The "detachable" tablet segment, which includes Microsoft's Surface and Apple's iPad Pro, was the lone bright spot in an otherwise poor year for tablet sales, according to recently released data from IDC.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 01, 2016
As promised, Microsoft released the first technical preview of its new Azure Stack offering on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 01, 2016
A whitepaper released by Microsoft on Wednesday outlines its roadmap plans for the Windows Azure Pack.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2016
Microsoft posted growth in its cloud business, mixed results on the productivity and business processes business, and declines in the unit that includes Windows OEM revenues and devices in its second-quarter results reported Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 28, 2016
Microsoft is requiring its hardware partners to alert buyers of Intel Skylake-based PCs about impending support deadlines.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2016
Users of Microsoft's Office Online service can now co-author files in real time even if those files are stored in third-party cloud storage services like Box, Citrix ShareFile, Dropbox and Egnyte.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 2016
The first technical preview of Microsoft's new Azure Stack solutions will be released on Friday, according to a Microsoft announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 26, 2016
VMware, whose parent company is set to be acquired by Dell as part of the largest deal in IT history, reportedly began laying off employees this week, just ahead of its fourth-quarter earnings announcement.
- By Keith Ward
- January 26, 2016
A list of of Intel Skylake-based PCs that can run Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 but will have truncated Windows product lifecycle support was released by Microsoft late last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 25, 2016
Microsoft on Wednesday issued release candidates (RCs) of its upcoming SharePoint Server 2016 and Project Server 2016 products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 20, 2016
The restructuring effort at Citrix Systems Inc. hit a major milestone on Wednesday, when the company appointed Kirill Tatarinov to the position of CEO.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 20, 2016
Microsoft plans to contribute $1 billion in cloud resources over the next three years to nonprofit organizations, the company said this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 20, 2016
A poll by Microsoft partner Adaptiva (sign-up required) indicates that most organizations that have started the Windows 10 migration process intend to complete them by year's end.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 20, 2016
New PC hardware improvements and emerging chip technologies from AMD, Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm will have an impact on the lifecycle support policies of Windows 10, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, Microsoft announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 19, 2016
Barely two weeks into the new year, the top three players in the public cloud arena have already started another tussle over their ever-declining cloud costs.
- By Gladys Rama, David Ramel
- January 15, 2016
Microsoft's Windows 10 upgrade push will soon expand to organizations, the company said on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 14, 2016
Windows 8 passed its "extended support" deadline this week, exposing its users to potential security risks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 14, 2016
Microsoft on Wednesday announced it has acquired technology from Event Zero, an Australia-based maker of software tools for Skype for Business with a focus on operations reporting.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 13, 2016
Citrix, a company in the midst of a significant restructuring effort, signaled a return to its roots during this week's Citrix Summit partner conference in Las Vegas.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 13, 2016
Starting this year, Microsoft is replacing its venerable Convergence conference, which has long been the company's marquee event for Dynamics-related announcements, with a new event called "Envision."
- By Gladys Rama
- January 13, 2016