Microsoft taps virtualization to move apps to cloud
Microsoft is looking to make it easier to move existing Windows Server applications to the company's Windows Azure cloud platform via virtual machine technology. The company unveiled this week Windows Azure Virtual Machine Role, intended to ease migration of these applications by eliminating the need to make costly application changes. Customers would get the benefit application management costs by moving software to the cloud, said Jamin Spitzer, Microsoft director of platform strategy.
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Intel, Toshiba, Samsung enter agreement to halve chip circuitry size
Three unlikely bedfellows have joined forces to halve the size of the technology used to make NAND flash chips and microprocessors in an effort to vastly increase the density and capacity of solid-state drives (SSDs) and create faster CPUs that use less power.
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Securing Apple iPads in the enterprise
IT organizations have come to a stunning realization: There is no stopping the great iPad enterprise invasion. Risks abound as companies must deal with securing iPad apps without much help from Apple, says Julie Palen, senior VP of mobile device management at Tangoe, a telecom expense management software and services provider.
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Microsoft hails async programming for Visual Basic, C#
Microsoft is fitting its Visual Basic and C# languages with an asynchronous programming model to help developers accommodate the growing complexity in applications.
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Intel opens $1 billion chip factory in Vietnam
Intel on Friday announced the opening of a massive $1 billion chip testing and assembly facility in Vietnam, the biggest such facility for Intel anywhere in the world. The world's largest chip maker said the factory has a total area of 46,000 square meters, about the size of five and a half football fields, Intel said in a statement. Chip testing and assembly factories are where chips are sent to be tested for defects and then placed inside protective packaging.
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IE6 addiction throws monkey wrench into Windows 7 migration
Enterprises addicted to Microsoft's nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser are having a tough time migrating to Windows 7, an analyst said today.
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Cloud services spurring mobile enterprise apps
Mobilizing enterprise apps is nothing new, yet beyond email and a few other horizontal applications, it's still a niche market. But combining the cloud with the newest generation of smartphones is just starting to change that. Juniper Research expects the total market for cloud-based mobile apps to grow 88 percent between 2009 and 2014. About 75 percent of that market will be enterprise users, Juniper predicts.
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Acer set to unveil multiple tablets on Nov. 23
Acer plans to launch "multiple" tablet devices at an event in New York on Nov. 23, with different OSes and multiple form factors, the company's CEO said Friday. The market has been waiting for version 3.0 of Google's Android mobile software for use in tablets, said Gianfranco Lanci, president and CEO of Acer, but he did not say whether Acer planned an Android tablet.
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We're from Microsoft -- you can trust us
If any of your Windows 7 users have Windows Automatic Update turned on, they probably didn't notice a little patch that slipped into their machines on Tuesday.
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Microsoft quarter boosted by Windows, Xbox, Office
Healthy sales of Windows 7, Office 2010 and Xbox 360 consoles propelled Microsoft to US$5.41 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2011, a 51 percent increase from the same period a year before. The company also reported a 25 percent increase in revenue for the quarter, or $16.20 billion for the quarter that ended Sept. 30. This figure exceeds what many analysts had expected the company to generate for the time period: A poll from Yahoo Finance found that analysts, on the average, expected the company to earn around $15.80 billion for the quarter.
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Update: Oracle-SAP case takes dramatic eleventh-hour turn
Oracle's lawsuit against SAP has taken an unexpected turn four days before trial was due to begin, with SAP saying it won't contest charges that it contributed to acts of copyright infringement by its TomorrowNow subsidiary.Oracle portrayed the move as a confession of guilt, while SAP said it was trying to narrow the scope of a trial that is becoming a "media circus."
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Adobe scrambles to squash another zero-day vulnerability
Adobe is rushing to fix yet another zero-day vulnerability, this time affecting versions of Flash Player, Reader, and Acrobat on Windows, Mac
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