CommVault today announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to offer a cloud storage capability that combines the power of Simpana® software with the benefits and flexibility of storing data on the Windows Azure cloud platform. As data is expected to double every two years, organizations are grappling with flat budgets and costly primary storage that may contain up to 70 percent of infrequently accessed, stale data[1], said Sheila Childs, Research VP, Storage Technologies and Strategies, Gartner. The new offering provides enterprise organizations a simple, cost-effective solution to archive, index, search and access massive amounts of data for long-term retention and compliance. This combined data management solution for Windows Azure offers up to 62 TBs of cloud storage capacity and the data and information management capabilities of Simpana 9 Express for a starting price of approximately $50,000.
CommVault And Microsoft Expand Relationship To Offer Simpana Data Management With Windows Azure - MarketWatch
Monday, April 23, 2012
Microsoft to Pull Plug on XP in Two Years
Microsoft has kicked off what it calls a "two-year countdown" to the death of Windows XP and the Office 2003 productivity suite.
Separately, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista, the problem-plagued operating system that never really took hold among customers, exited mainstream support on April 10. In a product's extended support phase, Microsoft provides security patches to registered users but offers other fixes, including reliability and stability updates, only to organizations that have support contracts with the company.
By Gregg Keizer
Microsoft to Pull Plug on XP in Two Years - Computerworld
Separately, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista, the problem-plagued operating system that never really took hold among customers, exited mainstream support on April 10. In a product's extended support phase, Microsoft provides security patches to registered users but offers other fixes, including reliability and stability updates, only to organizations that have support contracts with the company.
By Gregg Keizer
Microsoft to Pull Plug on XP in Two Years - Computerworld
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Linus Torvalds
Not all that's good is gold or something like that!
Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a startling comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: "Linux is bloated." While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft's Windows as bloated, it appears that with success has come added heft, heft that makes Linux "huge and scary now," according to Torvalds.
Linus Torvalds posts on CNET
Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a startling comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: "Linux is bloated." While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft's Windows as bloated, it appears that with success has come added heft, heft that makes Linux "huge and scary now," according to Torvalds.
Linus Torvalds posts on CNET
PC & Tech Authority wins Best Magazine award
We are happy to report we have won the Best Magazine award at the 10th Annual Microsoft IT Journalism Awards.
A panel of judges has awarded PC & Tech Authority the Best Magazine award at the 10th Annual Microsoft IT Journalism Awards, at an awards ceremony organised and hosted by MediaConnect in Sydney on Friday.PC & Tech Authority wins Best Magazine award - PC & Tech Authority
Shuttleworth: The Internet Is Changing, Not Dying
The world is moving increasingly towards environments where consumers and employees download apps from sanitized app stores and use software that is native to the devices on which they run. This is happening as a result of the increasingly important role of mobility in business and consumer life, and the security threats that lurk in the World Wide Web. Not only are app stores becoming more prevalent in both corporate and personal contexts, but companies are using virtualization technology that allows them to serve employees virtual images of software, with the effect that data is isolated from the web, and servers are insulated from unknown intruders. So does the emergence of these closed systems mean the web is losing relevance?
Shuttleworth: The Internet Is Changing, Not Dying - The CIO Report - WSJ
Shuttleworth: The Internet Is Changing, Not Dying - The CIO Report - WSJ
Top Picks: Best of Microsoft - Tech - New Straits Times
Office
1 - The Microsoft Office productivity suite has modernised the way people work, study and communicate. With the exception of Clippy (which few found amusing), Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook programs have all become household names. The current version, Office 2010, features more collaboration tools.
Windows XP
2 - Arguably its most favoured operating system, Windows XP is a platform that focuses more on user experience, beckoning more non-geeks into the world of computing.
Microsoft automates Office 365 installs
Microsoft has updated its automated software development tools to the new Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012, and in a sign it wants to push its cloudy productivity has added the ability to automate Office 365 deployments.
Details are sketchy at present, but the download page for the software promises “Comprehensive tools and guidance to efficiently manage large-scale deployments of Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 365.” That's a step up from the “Office 365 Assessment Report” offered in the tool's predecessor, the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit, which did little more than check if PCs were capable of running Office 365.
Microsoft automates Office 365 installs • The Register
Details are sketchy at present, but the download page for the software promises “Comprehensive tools and guidance to efficiently manage large-scale deployments of Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 365.” That's a step up from the “Office 365 Assessment Report” offered in the tool's predecessor, the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit, which did little more than check if PCs were capable of running Office 365.
Microsoft automates Office 365 installs • The Register
Girls In Tech hold their own in a guy's world
Girls In Tech (GIT), the global all-woman tech network, has arrived in Singapore. And so has its American founder Adriana Gascoigne, now based here.
About 150 women, a mix of Singaporeans and expatriates, have already joined the two-month-old Singapore chapter.
Girls In Tech hold their own in a guy's world
Saudi hacker dies of asthma attack
The 28-year-old hacker was known for penetrating the most well protected sites including Microsoft, Kaspersky, Milworm, besides the server of another hacker known as the king of hackers Kevin Mitnick. In addition to numerous Jewish sites, banks and major companies, he was also able to hack into the site of the Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Saudi hacker dies of asthma attack
Windows 8 Enterprise designed for mobile productivity
Microsoft this week unveiled details about the upcoming Windows 8 editions, which include Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro for x86-based PCs, as well as Windows 8 RT for tablets and devices powered by ARM-based processors.
