Stuxnet may be the first known precision malware weapon designed to destroy a single real-world industrial facility, but the collateral damage affects the entire Microsoft channel.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2010
A quick look at the first phones based on Windows Phone 7 to ship from AT&T on Nov. 8 in the United States.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 01, 2010
Microsoft on Monday formally flipped the switch on the final, and biggest, step in launching the Microsoft Partner Network, the first major overhaul in seven years of Microsoft's program for engaging its 640,000 partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2010
Microsoft has reached a deal for the acquisition of Canesta, a 3D chip maker based in Sunnyvale, Calif., for an undisclosed amount.
- By Chris Paoli
- November 01, 2010
BLS showed a net gain of 6,500 IT jobs in September, indicating consecutive months of positive IT job growth.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 29, 2010
Microsoft kicked off its 2010 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) today by offering developers worldwide an update on its emerging cloud computing, Windows Phone and Internet Explorer 9 development platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- October 28, 2010
According to a Microsoft financial report released today, the first fiscal quarter of 2011, ending on Sept. 30, brought in 16.20 billion in revenue.
- By Chris Paoli
- October 28, 2010
Microsoft reached the released-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone on Wednesday for Lync, its next-generation universal communications platform. The company will launch Lync at an event in New York Nov. 17.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 28, 2010
Microsoft added to its search advertising partnership deal with Yahoo by consolidating the ad platform used by Web advertisers in U.S. and Canadian markets.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 27, 2010
With just days to go before Microsoft Dynamics partners absorb the large set of changes coming to the Microsoft Partner Network, Microsoft on Wednesday said it is revamping its compensation for ERP and CRM partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 27, 2010
The release candidate version of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 can now be downloaded.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 26, 2010
An industry-sponsored survey of IT professionals found that just four percent have deployed Microsoft Office 2010, although interest remains high in the productivity suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 26, 2010
Ray Ozzie, renown for jumpstarting Microsoft's move to the Internet cloud, described a new vision for the company in a "post-PC world."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2010
Hewlett-Packard's long-awaited slate PC is now available but with a different target audience than originally planned.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 25, 2010
Microsoft today released Office for Mac 2011, the seemingly neglected Apple Mac OS X-based version of the company's productivity suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2010
Microsoft today announced a partnership deal with Cloud.com to help integrate Microsoft's proprietary hypervisor into the OpenStack project.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 22, 2010
Software security provider Symantec commissioned a study on Windows 7 migration experiences that was published this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 21, 2010
New York City has struck a deal with Microsoft for a single, citywide license for the company's software under which the city, operating in a cloud computing environment, will pay only for the applications that employees use.
- By Kevin McCaney
- October 21, 2010
Microsoft today unveiled a new cloud-based version of a suite of productivity tools that combines SharePoint, Exchange, Lync (formerly Communications Server), and both the Office Web applications and the Office Pro Plus desktop client.
- By John K. Waters
- October 19, 2010
Microsoft announced it will be ending the beta version of its Microsoft Office 2010 Suite on Oct. 31.
- By Chris Paoli
- October 19, 2010