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
The General Court of the European Union on Wednesday denied Microsoft's appeal over an €899 ($1.3 billion) penalty imposed by the European Commission (EC) because of past anti-competitive practices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 28, 2012
Microsoft on Tuesday gave Tech-Ed Europe attendees a preview of how application management works using the Windows Intune and Windows Azure Active Directory services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2012
Symantec and CA Technologies are the top "leaders" in enterprise client management offerings, while Microsoft was deemed a "strong performer," a recent Forrester study found.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 26, 2012
Microsoft is acquiring enterprise social networking company Yammer Inc. for $1.2 billion in cash, Redmond officials said on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2012
Microsoft executive Greg Sullivan has refuted rumors that Microsoft plans to manufacture its own Windows Phone hardware in an interview with InformationWeek on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2012
Microsoft gave the first preview of its next-generation smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 8 (previously code-named "Apollo"), on Wednesday at the Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 21, 2012
Microsoft partner and major software tools provider Quest Software Inc. will remain independent after months of speculation.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 20, 2012
Microsoft released the second community test preview (CTP2) of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 last week. A beta of SP1 is expected to be released in the second half of this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 18, 2012
Microsoft announced at TechEd last week that it is using the brand name RemoteFX to cover a collection of its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technologies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 18, 2012
Microsoft released new betas for its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) this week, as well as announced that it "will not invest" in its Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) solution for Windows 8.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 14, 2012
Microsoft focused on the basics of Windows 8 during its Day 2 Tech-Ed keynote on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 12, 2012
IT has reached another inflection point beyond the client-server era, said Satya Nadella, Microsoft's president of Server and Tools Business, during Day 1 of Microsoft's Tech-Ed event in Orlando, Fla.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2012
Pittsburg-based Microsoft partner GrapeCity has acquired .NET component and tool vendor ComponentOne, the company announced at a pre-TechEd event in Orlando, Fla. on Sunday.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 10, 2012
Microsoft detailed its vision of a world of connected devices on Wednesday at the Computex event in Taipei, Taiwan.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 07, 2012
Microsoft's smartphone operating systems, Windows Phone and the aging Windows Mobile, will eventually pass Apple's iOS to be the No. 2 most-used smartphone OSes in the world, according to researchers at IDC.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 07, 2012
Microsoft is planning the most significant upgrade yet to its Windows Azure service, giving the cloud platform long-awaited Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities and support for Linux instances.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 07, 2012
The "release preview" of Windows 8 and the "release candidate" (RC) of Windows Server 2012 were made available for download on Thursday by Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2012