Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer stunned the business world and tech industry on Friday morning, announcing he will retire within the next 12 months.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 23, 2013
Microsoft recently became the first cloud service provider to pass a Service Organizations Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit conducted by Deloitte & Touche, a new security compliance audit recommended by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2013
Microsoft this week verified that it has been rolling out the so-called "GDR2" update to Windows Phone 8 users over the past few weeks.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 22, 2013
Microsoft this week released the Windows PowerShell Module for Lync Online, which enables remote management of Microsoft's hosted Lync unified messaging solution offered through Office 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2013
Microsoft is cooperating with the U.S. government in its investigation into allegations that Microsoft business partners in several countries engaged in bribery to win contracts, the company said Wednesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 22, 2013
The first major update to Windows Embedded 8 Industry, the latest version of Microsoft's embedded operating system for intelligent devices, will reach original equipment manufacturers on Oct. 18.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 21, 2013
Paris-based Arkoon Network Security will launch a product this fall that will give organizations running Windows XP the kind of patch support that Microsoft will discontinue after the operating system loses support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2013
Microsoft's Windows Azure-based disaster recovery solution for private clouds is now available as a limited public preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 19, 2013
The new channel business model has little room for salespeople who are not also technology pros.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- August 19, 2013
Microsoft recently warned organizations against continuing to use Windows XP after its "extended support" phase ends on April 8, 2014.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 19, 2013
The RT version of Microsoft's tablet device has faced an uphill battle almost from the start. And now, it's drawn the ire of investors.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 15, 2013
Microsoft published a new version of its YouTube app for Windows Phone this week, but for the second time, Google -- which owns YouTube -- has blocked it.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 15, 2013
Microsoft on Thursday pressed ahead with efforts to expand sales of its struggling Microsoft Surface PC hardware line through the channel.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 15, 2013
Microsoft has made it official: The next wave of Windows client and datacenter products will all be released on Oct. 18.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 14, 2013
Microsoft updated several versions of its Exchange Server product on Tuesday, but later pulled the parts of the release related to Exchange 2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 14, 2013