Microsoft's Dynamics partners and customers are set for an eventful December, with the general availability dates of three of the company's Dynamics solutions all falling within weeks of each other.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 06, 2012
Microsoft published a volume licensing "brief" this month that clarifies the product use rights (PUR) of Office 2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 06, 2012
The latest figures from market analyst firm International Data Corp. (IDC) projects growth for the worldwide tablet market at large, but low numbers for devices running Microsoft's Windows platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 06, 2012
A ruling by a U.S. federal court last week effectively halts Motorola's legal efforts to block the sales of certain Microsoft products in Germany and the United States.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 04, 2012
Businesses can now buy Microsoft's on-premises 2013 server products -- including Office 2013 -- via volume licensing agreements.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 04, 2012
Microsoft's Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 product hit the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) mark last week, though it is still unclear when products will be available from OEM partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 03, 2012
Microsoft plans to bring Surface Pro to market sometime in January in two models, differentiated by storage capacity.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 30, 2012
Windows computing device sales so far haven't got much of a push from Windows 8's launch, according to The NPD Group, a consumer marketing firm that covers retail industries.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 30, 2012
Microsoft will release Service Pack 3 for its Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 product in early 2013, the company said on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 29, 2012
Microsoft will roll out the incremental update to Windows Phone 7.5-era phones, dubbed 7.8, early next year, according to Windows Phone Corporate Vice President Terry Myerson.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 29, 2012
Press reports suggest the next Windows client operating system from Microsoft, code-named "Blue," will see daylight sometime in mid-2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 29, 2012
Tami Reller, the new head of Microsoft's Windows division replacing Steven Sinofsky, touted Windows 8's success to financial analysts on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 28, 2012
To help with publishing Exchange 2013, Microsoft is planning update releases for its Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 27, 2012
Microsoft will implement a 15 percent price increase to its User Client Access Licenses (CALs) on Dec. 1, 2012, according to Microsoft's partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 26, 2012
Plano, Texas-based Microsoft hosting partner Layered Tech launched a cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics offering for U.S. government agencies earlier this month.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 26, 2012
Businesses may be slower to adopt Windows 8 than Windows 7, Forrester Research has concluded.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2012
Microsoft this week took the wraps off its roadmap and marketing vision for the upcoming Windows Embedded 8 product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2012
Microsoft completed its acquisition of StorSimple, a provider of of cloud-integrated storage (CIS) appliances, on Thursday, one month after announcing the deal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2012
Amid speculation over the reasons for his unexpected departure from Microsoft this week, Steven Sinofsky, former Windows Division president, has denied that personality clashes were one of them.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2012
Worldwide use of Microsoft's smartphone platform may have grown since last year, but anticipation for Windows Phone 8 may have put a dent in the platform's third-quarter market share.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 15, 2012