Robert J. Mullins

CapturetoCloud emerged from stealth mode July 11, offering what it calls a €œSocial Workspace€ collaboration platform for teams to share and work on a variety of content. The company has chosen to integrate with Google Apps over the collaboration offerings from Microsoft. €œWe generally saw the market as being largely a Microsoft-focused space where a […]

Cisco Systems says it will be the first networking vendor to deliver 1-gigabit-per-second speeds on enterprise wireless networks when it introduces an 802.11ac-based access point next year, but a few other things have to also happen before that actually means something. The 802.11ac WiFi standard, currently under development by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics […]

Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner delivered a spirited pep talk to partners at a conference in Toronto July 11, showing how Microsoft is challenging them in several areas, including cloud computing, virtualization, security, mobile, workplace software and operating systems. With the various new products already introduced€“Office 365, Windows 7€”and those coming in the near […]

Microsoft€™s Windows Server 2012 will be released to manufacturers sometime in August and become generally available for sale in September, the company announced July 10. The software giant also detailed its plans to lure customers to its Hyper-V virtualization platform and away from industry leader VMware. On the second day of its Worldwide Partner Conference […]

Cloud service and application hosting provider Rackspace is going to announce its support for the upcoming Windows Server 2012 enterprise operating system at Microsoft€™s World Partner Conference beginning July 9 in Toronto. While other cloud providers are expected to support Windows Server 2012 as well, Rackspace€™s offering differs from that of other providers, such as […]

Microsoft said it is acquiring Perceptive Pixel, a six-year-old company involved in the research, development and production of large-scale, multi-touch display solutions. Perceptive Pixel, also referred to as PPI, is the technology behind those large wall-sized displays that anchors on CNN use to show maps of the United States and identify which states are turning […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer assured OEMs that they will certainly have an opportunity to successfully sell laptops and tablets running Windows 8 even as Microsoft introduces its own tablet, called Surface, with the new operating system. €œSurface is just [one] design point,€ Ballmer said in remarks July 9 before an audience of about 16,000 Microsoft […]

When competitors to Apple’s iPad came out with smaller 7-inch screen tablet computers in 2010, CEO Steve Jobs famously declared them “dead on arrival.” Now, under new management, Apple appears to be more open to the idea. Today, seven months after Jobs’ death, The Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD site reported that Apple may be about […]

Vanity Fair magazine has been teasing the reading public by posting excerpts of its upcoming online report about Microsoft. It touts the missteps made during €œMicrosoft€™s Lost Decade€ with Steve Ballmer leading the company as CEO, but says little about its technology successes during that period, including Bing. The $6.2 billion write down Microsoft announced […]

Microsoft says it will take a $6.2 billion write-down on its books for the inability of its Online Services Division to make a success out of its $6.3 billion 2007 acquisition of the digital marketing services company aQuantive. The Online Services Division is the home of Microsoft€™s Bing search engine. The write-down is a reduction […]