Volume licensing customers can now access Microsoft's updates to Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry on the company's Volume License Service Center (VLSC).
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2014
Some of Microsoft's cloud-based services have been endorsed by the European Union's Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) as meeting EU privacy law standards.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2014
The developer preview version of Windows Phone 8.1 was released to developers on Monday morning.
- By Keith Ward
- April 14, 2014
Users can now download Microsoft's free Office Online suite of Web applications from Google's Chrome Web Store, the company said on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2014
Adaptiva, a Microsoft partner that gets enlisted to support large System Center deployments, has updated its flagship infrastructure product to facilitate Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 client migrations to SCCM 2012.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2014
Global PC shipments continued to slip in the first quarter of 2014, though the drop was not as steep as analysts had expected.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 10, 2014
Verizon and BT will support the Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute service starting this summer, enabling customers of the two telecom service providers to use their specialized connection service offerings to access various Azure services without connecting to the public Internet.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2014
Windows XP may have taken the lion's share of the spotlight on April 8 when it hit its "extended support" deadline, but many other Microsoft software products also lost support on that date.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2014
Windows 8.1 Update, which Microsoft showcased at last week's Build conference, begins rolling out to PCs and devices on Wednesday via the Windows Update service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2014
Microsoft's $7 billion acquisition of Nokia's device business has cleared its last major regulatory hurdle.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 08, 2014
Microsoft on Thursday said it is blocking downloads of the recently released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint Server 2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2014
Erwin Visser, general manager of Windows and Windows Phone Commercial Marketing, explained some of the nuances of this week's Build announcements in a phone interview on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2014
An update to Windows Server 2012 R2 became available on Wednesday for MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 03, 2014
Nokia on Wednesday unveiled three new Lumia devices that will run the latest version of Microsoft's smartphone platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 03, 2014
Microsoft gave more details about the first update to Windows 8.1 on Wednesday at its Build conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2014
Microsoft kicked off its Build conference on Wednesday by officially unveiling the first major update to its flagship smartphone platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 02, 2014
Google this week unveiled "Andromeda," the code name for its new software-defined networking (SDN) technology that is powering its internal services.
- By David Ramel
- April 02, 2014
The latest release of Microsoft's database product, SQL Server 2014, became generally available on Tuesday, two weeks after being released to manufacturers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2014
In response to Amazon's recent round of cloud compute and storage price cuts, Microsoft on Monday slashed the rates for its Window Azure -- soon to be Microsoft Azure -- cloud service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 01, 2014
Antoine Leblond, a longtime Microsoft executive who held key roles in the Office and Windows product divisions, is leaving the company on Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 31, 2014