From Cloud Foundry to OpenStack, more vendors are promising portability to customers who don't want to be tied to Microsoft's cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 21, 2012
Microsoft recently opened the beta of Dynamics NAV 2013 (previously code-named "NAV 7") to Microsoft partners.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 17, 2012
Microsoft executives shined a spotlight on the Dynamics product line during a recent financial analyst event focusing on Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS).
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 17, 2012
When it comes to tech hardware, the trend is unquestionably mobility. In this special feature, we survey the latest in Windows-based mobile hardware -- from ultrabooks to smartphones to tablets.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 16, 2012
Microsoft recently rolled out a community technology preview (CTP) of the forthcoming Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2008 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 15, 2012
Microsoft may catch a break in another patents infringement case against Motorola over so-called "push" technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 14, 2012
An attorney at Mozilla, which makes the Firefox Web browser, contended that Microsoft restricts browser choice on Windows RT (formerly known as "Windows 8 on ARM"), effectively moving the company into antitrust territory.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 11, 2012
A Microsoft executive explained the company's cloud-centric corporate strategy on Tuesday at a financial analyst event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 10, 2012
Microsoft this week detailed some of the improvements coming to Remote Desktop Services (RDS) with the release of Windows Server 2012.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 10, 2012
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