Several Microsoft products, including SQL Server 2005 and some versions of Internet Explorer and .NET Framework 4, will hit their "extended support" deadline this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 04, 2016
Buoyed by healthy holiday sales, Windows 10 has now reached the 200-million-device-mark, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 04, 2016
From Windows 10's impact, to Microsoft's roadmap changes, to the never-ending debate about whether Windows Phone is good enough, here are the most popular articles of 2015.
Microsoft has acquired Talko, a company that provides conferencing and telephony services, for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 22, 2015
Microsoft on Friday released an update to its System Center Configuration Manager product that includes preview versions of new features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 21, 2015
Microsoft on Friday announced its purchase of 3-year-old big data analytics company Metanautix, adding to its already long list of acquisitions this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 18, 2015
The over-the-air Windows 10 Mobile update will be released to existing Windows Phone users early next year, instead of December as Microsoft had previously indicated.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 18, 2015
Microsoft this week unveiled a new policy that will grant its OneDrive for Business customers "unlimited storage," but only if they meet certain conditions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 17, 2015
Backup services provider Carbonite on Wednesday announced its plan to acquire Seagate-owned EVault, which offers Backup as a Service using the Microsoft Azure cloud, for $14 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 16, 2015
Dell on Monday revealed it was still assessing possible strategies to finance its planned $67 billion acquisition of EMC and its controlling interest in VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 15, 2015
Microsoft on Monday announced the preview release of its Office 365 Planner solution to "first release" beta testers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2015
Microsoft recently made some concessions to users of its OneDrive cloud service who were angered by Microsoft's planned reduction in storage capacity.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 2015
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently unveiled Synergy, a next-gen datacenter hardware product that's part of an emerging crop of converged systems that deliver "composable infrastructure."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 14, 2015
Microsoft and the Linux Foundation have jointly launched a new Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) program this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 11, 2015
Users of Microsoft's Office 365 Groups service will see some new feature updates this month, including administrative controls for IT pros.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 10, 2015
Microsoft on Tuesday released System Center Configuration Manager 1511, which Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson described as "the most significant and important release of ConfigMgr ever."
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 2015
Microsoft is planning to sunset a couple of its Azure cache services next year in favor of its Azure Redis Cache service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 2015
New licensing details from Microsoft about its forthcoming Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 products reveal a switch from per-processor licensing to a per-core approach.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2015
Microsoft's Azure Portal solution, which is used to manage various Azure resources, reached the general availability (GA) stage this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 04, 2015
Microsoft this week announced the public preview of integration between Power BI, its self-service and cloud-based business intelligence tool, and Cortana, its digital personal assistant that comes in Windows 10.
- By David Ramel
- December 03, 2015