Microsoft has received approval from the U.S. government to proceed with its $8.5 billion purchase of Skype, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission indicated on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 20, 2011
Veteran Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley noticed the name change on Thursday, when she discovered that the official bio of Microsoft executive Andy Lees now describes him as president of the Windows Phone Division.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 17, 2011
Microsoft has made available the release candidate (RC) of the Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector add-in, which allows Windows Phone 7 users to remotely manage and access Windows home and small business servers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2011
According to a post on the Microsoft Office Blog, businesses are currently adopting Office 2010 five times faster than they did Office 2007.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2011
According to a study commissioned by Seattle-based Azaleos Corp., one of Microsoft's top Gold Certified Partners, midsized and large businesses remain reluctant to adopt unified communications (UC) services over a public cloud.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 15, 2011
Market research firm Gartner has lowered its 2011 forecast for PC shipment growth due to shifts in consumer spending and the rising popularity of other portable computing devices, such as tablets.
- By David Nagel
- June 14, 2011
Users of the aging Windows Mobile 6 operating system will soon be transitioned to Microsoft's Windows Live SkyDrive storage service, Microsoft announced last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 13, 2011
On Thursday, eight justices in the U.S. Supreme Court denied Microsoft's appeal in the long-running patent infringement case involving Toronto-based i4i LLP.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2011
Microsoft's Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) product has reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage, the company announced Tuesday. The solution is expected to become generally available on July 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2011
Microsoft acquired Pleasanton, Calif.-based Prodiance Corp., which provides enterprise risk management products, on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2011
Fujitsu will offer commercial cloud services using Microsoft's Windows Azure platform beginning in August, according to a joint announcement from the companies on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 07, 2011
Does Microsoft's planned acquisition of Skype pose a threat to Cisco's leadership in the unified communications (UC) space? Analysts say it depends.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 07, 2011
Microsoft is making headway in its patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola pertaining to the Android mobile operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 06, 2011
Microsoft partner executive announces release date for the successor to BPOS, which adds Office integration.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 03, 2011
Microsoft showed off "Windows 8," the codename for its newest operating system, on Wednesday evening at the D9 Conference, which took place this week in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 02, 2011
Windows 7 ended May with 33.22 percent of the global operating system market, according to data collected by StatCounter.
- By Chris Paoli
- June 02, 2011
As part of Microsoft's free Solution Accelerator series, the company released two toolkit betas this week for Windows-based deployment and migration planning.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 02, 2011
Microsoft's opening keynote presentation on Wednesday at the Computex show in Taipei gave a decidedly rosy picture for its hardware partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2011
A recent Forrester Research report suggests Microsoft may soon require its business customers to pay Software Assurance (SA) licensing fees.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2011
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 won't become available until August, but the city of Redmond, Wash. -- also home to Microsoft's headquarters -- will begin implementing the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in July.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 30, 2011