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
Lync 2013 will have similar load balancing requirements as the previous version of Microsoft's unified communications server, according to an expert with Kemp Technologies, one of 12 Microsoft partners that offer qualified load balancer products for Lync.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 19, 2013
Windows 8 devices, with their built-in security capabilities, could simplify matters for organizations considering bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scenarios, according to Wave Systems Corp., an independent software vendor and board member of the Trusted Computing Group.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 15, 2013
Chief information officers named Microsoft their most indispensable "mega-vendor" in Piper Jaffray's quarterly CIO Survey released to its clients this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 15, 2013
In response to questions about Microsoft's market strategy with Windows 8, Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein repeated the same basic response: The Windows 8 ecosystem is still evolving.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 14, 2013
The third service pack for Exchange 2010, which will enable the older e-mail server to work with some of Microsoft's newer product releases, was released on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 13, 2013
Microsoft has fallen off the top 10 of Harris Interactive's annual survey measuring the reputations of the most visible companies in the United States, while Amazon.com, Apple and Google are among the top five.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 13, 2013
Wednesday, Feb. 13 will be the last day for Microsoft's Mesh file synchronization service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 12, 2013
In a major procedural shift, Exchange 2013 updates will be released as quarterly cumulative updates (CU) starting sometime in this first quarter, Microsoft announced on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 11, 2013