The long legal saga between Novell and Microsoft reached its end on Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Novell's appeal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 28, 2014
Waltham, Mass.-based Microsoft partner Exoprise is offering a free tool that measures the costs of moving to Office 365 Exchange Online from Exchange Server 2003.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 28, 2014
Microsoft is adding new preview service tiers to Microsoft Azure SQL Database, the company said on Thursday.
- By David Ramel
- April 28, 2014
As expected, Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business closed on Friday.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 25, 2014
Microsoft has named former Hewlett-Packard vice president Tony Prophet as the new vice president of Windows marketing, the company confirmed this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 25, 2014
Microsoft reported diluted earnings per share of $0.68 in its earnings report Thursday for the third quarter of fiscal year 2014, beating the $0.63 expectation of financial analysts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2014
A faster Windows release cycle means organizations may struggle to keep pace with updates for other products, such as Windows Server and Visual Studio, according to analyst Wes Miller.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2014
The next release of Microsoft's Forefront Identity Manager product will be renamed "Microsoft Identity Manager," and will be released by mid-2015, Microsoft announced Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2014
Two Microsoft Azure Active Directory synchronization features were released as "previews" this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2014
A second update to Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is reportedly in the pipeline this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 23, 2014
Microsoft has re-released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2013, after deactivating the download link earlier this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2014
Redwood City, Calif.-based Equinix Inc., a provider of space, power and interconnection products and services for companies, is adding Microsoft's Azure ExpressRoute technology to its datacenters worldwide.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2014
Microsoft has inked an intellectual property licensing deal with Motorola Solutions Inc. that covers the use of the Android and Google Chrome OS operating systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 21, 2014
Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business will be finalized this Friday, the two companies announced.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 21, 2014
Microsoft has lowered the cost for its custom support services for Windows XP, according to a report from Computerworld.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday announced two new data platform products: the Microsoft Azure Intelligent Systems Service (ISS) and the Analytics Platform System (APS).
- By David Ramel
- April 16, 2014
A new automation feature for managing Microsoft Azure workloads became available as a preview on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2014
Microsoft solution providers will now be able to bill their customers directly for using Windows Intune.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 15, 2014
Industry watchers are predicting that software-defined networking (SDN) will be one of the most disruptive new technologies for the next several years.
- By David Ramel
- April 15, 2014
The new "Personal" edition of Office 365, which Microsoft first announced in March, became available for purchase on Tuesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 15, 2014