Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 beta last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 24, 2012
Virtualization giant VMware has agreed to purchase Nicira Inc., a provider of software defined networking (SDN) virtualization technology, for $1.26 billion -- the largest and perhaps most significant acquisition by VMware to date.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 24, 2012
Microsoft on Monday outlined some finer points for organizations wanting to test the business intelligence (BI) capabilities available in the SharePoint 2013 and Excel 2013 previews released last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 24, 2012
Microsoft will raise the gold competency membership fee in the Microsoft Partner Network by an undisclosed amount later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 23, 2012
The Metro user interface for the service-enabled version of Office was missing during last week's Microsoft San Francisco event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2012
On the heels of Monday's "customer preview" release of the next version of Office 365, Microsoft this week announced the availability of preview trials of other 2013-branded products, including SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, Office Web Apps Server, Project, Visio and Office Professional Plus.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2012
Microsoft's fiscal fourth quarter report reflected mostly positive news across divisions, although the Windows and Online Services divisions slipped again.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2012
Yammer is now part of Microsoft's Office Division, Microsoft said on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2012
The official release date for Windows 8 will be Oct. 26, 2012, according to a Windows Team blog post on Wednesday.
- By Becky Nagel
- July 19, 2012
Microsoft is facing possible sanctions by the European Commission (EC) for failing to fully abide by its promise to give European users a choice of Web browser with their Windows distributions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 18, 2012
An order issued by a U.S. district court judge on Monday halts Novell's lawsuit against Microsoft over the alleged hobbling of WordPerfect in 1995.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2012
Yahoo has appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer as its new president and CEO, effective Tuesday, the company announced this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 17, 2012
Microsoft on Monday took the wraps off the next version of its Office 365 cloud suite that's based on Office 2013 (previously code-named "Office 15").
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 16, 2012
A selection of new products and announcements from Microsoft's partners at this year's Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 13, 2012
Microsoft made a beta test version of Windows Server 2012 Essentials available for download on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2012
Robert Williams, most recently the senior director of business development for Microsoft's Windows Phone unit, has left Redmond to join Amazon.com.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 12, 2012
Microsoft laid out the details of Windows 8's new "File History" backup-and-restore feature for use with personal files in a blog post on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 11, 2012
Two more companies have entered an agreement with Microsoft to pay it royalties for the rights to use technologies associated with Google's Chrome and Android operating systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 10, 2012
Microsoft is making major changes to the way partners can earn money on the Dynamics suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) products.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2012
Quest Software, one of the largest providers of Microsoft tools, is expanding the Quest Partner Circle (QPC) program to include global partners and service providers.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2012