With the Worldwide Partner Conference just around the corner, here are six topics Microsoft-watchers will be especially on the lookout for.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 08, 2011
Office XP will lose its extended lifecycle support next Tuesday, July 12, one Microsoft blog warned. Also on July 12, support for Vista SP1 will expire, according to another blog.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 08, 2011
Microsoft has updated its SkyDrive product to include improved document-collaboration capabilities in the Word Web App service, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 08, 2011
Microsoft made Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials generally available last Tuesday. The server can now be purchased through Microsoft's volume licensing channels or from OEMs and retail outlets.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 07, 2011
Microsoft has inked yet another intellectual property (IP) deal relating to the use of the open source Android mobile OS.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 06, 2011
In an effort to become more transparent about its data-collection practices for enabling location-based services, Microsoft has released the source code it uses to gather Wi-Fi, GPS and cell tower information via Windows Phone 7.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 05, 2011
Microsoft has pulled the plug on Hohm, its free consumer home power-monitoring service, because according to one of the product's developers, "it didn't fit into the Windows Embedded business model."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 05, 2011
According to a recent report from market research firm IDC, IT spending in the United States is expected to grow by 5.6 percent in 2011, nearly double the expected 3 percent growth in GDP.
- By David Nagel
- July 04, 2011
A consortium of companies that includes Microsoft, Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Research In Motion and Sony has purchased Nortel's patent assets in an auction for $4.5 billion in cash, Nortel announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2011
On the heels of Monday's licensing agreement with General Dynamics Itronix, Microsoft has inked two more intellectual property (IP) licensing deals relating to use of the Android mobile OS.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2011
Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) is now available for download by Microsoft partners with silver and gold competencies in desktop and virtualization specialties.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2011
With effort, a little prodding and help from peers, Jamison West took a "one-man band" to a 30-person firm. His company, JWCS, acquired two other Seattle companies in the last year and relaunched July 1 as Arterian.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2011
Amazon Web Services announced a new pricing plan today for all its cloud services, including its CloudFront content delivery network.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 30, 2011
Microsoft released the beta of "Mango," the next version of the company's mobile OS, to Windows Phone 7 developers on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2011
Microsoft's Office 365 is now officially available in 40 markets globally, the company announced today at a launch event in New York.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 28, 2011
Amid the buzz over Office 365's launch, Microsoft also released the first service packs (SP1) for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 28, 2011
Microsoft has scored another legal win against the Linux-based Android mobile OS, announcing on Monday that it has entered a deal with General Dynamics Itronix.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2011
Google announced on Friday that it is being investigated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for possible antitrust or breach of consumer protection issues.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 24, 2011
Enterhost, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Fort Worth, Texas, recently rolled out four new cloud services based around Microsoft's cloud platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 24, 2011
This week, Wyoming became the first state to "go Google," according to its state governor's office. Specifically, all 10,000 of the state's employees have moved to Google Apps for Government.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2011