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Microsoft Dublin data centre opens – The Irish Times – Thu, Sep 24, 2009

[via CIARA O'BRIEN Irish Times] Microsoft has opened a new “mega datacentre” in west Dublin to support growing demand for online services, the first such centre opened outside the US.

The centre is part of the company’s strategy to build its cloud computing capacity and network infrastructure to meet the demand generated from its Online, Live, and Cloud services, such as Bing, Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, Windows Live, and the Windows Azure platform.

via Microsoft Dublin data centre opens – The Irish Times – Thu, Sep 24, 2009.

Tags: Azure, Bing, data center, Dublin, Irish Times, Microsoft, Windows Live

Office Web Apps : Demo of the Office Web Apps

Microsoft Office Web Apps enter technical preview stage (by invite only), offering better file integrity between the desktop and the web with no loss of data in the process.  Spreadsheets & Powerpoint presentations are now editable in the browser while Word online-editing is not yet ready.

Spreadsheets keep their functions and charts, Powerpoint delivered over the web, with extra functionality if SilverLight is installed though it’s not a requirement.

Office Web Apps will be delivered throught Windows Live Workspace.

Click below for a video demo from Chris Bryant.

Office Web Apps : Demo of the Office Web Apps.

Tags: Microsoft, Office Web Apps, Silverlight, Windows Live

Get Access to Web-based Microsoft Office Apps Now!

In the coming months, Microsoft will unveil a Google Docs like product that will let users create and edit Office documents in the browser itself without requiring a copy of Microsoft Office software.

The product, known as “Office Web Apps”, will include online versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Like Google Docs, Office Web Apps will be available for free and you can use it from all popular browsers on Mac or Windows PC even without the Silverlight plug-in.

How to get Microsoft Office Web Apps

Microsoft is expected to ship Office Web Apps alongside Microsoft Office 2010 sometime next year but here’s a simple hack that will help you access the preview version of Office Web Apps right now…

via Get Access to Web-based Microsoft Office Apps Now!.

Tags: Digital Inspiration, Excel, Microsoft, Office, Office Web Apps, PowerPoint, Silverlight, Word

Microsoft opens ‘mega data centre’

Software giant Microsoft has opened a $500 million data centre in Dublin after two years of work on the extensive project, writes Gavin Daly.

The facility at the Grange Castle Business Park covers 303,000 square feet, or almost seven acres more than twice the size of the playing surface at Croke Park. The centre is part of Microsoft’s investment in cloud computing, and houses tens of thousands of computer servers running the company’s online software and services.

It is the company’s first so-called ‘mega data centre’ outside the US, and is seen as an important investment by the firm, which already employs about 1,200 people full-time in Dublin.

via Sunday Business Post | Irish Business News.

Tags: data center, Dublin, Ireland, Microsoft, Sunday Business Post