At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner singled out and attacked six strategic rivals. Does Microsoft have what it takes to compete and win against Apple, Google, Cisco, Oracle, Salesforce.com and VMware?
- By Scott Bekker
- September 07, 2011
After a series of highly publicized security hacks, Sony Corp. has named its first chief information security officer: Philip Reitinger, who was the former head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing unit.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 06, 2011
The next version of Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud service for systems management will be generally available starting Oct. 17.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 06, 2011
Microsoft rolled out on Thursday a beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (DPM 2012), one of the components of Microsoft's System Center line of enterprise-level management products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 02, 2011
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff left no doubt about his company's direction during his Wednesday keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference taking place this week in San Francisco.
- By John K. Waters
- September 01, 2011
There has been activity among Microsoft's appliance partners revolving around Azure -- but you wouldn't know it from this year's WPC, where the product played a backstage role.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2011
Hewlett-Packard is looking to make it easier for partners to offer its portfolio of services to customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 01, 2011
The transition to the cloud is a huge challenge for most business models. Here are nine key performance indicators for tracking your company's cloud progress.
- By Keith Lubner
- September 01, 2011
Windows Explorer, the file management system used in Windows operating systems, will be redesigned for the upcoming Windows 8 OS to run the "ribbon" user interface, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 31, 2011
The rivalry between Microsoft and VMware over the costs of tapping virtualization infrastructure has intensified.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 30, 2011
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a promotion that pays back customers $150 per user seat for switching to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online from CRM competitors.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2011
Microsoft released Update Rollup 5 (RU5) for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 last week, but did not include a fix for an Outlook problem detected in the earlier RU4 update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 28, 2011
In a demo video posted on its "Building Windows 8" blog on Wednesday, Microsoft showed off a new Windows 8 feature for copying files.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2011
Microsoft on Monday released community technology previews (CTPs) of a new Service Pack 3 (SP3) being developed for various versions of SQL Server 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2011
Microsoft signed an interoperability and legal agreement on Tuesday with China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C) as part of a Linux server partnership deal. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2011