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
Microsoft on Wednesday released its Azure Container Service to public preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 03, 2015
Stephen Boyle spent his first four months on the job getting an education from partners and other Microsoft executives. Now he's vowing to provide some education in the form of partner enablement.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 02, 2015
Microsoft took the wraps off its new Azure-based PowerApps development tools at this week's Convergence EMEA conference in Barcelona, Spain.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 02, 2015
The so-called "detachable tablet" segment that Microsoft pioneered in 2012 with the introduction of the Surface is expected to grow by 75 percent in 2016, outpacing an overall shrinking tablet market.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 01, 2015
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) on Tuesday unveiled the HPE Hyper-Converged 250 for Microsoft Cloud Platform System (CPS) Standard, a converged rack-mountable system designed to run Microsoft Azure within the datacenter.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 01, 2015
New entries from Apple, Lenovo and others are giving Microsoft’s category-breaking tablet a run for its money.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 01, 2015
Four new Skype for Business features -- PSTN Conferencing, Skype Meeting Broadcast, Cloud PBX and PSTN Calling -- are now available for eligible Office 365 subscribers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2015
With the shut down of its own public cloud service imminent, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is betting big on Microsoft Azure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 30, 2015
Microsoft on Monday released its next-generation customer relationship management (CRM) offering to general availability.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 30, 2015
Diane Greene, co-founder of VMware and its former president and CEO, has just accepted a new post at Google.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 20, 2015
A full-blown cloud edition of Microsoft's ERP suite, Dynamics AX, will hit the public preview stage next month and is expected to be generally available (GA) in the first quarter of 2016.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 19, 2015
Microsoft on Thursday released technical preview 4 (TP4) of Windows Server 2016.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 19, 2015
As part of a companywide restructuring plan, Citrix Systems Inc. this week announced that it is spinning off its "GoTo" product line and laying off about 1,000 employees.
- By Keith Ward
- November 19, 2015
As expected, Microsoft on Wednesday released the second beta of its upcoming SharePoint Server 2016 product.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 18, 2015
As its smartphone market share continues to tank, Microsoft is taking a more measured approach to where it focuses its mobile efforts.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 18, 2015
Microsoft is readying a new solution aimed at increasing Office 365's compliance and security capabilities.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 18, 2015
In a talk that might one day go down as the start of Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing 2.0" era, CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday described his company's plans to elevate security beyond the code level.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 17, 2015