Microsoft reached the released-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone on Wednesday for Lync, its next-generation universal communications platform. The company will launch Lync at an event in New York Nov. 17.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 28, 2010
Microsoft added to its search advertising partnership deal with Yahoo by consolidating the ad platform used by Web advertisers in U.S. and Canadian markets.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 27, 2010
With just days to go before Microsoft Dynamics partners absorb the large set of changes coming to the Microsoft Partner Network, Microsoft on Wednesday said it is revamping its compensation for ERP and CRM partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 27, 2010
The release candidate version of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 can now be downloaded.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 26, 2010
An industry-sponsored survey of IT professionals found that just four percent have deployed Microsoft Office 2010, although interest remains high in the productivity suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 26, 2010
Ray Ozzie, renown for jumpstarting Microsoft's move to the Internet cloud, described a new vision for the company in a "post-PC world."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2010
Hewlett-Packard's long-awaited slate PC is now available but with a different target audience than originally planned.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 25, 2010
Microsoft today released Office for Mac 2011, the seemingly neglected Apple Mac OS X-based version of the company's productivity suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2010
Microsoft today announced a partnership deal with Cloud.com to help integrate Microsoft's proprietary hypervisor into the OpenStack project.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 22, 2010
Software security provider Symantec commissioned a study on Windows 7 migration experiences that was published this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 21, 2010
New York City has struck a deal with Microsoft for a single, citywide license for the company's software under which the city, operating in a cloud computing environment, will pay only for the applications that employees use.
- By Kevin McCaney
- October 21, 2010
Microsoft today unveiled a new cloud-based version of a suite of productivity tools that combines SharePoint, Exchange, Lync (formerly Communications Server), and both the Office Web applications and the Office Pro Plus desktop client.
- By John K. Waters
- October 19, 2010
Microsoft announced it will be ending the beta version of its Microsoft Office 2010 Suite on Oct. 31.
- By Chris Paoli
- October 19, 2010
A keynote talk today on deploying Windows 7 by a Microsoft official signaled the start of Day 2 at the TechMentor 2010 event, which is ongoing this week in Las Vegas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 19, 2010
Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie is stepping down from his role and will retire, the company announced late Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 18, 2010
According to the International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker report, the worldwide PC market grew 11 percent in Q3 of 2010.
- By Chris Paoli
- October 18, 2010
Microsoft released its newest product update to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 on Thursday.
- By Chris Paoli
- October 15, 2010
Marathon Technologies last week rolled out software aimed at broadening the availability of fault tolerant computing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 15, 2010
An industry-sponsored study, announced on Wednesday, gauged interest in Lync Server 2010, Microsoft's newest unified communications solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 14, 2010
A recent survey shows that one of the greatest challenges facing the adoption of cloud computing is that the industry isn't selling it very well.
- By Keith Ward
- October 14, 2010