Three major Microsoft products officially hit their "general availability" release milestones on Friday: Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2013
The Windows 8.1 update was released as a free download for Windows 8 users on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 17, 2013
The Windows 8.1 Preview reveals a much-improved OS that fixes many of the flaws in the original Windows 8 release. Here's what to look for in the new OS.
- By Michael Desmond
- October 17, 2013
Microsoft officially released Visual Studio 2013 for download on Thursday, the same day the Windows 8.1 update was rolled out to current Windows 8 users.
- By Keith Ward
- October 17, 2013
The outgoing Microsoft CEO gave his "all in" cloud mandate over three years ago, but entrenched players like Amazon Web Services and Google have left Microsoft fighting to secure a foothold for its own cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 16, 2013
The second community technology preview (CTP2) of Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 product is now available for testing, Microsoft announced Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2013
Microsoft on Monday outlined a few changes that are coming in Windows Phone 8 Update 3, known internally as "GDR3" or "general distribution release 3."
- By Gladys Rama
- October 15, 2013
Research firm Gartner advised organizations to prepare for fundamental changes to SharePoint stemming from Microsoft's product development efforts on the cloud side.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 11, 2013
The worldwide PC market showed no signs of an upswing in the third quarter, according to two separate reports from IDC and Gartner.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 11, 2013
The next major release of Dynamics CRM Online is now generally available, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 10, 2013
Microsoft will release the Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone operating system update in 2014, according to a report Wednesday by SuperSite for Windows' Paul Thurrott.
- By Chris Paoli
- October 10, 2013
Phil Sorgen this week gave an overview of his goals as the new leader of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group (WPG).
- By Gladys Rama
- October 09, 2013
A touch-optimized Microsoft Office app for Apple's iPad is less a matter of "if" and more a matter of "when," according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 09, 2013
Satya Nadella, Microsoft's top enterprise executive, on Monday made a rare public appearance to outline the company's next enterprise software and cloud deliverables.
- By John K. Waters
- October 09, 2013
Exec will manage National Systems Integrators, Licensing Solution Providers and Microsoft Surface sales.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 09, 2013