On Wednesday, the software giant shed more light on Windows 8 Enterprise, the corporate version of the operating system designed to meet the mobile productivity, security, manageability and virtualisation needs of today’s businesses.
Here’s an overview of some of the key features available in Windows 8 Enterprise:
Windows 8 Enterprise designed for mobile productivity | Techgoondu
TechDay Malta 2012 at Golden Sands
According to a new study by analyst firm IDC, the public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide between 2012 and 2015, while Central and Eastern Europe show an estimated growth between 158 per cent and 168 per cent from 2012 to 1215.
Microsoft’s Cloud Technologies will be the central theme during TechDay Malta at Radisson Blu, Golden Sands tomorrow, 23 April. Microsoft will in fact be hosting two parallel tracks, one for developers and one for the IT professionals, during which the latest Microsoft technologies will be presented. INDEPENDENT online
Windows Phone to beat Android
Microsoft has always seen its Windows operating system as one of the pillars of its business. With the release of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft made it very clear that the operating system they were selling in that space was an important one for them and one that was targeted solely at phones. This allowed them to focus the operating system for a specific kind of use, with a different operating system being available for tablets (the disastrously named Windows RNT). The radical new Metro UI interface they brought to their phones is also slated to make it into desktop version of their flagship operating system as well as into the Xbox interface. This points to Microsoft sharing Apple’s view that a single integrated experience between all operating systems they offer is where the future is.
This clearly sets up the mobile landscape for a repeat of the desktop OS wars of the 1980s/1990s with a key difference. This time, there are two strong players looking to leverage their position on one end of the spectrum to get a larger slice of the overall pie: Apple will leverage its success in the mobile world to help increase the footprint of its computer offering while Microsoft will come at it in the reverse direction, trying to leverage its desktop footprint to get at the mobile market. by Tristan Louis
Windows Phone to beat Android - Business Insider
This clearly sets up the mobile landscape for a repeat of the desktop OS wars of the 1980s/1990s with a key difference. This time, there are two strong players looking to leverage their position on one end of the spectrum to get a larger slice of the overall pie: Apple will leverage its success in the mobile world to help increase the footprint of its computer offering while Microsoft will come at it in the reverse direction, trying to leverage its desktop footprint to get at the mobile market. by Tristan Louis
Windows Phone to beat Android - Business Insider
Microsoft Israel’s Best & Brightest on Parade at ThinkNext Tel-Aviv
Then there’s the annual ThinkNext conference which has become one of the local tech community’s staple events. The more interesting portion of the event (in my opinion at least) is the demo area, where startups chosen by the the local Microsofties showcase their goods. So unless you happen to be at the event in the port of Tel-Aviv this afternoon, here’s what you’re missing out:
Microsoft Israel’s Best & Brightest on Parade at ThinkNext Tel-Aviv | TechCrunch
Microsoft Israel’s Best & Brightest on Parade at ThinkNext Tel-Aviv | TechCrunch
Ultimate P-51 Racer Microsoft FSX Download
This is the Microsoft default North American P51 Mustang model with new high performance flight dynamics and new effects. Built purely for fun and speed lots of speed. Use the NOS for a added thrill. This aircraft entitled Shadow Spear is the ultimate piston racer. Textures and modifications by Mark Rooks of RDG Aircraft.
Get to grips with data-driven business applications in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 using Packt's new Book and eBook
Packt is pleased to announce the publication of Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook, a handful guide which will help the reader to design and develop rich data-driven business applications in Silverlight. Co-authored by Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx, this book is packed with practical recipes, illustrating the techniques to solve particular data problems.
Beware unsolicited tech help
A few days ago, in the evening, I was working at my computer in my home office when I received an unsolicited phone call from a lady who identified herself as someone working for "Windows."
I asked, "Windows? Microsoft Windows?" She said no, "Windows, for your computer. We have received some information from your computers via the Internet that some files are not working correctly, and we want to fix them for you at no charge."
Sounded good, but strange. Microsoft is a business, and they are not free.
Beware unsolicited tech help | TBO.com
I asked, "Windows? Microsoft Windows?" She said no, "Windows, for your computer. We have received some information from your computers via the Internet that some files are not working correctly, and we want to fix them for you at no charge."
Sounded good, but strange. Microsoft is a business, and they are not free.
Beware unsolicited tech help | TBO.com
Influential trio in space venture; the big Bellevue deal that wasn't; champion barista worries about cafés
Microsoft billionaire Charles Simonyi, filmmaker James Cameron and Google founder Larry Page are joining forces in a space endeavor that will be unveiled in Seattle Tuesday — but until then, no one is saying exactly what all these heavy hitters are up to.
Influential trio in space venture; the big Bellevue deal that wasn't; champion barista worries about cafés | Sunday Buzz | The Seattle Times
Influential trio in space venture; the big Bellevue deal that wasn't; champion barista worries about cafés | Sunday Buzz | The Seattle Times
Scammers Use Microsoft Name To Gain Access Into Computers
Norma Charles recently got an alarming phone call from a man she said had a heavy accent.
"I'm always a little bit weary. You hear about this all the time and I said I’m not sure I trust you or not," Charles said.
"He said ‘oh I’ll show you how bad it is,’" Charles said.
The scammer directed her to a website (teamviewer.com) and from there, Charles said he just took over.
"Do you see the arrow and I said sure, he was in my computer," Charles said.
He told her he could fix the problem, but it would cost her more than $300. It was at that point, Charles had enough and hung up. Reporter: Alyssa Chin
Scammers Use Microsoft Name To Gain Access Into Computers
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