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A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail. A Web ...

Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform that supports a portion of the internet, experienced a massive outage on Monday.

Microsoft Office Online Server Office Online Server, which allowed organizations to host browser-based versions of Word, ...

The security vulnerability could expose passwords and access tokens, along with blueprints for internal infrastructure and finding software vulnerabilities. The Microsoft Azure App Service has a ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a future effort to improve its Office Web Apps, including adding Google Chrome browser support for mobile Android devices and improved collaboration capabilities.

This week, the Apache Software Foundation has patched a severe vulnerability in the Apache (httpd) web server project that could --under certain circumstances-- allow rogue server scripts to execute ...

As noted in Part 1 in this series, embedded Web Applications use the same HTTP communications mechanism as your bank account or the latest game on your smartphone. And why not? The HTTP protocol is ...

Microsoft today released Office Online Server to its MSDN subscribers. The new 64-bit only server can be downloaded from the MSDN portal here. While Microsoft had released Office Online Server on May ...