Microsoft wants ISO security certification for its Cloud services
Microsoft Corp. wants to get its suite of hosted messaging and collaboration products certified to the ISO 27001 international information security standard, part of an effort to assure customers about the security of its cloud computing services.
SharePoint 2010: A guide to the many versions
On Monday, Microsoft announced that the beta version of SharePoint 2010 would be available in November and the final code would ship in the first half of 2010. In true Microsoft form, this means Redmond will have a whole bunch of confusing editions.
Microsoft slates Office 2010 public beta for November
Microsoft will launch the public beta of Office 2010 next month, company CEO Steve Ballmer said on Monday at the company's SharePoint Conference 2009.
Microsoft won't punish users for switching to hosted software
Users won't be penalized for switching licenses between Microsoft's online service and internally deployed back-end infrastructure such as SharePoint and Exchange, says CEO Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft's Ballmer shows off SharePoint and cites IT's link to economic prosperity
The Microsoft CEO appeared at SharePoint conference to discuss the upgrade to the company's collaboration platform.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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