Microsoft's beleaguered Windows Phone platform continues to lose ground to the major smartphone OSes, but at a less precipitous rate than in previous quarters, according to the latest market share figures from Gartner.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 15, 2011
Bharat Shyam, an 18-year Microsoft veteran, has been named the new chief information officer (CIO) for the state of Washington.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 15, 2011
Microsoft issued a release candidate (RC) version of its System Center Operations Manager 2012 solution last Thursday; it's available for download here.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2011
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have entered a publisher partnership deal to cross-sell their inventories as part of a collaboration on Web-based display ads.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2011
Adobe is phasing out its browser-based Flash Player for mobile devices, and is planning to cut 750 jobs as part of a financial restructuring, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2011
Charles Di Bona, general manager of Microsoft's Server and Tools Division, offered some perspective on Microsoft's cloud vision on Monday at the CLSA Asia USA Forum for investors in San Francisco.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2011
According to an interview on the Web site Boy Genius Report (BGR), the former vice president of Samsung's Consumer & Enterprise Services division, Gavin Kim, is moving to Microsoft to become the general manager of the Windows Phone division.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 08, 2011
Microsoft recently shared the details of the licensing model for its up-and-coming relational database management system, SQL Server 2012 (previously code-named "Denali").
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 07, 2011
Less than two weeks after participating in Nokia's hotly anticipated unveiling in London of Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango"-based devices for international markets, Microsoft was in New York Monday to launch several devices with AT&T in the United States.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 07, 2011
Nearly a decade after it acquired Geek Squad, consumer tech retailer Best Buy has agreed to buy IT outsourcer and cloud provider mindSHIFT Technologies for $167 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 07, 2011
Dell has released a bundle targeted at small businesses that includes Microsoft's Small Business Server (SBS) Essentials 2011 running on an entry-level PowerEdge system.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 07, 2011
According to a report published Friday by The Wall Street Journal, Google has entered an agreement with General Motors Corp. to provide its cloud-based Google Apps suite to more than 100,000 of the automaker's employees.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 04, 2011
It's no secret that Microsoft is encouraging partners to offer its cloud computing services, but the company may ultimately step that up to a requirement.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 02, 2011
With its first two Master VARs named, Microsoft is cracking down on a so-called buying group that sprung up in response to the recent changes for Microsoft partners focused on the business application/Dynamics side of Microsoft's product portfolio.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 02, 2011
Microsoft recently released the third and, probably, last service pack for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 31, 2011
Microsoft has landed the top spot on this year's "Top 25 World's Best Multinational Workplaces List."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 30, 2011
Some of Microsoft's System Center 2012 management applications got fresh test versions this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 28, 2011
The Windows Phone 7.5 release is chock full of business-friendly functionality.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 28, 2011
The company announced its decision on Thursday, fulfilling a promise by President and CEO Meg Whitman, who said the company would complete its evaluation of whether to keep its PC business by the end of this month.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 27, 2011
Smartphone manufacturer Research In Motion on Tuesday announced an open beta trial for a new BlackBerry service that works with Microsoft Office 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 26, 2011