Microsoft recently became the first cloud service provider to pass a Service Organizations Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit conducted by Deloitte & Touche, a new security compliance audit recommended by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2013
Microsoft this week verified that it has been rolling out the so-called "GDR2" update to Windows Phone 8 users over the past few weeks.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 22, 2013
Microsoft this week released the Windows PowerShell Module for Lync Online, which enables remote management of Microsoft's hosted Lync unified messaging solution offered through Office 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2013
Microsoft is cooperating with the U.S. government in its investigation into allegations that Microsoft business partners in several countries engaged in bribery to win contracts, the company said Wednesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 22, 2013
The first major update to Windows Embedded 8 Industry, the latest version of Microsoft's embedded operating system for intelligent devices, will reach original equipment manufacturers on Oct. 18.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 21, 2013
Paris-based Arkoon Network Security will launch a product this fall that will give organizations running Windows XP the kind of patch support that Microsoft will discontinue after the operating system loses support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2013
Microsoft's Windows Azure-based disaster recovery solution for private clouds is now available as a limited public preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 19, 2013
Microsoft recently warned organizations against continuing to use Windows XP after its "extended support" phase ends on April 8, 2014.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 19, 2013
Microsoft published a new version of its YouTube app for Windows Phone this week, but for the second time, Google -- which owns YouTube -- has blocked it.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 15, 2013
Microsoft on Thursday pressed ahead with efforts to expand sales of its struggling Microsoft Surface PC hardware line through the channel.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 15, 2013
Microsoft has made it official: The next wave of Windows client and datacenter products will all be released on Oct. 18.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 14, 2013
Microsoft updated several versions of its Exchange Server product on Tuesday, but later pulled the parts of the release related to Exchange 2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 14, 2013
A securities litigation firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over Surface RT sales disclosures.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 13, 2013
Microsoft on Monday unveiled five new improvements to its Windows Azure cloud platform, including SQL Server AlwaysOn support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 13, 2013
For organizations heavily focused on its cloud, server and management technologies, Microsoft is planning to roll out a new Enterprise Agreement license option called "Server and Cloud Enrollment" (SCE).
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 13, 2013
Two editions of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Server 2012 R2 product will come with price increases, according to recently released Microsoft documentation.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 12, 2013
Top executives from Acer Inc. and ASUSTek Computer Inc. said this week that their companies are planning to scale down production of some of their Windows-based hardware.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 09, 2013
Microsoft will now publicly disclose the availability statistics for its cloud-based Office 365 service, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2013
Despite struggling with its Surface line of tablets, a recent CNET report suggests Microsoft is plowing ahead with developing the Surface 2.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2013
A life insurance company in Japan is rolling out one of the largest known deployments of Windows 8-based tablets.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 07, 2013