Today Microsoft announced that it is making Australia its own region for the Azure IaaS and PaaS product. The company will build data centers in both Sydney and Melbourne, according to LifeHacker. Previously, those seeking Azure’s services had to use banks of computers in Singapore. There will be two sub-regions in the country, New South Wales and Victoria.…
Happy Friday friends, it’s not happy hour yet, but the weekend is peeking from around the corner. That means it’s time to look back at the last week of Microsoft news, and ferret out the most important pieces of news to store upstairs. As always, do ensure that you are following TNW Microsoft on both…
We last covered SupportBee when the customer support startup set up a popular new service over a single weekend, and it has developed some way since then, September 2012. For one thing, it upped sticks from Vietnam, returning to founder Prateek Dayal‘s home country of India, where it is now among the second batch at the Microsoft Azure…
As expected, Microsoft has made it known that Windows Server 8 will be called ‘Windows Server 2012.’ The software will be released later this year. Microsoft calls it a ‘cloud-optimized OS.’ The beta for the software began in March of this year. Here’s how we covered that specific milestone: Windows Server 8, in case you have…
It’s a good day in Wyoming, as the state has landed a more than $100 million project that will result in a new Microsoft data center in the area. Wyoming, a state that is rather unpopulated and spacious, is on the prowl for such installations. According to DataCenterKnowledge, Wyoming hopes that Microsoft’s investment will lead…
Doubling down on its investments in big data, Microsoft has hired former Yahoo chief scientist Raghu Ramakrishnan. Ramakrishnan, according to Microsoft, is a “Technical Fellow in the Server and Tools Business,” where he works on “big data and integration between STB’s cloud offerings and the Online Services Division’s platform assets.” Yes, it’s fun that he’s held the…
Yesterday, somewhat obfuscated by the huge wave of Windows 8 news, Microsoft released the Windows Server 8 beta. The final product will likley not be known by that name, the ’8′ in Windows Server 8 being a mere placeholder for the time being. We expect that the final product will be called Windows Server 2012 or 2013,…
We’re going to take this in two steps. We’ll begin with what Microsoft is up to with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) products and the cloud, and then we’ll have a chuckle at the enterprise customers that it is catering to. I bet they still use IE6. ZDNet has a fascinating walk through of Microsoft’s…
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