Microsoft has confirmed that Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Platform at Microsoft, will move to the Windows Azure group as part of a May reorg, as expected.
                    
			            - By Michael  Desmond
- May 02, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The release candidate (RC) version of Microsoft's Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) solution is now available for download, the company announced on Monday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 02, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    According to one Directions on Microsoft analyst, Windows 8 -- or whatever Microsoft calls its next operating system -- might be released in 2013.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 30, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services on Friday issued a detailed postmortem explaining the cause of last week's massive outage of its cloud services that left numerous customers crippled.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- April 29, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Tech watchers and armchair legal eagles raked Apple over the coals this week over reports that the company keeps track of customers' locations through its iPhone. 
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- April 29, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Led by gains from its Office, Xbox and Kinect products, Microsoft has recorded $16.4 billion in earnings in its fiscal third-quarter, the company reported on Thursday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 29, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Half of the respondents of a recent Unisys poll indicated that they "haven't started" migrating or are "not migrating" to Windows 7. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 28, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Barnes & Noble has fired back at Microsoft's patent infringement claims by releasing its legal defense brief on Monday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 28, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Telecommunications heavyweight CenturyLink on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire managed hosting and cloud provider Savvis for $2.5 billion.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- April 27, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    According to a Microsoft blog post on Tuesday, the company's Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 cannot perform server virtualization using Intel's new second-generation Core vPro processors, formerly code-named "Sandy Bridge." 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 27, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google on Tuesday said it is changing the terms of its free service for small businesses, requiring any organization with more than 10 users to subscribe to its paid Google Apps for Business. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- April 26, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is making inroads against Internet Explorer 9's add-on problems, the company announced on Monday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 25, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it has restored service for a majority of its customers after an outage left numerous organizations crippled for more than three days. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- April 25, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Also, with Earth Day falling on the same day as Google's presentation, the focus has fallen once again on whether the cloud is truly the energy-saver its big-name proponents, including Microsoft, insist it is.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 23, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), a cloud-based suite of productivity applications, is now certified for government use under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 22, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced outages on Thursday that Amazon claims are due to connectivity and latency issues in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- April 21, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft and Nokia have signed a definitive agreement on Windows Phone production, the two companies announced on Thursday. The agreement solidifies the strategic alliance Microsoft and Nokia entered in February.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 21, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    To appease antitrust concerns held by the Department of Justice (DoJ), CPTN Holdings LLC, a holding company composed of Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and EMC, has altered the terms of its original plan to acquire patents held by Novell.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 20, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has assembled a panel of MVPs, consultants and product managers to make the case for migrating to Windows 7 from Windows XP.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 20, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A recent licensing change makes it easier for developers on non-Windows platforms to adapt Microsoft's Windows PowerShell for their use.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 19, 2011