Google on Tuesday said it is changing the terms of its free service for small businesses, requiring any organization with more than 10 users to subscribe to its paid Google Apps for Business.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 26, 2011
Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it has restored service for a majority of its customers after an outage left numerous organizations crippled for more than three days.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 25, 2011
Also, with Earth Day falling on the same day as Google's presentation, the focus has fallen once again on whether the cloud is truly the energy-saver its big-name proponents, including Microsoft, insist it is.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 23, 2011
Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), a cloud-based suite of productivity applications, is now certified for government use under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2011
Microsoft has assembled a panel of MVPs, consultants and product managers to make the case for migrating to Windows 7 from Windows XP.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 20, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The public beta of Office 365, Microsoft's much-anticipated successor to its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), has just arrived, and we've got an early look. Here are 12 key features from the beta that show how Microsoft plans to deliver productivity tools in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 20, 2011
Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 10 platform preview last week during its MIX 11 conference, but the company did not mention that the new browser will not run on Windows Vista.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2011
Microsoft on Monday released the public beta of the widely anticipated Office 365, the company's cloud-based productivity suite, as well as announced the Office 365 Marketplace.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 18, 2011
The beta for Windows Intune will expire on Monday, April 18, Microsoft announced on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 16, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: From the early acquisitions of Great Plains and Navision, to the Burgum-Nadella-Tatarinov executive shakeup, to the company's tentative first steps toward an "all-in" cloud approach, we spotlight the top 10 milestones from Microsoft's decade of Dynamics.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 15, 2011
Confirming earlier predictions, a new preliminary report released this week by market research firm Gartner indicates that tablet computers such as Apple's iPad and other alternative computing devices have cut into PC sales.
- By David Nagel
- April 15, 2011
In response to claims from Microsoft that Google Apps for Government is not certified under FISMA, the General Services Administration has issued a statement verifying that Apps for Government is, in fact, FISMA-certified.
- By Kevin McCaney
- April 14, 2011
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Microsoft's standalone server virtualization solution, got its first service pack on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2011
For the first time since release in October 2009, Windows 7's U.S. market share has surpassed Windows XP's -- at least according to one source.
- By Chris Paoli
- April 12, 2011
Microsoft has accused Google of misleading users regarding government certification for its Apps for Government products, released in July 2010.
- By Kevin McCaney
- April 12, 2011