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
Telecommunications giant AT&T is now offering Microsoft's Office 365 cloud productivity suite to small and midsize businesses (SMBs).
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2012
Just as the launch of Windows 8 last month was Microsoft's effort to "reimagine" Windows, the company is taking a similar tack with SharePoint 2013.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 14, 2012
Hewlett-Packard Co. has won a five-year, $36 million contract to transition the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to Office 365 for Government, Microsoft's cloud productivity suite for public-sector agencies.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 14, 2012
Andy Lees, previously the president of Microsoft's Windows Phone Division, officially has a new title: head of corporate development and strategy.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 14, 2012
A "release preview" version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is now available for download, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2012
Slated improvements to Windows Azure are designed for organizations engaged in high-performance computing (HPC) analyses, Microsoft announced Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 13, 2012
Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live group, and widely considered a possible successor to CEO Steve Ballmer, has unexpectedly left the company.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 13, 2012
Enhancing its existing enterprise offerings, Verizon on Thursday released a new unified communications management service for large enterprises in conjunction with Microsoft Lync Server 2010.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2012
The beta test version of Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2013 became available on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2012
The first new service pack for SQL Server 2012 is now available, Microsoft announced on Wednesday at the annual PASS summit event being held this week in Seattle.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2012
Microsoft's Skype team opened its online networking platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to the public on Thursday.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 08, 2012
Microsoft is shuttering its Messenger instant-messaging service in favor of Skype's voice-over-IP service, the company announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 07, 2012
The Q4 service update to Dynamics CRM Online will be rolled out in mid-December, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 02, 2012
Microsoft made Windows Server 2012 Essentials, its new server for small businesses and home office users, generally available as a software download on Thursday, but the hardware is still to come.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2012
Microsoft appears to have officially changed the "Metro" term for the user interface (UI) and app style for Windows 8 to a new "Windows Store app."
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2012
Volume licensing customers can now access Microsoft Office 2013, plus various application servers with the "2013" branding, according to a report by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2012
"The new Office" will be arriving preinstalled on all Windows Phone 8 devices, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 31, 2012