Reviews for Windows 7 have been largely positive. Customer satisfaction in the latest iteration of the Microsoft operating system seems to be at an all-time high; people who walk home from the electronics store with fully-loaded Windows 7 laptops are… Read More
Windows Azure Cloud Mashups with DataMarket and JackBe
Mashup – n. An audio recording that is a composite of samples from other recordings, usually from different musical styles.
Mashups in music are fun. Mashups in cloud computing can be powerful and even liberating for businesses. When creating… Read More
Pixar’s RenderMan Cloud Powered by Azure
When history looks back on the legacy of Disney, it may very well be the Pixar era that is viewed as its crown achievement. From Toy Story to Finding Nemo, Pixar has become a storytelling (and cash-making) empire within an… Read More
NASA Aims for the Cloud with Mars Rover Project
NASA’s Mars Rover project has become the first agency to make use of the cloud for their activity-planning software, called Maestro. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) believes cloud computing works well for the project because it is a collaborative environment,… Read More
Cloud Services Reduce Energy Costs
When businesses consider moving to the cloud, the prevailing reason for the move is financial savings. While there are other factors, such as reducing the work load of IT personnel, even those factors ultimately point back to the fiscal bottom… Read More
IDC Study Predicts Fewer Packaged Software Products, Rise of Cloud Delivery
The International Data Corporation (IDC) recently released a study showing that the Software as a Service (SaaS) market hit worldwide revenue of $13.1 billion in 2009, and predicts that total to reach $40.5 billion by 2014. This represents a compound… Read More
Microsoft Introduces Office 365 Business Suite
Last week Microsoft’s cloud just got a little thicker with the announcement of Office 365. Aimed specifically at the business market, Office 365 is a rebranding of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) and will include much of the same software.… Read More
Microsoft Releases Open Source Tools for Azure
It is no secret that many web applications run open source software powered by languages such as PHP. Even the language of the web itself, HTML, is free and open. In order meet the needs of open source developers who… Read More
Cloud Enhances Internet Explorer 9 Experience
Windows Internet Explorer 9, which is currently available for beta testing, is Microsoft’s latest attempt to reclaim some of the browser market share they have leaked to Mozilla and Google. The search giant, in particular, has become a legitimate competitor,… Read More
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