Microsoft is making available a third preview test build of its Hadoop for Windows Azure product is available, as is a first public preview of Hadoop for Windows Server.

Microsoft and Hortonworks' implementation of Hadoop for Windows Server hasn't disappeared or been cut. It's actually in private preview, according to a new Microsoft roadmap.

Microsoft this week released the first public preview of its Hadoop on Windows Azure service, called HDInsight, in a further embrace of Big Data. After months of private testing, data developers with ...

Microsoft launches Hortonworks Hadoop on Windows Azure after bringing it to Windows Server in May, in the latest advancement of its big data strategy.