With Windows 8, Microsoft is edging toward the world of connected devices championed by its former chief software architect, Ray Ozzie.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2011
Rajat Taneja, a 15-year Microsoft veteran who most recently served as the vice president of Microsoft's Commerce Division, is leaving the company to become CTO of game software publisher Electronic Arts (EA), a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 23, 2011
The disarray at Hewlett-Packard Co. is taking on a new twist as the company's board is reportedly weighing the ouster of CEO Leo Apotheker.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 21, 2011
Microsoft's sold-out Build conference just wrapped up in Anaheim, Calif. Here's a guide to all of our conference coverage, including news and analysis.
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance at the end of Wednesday's Build keynote to give attendees a high-level perspective on Microsoft's Windows-centric strategy.
- By Michael Desmond
- September 16, 2011
Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, pitched Windows Azure to independent software vendors (ISVs) during his Day 2 keynote speech at Build.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 15, 2011
Day 2 of Microsoft's Build conference turned part of the spotlight on the company's next-generation server technology, code-named "Windows Server 8."
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 15, 2011
Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella pushed his company's hybrid cloud efforts to investors at this week's Citi Technology Conference, held in New York City.
- By Chris Paoli
- September 09, 2011
An outage on Thursday affecting several Microsoft Live services, including Office 365, SkyDrive, Hotmail and MSN, was caused by a DNS error, Microsoft reported.
- By Chris Paoli
- September 09, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. is taking a step closer toward its promise of offering a public cloud service by providing early access to select testers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 07, 2011
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner singled out and attacked six strategic rivals. Does Microsoft have what it takes to compete and win against Apple, Google, Cisco, Oracle, Salesforce.com and VMware?
- By Scott Bekker
- September 07, 2011
The next version of Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud service for systems management will be generally available starting Oct. 17.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 06, 2011
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff left no doubt about his company's direction during his Wednesday keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference taking place this week in San Francisco.
- By John K. Waters
- September 01, 2011
Hewlett-Packard is looking to make it easier for partners to offer its portfolio of services to customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 01, 2011
There has been activity among Microsoft's appliance partners revolving around Azure -- but you wouldn't know it from this year's WPC, where the product played a backstage role.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2011
The transition to the cloud is a huge challenge for most business models. Here are nine key performance indicators for tracking your company's cloud progress.
- By Keith Lubner
- September 01, 2011
The rivalry between Microsoft and VMware over the costs of tapping virtualization infrastructure has intensified.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 30, 2011
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a promotion that pays back customers $150 per user seat for switching to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online from CRM competitors.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2011
Microsoft signed an interoperability and legal agreement on Tuesday with China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C) as part of a Linux server partnership deal. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2011
HP stunned the IT world by saying it is considering the spinoff or sale of its PC division. The company also announced it is killing its webOS-based hardware business -- marking an exit from its short-lived tablet and smartphone arm -- while looking at licensing options for its webOS software business.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 19, 2011