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
Windows 8 will be released to manufacturing (RTM) in the first week of August and be generally available in October.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2012
Microsoft is acquiring Perceptive Pixel Inc., a provider of large-scale, multi-touch technology, for an undisclosed amount.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 09, 2012
Microsoft for the first time will allow its broad base of partners to handle customer billing for the Office 365 suite, addressing what has been the single biggest controversy in the Microsoft channel for the last few years.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2012
Microsoft on Thursday revealed that Windows Server 2012, currently available as a release candidate, will have only four editions: Datacenter, Standard, Essentials and Foundation.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 05, 2012
Those running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 will be able to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99, Microsoft said on Monday in a blog post.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 03, 2012