Microsoft will terminate Windows 10's free upgrade offer on July 29, one year after its initial launch, the company confirmed this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 06, 2016
Despite rivals Microsoft and Google enjoying growth rates well over 100 percent, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) maintains a solid lead in the cloud infrastructure market with 31 percent worldwide market share.
- By David Ramel
- May 06, 2016
The Windows 10 Pro edition imposes limits to the ability of IT pros to control Windows Store access, according to a report this week by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2016
Microsoft released the final versions of its SharePoint Server 2016 and Office Online Server products on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 04, 2016
In a move to beef up its emerging Internet of Things (IoT) platform, Microsoft on Tuesday announced the acquisition of 5-year-old Italian startup Solair.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 03, 2016
Microsoft's next-generation relational database operating system will become publicly available on June 1, the company announced Monday.
- By Chris Paoli
- May 02, 2016
To reduce the number of its management dashboards, Microsoft said recently it will move its Intune Service Health mobile management dashboard into its Office 365 management portal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 02, 2016
Public previews of two new Microsoft services, Flow and PowerApps, became available on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 29, 2016
Microsoft this week announced upcoming additions to its Intune service aimed at mobile application management (MAM).
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 28, 2016
Microsoft released the latest beta versions of both Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 27, 2016
Microsoft intends to support its smartphone platform "for many years," according to a leaked internal e-mail attributed to Terry Myerson, chief of Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 27, 2016
Microsoft on Tuesday launched an invite-only preview of its Skype for Business product for Mac clients.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 27, 2016
Users of Microsoft's enterprise social networking service can now collaborate with people outside their organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 26, 2016
Microsoft is among over two dozen companies that have joined Dell's newly launched effort to create an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 25, 2016
Microsoft and Google have declared a ceasefire on filling legal complaints against each other with government regulators.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 25, 2016
During Microsoft's third-quarter earnings call last week, CEO Satya Nadella touted Office 365 as a new cornerstone of Microsoft's embrace-and-extend philosophy that once made Windows the standard for business computing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 25, 2016
Microsoft's transition to the cloud hit some speed bumps the third quarter of its fiscal 2016.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 21, 2016
With prospects low for a revival in the PC market, Intel this week announced a significant restructuring that will reduce its workforce by 11 percent, or 12,000 employees.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 20, 2016
Microsoft this week added support for Mac and Web clients to its consumer Skype bot client previews.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 20, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Container Service became commercially available on Tuesday, alongside the launch of a new open source project from partner Mesosphere.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2016