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
Portions of an exploit code that appeared in the wild last Thursday may have been leaked by a Microsoft security partner, Microsoft said recently.
- By Chris Paoli
- March 19, 2012
Microsoft is slashing the prices of many of its Office 365 plans by about 20 percent effective immediately, the company said this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 16, 2012
Microsoft revealed more details about Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 this week, but much of the reaction has been skeptical.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 16, 2012
Market research firm Gartner projects weak growth in worldwide PC shipments in 2012, but predicts a stronger showing in 2013 due to rising interest in "ultrabooks" and Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system.
- By Leila Meyer
- March 15, 2012
Browser makers face an unfamiliar hurdle with Windows 8, but both Mozilla and Google said they are building browsers that will work with the new operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 15, 2012
Two components of Microsoft's System Center 2012 suite, Virtual Machine Manager and Data Protection Manager, were released late last week as community technology previews (CTPs) that are specifically designed to work with the new Windows Server 8 beta.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 13, 2012
A consortium of companies that includes Microsoft and Apple has been cleared to start receiving royalties from the assets it purchased last year from the former Nortel Networks Corp.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 13, 2012
Microsoft rolled out an online backup service for the Windows Server 8 beta late last month, though not everyone can try it out.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2012
Windows Mobile Marketplace, the online app store for Microsoft's aging Windows Mobile smartphone OS, will be shut down in two months.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 09, 2012
Microsoft this week launched a community test preview (CTP) of Windows Embedded Standard 8, which is based on the forthcoming Windows 8 operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 07, 2012