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
The community evaluation program (CEP) for Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM 2012) beta began accepting signups on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 26, 2011
Private equity firm Oak Hill Partners on Thursday said it acquired Exchange hoster Intermedia for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 26, 2011
In a launch event on Tuesday, Microsoft executives confirmed an earlier announcement that Windows Phone "Mango," which will include 500 new features, will be released in the fall.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 25, 2011
Microsoft is appealing a $1.3 billion (899 million Euros) penalty issued by the European Commission (EC) in 2008 over a 2004 Windows antitrust case.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 25, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about the company's next-generation operating system on Monday in Japan, even going so far as to call it "Windows 8."
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 24, 2011
Microsoft recently detailed the licensing scheme for Windows MultiPoint Server, the company's shared resource computing solution for labs, schools and small businesses.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 24, 2011
Devices based on Google's Android were the highest-selling mobile devices in the first quarter of 2011, according to figures released by Gartner on Thursday.
- By Chris Paoli
- May 22, 2011
Microsoft's Tech-Ed 2011 conference, which took place in Atlanta this year, just wrapped up. Here's a handy roundup of all of this week's conference news and analysis from our editors.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 20, 2011
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has revamped its TrueNorth Partner Program to include four new specializations, the company announced this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 19, 2011
In the latest public-sector cloud win for Microsoft, the city of San Francisco has chosen to migrate 60 departments and agencies to Microsoft Exchange Online over the next 12 months.
- By John Moore
- May 19, 2011
Service pack 2 (SP2) of Exchange 2010 will be released sometime in the second half of 2011, Microsoft revealed at its Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 18, 2011
According to a new Forrester Research report, while IT organizations are increasingly considering alternatives to Microsoft Office, Microsoft's productivity suite still faces no real competition.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 18, 2011
There are broad-based products and there are niche products, but Kemp Technologies' latest product, unveiled this week at Tech-Ed, is a product that's aiming for a niche within a niche.
- By Lee Pender
- May 18, 2011