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
Microsoft System Center 2012 was released to volume licensing customers on April 1, according to a report Monday by Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2012
More expected dates for Windows 8's release cycle were leaked on Friday by financial news Web site Dividend.com.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 30, 2012
Shipments of Wintel PCs will experience a marked slowdown through 2016, according to the latest research projections by IDC.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2012
A study commissioned by Azaleos Corp., a Microsoft National Systems Integrator (NSI) partner, has found that Microsoft's public cloud Office 365 offerings are not always cheaper than other Microsoft-stack approaches.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2012
Windows Home Server (WHS) users can connect with the Windows 8 "consumer preview" beta, Microsoft said this week -- with a few conditions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2012
Some upcoming Windows 8 tablets will feature screen displays that are near Apple iPad quality, Microsoft said last week in a "Building Windows 8" blog post.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 26, 2012
Big Blue's new CEO hails new era of computing based on intelligent systems that can crunch Big Data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 26, 2012
Escorted by U.S. Marshals, Microsoft and some of its key partners in the financial services and IT security industry on Friday raided two key sites of the operations spreading the Zeus family of malware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 25, 2012
SQL Server 2012 is expected to become generally available on April 1, but licensing price details for the product are just beginning to take shape.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2012
Microsoft marked its entrance into the Chinese smartphone market this week by unveiling a new device from HTC running Windows Phone 7.5 "Tango."
- By Gladys Rama
- March 22, 2012
Devices running Windows 8 will become available in October, with a partner-focused event taking place in early April, according to a Bloomberg report published Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 21, 2012
The PC will no longer be the primary digital device for most users by 2014, according to a new report from research firm Gartner.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- March 21, 2012
Microsoft on Monday named Thom Gruhler as the new corporate vice president of Windows Phone Marketing.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 20, 2012
Former Yahoo chief scientist Raghu Ramakrishnan has joined Microsoft as a Technical Fellow within the Server and Tools Business (STB), Redmond announced this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 20, 2012