While consumers in droves are buying Apple iPads, enterprises in all sectors are embracing the tablets, as well.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 24, 2012
Two months after being released as a beta, the Skype for Windows Phone app is now available as a final version.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 23, 2012
Microsoft and Facebook have inked a deal in which the social networking giant will pay Microsoft $550 million in cash for patents recently purchased from AOL.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 23, 2012
Microsoft's financial report for the third quarter of fiscal-year 2012 was positive, despite a poor showing from its its Entertainment and Devices Division.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 20, 2012
When Microsoft rolls out the Small Business competency next month, partners will find a program that is more expensive to join than the popular Small Business Specialist Community (SBSC), but also far more loaded with benefits and focused on cloud.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 20, 2012
Windows RT, the version of Windows 8 for ARM-based devices, can be used for both personal and business purposes, even while organizational control is maintained over application access, Microsoft explained on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2012
Microsoft kicked off the second day of the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) on Wednesday by laying out its vision for connected devices and the "consumerization of IT."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 18, 2012
Microsoft revealed the upcoming editions of Windows 8, both for x86/x64 machines and ARM devices, on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2012
The forthcoming product code-named "Windows Server 8" now has the official name of "Windows Server 2012," Microsoft announced on Tuesday at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2012
Gavin Kim, a former Samsung vice president who joined Microsoft in November as general manager of Windows Phone Product Marketing, left the company last week.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 17, 2012
A few clues about Microsoft's product roadmap for this year and the next were unearthed recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 16, 2012
A U.S. District Court on Wednesday gave Microsoft a temporary reprieve in its intellectual property dispute with Motorola.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2012
The fight between Microsoft and OnLive over how the cloud gaming company was licensing Windows 7 to provide virtual desktop infrastructure services seems to be over.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2012
Mainstream support for Windows Vista ends Tuesday, according to Microsoft's Vista lifecycle chart.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2012
Microsoft intends to buy more than 800 patents from AOL Inc. for $1.056 billion in cash, the two companies announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2012
Windows Azure, Microsoft's Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud-based operating system, now has datacenters servicing both U.S. East and West regions, Microsoft announced last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2012
Dell raised a few questions among virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) analysts this week with its announcement that it plans to acquire Wyse Technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2012
Microsoft on Wednesday released the beta versions of two virtualization tools that will become part of its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 05, 2012
Microsoft placed at No. 17 among companies that have contributed the most toward developing the Linux OS's kernel.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2012
SQL Server 2012 is now generally available, which means it's a purchasable final product, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2012