Demonstrated by Microsoft Senior Vice-President Yusuf Mehdi, Bing was unveiled with the inevitable gag video—a portentous-sounding narrator called search “the final frontier” and noted it was a “five, six, uh, multiyear mission”— prominently featuring James Gandolfini…
I’ve spent the last few days living with code for Microsoft’s first public beta of Exchange 2010 Beta, and, I have to say, it looks like a good first attempt to tame the monster that is Exchange 2007. It seems that the software giant listened to the complaints about just how many administrative headaches…
Online video is white hot. It’s being used in many ways and delivered anywhere your target audience is. The U.S. election was a watershed mark for streaming video in terms of the length of time and number of viewers. Marketers should be device indifferent since users may view your content on mobile devices…
While Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 offers a range of benefits over previous versions, many organizations are intimidated by the complexities of setting up and managing the new platform. Armed with a little knowledge of the added capabilities—and a lot of planning and design preparation—enterprises can dramatically reduce the headaches associated with configuring, integrating and managing […]
The products aim to help the 31.9 million small businesses and 1.2 million midsize companies worldwide that often have small or nonexistent IT staff…
Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 deliver all-in-one solutions to help fuel growth for customers and partners…
Published by: InfoWorldWritten by: David Marshall VMware announced that it is once again opening up its IPO purse strings to acquire yet another company. This time, the virtualization giant is extending its reach across the virtualization market by acquiring application virtualization technology with the purchase of San Francisco based Thinstall. VMware said they are acquiring […]
One of the oldest applications of computing is getting a new lease on life. Enterprise reporting, once associated with reports that data-center workers printed out onto greenbar paper and handed over to a select few, is gaining popularity as a business tool for the broader workforce…
Published by: ComputerWorldWritten by: Eric Lai A conference being held in Denver this week by the Professional Association for SQL Server user group will provide a forum for the biggest public unveiling to date of Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server 2008 database. But as many as 20,000 users have already been testing the upcoming software, which […]
Microsoft SQL Server is still No.1. According to the 2007 Database and Data Access, Integration and Reporting Study, completed by BZ Research in late June, 74.7 percent of enterprises are using SQL Server…
For an organization dealing with hundreds of thousands of data points, delivering executive dashboards in under a year had the potential to be a daunting task…
Server virtualization is one of the hottest technology trends of the last several years, and now that many IT departments have gained real-world experience on production implementations, some warts are starting to show…
