Business News (External)

Windows 7 early adoption beats Vista's 2-to-1

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:25:00 GMT

In the five months since its release, Microsoft's Windows 7 has captured twice the usage share than did Vista in the same time period, a Web metrics company said Monday.

Microsoft revenues boosted by Windows 7

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:52:00 GMT

If Microsoft's bottom line is any indication, consumers are opening up their wallets again after a long frugal period. Businesses, however are not.

Microsoft and HP Expand Cloud Collaboration

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:51:00 GMT

In a joint conference call this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and HP chairman/CEO Mark Hurd announced a significant expansion of their business collaboration.

Read more at IT in Canada

Microsoft, HP unveil ‘breakthrough’ stack integration

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:48:00 GMT

Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Wednesday announced a $250-million three-year investment toward integrating their respective technology stacks from infrastructure to application in a cloud-driven effort the companies said "represents the most integrated technology stack in the industry today."

Ballmer says Windows 7 sales booming

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:58:00 GMT

It's been less than a month since Microsoft launched Windows 7, but the new OS is already far exceeding the sales rate of previous Windows releases.

Read more at IT in Canada

Microsoft launches Windows Azure and supporting channel strategy

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:04:00 GMT

As part of its software plus services strategy, Microsoft Corp. has announced the commercial availability of its Windows Azure cloud platform, in addition to a new online marketplace and information and brokerage service for its developer partners.

Microsoft launches Office 2010 Public Beta

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:43:00 GMT

Microsoft on Wednesday launched the public beta of Office 2010, paving the way for all and sundry to experience the suite's expanded collaboration features and cloud computing integration.

Read more at IT in Canada

Microsoft launches Windows Azure platform

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:42:00 GMT

In his opening keynote, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, described Windows Azure and SQL Azure as core elements of the company's cloud services strategy.

New betas take stage on day two of Microsoft developers' conference

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:40:00 GMT

Microsoft invited developers to test new beta versions of Silverlight 4, Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Microsoft PDC heads for the cloud

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:42:00 GMT

Developers of Microsoft Corp. software and services have been concentrating their efforts on the three screens and cloud as evidenced by numerous announcements at the Microsoft's annual Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week.

Read more at IT in Canada

Microsoft’s Azure gets launch date, new services

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:41:00 GMT

Find out what new services Microsoft is rolling out with as its Azure cloud platform heads to a Jan. 1 launch date.

Customers, partners discuss impact of Exchange 2010

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:07:00 GMT

Early forecasts indicate that the industry is ready for Microsoft's latest messaging software release as users champion its features.

Read more at IT in Canada

Microsoft expands Visual Studio capabilities with Teamprise acquisition

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:01:00 GMT

Microsoft is acquiring SourceGear's Teamprise application development technology assets in a move that will make it easier for developers to build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio for heterogeneous IT environments.

Read more at IT in Canada

Exchange Server 2010 available worldwide

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is now available worldwide, and the software giant believes that despite the economy, forces are promoting significant customer adoption.

Virtualization – A year of experimentation

Microsoft Canada News Centre — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:14:00 GMT

St-Jean de Vianney implemented Microsoft Corp.'s Hyper-V hypervisor in Windows Server 2008. The technology virtualized the server infrastructure - essentially rearranging bits and pieces of the 16 servers and squeezing more performance out of them.

Read more at IT in Canada