Bob Muglia, the former head of Microsoft's Server and Tools business, is now the CEO of San Mateo, Calif.-based Snowflake Computing.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 26, 2014
With cloud computing at the center of recent high-profile security breaches and the NSA spying revelations, providers like Microsoft have been feeling pressure from customers to lock down their data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 25, 2014
Users of Microsoft's Exchange Online service in the North America region were hit by a service outage on Tuesday that reportedly lasted for about 10 hours.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2014
As part of its ongoing effort to expand the use of Windows services in emerging markets, Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the Nokia X2, the second generation of Nokia's low-cost, Android-based smartphones.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 24, 2014
Microsoft on Thursday announced its "Office 365 for Business public roadmap" in an effort to help organizations plan for future Office 365 software release changes.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 20, 2014
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery, previously called Hyper-V Recovery Manager, is now available in preview, Microsoft said on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 20, 2014
The county of Los Angeles will begin moving 100,000 public sector employees, including 20,000 law enforcement personnel, to Microsoft's Office 365 suite starting in July.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 19, 2014
Four SharePoint Online and Office Online plans are set to expire at the end of June, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 17, 2014
"Azure ML," Microsoft's new machine learning service based on its Azure cloud platform, will launch as a preview next month, the company said Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 17, 2014
Between exam costs, training costs and the cost of lost billable hours, the price of a gold Microsoft competency can far exceed Microsoft's base fee. Using the Gold Server Platform competency as a baseline, we look at how two partners have invested in the competency program, and what that investment has gotten them in return.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 16, 2014
Microsoft fielded questions last week about Power BI for Office 365 in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2014
The next stage of growth in the partner ecosystem is IP development, but firms should be mindful of its hurdles before making the transition.
- By Mike Harvath
- June 13, 2014
Microsoft has until late 2015 to rebrand the smartphones it acquired in its purchase of Nokia, according to an internal document leaked online.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 13, 2014
A "prerelease" version of Microsoft's Outlook Web App for Android devices is now available via the Google Play store.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 12, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for its SQL Server 2012 product has been released to manufacturers (RTM).
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2014