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Ballmer: Microsoft hiring thousands in China for Windows Phone and cloud services

Andy Weir — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:39:57 +0100

Speaking at a press conference in Shanghai, Steve Ballmer confirmed that the company is hiring "several thousand" new workers in China, to support its Windows Phone and Windows Azure efforts. Read more...

Windows Azure promo features dial-up connection battle

John Callaham — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:19:24 +0100

A new promo video for Microsoft's Windows Azure shows office workers taking time out (thanks to Azure saving them some time) to host a dial-up connection battle. You read that right. Read more...

Windows Server Hyper-V can now run on SUSE cloud-based infrastructures

John Callaham — Wed, 01 May 2013 05:21:43 +0100

Microsoft has announced a new collaboration with the Linux-based SUSE that will allow Windows Server Hyper-V workloads to run on SUSE Cloud-based infrastructures. Read more...

Microsoft launches Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET update

John Callaham — Wed, 01 May 2013 00:07:39 +0100

Microsoft has announced it has released the Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET update that adds a number of new features, including quicker ways to publish Windows Azure Web Sites. Read more...

Microsoft: Windows Azure annual revenues now exceed $1 billion

John Callaham — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:54:16 +0100

Microsoft has revealed that annual revenues for its Windows Azure cloud-based services have now exceeded $1 billion for the first time, which is in the server and tools division. Read more...

Microsoft's latest Windows Azure commercial combines jousting, stuffed animals.

John Callaham — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:30:16 +0100

Microsoft has launched a new promotional video for its Windows Azure cloud service that features fictional office employees in a medieval-like duel with stuffed animals. Read more...

Microsoft updates Business Associate Agreement, keeps it cool with HIPAA

John Callaham — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:43:51 +0100

Microsoft has made changes to its Business Associate Agreement that should make it easier for healthcare companies to use its cloud services, including Office 365. Read more...

Report: Small businesses lose $24 billion a year due to non-IT workers

John Callaham — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:25:26 +0100

A study commissioned by Microsoft claims that small businesses lose a total of $24 billion a year due to IT problems that have to be fixed by involuntary IT managers. Read more...

Microsoft launches Windows Azure Infrastructure Services

John Callaham — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:14:42 +0100

Microsoft has announced that its new Windows Azure Infrastructure Services is now generally available, which allows its customers to move its current applications to Microsoft's cloud service. Read more...

NBC Sports to use Windows Azure to stream Internet sports events

John Callaham — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:13:16 +0100

NBC has announced a new agreement with Microsoft that will have its Windows Azure cloud service as the backbone for NBC Sports' streaming Internet sports coverage, including the 2014 Olympics. Read more...

Microsoft releases public preview of Hadoop for Windows Azure

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:24:31 +0000

Microsoft has announced it is now offering the first public preview of HDInsight Service for Windows Azure, allowing its users to launch and manage Hadoop clusters on Microsoft's cloud server service. Read more...

Windows Azure Mobile Services adds Android app support

John Callaham — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:00:26 +0000

Microsoft has updated its Windows Azure platform with a number of new features, including the long awaited addition of Android app support for its Mobile Services section. Read more...

Microsoft acquires Microsoft Accelerator startup MetricsHub

John Callaham — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:39:48 +0000

Microsoft has announced it has now acquired MetricsHub for Windows Azure, a Bellevue, Washington startup company that previously received mentoring via the Microsoft Accelerator program. Read more...

Windows Azure suffers yet another extended outage [Update: Back online]

John Callaham — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:02:28 +0000

Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service is still dealing with an extended outage that began on Friday and affected its servers worldwide due to a expired HTTPS certificate. Read more...

Research firm: Over 1 exabyte of data is now stored in the cloud

John Callaham — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:54:04 +0000

The research firm Nasuni said today there is over one exabyte of data stored in the "cloud" and that Microsoft's Windows Azure is currently the best cloud service provider. Read more...

Microsoft working on new online signup UI for various services

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:52:38 +0000

Microsoft has announced it is testing a new sign-in user interface that will be used by several different company services, including Office 365, Windows Azure and more. Read more...

Microsoft bringing Windows Azure Store to more territories

John Callaham — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:11:11 +0000

Microsoft has announced an expansion of its previously launched app store for its Windows Azure service to even more territories and countries, while also spotlighting some new apps in the store. Read more...

Windows Azure used to support servers for FPS Arctic Combat

John Callaham — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:27:47 +0000

Game publisher Webzen has announced it has partnered with Microsoft to help launch "a unique hybrid version" of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service that will be used for the FPS Arctic Combat. Read more...

Microsoft officially launches Windows Azure Media Services

John Callaham — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:44:36 +0000

Microsoft has announced that Windows Azure Media Services is officially available, allowing clients to stream video to a wide variety of platforms in many different media formats. Read more...

Microsoft reveals reasons for late December Azure outage

John Callaham — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:29:32 +0000

Microsoft has now announced what happened to cause the outage of one server group of its Windows Azure services in late December that caused some cloud saves for Xbox 360 users to become unavailable. Read more...