EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

After Microsoft's stunning announcement last week that it would cut jobs globally, the Redmond giant now says it will also stall plans to build one of three new data centres stateside.

The new centre was meant to manage Hotmail and other Windows Live services - although online servces revenue was up over last year, it appears the rise was too marginal to justify as much additional capacity.

It's certainly the first case we've seen of a DC build being stalled. It remains to be seen whether it might trigger other 'rethinks' or whether it was just capacity overkill to begin with.

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Sylvie Barak | January 27, 2009

Microsoft has revealed further cost-cutting measures to help it weather the economic storm, including reducing the use of vendors, slashing marketing spend and postponing plans for a new data centre.

By Angelica Mari | January 27, 2009

Despite recognising the importance of IT to the business, senior executives do not regard technology as an important factor in innovation, according to a survey by the IT Governance Institute (ITGI).

By Iain Thomson | January 27, 2009

Wikipedia is considering changing the rules under which people can contribute to the online encyclopaedia.

By Sylvie Barak | January 27, 2009

Researchers from Arizona State University have demonstrated a microrefrigerator which effectively cools a PC system by targeting specific chip hot spots.

By Phil Muncaster | January 27, 2009

Autonomy's acquisition of enterprise content management (ECM) firm Interwoven last week has been broadly welcomed by the industry, but some observers remain sceptical about how well the two product sets will be integrated.

By Ian Williams | January 27, 2009

The global online population has topped one billion, not including children or mobile internet users, according to comScore.

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