Jeffrey Schwartz

At last week's Connect conference, Microsoft introduced Visual Studio Live Share to allow dev teams to interactively collaborate via sharing code for editing/debugging, troubleshooting, iteration or optimizing apps -- among a host of other preview …

News Microsoft introduced Visual Studio Live Share to allow dev teams to interactively collaborate by sharing code to edit and debug, troubleshoot, iterate or optimize apps, along with other preview tools. The new capability, demonstrated at the …

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated some of the AI supercomputing capabilities in its Azure public cloud that make it now among the fastest cloud services available. The secret sauce is the use of field-programmable gate arrays. Microsoft CEO …

From Microsoft Ignite: The partnership that kicked off between the two companies two years ago takes another leap forward into the cloud in a big way. Microsoft's public Azure cloud will be the primary platform upon which Adobe's suite of …

Microsoft and Red Hat -- a leading provider of the Linux OS and other open source software -- today announced a joint effort to provide more Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure as a means to help enterprise customers move to a hybrid cloud computing …

Microsoft and Red Hat join forces to provide more Red Hat solution capabilities in the Azure public cloud, as well as .NET Framework integration with Red Hat platform offerings. Microsoft and Red Hat jointly announced an effort between the two …

As the group gets absorbed back into Microsoft, the company will start up a new open source advocacy group, Microsoft Open Technology Programs Office. Microsoft said that it's absorbing its Microsoft Open Technologies subsidiary that was formed in …

Microsoft's CEO calls the company a "platforms and productivity" company, and calls for reducing workforce by 18,000, mainly from Nokia acquisition. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized the company's "platforms and productivity" and "leaner …

A finicky editor takes it for a spin. Has the next generation of Microsoft's flagship device gone where no one has gone before? Is it a tired take on a run-out category, or a game-changing hybrid? Redmond magazine Editor Jeffrey Schwartz does his …

Gartner also says Azure is still "Microsoft-centric," appealing primarily to .NET developers. Microsoft's been investing huge amounts of time and money to build out its Azure cloud service. Those efforts appear to be paying off, according to a new …

Reports speculate that the small tablet wasn't sufficiently differentiated from the competition. Is it a mystery wrapped in an enigma, or just a case of not-yet-ready-for-primetime? A victim of foul play, or a case of caution winning the day? A few …

Microsoft disappoints some, however, when it doesn't unveil a Surface "mini" at press event. If good things come in threes, Microsoft's refreshed tablet may be a hit. On the other hand, if you were hoping that Microsoft was planning on launching the …

News Cloudera this week raised $160 million in funding from major investors as it considers an initial public offering, planning to invest much of the money in engineering resources to extend its contributions to the Apache Hadoop community. Cloudera …

Among his early moves is putting a former high-ranking politico in charge of strategy. It took a long time for Microsoft to replace former CEO Steve Ballmer. But his replacement is wasting no time in putting his own stamp on the company. Microsoft's …

The new head has a strong engineering background, with 22 years at Microsoft. In a move that should cheer developers, Microsoft has named as its new CEO the former president of its Server and Tools division. Satya Nadella will be the third CEO in the …

News Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is reducing pricing for its S3 and Elastic Block Storage Service (EBS). The cloud provider will reduce S3 pricing by 22 percent and EBS will cost up to 50 percent less. As usual, those using the largest …

News The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Wednesday launched an initiative that would aid enterprises in using cloud computing services to protect infrastructures. A new working group called the Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) project represents a …

News Red Hat this week at the OpenStack Foundation Summit in Hong Kong said its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software can now be deployed on OpenStack clouds. The move lets developers and IT pros use OpenStack infrastructure to create PaaS …

News Cloud Technology Partners' newly announced PaaSLane tool aims to remove the process of evaluating software source code to ensure .NET and Java applications can work properly in a cloud environment. That's especially important as providers roll …

News Red Hat this week announced an expansion to its OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio. The tools are targeted at letting developers build modern, composite and mobile apps to public, private and hybrid cloud environments The company …