Microsoft on Wednesday launched its Windows Azure cloud platform in China, making it the first multinational company to offer public cloud services in the country.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2014
A recent Computer Economics study identified six technology trends that are especially "low-risk/high-reward" for organizations, with customer relationship management (CRM) systems leading the way.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 26, 2014
The next few months could prove to be the most trying for all but the largest of Microsoft's partners.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- March 26, 2014
Effective April 3, Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform will be officially be called "Microsoft Azure."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 25, 2014
Microsoft's $7 billion purchase of Nokia's devices arm, which was expected to close by the end of this month, will likely be finalized sometime in April instead.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 24, 2014
Understanding Microsoft's scorecard system is one way to figure out what partner deals Microsoft's sales reps currently value the most.
- By M.S. Partner
- March 24, 2014
Microsoft last week announced a few changes -- some good and others less so -- coming to SharePoint, in addition to the new collaboration features expected to come in the second half of this year to SharePoint Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 24, 2014
A former Microsoft employee was arrested this week for allegedly stealing trade secrets and leaking Windows 8 code to an unnamed French blogger while working for Microsoft.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 21, 2014
Frustrated by growing competition from rivals, security software and data protection giant Symantec on Thursday ousted Steve Bennett from his roles as CEO and board member, less than two years after firing his predecessor, Enrique Salem.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 21, 2014
An attorney for the U.S. National Security Agency said that contrary to their denials, service providers, including Microsoft, knew of the NSA's broad access to customer data.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2014
PC maker Asus is shelving its plans to release a dual-boot tablet PC that runs both Android and Windows, according to Digitimes.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 19, 2014
Microsoft on Wednesday released a preview version of a new tool, dubbed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Starter Kit 1.0, which lets organizations test VDI scenarios using Remote Desktop Services (RDS) protocol.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 19, 2014
SQL Server 2014 was released to manufacturers (RTM) on Tuesday, and will be commercially released on April 1, according to Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 18, 2014
A version of Microsoft's consumer-focused Surface 2 tablet with mobile broadband support will become available on AT&T's 4G network on March 18, Microsoft announced Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 17, 2014
Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, will no longer support its browser for Windows 8, citing low usage rates.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 17, 2014