A SkyDrive storage app optimized for Windows 8's "Metro"-style user interface will debut with the Windows 8 consumer preview release, Microsoft said this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 21, 2012
Microsoft clarified the "extended support" dates for Windows Vista and Windows 7 this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 21, 2012
Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein discussed the company's plans for Skype and its vision for the forthcoming Windows 8 operating system at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 17, 2012
Microsoft unveiled a new logo for Windows 8, it's forthcoming desktop operating system, on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 17, 2012
Microsoft revealed more details this week about what to expect with Windows 8 on ARM, or "WOA." In fact, the company might even have provided too much information.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 10, 2012
A Windows 8 "consumer preview" event will take place on Feb. 29 in Barcelona, Spain.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 09, 2012
Lead Microsoft program managers Sharif Farag and Ben Srour went into further detail about how those capabilities work with applications in a "Building Windows 8" blog post on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 08, 2012
What Microsoft's partners learn about the new Windows Store when it opens this month may have major implications for the future of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 08, 2012
In a webinar on Thursday, consultancy firm Directions on Microsoft described a rough timeline for Microsoft's emerging products and services in 2012 and beyond.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2012
The controversy surrounding a "secure boot" feature that Microsoft will require of computer makers with Windows 8 refuses to die.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 19, 2012
One of Microsoft largest partners, Hewlett-Packard, this week named a new chief strategy officer: Bill Veghte, the former senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows business.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 19, 2012
Microsoft this week outlined details of its first major new Windows file system in nearly two decades: the Resilient File System (ReFS).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 17, 2012
The tile-based interface was the star attraction of the final Microsoft Consumer Electronics Show keynote.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 16, 2012
Microsoft had few announcements at CES but OEM partners brought out new Windows-based laptops and phones.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 13, 2012
A new report by Forrester Research suggests the growing business adoption of Apple iPads and Macs is displacing Microsoft's grip on the corporate market with PCs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 11, 2012