Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie has been tapped to replace Satya Nadella as the head of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group, according to a report by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 05, 2014
Office 365 users can now take advantage of Microsoft's Access apps, which reached general availability on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 05, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday officially appointed Satya Nadella to be its third CEO, ending the almost six-month search for a replacement for outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 04, 2014
Microsoft and some of its hardware partners on Tuesday unveiled a plan to offer discounted Windows-based devices for U.S. schools.
- By David Nagel
- February 04, 2014
Microsoft is planning to add an "enterprise mode" feature to its Internet Explorer 11 browser, according to a report Monday from ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 03, 2014
Microsoft's Windows Azure Cloud Services and Windows Server 2012 R2 products are getting several high-performance computing (HPC) enhancements this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 31, 2014
The search for Microsoft's next CEO may end as soon as next week, with the title likely going to someone within the company, according to a report Thursday by Re/code's Kara Swisher.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 30, 2014
In response to customer concerns over government surveillance programs, Microsoft is planning to give cloud customers outside the United States the option to store their data in offshore datacenters.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 30, 2014
An update to Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud-based device management service will begin rolling out to subscribers sometime next week, Microsoft said Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2014
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has agreed to grant communications service providers a bit more leeway in disclosing information about secret information disclosure orders from federal agencies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 28, 2014
As part of the terms of its settlement with the British Sky Broadcasting Group over a trademark infringement dispute, Microsoft said on Monday it is finally renaming its SkyDrive cloud storage service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 2014
In an effort to match prices set by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft said last week it will lower the cost of Windows Azure storage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2014
A report on Friday by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley suggests Update 1 for Windows 8.1 will become generally available on March 11.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 24, 2014
Microsoft's earnings report for the second quarter of fiscal-year 2014 reflected positive results, with overall revenue at $24.5 billion for the period.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 23, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday addressed misgivings from administrators over how much control they have over the Office 365 ProPlus update process.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2014
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