The rumored Windows "Blue" might be a wave of frequently issued updates to various Microsoft products, instead of just a new flagship operating system, according to a press report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 08, 2013
In preparation for Saturday's launch of the Surface Pro tablet, Microsoft's Surface team on Wednesday fielded questions about the device in a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) session.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 07, 2013
Microsoft's next-generation Office products will reach general availability in March, the company said.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 07, 2013
One of the worst-kept rumors on Wall Street affecting the IT industry in recent weeks became official on Tuesday morning, as private equity firm Silver Lake Partners agreed to acquire Dell Inc. in a deal the company values at approximately $24.3 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 05, 2013
Parallels on Tuesday unveiled an overhaul of its channel-focused platform for delivering cloud-based services to SMB customers.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 05, 2013
Microsoft recently released an update to Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 3 that delivers several fixes to the productivity suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 04, 2013
Acme Packet, one of Microsoft's key Lync ecosystem partners, is being acquired by Oracle for $2.1 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 04, 2013
Echoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's declaration in October that Microsoft is now a "devices and services company," a newly published report indicates that Microsoft's product strategy for 2013 will be focused on tablets and cloud-enabled software.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 04, 2013
Microsoft lowered Windows Azure price decrease last week for its SQL Reporting Services, which is used for business intelligence-type applications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 03, 2013
Microsoft began issuing the Windows Phone 7.8 update for older Windows Phone 7.5-era devices to users this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 01, 2013
Technology giants Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft were ranked among the top 20 companies U.S. consumers trust most with their privacy in a study published this week by research firm Ponemon Institute.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 31, 2013
Microsoft's Surface RT tablet has made few inroads in the months since its release, according to data from IDC announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 31, 2013
Windows Phone users will have until July 31 to access Google Apps features that use Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync technology, according to Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 30, 2013
Microsoft released the consumer, student and small-business editions of its next-generation Office 365 products on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2013
Despite reporting rising revenues in its latest earnings report, cloud and virtualization giant VMware announced on Monday that it would be implementing companywide layoffs.
- By Michael Domingo
- January 29, 2013
Service Pack 1 for Microsoft's Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM 2010 R2) product was released earlier this month to Microsoft's volume licensing and professional services subscribers, such as TechNet and MSDN members, according to a Microsoft blog post.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2013
Intel's business unit that makes desktop motherboards will begin winding down its operations over a three-year period, according to information given to the press this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 25, 2013
Microsoft reported $21.5 billion in revenue for its second fiscal quarter on Thursday, part of a largely upbeat earnings report for the company.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 25, 2013
For those still on the fence about upgrading to Windows 8, Jan. 31 is when Microsoft's upgrade promotional offers will end for the two Windows 8 editions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 24, 2013
A new book from a former Microsoft executive describes how Microsoft's Windows 95 product push later led to antitrust problems with the U.S. Department of Justice.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 23, 2013