Parallels announced Thursday the addition of three senior executives, including a Microsoft technical fellow, to support the cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization company's global growth goals.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2011
After one year on the market, Microsoft's newest unified communications offering has grown 25 percent -- with no small thanks to Microsoft's partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2011
Microsoft has inked a protocol licensing agreement with mobile solutions provider AgreeYa Mobility that will help Microsoft roll out an enterprise product that enables mobile devices to establish connections with Microsoft software and services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 30, 2011
Microsoft released the fourth version of its Internet Explorer (IE) 10 platform preview Web browser prototype on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 30, 2011
Microsoft on Tuesday announced major updates to two of its cloud-based services, Office 365 and SkyDrive.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 29, 2011
Consumer interest in Windows-based tablets has declined over the past six months, according to a report released Tuesday by Forrester Research.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 29, 2011
Microsoft has claimed the dubious honor of being named the most-hated software vendor worldwide, according to a survey by opinion-tracking firm Amplicate.
- By Chris Paoli
- November 28, 2011
Microsoft issued version 2.01 of Windows Phone 7 Connector last week, adding a few fixes and some new features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 28, 2011
Thirty-year IBM veteran expected to follow the strategies set by Palmisano, who remains as chairman.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 27, 2011
Microsoft on Thursday named the third and, for now, final member of its Dynamics Master VAR program: Tribridge, a Tampa, Fla.-based business application partner with 350 employees.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 18, 2011
Subscribers of Microsoft's Office 365 cloud service can now download the Lync for Mac 2011 unified communications solution, which Microsoft broadly released on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 18, 2011
Enterprises with apps running on-premises will be able to tie them to apps running on Microsoft's Windows Azure service through a hybrid cloud offering launched by Fujitsu this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 17, 2011
Forgoing a beta version, Microsoft issued the release candidate (RC) of SQL Server 2012, formerly code-named "Denali," on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2011
For the most part, Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Tuesday was the usual, speedy, buttoned-down affair; one shareholder even argued that the event should be 30 minutes longer.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2011
On Monday, Microsoft shared some of its roadmap plans for the next generation of Windows Embedded operating system products, labeled "v.Next."
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2011
Microsoft's beleaguered Windows Phone platform continues to lose ground to the major smartphone OSes, but at a less precipitous rate than in previous quarters, according to the latest market share figures from Gartner.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 15, 2011
Bharat Shyam, an 18-year Microsoft veteran, has been named the new chief information officer (CIO) for the state of Washington.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 15, 2011
Microsoft issued a release candidate (RC) version of its System Center Operations Manager 2012 solution last Thursday; it's available for download here.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2011
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have entered a publisher partnership deal to cross-sell their inventories as part of a collaboration on Web-based display ads.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2011
Adobe is phasing out its browser-based Flash Player for mobile devices, and is planning to cut 750 jobs as part of a financial restructuring, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2011