Microsoft is now offering its System Center Advisor product free of charge and without the Software Assurance coverage requirement, the company announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 07, 2013
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a revised policy that would lift the transfer restriction on Office 2013 retail perpetual licenses.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 07, 2013
Global PC shipments will contract in 2013 for the second straight year, according to market research firm IDC.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 06, 2013
Microsoft has acquired Seattle-based cloud performance management company MetricsHub for an undisclosed amount, the two companies announced on Tuesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 05, 2013
Microsoft on Monday released its Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant tool, designed to guide organizations through the process of migrating to Microsoft's next-generation e-mail server.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2013
Microsoft has made some management improvements to Windows Azure, on the heels of adding federation capabilities between Windows Azure and Windows Server.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2013
K2's recent marketing video shows that extraordinary marketing messages don't require a big staff or huge budgets -- but they do require commitment, creative thinking and perseverance.
- By Barb Levisay
- March 04, 2013
Enterprise social networking application Yammer, which Microsoft acquired last year for $1.2 billion, will get translation capabilities by "late spring," Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 01, 2013
Microsoft has joined cloud computing advocacy group Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) as a "contributor," the organization announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 28, 2013
Microsoft rounded out its Office 365-branded products on Wednesday with the launch of three new editions of the productivity suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 27, 2013
Thursday will be the last day to get and use a promotional code entitling consumers to a discount on upgrading a new Windows 7 PC to Windows 8 Pro, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2013
VMware has overhauled its Partner Competency program, as well as added new revenue-generating incentives for solution providers selling cloud services, the company announced at this week's VMware Partner Exchange Conference in Las Vegas.
- By Michael Domingo
- February 26, 2013
Microsoft made Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 available for download on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2013
Seven months after announcing that partners would soon be able to handle customer billing for the Office 365 suite, Microsoft will officially start the program tomorrow.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 26, 2013
Service was restored to Microsoft's Windows Azure storage on Saturday, after an expired SSL certificate left customers unable to access their data beginning Friday afternoon.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 25, 2013
Consumers and small business users who purchase Office 2013 are permitted just "one installation" under the new suite's licensing plan, Microsoft explained this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 21, 2013
The third service pack (SP3) for Microsoft's Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG 2010) product became available for download this week, bringing support for newer Microsoft client and server solutions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 21, 2013
Eight months after being acquired by Microsoft, enterprise social networking company Yammer is apparently doing fine.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 20, 2013
Microsoft's opening keynote talk at its Lync 2013 Conference in San Diego on Tuesday featured a few firsts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 20, 2013
The Windows 8 refresh code-named Windows "Blue" has just completed its first milestone build (M1), according to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
- By Chris Paoli
- February 19, 2013