Microsoft will release the first service pack (SP1) for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 by the end of June, the company announced today at the Tech-Ed 2011 conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 16, 2011
Virtualization giant and cloud vendor VMware announced on Monday that it has reached a deal to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for servers and desktops.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 16, 2011
Customers of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) have experienced e-mail outages over the past few days.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 13, 2011
A final legal judgment against Microsoft that was rendered in 2002 over antitrust concerns expired on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 13, 2011
Google unveiled "Chromebooks," a new line of notebook devices that will run its Chrome operating system, on Wednesday, at the close of the Google I/O 2011 conference in San Francisco.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2011
Security is not a top priority for cloud computing vendors and customers, according to a recent CA Technologies-sponsored survey by the Ponemon Institute.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- May 06, 2011
A study on worldwide PC microprocessor shipments released by IDC on Thursday bodes well for the PC market's prospects this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2011
For some reason, Microsoft is being stingy with the partner licenses for Windows Intune, the cloud-based systems management and security toolset that launched in March.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 05, 2011
VMware's Cloud Foundry, the company's fledgling cloud offering, suffered two brief outages last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 03, 2011
Microsoft has confirmed that Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Platform at Microsoft, will move to the Windows Azure group as part of a May reorg, as expected.
- By Michael Desmond
- May 02, 2011
The release candidate (RC) version of Microsoft's Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) solution is now available for download, the company announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 02, 2011
Finally, the company enters a cloud market that's becoming increasingly crowded with other IT heavyweights, including IBM and Cisco.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 01, 2011
According to one Directions on Microsoft analyst, Windows 8 -- or whatever Microsoft calls its next operating system -- might be released in 2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2011
Amazon Web Services on Friday issued a detailed postmortem explaining the cause of last week's massive outage of its cloud services that left numerous customers crippled.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 29, 2011
Led by gains from its Office, Xbox and Kinect products, Microsoft has recorded $16.4 billion in earnings in its fiscal third-quarter, the company reported on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 29, 2011