To: All Microsoft employees
From: Steve Ballmer
Today, I spoke to a group of students and faculty at the University of Washington to discuss how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology.
My goal was to challenge people to look at the cloud more broadly and understand the multidimensional Read the rest of this entry »
Today Microsoft SharePoint and Office team announced the release date for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.
The official release date is set for May 12th 2010 and the RTM (release to Manufacturing) date is April 12 2010.
In addition from today all customers that purchase and activate Office 2007 will be able to upgrade to Office 2010 with no additional cost by downloading the new version when it becomes available I June 2010.
You can read here about the free upgrade and here about the SharePoint 2010 release.
Today Microsoft released the advance notification bulletin for March 2010 which they intend to release on March 9.
The security bulletin will include Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office updates Read the rest of this entry »
The Microsoft SQL server team is holding a contest to test your knowledge of SQL Server and give away some great prizes in the process. For the next 12 weeks for the upcoming release of SQL server 2008 R2.
microsoft System Center team is hosting an online event to talk about desktop virtualization, here is the full invite and link to the site.
Thinking about migrating to Windows 7?,
Looking at desktop virtualization including VDI?
Want savings, but unsure of the tradeoffs? Have more questions than answers on the topic?
Please mark your calendar for the Desktop Virtualization Hour, Thursday, March 18th, 9am PST. Watch and interact live with industry experts IT leaders and Microsoft executives for a moderated televised discussion.
Today Microsoft press book has posted a free ebook to download from, The Ebook Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft, by Katherine Murray.
The ebook contains eight chapters and an appendix describing how you can assess and build your technology-based job skills.
More good news for Microsoft on the Operating Systems market front came today during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference when Microsoft’s CFO Peter Klein announced that Windows 7 sold 90 Million licences so far. Read the rest of this entry »
Today the Windows Server Division have released the Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2, since the release of AppFabric back at PDC 2009 more than 8,000 developers have downloaded the software.
The main benefit of AppFabric are Read the rest of this entry »
