Microsoft has designed its forthcoming Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials product to be a "first server" for small-to-medium (SMB) businesses, according to details released by the company this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2013
To mark the one-year milestone of its acquisition of Yammer, Microsoft on Tuesday detailed its plans for the social networking application, as well as its progress so far.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2013
Public preview versions of Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 are now available, Microsoft announced Tuesday during the kickoff of TechEd Europe, taking place in Madrid.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2013
Longtime rivals Microsoft and Oracle on Monday announced a joint partnership in which all of Oracle's key software offerings will be supported on Microsoft's Windows Server, Hyper-V and Windows Azure products.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 24, 2013
A report from Gartner released last week gives "preliminary" advice for organizations thinking about moving to Microsoft's newest desktop operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 24, 2013
Windows Server 2012 R2, which may arrive as a public preview release next week, will bring some networking, compute and storage improvements that build on what Microsoft initiated with Windows Server 2012.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 19, 2013
Two of Microsoft's enterprise resource planning (ERP) products, Dynamics GP 2013 and Dynamics NAV 2013, can now be purchased as Windows Azure-hosted services through partners.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 18, 2013
Hewlett-Packard recently released its new HP Cloud OS, an operating system designed to provide a common environment for public, private and hybrid cloud environments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 17, 2013
First showcased at TechEd, Microsoft's cloud-based multifactor authentication service, code-named "Active Authentication," became available as a preview release last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2013
Microsoft recently spotlighted Windows 8's improved Task Manager, most notably the new color-coded "heat map."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 12, 2013
Microsoft detailed the new Hyper-V improvements to come with Windows Server 2012 R2 during a presentation at last week's TechEd event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2013
A preview version of Microsoft's Windows Azure BizTalk Services solution became available last week through the Windows Azure portal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2013
The R2 wave of Microsoft products, particularly System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Intune will address "consumerization of IT" issues, Microsoft explained last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2013
Microsoft OEMs from Acer to Vizio are flooding the market with new PC designs to round out the Windows 8 lineup at the six-month anniversary of the OS.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- June 10, 2013
The free Windows RT 8.1 upgrade coming this year will include the Microsoft Outlook e-mail program, Microsoft said on Wednesday at Computex.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 07, 2013