Consultancy Directions on Microsoft recently offered a few suggestions on how to buy Microsoft's newest server, when it becomes available.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 17, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Several media reports indicate Microsoft is planning a voice assistant for its Windows Phone platform.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- September 16, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organizations moving to Windows 8.1 will have three approaches to consider when dealing with the updated operating system, according to a webinar Thursday by Gartner Inc.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 13, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Global shipments of traditional PCs will begin to lose ground to tablet shipments starting in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to recent analysis from IDC.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 12, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Devices running Intel's "Bay Trail" family of power-saving processors are due to arrive from hardware makers in the fourth quarter of this year, Intel said on Wednesday during its Developer Forum event.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 12, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is widely expected to unveil new Surface RT and Surface Pro devices at an event in New York on Sept. 23.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- September 11, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    During Tuesday's keynote presentation at its Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel laid out its vision for a broad range of its activities -- from building chips for datacenters, PCs, smartphones and personal wearable devices, to "the Internet of things" world of connected devices.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 11, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Monday joined Google, Facebook and Yahoo in filing amended motions to disclose more details about customer data access requests from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 10, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Last week, a jury awarded Microsoft $14.5 million in damages stemming from a dispute with Google-owned Motorola Mobility.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 09, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft allowed its MSDN and TechNet subscribers to download the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) versions of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 on Monday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 09, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Tuesday launched a preview of a new distributed cache service for Windows Azure-hosted applications as part of a set of improvements to the cloud platform.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 06, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Eric Martorano holds a new and important responsibility in Microsoft's U.S. partner organization: selling Microsoft Surface devices through the U.S. channel.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- September 05, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Thursday announced file-upload improvements to its SharePoint Online service, echoing recent improvements to SkyDrive Pro.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 05, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The gap between Microsoft's smartphone operating system and market leaders Google Android and Apple iOS will narrow slightly over the next four years, IDC said in a report this week.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- September 05, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A preview release of Microsoft's Windows Azure Rights Management Service (RMS), which provides organizational control over shared file access, is now available. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 04, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft recently bumped up the storage capacities for two of its cloud-based storage services -- SkyDrive Pro and Exchange Online.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 04, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has agreed to acquire Nokia's devices and services business in a cash deal worth $7.18 billion (EUR 5.44 billion), the two companies announced early Tuesday morning. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- September 03, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Every Microsoft partner is accustomed to the July shuffle of account managers and field personnel, but the week after this year's Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference the Dynamics management team announced bigger changes. 
                    
			            - By Barb  Levisay
- September 03, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The R2 version of Dynamics NAV 2013 will become generally available sometime in October, Microsoft announced this weekend during the Directions EMEA conference in Vienna, Austria.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- September 03, 2013
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    David Willis, Microsoft's top U.S. sales executive for Dynamics business applications, will step up to run the entire U.S. Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partners organization on Sept. 1.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- August 30, 2013