALM) of the two products. Scheduled to be available later this year, TFS 2013 features cloud-based services, business agility, quality enablement, DevOps, and it will be made publicly available at the Microsoft Build conference later this month. […]

Microsoft’s Surface Pro is headed to a brand new market including Japan, Australia and New Zealand, as well as several European and Asian countries. Microsoft will be dumping the 64GB model for this particular new market, and instead will be shipping these out with a new 128GB and a 256GB version. The updated Surface will […]

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s senior vice president of Interactive Entertainment Business today suggested that their gaming consoles sales opportunities will lead to record sales in the coming years. The new generation is about 300 million units while industry experts believe the next generation will see sales in excess of 400 million. Speaking about the Xbox 360, […]

Microsoft announced they will release a pair of Sculpt mice that will include a Start button, and a Windows touch tab, a new touch sensitive blue strip located on the side of the mouse that provides navigation around Windows 8 by simply touching or swiping your finger. Swipe up and you can navigate your way […]