Microsoft mostly beat financial analyst expectations in its fiscal second quarter, reporting overall earnings of $19.9 billion.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and announces plans to jump into public cloud hosting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 2011
Microsoft filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a former general manager working in the public sector market who left for an executive position at Salesforce.com.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2011
Future ARM-based servers could reduce power costs in the datacenter, helping cloud service providers such as Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2011
Microsoft announced today that it has rolled out a new support lifecycle policy for its Online Services offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 25, 2011
Add transactional e-mail hosting and distribution to the list of services offered by Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 25, 2011
The Document Foundation today released LibreOffice 3.3, calling it the first "stable release" of the free, open source productivity suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 25, 2011
Microsoft today highlighted some of its interoperability accomplishments reflected with the release of the open source Drupal 7 content management (CM) system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 24, 2011
Salesforce.com hired Microsoft GM Matt Miszewski as senior vice president for the global public sector.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 21, 2011
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to enable its .NET Framework 4 on Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 21, 2011
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, will be stepping down from that position while continuing to serve the company as executive chairman.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 20, 2011
Brad Brooks, a Microsoft executive who helped promote Windows 7 to consumers, has signed up for a new marketing role at Juniper Networks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 20, 2011
One year after announcing a $250 million, three-year pact to deliver next-generation data center technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft today unveiled five appliances that offer Exchange and SQL Server in turnkey configurations.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 19, 2011
Version 5.5 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit was released early this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 19, 2011
In its bid to take on Salesforce.com and Oracle in the hotly contested market for CRM software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Monday launched its Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 18, 2011
Microsoft today announced the formal product name of its next-generation Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 18, 2011
Microsoft this week released Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 and a beta version of Windows Embedded POSReady 7.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 14, 2011
The United States is responsible for almost one in five spam e-mails sent out, according to Sophos, a data protection and security company.
- By Chris Paoli
- January 13, 2011
Analysts are thinking out loud in the wake of Microsoft's Windows ARM announcement last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 13, 2011
Rackspace Hosting has turned to Akamai Technologies to provide Web acceleration and its content delivery network (CDN) to Rackspace's cloud and hosted services customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 13, 2011