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About Microsoft Corp
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) (4338), or often just MS, is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 79,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $51.12 billion as of 2007. Founded to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s. The company released an initial public offering (IPO) in the stock market, which, due to the ensuing rise of the stock price, has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Throughout its history the company has been the target of criticism for various reasons, including monopolistic business practices—both the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission, among others, brought Microsoft to court for antitrust violations and software bundling.
Microsoft has footholds in other markets besides operating systems and office suites, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse and home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV.
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Feds need to put the fizz in FISMA
Explore GigaOM (Feb 21 2012) Cloud Computing
...es. Already there have been some nasty, revenue-driven vendor spats over FISMA claims, such as when Microsoft publicly questioned Google’s claim of FISMA compliance for Google Apps. Sorry states: FedRAMP for f...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Microsoft Corp
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Iceland’s Thor Data Centre: In Pictures
Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 17 2012) Geothermal
... turnover of 150 million euros, and experience working with most of the major IT players, including Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, HP, Verisign and Cisco. Skyrr itself dates back more than 50 years to the first go...
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Rackspace Adds Private Edition Cloud, Acquires SharePoint911
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 17 2012) Cloud Computing
...rvices to the enterprise market. Maineville Ohio based SharePoint911 is widely recognized in the Microsoft SharePoint community and its team includes six Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professional), and the authors of over ten SharePoint books. “Rackspace’s acqu... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Europe Data Center Knowledge Interactive Data Corporation
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Verne Global Officially Opens Green Data Center in Iceland
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Feb 10 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal
...dedicated IT support team and established relationships with leading solution providers such as HP, Microsoft, Cisco and others will help ensure that Verne Global’s customers have the support needed to succe...
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Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres
Explore ZDNet UK (Feb 10 2012)
... I think WinRT is fantastic. I just wish it was an option for people that didn't want to go through Microsoft's App Store with its attendant... Nine people? £30m? Who's back pocket is that lot going in? And IF...
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New Tenants for Verne’s Modular Colo in Iceland
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 9 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal
...pin Kerfi has served as the IT partner for leading Icelandic companies, offering solutions from HP, Microsoft and Ciso. Opin Kerfi is also taking space in the data centre for its own hosting requirements to su...
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Digital route forward
Explore siliconrepublic.com (Feb 9 2012)
...in Europe. In front of us, construction is advancing on Google's €75m data centre. Down the road is Microsoft's €1bn data centre that serves its cloud businesses across Europe and the Middle East, while US dat...
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DRT to build in Irish data center park
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 8 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing
...of data center space with 11.5MW of power. Profile Park, 15km outside of Dublin, is already home to Microsoft’s 303,000 mega data center used for cloud computing services which opened in 2009, and Telecity, wh...
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Comment Mentions: Europe Google Microsoft Corp
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Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Center Network
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking
...ware from any vendor and is hypervisor agnostic, working with VMware ESX, Linux/KVM, Xen Server and Microsoft’s HyperV. * Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Center Network * Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Ce...
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Nebraska Woos Huge ‘Project Edge’ Data Center
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing
...nd the the fact that three of the huge companies best known for secretive site selections – Google, Microsoft and Yahoo – already operate major data centers in the region. Google and Microsoft each have facilities in Iowa, while Yahoo has its data center in La Vista. These companies have fou...
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A New Net
Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking
...f the early 1980s. IBM's PC standard separated hardware and software, making operating systems like Microsoft Windows the focus of innovation while hardware became a race-to-the-bottom commodity. Cisco and oth...
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Beyond Servers: Is Your Data Center Truly Virtualized?
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 1 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage
...ly and closely for years with server virtualization software providers – such as VMware, Citrix and Microsoft — to seamlessly link storage systems with highly virtualized server environments. Through these eff...
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'Big Data' Creates Big Opportunities
Explore GreenBiz.com (Jan 30 2012) Construction , Solar , Wind
...sampled only a subset of them every 15 minutes, collecting 2.15 million points of data per month. A Microsoft pilot at its Redmond, Wash., campus looked at public and private data for a subset of its buildings...
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Comment Mentions: IBM Interactive Data Corporation Microsoft Corp
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Growth In Private Cloud Adoption Continues To Rise
Explore da.feedsportal.com (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing
...sted private clouds will run into the first speed bumps, thanks to the efforts of companies such as Microsoft, HP, IBM and Oracle. All of which are offering and developing the tools needed to build private clo...
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A CTO’s take on cloud
Explore GigaOM (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing
...sses, but for many existing IBM shops — and there are a ton of them — IBM cloud is a no brainer. 2: Microsoft Azure has a tough row to hoe Coyle is of two minds on Windows Azure, the platform-as-a-service (Paa...
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