Stuart J. Johnston

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. As enterprises and developers decide whether it makes sense to move parts or most of their computer infrastructure to the cloud, cloud service providers continue to experiment with new ways to win them over. Datamation reports that Amazon, one of the […]

Is it any wonder Google, Apple, Microsoft and just about every other high-tech company is doubling down on its mobile device and service offerings? According to market researcher Gartner, the mobile ecosystem will balloon into a $1 trillion market by 2014. So where does that leave IT decision makers? Gartner’s best advice: develop a “high-level […]

The Web may be computing’s future, but most desktop and notebook computers still run some installed version of the Microsoft’s Windows operating system. And, according to Microsoft, it’s latest OS, Windows 7, is a smashing success. Datamation provides an update on where Windows 7 is at, a year after its long-anticipated launch. The initial Windows […]

Informative Graphics Corp. is tuning up its integration with Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight products. Next week, the company plans to announce updates to its tools for viewing redacting and collaborating on documents of virtually any file format. IGC plans to unveil its Brava Enterprise 7 and Redact-It Enterprise 7 next week, which will ship […]

Major cloud players are locked in vigorous competition as they court potential public-sector customers with promises of cost savings and energy efficiencies. And they’re not shy about bragging when they land a big fish. And Microsoft has just hooked a big one. CEO Steve Ballmer joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a joint […]

Global IT budgets will remain “timid” over the next four years, marked by “lackluster” spending, according to market researcher Gartner. That muted outlook calls for spending to increase 3.1 percent in 2011, reaching $2.5 trillion, on its way to $2.8 trillion by 2014. Spending will vary across verticals, Gartner noted, with sectors such as manufacturing […]

On the same week Ray Ozzie announced plans to resign from Microsoft, the company unveiled a new cloud computing service. The timing is perhaps appropriate since Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, is considered the main driver behind the company’s move to cloud computing. As DevX reports, the cloud-based Office 365 makes Office Web Apps on […]

One of Bill Gates signature acts before resigning from day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft, was to anoint Ray Ozzie as the successor to his role as chief software architect. It’s been a busy five years for Ozzie at Microsoft, where he’s been responsible for short and mid-term technology and product strategy. Datamation details the impact of […]

Market researcher Gartner is bullish on the prospects for tablet computers. This year, the devices will see sales of 19.5 million, and rocket 181 percent to 54.8 million next year, Gartner is forecasting. It’s impossible to tell the tablet story without placing Apple’s iPad, the device that more than any other jumpstarted the current craze, […]

Among Microsoft’s many initiatives of late is a new stab at unified communications, complete with a rebranding. What was once the Office Communications Server is now marketed simply as the Lync Server, and a new survey suggests that the technology has an eager market awaiting its debut. Later this year, Microsoft plans to unveil the […]

Online criminals looking to separate enterprises and consumers from their money or sensitive information are overwhelming using botnets to launch their schemes, according to Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report. In the second quarter alone, Microsoft claimed to have cleared botnet infections from more than 6.5 million computers worldwide. And the United States had the unhappy […]

By the numbers, comScore’s September search rankings are a bit of a snooze. After, Google is still way out in front, Yahoo remains mired in a distant second with Microsoft, as ever, bringing up the rear. But there’s more to it than that, controversy, even! Yahoo cried foul that comScore is inflating Google’s query count […]