Darryl K. Taft

Welcome to Team Foundation Service Microsoft’s Team Foundation Service enables users to plan projects, collaborate with your team and manage your code online from anywhere. Team Foundation Community The Team Foundation Service community page has forums, places to share code and more. The forums enable users to make new friends, talk to old friends, or […]

Welcome to TechEd Microsoft welcomes 10,000 attendees to TechEd 2012, the 20th annual edition of the company’s largest conference for users of Microsoft products. This year, Microsoft hosted the show at the Orlando Convention Center. Satya Nadella Satya Nadella, president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, kicks off TechEd North America 2012 with […]

ORLANDO, Fla. €” Microsoft kicked off its 20th annual TechEd North America conference by highlighting its new Windows Server 2012 operating system, its cloud platform and supporting tools. Microsoft Server and Tools Business President Satya Nadella welcomed a sold-out crowd of more than 10,000 to the era of the cloud operating system infrastructure at the […]

ORLANDO, Fla. €” Nokia, AT&T, Microsoft and Seton Hall University announced a partnership in which the university will give Windows Phone-based Nokia Lumia 900s to all incoming freshmen. The issuing of the smartphones is part of Seton Hall’s Mobile Computing Initiative. The entire class of 2016 will receive a Nokia Lumia 900, powered by the […]

ORLANDO, Fla. €” With Microsoft’s TechEd 2012 opening up comes news of GrapeCity€™s acquisition of ComponentOne, a key distributor of Microsoft components. GrapeCity, based in Sendai, Japan, has been in the software business for 25 years and has long been a provider of Microsoft components. ComponentOne, based in Pittsburgh, with globally based facilities, is a […]

Micro Focus, a provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, in partnership with Microsoft, today announced it will jointly launch Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.0 beta with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate. Micro Focus€™ Visual COBOL enables application developers to reuse, enhance and extend enterprise COBOL applications, alongside other Microsoft language platforms, […]

In response to developer reaction, Microsoft has done an about-face on its plans to not include support for developing Windows 8 desktop apps in the free Express version on Visual Studio 2012. In May, Microsoft announced that the free, Express SKU of Visual Studio would support the development of Windows 8 Metro-style Win RT-based apps, […]

AppDynamics, an application performance management (APM) solution provider, has announced a new partnership with Microsoft that enables Windows Azure users to monitor and scale their applications in Windows Azure. Microsoft recently announced a slew of new June 2012 updates for its Windows Azure cloud computing platform. Enterprises running applications on Microsoft€™s cloud platform can now […]

With the recently announced June 2012 updates of Windows Azure, Microsoft has delivered a new Windows Azure SDK for .NET. This software development kit includes tooling support for Visual Studio 2012, such that developers can use the recently released Visual Studio 2012 RC to build applications and services on Azure. And with the solution round-tripping […]

Microsoft€™s move to open Windows Azure up and launch a new infrastructure as a service play along with its initial platform as a service strategy can only be viewed as a bold move aimed directly at segment leader Amazon Web Services. When Microsoft initially launched Windows Azure in 2010, the company hinted that infrastructure as […]