Microsoft on Friday announced that it was effectively shuttering Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. three years after its formation.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 20, 2015
Microsoft's forthcoming SharePoint Server 2016 product will hit general availability in the second quarter of 2016 instead of in the second half of 2015, as Microsoft had previously projected.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed a few details about its next-generation e-mail messaging server product, which it has kept largely under wraps.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 16, 2015
The European Union (EU) on Wednesday formally accused Google of violating antitrust laws by using its dominance in search to favor its own comparison-shopping service over those of competitors.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 15, 2015
Microsoft on Tuesday made its "Delve" discovery and social networking solution for Office 365 available to iOS and Android mobile devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2015
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Datazen Software, a Toronto-based startup that provides mobile business intelligence (BI) solutions.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 14, 2015
As it promised earlier this month, Microsoft on Tuesday released its new Skype for Business client to Office 2013 users as part of its April Patch Tuesday update.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 14, 2015
Microsoft warned on Monday that SQL Server 2005 will lose "extended support" on April 12, 2016, meaning Microsoft will no longer issue updates and security patches for the product after that date.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2015
Nearly two years after leaving Microsoft, former Office group president Kurt DelBene is rejoining the company as the executive vice president of Corporate Strategy and Planning.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 13, 2015
Microsoft's Windows Server AppFabric 1.1 solution, typically used by organizations to scale operations for Web apps, will reach its support deadline next April, Microsoft said recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2015
The second public build of the Windows 10 technical preview for smartphones was released on Friday, bringing much broader device support and marking the phone debut of Microsoft's new "Spartan" browser.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 10, 2015
Despite the continuing decline in PC shipments, the latest data from IDC and Gartner suggest the PC market is not doing as badly as previously forecast.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 10, 2015
As of Thursday, all users of Microsoft's Office Online Apps, including Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word, can now access files stored on Dropbox servers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday turned the spotlight on its new Nano Server product, code-named "Tuva," which will be a component of the next release of Windows Server.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday launched Hyper-V Containers in a move aimed at letting developers build more scalable apps and advancing container technology to more deployment scenarios and workloads.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 08, 2015
Microsoft is planning an update to Windows 10, code-named "Redstone," to be released in two stages over the second half of 2016, according to media reports on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2015
Enterprise and service provider customers running Microsoft's Cloud Platform System (CPS) will receive software updates on a "predictable quarterly cadence," Microsoft said recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2015
The second technical preview of Microsoft's next-generation Windows Server product, commonly referred to as Windows Server "2016," is slated to arrive sometime in May, according to Microsoft.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 06, 2015
The future of Windows could be open source, according to a Microsoft executive this week.
- By Chris Paoli
- April 03, 2015
Microsoft's next-generation unified communications (UC) product will be rolled out to qualified users as part of this month's Patch Tuesday update.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 02, 2015