The Kentucky Department of Education announced today that it is moving to live@edu , the cloud-based education system from Microsoft. This is Microsoft’s largest deployment to cloud services, involving over 700,000 students, faculty, and staff and saving Kentucky $6.3 million. What is...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently outlined the company’s cloud computing strategy in a speech at the University of Washington in Seattle. The CEO described how from Windows Azure to Windows Live , Microsoft is embracing cloud technology. In fact, Ballmer said approximately 70 percent of people...

These days we store more and more information not on our computers but on the Internet, or in the cloud . Cloud computing can be used in all kinds of ways, such as for Web-based e-mail or large, corporate content management systems. Recently, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith travelled to Washington...