A "preview" version of the Internet Explorer 10 browser supported on Windows 7 will be released next month, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 17, 2012
Microsoft is now taking advance orders for its Windows RT-based Surface "tablet PC," the company announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2012
Various retail outlets including Microsoft Stores, Amazon.com and Best Buy are now offering preorders of Windows 8 Pro for x86/x64 upgrade copies, Microsoft announced on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2012
Microsoft's next-generation Office solutions and other "2013"-branded products have reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2012
A cumulative update for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 is now available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 12, 2012
Though Microsoft is better known as a software company, CEO Steve Ballmer said Redmond now sees itself as a "devices and services company."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 11, 2012
Windows Server 2012 Essentials was released to Microsoft's hardware manufacturing partners on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2012
No good can come from the default "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting in Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 10 browser, according to the Association of National Advertisers (ANA).
- By Gladys Rama
- October 05, 2012
Confirming earlier rumors, Microsoft will officially launch Windows Phone 8 on Oct. 29 in San Francisco.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 05, 2012
Microsoft is acquiring PhoneFactor, a provider of mobile-based authentication solutions, the two companies announced on Thursday.
- By Chris Paoli
- October 04, 2012
Consulting firm Software Licensing Advisors is once again reporting that organizations may face "stealth" price increases when they renew their Microsoft Enterprise Agreements (EAs).
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 04, 2012
Microsoft this week named Steven Guggenheimer the corporate vice president of its Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) division.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 04, 2012
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's review of the "release preview" version of Windows 8 is largely favorable -- but also critical.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 03, 2012
Apple and Google are now ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, among technology companies in terms of market capitalization, according to financial assessments on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 02, 2012
Just one week after being released to manufacturing, Dynamics NAV 2013, Microsoft's enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and medium-sized businesses, is now generally available.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 02, 2012
Windows Azure subscribers will now receive discounts based on their monthly financial commitments, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 29, 2012
Microsoft opened two retail stores in the suburbs of New York City on Friday, bringing the total number of locations up to 25.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 28, 2012
Windows Server 2008 will start its "extended support" phase on Jan. 15, 2015 after getting a 1.5-year extension to its lifecycle support, Microsoft announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 28, 2012
The solution to Windows XP's approaching end-of-life isn't forgoing Windows 7 for Windows 8, according to a presentation by research firm Gartner on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 27, 2012
The third service pack (SP3) for Exchange 2010 is scheduled to arrive in "the first half of calendar year 2013" and will enable it to run on Windows Server 2012, Microsoft said in a blog post this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 27, 2012