 | Quest Software, on Monday, released three open beta tools that help simplify Microsoft Azure infrastructure and account management: Spotlight on Azure, Quest Cloud Storage Manager for Azure, and Quest Cloud Subscription Manager for Azure. These three beta releases will provide visibility into Azure performance, storage and subscription utilization. Quest Software simplifies and reduces the cost… |
 | A few minutes back, I read on Slashdot that Microsoft is open sourcing Visual Basic 6. Wow! If they do that, that is a huge and pleasant surprise from Microsoft – after all, so many developers wants Microsoft to make Visual Basic 6 open source.. This is what Redmond Developer, the website which broke that… |
 | Angry Birds, the game, may have gone to various places and a lot of platforms including the web, Android and iOS but it will still take some time for the game to go live on Windows Phone 7 platform. Now we do not know the exact reasons for this as both Rovio (developers of Angry… |
 | Looks like Microsoft has some nice plans for Windows 8 with the devices that it will support. Although not coming directly from Microsoft, but it is now known that Windows 8 will be released in multiple versions which will be customised to run on various kinds of devices such as tablets, mobile phones and not… |
 | At Microsoft’s annual TechEd conference for developers and IT pros, was announced that Windows Phone will see a major change in its capabilities in its next version named “Mango” and supposedly will release later this year. The features are meant to provide a productive edge on the go to users. Some of the features that… |
 | In this article we will tell you how to easily generate MS Excel files using PHP and without the use of any bulky third party code libraries. The idea behind this method is to set the content-type and the content-disposition properties in the header function of PHP to values that produce MS Excel as output…. |
 | There has already been a lot of voice all over the web regarding Google’s Panda update in their search algorithms. These new changes have led to loss of traffic for many webmasters. However, what we have been noticing off late is that the search results, which Google shows up after the Panda update, are quite… |
 | When Microsoft purchased, we feared for the future of Skype on Linux. But some people managed to find comfort in Microsoft’s announcement that they will support non-Microsoft platforms. Well here is evidence that Skype is not interested in Linux: In Skype’s blog post yesterday, they published a video but requires Microsoft Silverlight to watch -… |
 | The rumors about Skype’s acquisition by Microsoft has turned out to be true with Microsoft announcing that it is buying Skype for $8.5 billion dollars. This makes it the biggest deal in Microsoft’s 36-year history. The acquisition of the Luxembourg – based VoIP company Skype had reportedly attracted interest from Cisco, Facebook and Google as… |
