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
Putting to rest months of back-and-forth bidding against private equity vendors, Dell Inc. on Monday entered an agreement to acquire Quest Software Inc. for $2.4 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 02, 2012
Steven Guggenheimer, who has served as corporate vice president of Microsoft's original equipment manufacturing (OEM) division for four years, is leaving his position for a new role within the company, Bloomberg reported on Saturday.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 01, 2012
A number of Windows 8-dedicated devices made their debut at the huge Asian computer show, Computex, in June.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2012
Windows shops may find licensing for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scenarios somewhat perplexing due to the architecture used to access Microsoft's servers, according to Rob Horwitz, research chair at Directions on Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2012
Office 365 hit its one-year anniversary on Wednesday, an occasion Microsoft marked by launching a free Education edition as well as announcing a schedule for Live@edu migrations starting this summer.
- By David Nagel, Gladys Rama
- June 28, 2012
The Windows Phone update code-named "Tango" began rolling out to Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 devices on Wednesday, according to a blog post on Nokia's Conversations blog.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 28, 2012