Besides spotlighting Microsoft's mobile plans and the upcoming Visual Studio vNext, Monday's keynote also focused on the cloud and the issue of managing services and applications in hybrid environments and across multiple devices.
- By Kathleen Richards
- May 17, 2011
Microsoft has announced improvements to Exchange 2010 that are designed to avoid supported scenarios when running the software in a virtualized environment.
- By Chris Paoli
- May 16, 2011
Monday's keynote speech at Microsoft's TechEd conference for IT pros in Atlanta shed some light on plans for Windows Phone 7 and Visual Studio, among other products.
- By Lee Pender
- May 16, 2011
Microsoft will release the first service pack (SP1) for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 by the end of June, the company announced today at the Tech-Ed 2011 conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 16, 2011
Virtualization giant and cloud vendor VMware announced on Monday that it has reached a deal to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for servers and desktops.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 16, 2011
Customers of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) have experienced e-mail outages over the past few days.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 13, 2011
A final legal judgment against Microsoft that was rendered in 2002 over antitrust concerns expired on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 13, 2011
Google unveiled "Chromebooks," a new line of notebook devices that will run its Chrome operating system, on Wednesday, at the close of the Google I/O 2011 conference in San Francisco.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2011
While most of the analysis of Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype has focused on the consumer aspects of the deal, partners have responded enthusiastically and are seeing some opportunities for Skype alongside Microsoft Lync.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 12, 2011
In response to a Congressional investigation into device manufacturers' location data storage policies, Microsoft issued a letter explaining how Windows Phone 7-based mobile phones store users' location data.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 11, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today described the company's pending $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype as a major milestone in Redmond's effort to extend cross-platform communications across mobile devices, PCs and home entertainment systems.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 10, 2011
Marking the largest acquisition in Microsoft's history, the company today announced it has agreed to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 10, 2011
The next big Windows Phone 7 update, dubbed "Mango," will be coming this fall, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 09, 2011
Novell Inc. now has the legal right of way to sue Microsoft for unfair competition in the office productivity software arena.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 06, 2011
Security is not a top priority for cloud computing vendors and customers, according to a recent CA Technologies-sponsored survey by the Ponemon Institute.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- May 06, 2011
A study on worldwide PC microprocessor shipments released by IDC on Thursday bodes well for the PC market's prospects this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2011
Google is the most reputable company in the United States, according to a recent survey by market researcher Harris Interactive.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 04, 2011
A Microsoft-hosted webinar on Monday spotlighted the company's new Internet Explorer 9 browser, and what IT managers should know before adopting it.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 04, 2011
Microsoft has entered a legacy agreement with the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) over its purchase of Nortel's IPv4 numbers, possibly heading off controversy over the issue of who controls IPv4 numbers.
- By William Jackson
- May 03, 2011
VMware's Cloud Foundry, the company's fledgling cloud offering, suffered two brief outages last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 03, 2011