Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
Cisco Wednesday filed suit in the European Union’s second-highest court, the General Court in Luxembourg, challenging the European Commission’s rubber stamp last October of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype.
Cisco says it isn’t opposed to the merger, but figures the EC sh...
Microsoft is about to release a limited number of ARM-based widgets running Windows 8 to developers so when the operating system hits GA it can compete against the iPad, according to what Windows president Steven Sinofsky told Bloomberg and others Thursday.
The system, which can’t ru...
A consumer preview of Windows 8, still a beta, is to launch February 29 during the Mobile World Congress at a two-hour affair at the Hotel Miramar in Barcelona.
Microsoft sent out invitations Wednesday.
It put out a developer preview last fall. Final release, after a release candid...
TreeHouse Interactive, a provider of on-demand partner relationship management (PRM) and marketing automation solutions, has announced the release of its Reseller View PRM system for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The new integrated offering puts enterprise-class partner management capabiliti...
GSX Solutions, a provider of proactive, consolidated monitoring, reporting of enterprise collaboration environments, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) and Lotus Notes has announced a new GSX Monitor & Analyzer release, with plug and ...
Microsoft staged a Private Cloud Day Tuesday to herald the coming of System Center 2012 sometime between now and the end of June.
System Center 2012 will put Microsoft squarely in the private cloud business and put VMware’s teeth on edge because it’s cheaper and reportedly has the sa...
LG Electronics Thursday became the latest Android and Chrome OS peddler to bow to Microsoft’s patent claims and sign a “patent agreement” that Microsoft said “provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for LG’s tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices running t...
This article describes how to create a grid presentation window that allows sorting by clicking on the column header.
To begin we need to create a grid DataWindow. I’m selecting just few columns from the employee table. Here is my sql for the DataWindow in Figure 1.
Once we have crea...
Microsoft says the Thai floods did more damage to the hard disk drive and component supply chain than people thought and that industry-wide PC sales in Q4 will probably drop more than the ~1% loss analysts have projected. 
On November 9, Adobe announced in a blog post[1] that it had decided to cease efforts to develop browser plugins for mobile devices to play Flash, indicating that HTML5 was “the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.” In case that sound...
Lotus Notes creator and Bill Gates replacement Ray Ozzie is working on a mystery start-up called Cocomo that’s recruiting in Boston and Seattle – well, at least it’s looking for a best-in-class lead UX/UI designer – for something mobile & social for consumers and that’s about all anybo...
This book is not only about DI, it is about proper object oriented programming. Every .NET architect and developer should read this book.
Sometimes my ability to be a complete ignoramus really annoys me. When I first saw this book on the upcoming list of books to be published I thoug...
Another year has gone by. Happy New Year everyone. It is time to update my book recommendation blog. There have been a ton of books come out this year both good and bad.
Be sure to check out the Shiny Turds book section which lists books that do not Cut the Mustard *-Do not Buy-* sec...
It’s quite clear from reading this book that Peter Gasston is very knowledgeable about CSS 3 and, as he points out in the preface, this book is a culmination of five years of work that he has spent writing about CSS3. There is a clear order to the chapters. The earlier chapters are wel...
This book will take you to the next level of using SharePoint and Silverlight together. I can say that it did that for me.
I have done a lot of SharePoint custom development and I see Silverlight as the answer to the horrible web part programming model Microsoft has made available in...
Microsoft added a trial version of Apache’s open source Hadoop to its Windows Azure PaaS Monday as it said it would in October when it teamed up with Hortonworks, the Yahoo spin-off.
It gives Azure Big Data capabilities and advanced data analytics and a better shot at competing with ...
This book is great for the SharePoint end user. I kind of think of it like the top 70 FAQs about SharePoint found all in one place.
Although this book is a little out of context for the books I usually read about SharePoint, I was looking for a book to recommend to the user's of the S...
Microsoft and HP’s enterprise services arm have buddied up on the cloud for the next four years.
HP’s Enterprise Cloud Services, the company’s IaaS widgetry, will host Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Lync Server 2010. HP will also host Office 365 for its pr...
Microsoft Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. on Monday announced a strategic relationship to collaborate and create a next-generation dealer management system based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Using the powerful foundation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and the automotive industry expertise of ...
Microsoft released four new Virtual Labs on System Center 2012.
Today Microsoft has made four new free virtual labs available. This provides a great opportunity to try out some of the basic operations of some of the new suite of System Center tools.
