Windows Media Center, Microsoft's consumer entertainment application, will become an an optional add-on cost for Windows 8 users instead of a built-in component, Microsoft said last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 07, 2012
A review of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Apple's tablet finds the OS visually and substantively good enough to be worth the sizable learning curve.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 03, 2012
In preparation for Windows 8's release, Microsoft is planning to kill its "Windows Live" branding over the next few months.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 03, 2012
What changes with the cloud is very simple. Instead of just hardware and software, we now integrate hardware, software and services. So why don't many partner companies believe in it?
- By Howard M. Cohen
- May 02, 2012
Microsoft Gold Certified partner Quest Software recently unveiled its line of solutions for businesses migrating to Office 365 and Exchange Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2012
Microsoft will invest $300 million in a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, which until now has been embroiled in an intellectual property dispute against Microsoft over the past year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2012
Microsoft also announced this week that the "release candidate" of Windows Server 2012 will be publicly available in a close timeframe with the Windows 8 release preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 25, 2012
A recent Microsoft blog providing details about the forthcoming Windows 8 Enterprise edition highlighted the issue of Software Assurance licensing, which seems particularly complicated for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) use.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 25, 2012
Microsoft detailed several major changes to its SkyDrive storage service on Monday, including a reduction in the amount of free storage provided.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2012
When Microsoft rolls out the Small Business competency next month, partners will find a program that is more expensive to join than the popular Small Business Specialist Community (SBSC), but also far more loaded with benefits and focused on cloud.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 20, 2012
Windows RT, the version of Windows 8 for ARM-based devices, can be used for both personal and business purposes, even while organizational control is maintained over application access, Microsoft explained on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2012
Microsoft kicked off the second day of the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) on Wednesday by laying out its vision for connected devices and the "consumerization of IT."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 18, 2012
Microsoft revealed the upcoming editions of Windows 8, both for x86/x64 machines and ARM devices, on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2012
The forthcoming product code-named "Windows Server 8" now has the official name of "Windows Server 2012," Microsoft announced on Tuesday at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2012
A few clues about Microsoft's product roadmap for this year and the next were unearthed recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 16, 2012