Microsoft would not comment on a report that states the company is planning to allow customers to host Linux servers on its Windows Azure cloud service this year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 03, 2012
Microsoft has lost the bid to provide cloud-based e-mail and calendaring services to the University of California, Berkeley, which announced this week that it has chosen Google Apps for Education over Microsoft's Office 365 suite.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 23, 2011
Microsoft is pulling out of the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) after the next conference, scheduled for January 2012.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 21, 2011
Oracle's surprising revenue and earnings miss have stirred some fears that IT spending may be in for a rough ride in 2012. However, others say it's too early to tell whether such concerns are valid.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 21, 2011
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According to consulting firm Directions on Microsoft, organizations assessing the Enterprise Agreement (EA) licensing changes that Microsoft issued in July will face no big surprises.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2011
Gartner analysts say that while the three companies are different, they are competing in the same battlegrounds: social networking, portals and collaboration, mobile device operating systems, the Internet cloud and e-mail.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2011
Microsoft on Tuesday made its consumer-oriented SkyDrive cloud storage service available for Windows Phone-based devices and, somewhat surprisingly, for Apple mobile devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 2011
Microsoft's Windows Phone Division has a new leader, the company announced on Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 13, 2011
Microsoft made the final version of Silverlight 5 available via download on Friday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- December 12, 2011
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is planning a future R2 product release of BizTalk Server 2010, but did not reveal an exact release date.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 09, 2011
A beta of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system will be released in late February, a Microsoft official confirmed on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2011
Besides revealing the approximate release date of the Windows 8 beta, Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled details about its forthcoming online store for selling Windows 8 Metro-style applications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2011
Analyst firm IDC forecasts a less-than-stellar showing for Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, expected to be rolled out in 2012.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 06, 2011
Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2010, which includes update rollups since SP1 and a few requested items, was released on Sunday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 05, 2011
A report by longtime Microsoft observer Mary Jo Foley suggests that Microsoft may be rethinking its plan to support both "Metro-style" and legacy "Desktop" applications on ARM-based Windows 8 tablets.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 02, 2011
According to two separate reports, Microsoft could release a beta of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system in "late January" or "late February."
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 02, 2011
Parallels announced Thursday the addition of three senior executives, including a Microsoft technical fellow, to support the cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization company's global growth goals.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2011