1. TechNet Virtual Lab: System Cen...
Microsoft Just released version 6.5 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5.
The journey to the cloud is now smoother than ever with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5. The MAP Toolkit's new capabilities help users to securely assess heterogeneo...
This book is truly a holistic view of software architecture.
This book structures the book around an Architecture Orientation Framework. The framework is based on open question words. A chapter has been dedicate to each. The framework provides a nice common vocabulary that makes team ...
Microsoft has released its first major update of its cloud-based Office 365, the online combination of Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync. It’s also expanding the service to 22 additional markets including Argentina, Iceland, Indonesia, South Africa and Taiwan.
Office Division pres...
David Boies, the lawyer who got Microsoft convicted of antitrust for the US government, persuaded a jury to award Oracle $1.3 billion in damages against SAP last year and is currently prosecuting Oracle’s suit against Google and Android, has joined the Barnes & Noble defense team again...
The Daily, a made-for-the-iPad start-up national news service that kicked off in February, claims it’s heard from anonymous sources that Microsoft is adapting Office to the iPad.
The blog puts the price at around $10, because that’s what Apple charges for its own iWork Pages, Numbers...
Microsoft has signed an NDA with Yahoo so it can look at its books, the New York Times reported Wednesday citing a person briefed on the matter.
The move could translate into Redmond making a bid for the dysfunctional portal.
Microsoft apparently got around Yahoo’s “no crosstalk” st...
I am not the only one missing cheese. Right now I feel Microsoft is still desperately searching for the cheese that Steve Jobs has been eating up for the past several years.
Over the years Microsoft has not only moved my cheese, they have also quite often eaten it.
I used to stay tun...
By the time you are reading this, PB12.5 will have been released and work on PB15 well under way. A lot of exciting things have gone into the .NET version of PB but we still get requests for features to go into the Classic version of the product. Even though there was a lull in activit...
There’s been a lot of discussion since Microsoft’s BUILD conference on the fate of Silverlight. (Something that is an issue for us because Sybase was originally looking at supporting it for web app development in PowerBuilder 15.) Contrary to what a number of the pundits and would-be p...
Remember .NET, the other application software platform besides J2EE, which always seems to dominate cloud conversations?
Well, Apprenda, which has got a rare if not unique “deploy anywhere” private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) stack for .NET, has just released Apprenda Platform 3.0, ...
Metalogix Software,a provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and Cloud platforms, has announced that KAHUNA VENTURES LLC has purchased its Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition solution to manage its Outlook mailboxes and PST fil...
Lenovo, which passed Dell to become the second-largest PC vendor in the world by shipments and has designs on HP’s first place, saw its earnings soar 88% in the September quarter on the back of acquisitions and sales to emerging markets like its native China.
It realized a better-tha...
Microsoft has persuaded yet another Android shifter to pay it patent royalties.
This time it’s ODM Compal Electronics, which has agreed to pay Microsoft’s patent tax on its tablets, mobile phones, e- readers and other consumer devices running Android or Chrome.
Microsoft said Sunda...
This book ended up being half the size it was advertised at when I pre-ordered it back in September. Amazon was kind enough to make up for it. I thank them. The author and the publisher also apologized for the miscalculation.
Although it is small this book gets 5 out of 5 stars. I rec...
"Expert Cookbook" are the last two words in the title for a good reason. This book is for the advanced SharePoint developer. The book is a collection of small recipes that dig into some of the more advanced SharePoint 2010 programming topics. It does not mess around with introductions ...
After getting bounced out of Exadata when Oracle bought Sun, HP has teamed up with Microsoft to bring out a co-engineered pre-configured Exadata-like appliance fitted with SQL Server.
HP paired up with Microsoft earlier this year on the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance, which ru...
Microsoft might take another whack at buying Yahoo.
Having been saved by happenstance from overpaying for the joint in 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday that Microsoft, private equity house Silver Lake Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, one of ...
Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange® and Cloud platforms, today announced that it has been selected by Microsoft as a Managed Partner in the High Potential ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Group. Metal...
Novell’s cut-down private antitrust suit against Microsoft over Word Perfect and Quattro Pro finally went to trial in Utah Monday.
It was filed in 2004. Since then Novell has lost five of its original six claims.
At the end of the seven- or eight-week trial a jury is supposed to de...
Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange® and Cloud platforms, today announced that the company has received the Gold Award for Midrange Software in the Tech Awards Circle for Metalogix Migration Manager fo...
