Nokia, which early last year made the decision to shift its business model to center on Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system, had its credit rating downgraded on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2012
Microsoft will invest $300 million in a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, which until now has been embroiled in an intellectual property dispute against Microsoft over the past year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2012
Microsoft on Wednesday inked an intellectual property licensing deal with Pegatron Corp. over the Taiwan-based company's use of Android and Chrome software technologies in its products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 25, 2012
Microsoft also announced this week that the "release candidate" of Windows Server 2012 will be publicly available in a close timeframe with the Windows 8 release preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 25, 2012
A recent Microsoft blog providing details about the forthcoming Windows 8 Enterprise edition highlighted the issue of Software Assurance licensing, which seems particularly complicated for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) use.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 25, 2012
Microsoft detailed several major changes to its SkyDrive storage service on Monday, including a reduction in the amount of free storage provided.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2012
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