Microsoft’s Active Directory: 10 years old and thinking cloud

Then years ago, the Active Directory skeptics were forceful. Now, it’s an integral part of the corporate IT infrastructure

The moves come less than a week before IBM opens its annual Lotusphere conference, its biggest customer event of the year

Microsoft is staying mum on Nortel’s bankruptcy filing, but the future of the companies’ unified communications alliance is murky

Microsoft also has said it will offer a stand-alone version of VMM 2008 that is unbundled from the System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise

New programs would be spread to thousands of PCs running in a cloud-based data center

Hosting service to target companies with between 1,000 and 10,000 users

Its application virtualization platform gets new IT features, and new licensing terms are introduced

Company converts to new Fedora signing keys after its infrastructure servers were compromised

Company hopes to challenge Microsoft’s Small Business Server

Group of five vendors form the Enterprise Desktop Alliance

Desktop Optimization Pack to be updated with additional virtualization software

With the Yahoo deal dead, might the popular social networking site be next in Redmond’s sights?

For other editions of Windows XP, however, Redmond reiterates the June 30, 2008 end-date

The new strategy includes virtualization, Linux, orchestration, policy, identity, compliance, and collaboration enhancements

Vendor sees open source collaboration as a growth area