Microsoft takes rent-to-own route to add data centers
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Microsoft is building a new data center in San Antonio. But in Silicon Valley, it's taking a more direct expansion route by acquiring two IT facilities that it currently leases from Savvis Inc.
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Microsoft is planning to include the ability for developers to add Windows Live services to applications in the next version of Visual Studio.
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By Brier Dudley, Seattle Times  Feb. 19--I saw some amazing data centers in Redmond last week.   They were reliable, powerful, resilient and fault-tolerant.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said on Monday  it would expand its Redmond, Washington, headquarters to  accommodate the hiring of more than 10,000 new employees over  next 10 to 20 years.
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Two years after creating a division that offers managed services, MicrosoftÂ has signed three more pilot customers and continues to expand its datacenter investments to pave the way for more deployments.
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Microsoft Corp. partners introduced to the company&#39;s software-plus-services strategy this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) applauded the plan, though they noted a few challenges as the company makes the transition from selling business software to offering more hosted and Web-based services.
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Customers will pay a per-rack fee for server space, monitoring and related services.
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Plan will let customers rent supercomputing power from the company's data centers, paying for exactly as much muscle as they need.
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By Brier Dudley, The Seattle Times  Sep. 18--The big stories at Microsoft this month aren't coming from the  main campus but instead from the satellite offices the company rents farther  east, around the Target store at the end of Highway 520.
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Microsoft chief provides a few more details on company's effort to build a set of services in the Internet cloud.
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In a move that will expand Microsoft Corp.'s footprint in the Boston area by about 75 percent, the software company plans to sign a lease this week at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge, just around the corner from the new Kendall Square offices of rival Google Inc.
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Microsoft's in an unusual place in the server virtualization market: second. But Thursday's unveiling of a system management platform for virtualized systems could make a difference as the competition heats up.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft&#39;s first server OS aimed at helping Windows users organize and share files on a home network is nearly ready for prime time.
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Move will let the company to free up development resources for other areas of its network admission control client.
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InfoWorld - A startup working in Microsoft's backyard is taking aim at the software giant's entrenched project management software with a new hosted service.
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Software maker heads to LA to show off a host of gadgets that use one or another Microsoft technology to access movies, music and video.
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This company outsources its data center hosting, so to ride herd on one finicky application, a pilot fish and his team get several admin IDs to manage it remotely. That works well -- for a few months.