Fifty-two days after taking the role of CEO at Microsoft, Satya Nadella detailed his "mobile first, cloud first" vision, as well as announced some new products, including Office for iPad and new licensing for organizations managing mobile devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2014
Microsoft on Wednesday launched its Windows Azure cloud platform in China, making it the first multinational company to offer public cloud services in the country.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2014
Effective April 3, Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform will be officially be called "Microsoft Azure."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 25, 2014
An attorney for the U.S. National Security Agency said that contrary to their denials, service providers, including Microsoft, knew of the NSA's broad access to customer data.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2014
Google on Monday kicked off a referral program to promote its Google Apps for Business product in U.S. and Canadian markets.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 11, 2014
SMBs are ready for Microsoft to let DaaS out of the box now, but Microsoft licensing policies are holding the market back, argues VDI consultant Michael Fraser.
- By Michael Fraser
- March 10, 2014
Microsoft will release its OneDrive for Business product, formerly named SkyDrive Pro, as a standalone service in April.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 03, 2014
Microsoft on Thursday gave a few details about OneDrive for Business, the company's business-grade document storage service based on SharePoint Online technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 27, 2014
Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Vice President Scott Guthrie outlined several new Windows Azure management improvements in a blog post last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2014
Microsoft on Wednesday officially transitioned its SkyDrive cloud storage to the new OneDrive, though Windows 8 users will have to wait a bit longer to access the rebranded service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 19, 2014
Microsoft this week added free multifactor authentication support to its standalone Office 365 plans, as well as to the Midsize Business, Enterprise, Academic and Nonprofit Office 365 plans.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 12, 2014
Microsoft is on a "mobile first/cloud first" trajectory, said newly appointed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a speech Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 05, 2014
Microsoft's Windows Azure Cloud Services and Windows Server 2012 R2 products are getting several high-performance computing (HPC) enhancements this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 31, 2014
In response to customer concerns over government surveillance programs, Microsoft is planning to give cloud customers outside the United States the option to store their data in offshore datacenters.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 30, 2014
An update to Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud-based device management service will begin rolling out to subscribers sometime next week, Microsoft said Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2014
As part of the terms of its settlement with the British Sky Broadcasting Group over a trademark infringement dispute, Microsoft said on Monday it is finally renaming its SkyDrive cloud storage service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 2014
In an effort to match prices set by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft said last week it will lower the cost of Windows Azure storage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2014
Microsoft recently added some monitoring improvements, including new alerts, to its cloud-based Windows Azure services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 21, 2014
Microsoft's Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HRM) disaster recovery service is now generally available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 17, 2014
Microsoft last week released a "limited preview" trial version of a new georedundant option for the Windows Azure Storage service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2013