Microsoft's Quincy, Wash. datacenter is in the spotlight this week after The New York Times published a story on Monday depicting the pollution, power-wasting and political arm-twisting associated with the facility.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2012
Microsoft on Monday kicked off the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) in Orlando, Fla. by talking up the forthcoming Exchange 2013 and the next version of Exchange Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 25, 2012
Microsoft on Monday rolled out a new annual subscription model for its Office 365 productivity suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 19, 2012
A crowded field of IaaS providers that includes heavyweights Google, Amazon and HP will give Microsoft's new and improved public cloud a run for its money.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 19, 2012
Microsoft's recent decision to discontinue five of its Forefront enterprise security products may be a sign that the company is either exiting that market or venturing further into the cloud-based security space.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 18, 2012
Doomsayers are blaming cloud computing for the theoretical demise of the channel, but from Howard's point of view, it's all FUD.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- September 12, 2012
The beta test version of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1, which promises to considerably broaden Microsoft's cloud product strategy, became available on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 11, 2012
With the introduction of a mainstream partner billing option for Office 365, Microsoft overcame the biggest partner objection to its cloud productivity suite. Now happier partners are looking for ways to restart their efforts with new business-model options.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 10, 2012
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced it has partnered with Microsoft on a "joint private cloud initiative" centered on HP hardware and management solutions, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 Service Pack 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 06, 2012
After four years of development, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Server 2012 in a launch event on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 04, 2012
Microsoft on Wednesday issued a community technology preview (CTP) of its BizTalk Server 2010 R2 product, the company announced in a blog post.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 30, 2012
Microsoft detailed its installation scheme for the next generation of Office software on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 28, 2012
The SkyDrive 1.0 app is now available for Android smartphones at the Google Play Store, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 28, 2012
Microsoft on Tuesday gave a quick tour of some new SharePoint features found in the Office 365 previews.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2012
OnLive, a pioneer in virtual desktop infrastructure-based services and cloud gaming, reportedly shed its staff members and was sold to an undisclosed buyer on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 17, 2012
Microsoft's recent cloud moves threaten to push providers away from Redmond and toward virtualization juggernaut VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 16, 2012
Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage solution for consumers has left the preview stage, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 16, 2012
Despite snubbing its OEMs with the Surface, Microsoft's decision to allow direct billing with Office 365 shows that Redmond still has its partners' back.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 09, 2012
Microsoft is looking to add U.S. partners to special programs serving SMB customers both on-premise and in the cloud.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 27, 2012
Microsoft on Monday took the wraps off the next version of its Office 365 cloud suite that's based on Office 2013 (previously code-named "Office 15").
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 16, 2012