Microsoft on Sunday confirmed that Windows 8.1 Update 1 will be released sometime this spring, alongside an update to Windows Server 2012 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2014
Microsoft on Sunday announced it was more than tripling the number of Windows Phone hardware partners, as well as described a few changes coming to its smartphone platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 24, 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
Four months after acquiring Idera's SharePoint business, Metalogix this week released its first backup and recovery tool designed solely for protecting SharePoint environments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 21, 2014
Microsoft's Office Web Apps product is now named "Office Online" and can now be accessed easily from the front page of Office.com, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 20, 2014
Microsoft's Office 365 Message Encryption service, unveiled in November, is now commercially available, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 20, 2014
Most Windows XP Embedded versions will live on for a few more years, even as the Windows XP desktop OS loses "extended" support on April 8, Microsoft clarified this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 19, 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's top executive for Lync and Skype declared the start of a new era of communications and offered a bold user-number prediction at the second annual Microsoft Lync Conference on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 18, 2014
Microsoft will launch two new Windows Azure-hosted Dynamics CRM services and a new release of Dynamics CRM Online in the second quarter of this year, the company said on Tuesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 18, 2014
Thanks to "user mapping" technology, Office 365 users no longer have to sign in to Yammer to access the enterprise social networking product, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 18, 2014
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2012 will arrive "later this year," Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 14, 2014
Google and VMware this week announced a VDI deal in which Google's Chromebook laptops will be enabled to run Windows desktops and Windows apps.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 14, 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
Nokia, whose handset business is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft, will debut a Google Android-based smartphone later this month, according to The Wall Street Journal.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 11, 2014
Dell's PowerEdge Servers, its SAS Host Bus Adapters, as well as its PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220 storage enclosures now support Windows Server 2012 R2's "storage spaces" feature, Dell said Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 11, 2014
Microsoft's faster release cycle for its Windows operating system should be a signal for organizations that they can no longer rely on past upgrade strategies, according to research firm Gartner.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 10, 2014
Microsoft recently laid out the roadmap for its Dynamics GP enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, highlighting two important releases coming by year's end.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 10, 2014
Microsoft's so-called "self-service business intelligence" product, Power BI for Office 365, hit the general availability milestone on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 10, 2014
Organizations may see higher licensing costs with the launch of Microsoft's new Server and Cloud Enrollment (SCE) agreements, according to licensing expert Paul DeGroot.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 06, 2014