Microsoft last week described a different way to use desktop virtualization to maintain legacy applications and still move users to Windows 7.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 07, 2010
Oracle has hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd as co-president.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 07, 2010
In the latest indicator that the slowing economy is putting a dent in PC growth, market researcher IDC has lowered its sales forecast for the year, despite a robust first half.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 04, 2010
Systems integrator Tallan has acquired twentysix New York, expanding the scope of Microsoft-focused services it provides to enterprise customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 02, 2010
Microsoft today announced that its new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system has been released to hardware manufacturing partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2010
Microsoft received a "strong positive" rating in a study of e-mail system vendors by Gartner, which was released in mid-August.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2010
Program expands to rely on a broader base of banks worldwide.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2010
With fingers crossed, IDC calls for 6 percent bump in IT spending for all of 2010.
CFO Peter Klein makes the case for Microsoft's financial upside in cloud computing at the Microsoft Financial Analyst meeting.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2010
As the economy continues to bump along, throwing off signals both that it might be headed up or down, a major component of the channel is reflecting the same confusing lack of clear trends.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2010
Every now and again, something truly shocking happens in the IT industry. Like what went down at HP just recently.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2010
Proposal excludes wireless bandwidth and calls for weak FCC regulation. Critics allege the approach would create "private fast lanes" for "big players" and a "winding dirt road" for "the little guy."
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2010
Microsoft offers new SQL Server migration tools for MySQL and updated tools for Access, Oracle and Sybase.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2010
Microsoft is at VMworld in San Francisco this week, but it can't show off its Hyper-V virtualization product because it competes with VMware's products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 31, 2010
In a move aimed at extending its Open Cloud infrastructure, Citrix Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire VMLogix Inc.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 31, 2010
Microsoft calls Windows 7 its "fastest selling" operating system, but the new OS may represent increased costs and greater logistical pain for IT shops over the next two years.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 27, 2010
Windows Server sales rode high as the worldwide midrange server market showed an 11 percent revenue increase in the second quarter, compared with last year's numbers, according to IDC.
- By Chris Paoli
- August 27, 2010
Microsoft today released Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2010, which previously was available just as a beta.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2010
Microsoft today announced that it has completed integrating its Bing search engine technology into Yahoo's U.S. and Canadian Web portals.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2010
Microsoft on Friday issued an update of its Security Compliance Manager tool, which helps IT pros set security policies for some Microsoft software.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2010