In response to customer concerns over government surveillance programs, Microsoft is planning to give cloud customers outside the United States the option to store their data in offshore datacenters.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 30, 2014
An update to Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud-based device management service will begin rolling out to subscribers sometime next week, Microsoft said Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2014
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has agreed to grant communications service providers a bit more leeway in disclosing information about secret information disclosure orders from federal agencies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 28, 2014
As part of the terms of its settlement with the British Sky Broadcasting Group over a trademark infringement dispute, Microsoft said on Monday it is finally renaming its SkyDrive cloud storage service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 2014
In an effort to match prices set by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft said last week it will lower the cost of Windows Azure storage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2014
A report on Friday by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley suggests Update 1 for Windows 8.1 will become generally available on March 11.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 24, 2014
Microsoft recently added some monitoring improvements, including new alerts, to its cloud-based Windows Azure services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 21, 2014
Microsoft's Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HRM) disaster recovery service is now generally available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 17, 2014
Microsoft will continue to provide some form of anti-malware support for Windows XP even after the OS hits the end of its product lifecycle on April 8, 2014, the company said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 16, 2014
Microsoft will begin to phase out the preview version of its Windows 8.1 operating system starting on Wednesday, Jan. 15.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 14, 2014
Microsoft's rumored "Threshold" update for Windows will be called "Windows 9" and appear in April 2015, according to a report by Supersite for Windows' Paul Thurrott.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 13, 2014
For organizations contemplating a jump from Windows XP to Windows 8.1, Microsoft is offering a configuration "workaround" to its latest deployment toolkit.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 10, 2014
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft's hardware partners have unveiled a slew of innovative devices running Windows 8.1 during this year's Consumer Electronics Show. We gathered some of the more interesting ones in this gallery.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 08, 2014
A licensing expert recently gave advice on Microsoft's new SQL Server 2012 licensing, which can come with some costly pitfalls.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 23, 2013
Microsoft will stop selling its Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) product on July 1, 2014, the company said in a blog post Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 18, 2013