Phil Sorgen will replace Jon Roskill as the corporate vice president of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group on Sept. 1, Microsoft announced Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2013
The acquisition of Axceler's primary assets by Metalogix brings creates one of the largest independent ISVs focused on Microsoft's SharePoint platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 29, 2013
The forthcoming Windows Server 2012 R2 product has been released to manufacturers (RTM), Microsoft said on Tuesday, just days after Windows 8.1 also reached RTM.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 27, 2013
Virtualization giant VMware has tapped former Microsoft chief information officer Tony Scott to be a senior vice president and its new CIO.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 27, 2013
Windows 8.1, the update to Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, has been released to manufacturers, according to reports from sources.
- By Chris Paoli
- August 26, 2013
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer stunned the business world and tech industry on Friday morning, announcing he will retire within the next 12 months.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 23, 2013
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