Microsoft misses CES opportunity to wow industry with tablet innovation, but shows new foundations for future Windows-based devices.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 01, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Gianugo Rabellino is a man on a mission, giving full attention to open source software and interoperability at Microsoft.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 01, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM made a few announcements at its Lotusphere 2011 event today, including some upcoming social networking improvements plus the debut of a new cloud-based productivity suite called "LotusLive Symphony."
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 31, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is releasing a January refresh of its Windows Embedded Compact 7 community technology preview today.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 28, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Looking to accelerate its footprint as a provider of cloud and enterprise managed services, Verizon Communications Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire Terremark Worldwide Inc. for $1.4 billion.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- January 28, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft mostly beat financial analyst expectations in its fiscal second quarter, reporting overall earnings of $19.9 billion.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 27, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and announces plans to jump into public cloud hosting.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- January 27, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a former general manager working in the public sector market who left for an executive position at Salesforce.com.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 27, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Future ARM-based servers could reduce power costs in the datacenter, helping cloud service providers such as Microsoft. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 27, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced today that it has rolled out a new support lifecycle policy for its Online Services offerings.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 25, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Add transactional e-mail hosting and distribution to the list of services offered by Amazon Web Services.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- January 25, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Document Foundation today released LibreOffice 3.3, calling it the first "stable release" of the free, open source productivity suite.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 25, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today highlighted some of its interoperability accomplishments reflected with the release of the open source Drupal 7 content management (CM) system.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 24, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Salesforce.com hired Microsoft GM Matt Miszewski as senior vice president for the global public sector.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 21, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to enable its .NET Framework 4 on Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 21, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, will be stepping down from that position while continuing to serve the company as executive chairman.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 20, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Brad Brooks, a Microsoft executive who helped promote Windows 7 to consumers, has signed up for a new marketing role at Juniper Networks.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 20, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    One year after announcing a $250 million, three-year pact to deliver next-generation data center technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft today unveiled five appliances that offer Exchange and SQL Server in turnkey configurations.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- January 19, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Version 5.5 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit was released early this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 19, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In its bid to take on Salesforce.com and Oracle in the hotly contested market for CRM software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Monday launched its Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- January 18, 2011