Microsoft recently added some monitoring improvements, including new alerts, to its cloud-based Windows Azure services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 21, 2014
The next iteration of Microsoft's Kinect camera is on pace to arrive for Windows this summer, confirmed a Microsoft executive at last week's National Retail Federation show in New York.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 21, 2014
Microsoft's Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HRM) disaster recovery service is now generally available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 17, 2014
Microsoft will continue to provide some form of anti-malware support for Windows XP even after the OS hits the end of its product lifecycle on April 8, 2014, the company said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 16, 2014
Microsoft will begin to phase out the preview version of its Windows 8.1 operating system starting on Wednesday, Jan. 15.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 14, 2014
Hosting service provider GoDaddy and Microsoft have entered a deal to offer Microsoft's Office 365-branded hosted e-mail services to small businesses, the two companies announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 13, 2014
Microsoft's rumored "Threshold" update for Windows will be called "Windows 9" and appear in April 2015, according to a report by Supersite for Windows' Paul Thurrott.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 13, 2014
Microsoft outlined several new features coming in Dynamics for Retail on Monday at the National Retail Federation's Annual Convention & Expo, taking place this week in New York.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 13, 2014
Worldwide PC shipments in 2013 were down by 10 percent from 2012 -- a "record drop" for the market, according to preliminary data released on Thursday by IDC.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 10, 2014
For organizations contemplating a jump from Windows XP to Windows 8.1, Microsoft is offering a configuration "workaround" to its latest deployment toolkit.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 10, 2014
Microsoft is acquiring Parature, a provider of cloud-based customer service solutions for organizations, for an undisclosed amount.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 07, 2014
Microsoft recently posted the pricing details for Power BI, its suite of solutions designed make it easy for Excel users to create visualizations from collections of data.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 07, 2014
Microsoft recently gave more details about its emerging Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) licensing plan, which it briefly described in November.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 06, 2014
A licensing expert recently gave advice on Microsoft's new SQL Server 2012 licensing, which can come with some costly pitfalls.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 23, 2013
Microsoft has named Jim DuBois its new chief information officer (CIO), the company announced on Friday.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 20, 2013
It is now possible to switch Office 365 plans across "product family" offerings, Microsoft announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 20, 2013
Microsoft's search for a successor to outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer is not likely to conclude before the new year, the company said this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 18, 2013
Microsoft will stop selling its Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) product on July 1, 2014, the company said in a blog post Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 18, 2013
Microsoft will unveil the next major update to its Windows Phone 8 smartphone platform next April, according to a report from The Verge on Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 17, 2013
Microsoft's Kurt DelBene has been appointed to take over the much-maligned HealthCare.gov Web site, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 17, 2013