With the cloud landscape growing more crowded, the upcoming Windows Azure Pack could be what raises Microsoft's Cloud OS above the fray.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 29, 2013
A new report by Forrester Research outlines the business case for organizations to use Google Chromebooks, which run Google's Chrome OS cloud-enabled operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2013
While Microsoft has not officially given a specific date for the fall launch of Dynamics CRM 2013, a recent post on the Dynamics CRM blog may have narrowed the timeframe down a little.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 29, 2013
Microsoft on Monday released a new build of Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) to address a previously reported public folder problem.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2013
The Windows 8.1 preview release received a third set of non-security updates from Microsoft this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 26, 2013
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released its modifications to a final order from earlier this year regarding Google's standard-essential patents (SEPs) licensing practices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 25, 2013
As a follow-up to a demo at TechEd, Microsoft Principal Program Manager Jeff Woolsey showed attendees at WPC just how much the latest release of Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor can speed up live migrations.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 25, 2013
Apple-branded computers, tablets and mobile phones were ranked No. 1 in a recent study on consumer brand perception, while Microsoft's Surface tablets were rated "below average."
- By Gladys Rama
- July 25, 2013
In which Howard draws a link between a series of unfortunate Microsoft Surface-related events.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- July 25, 2013
Microsoft announced the availability of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Office Web Apps on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2013
Microsoft launched the preview version of its Windows Azure SQL Database Premium service on Tuesday, in addition to releasing the July Windows Azure update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2013
It looks like the preview versions of Microsoft's Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 operating systems are following a faster update schedule than their predecessors.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2013
Microsoft has slipped behind IBM and Oracle to take the No. 3 position in Booz & Co.'s second-annual list of the world's top technology companies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2013
RCP identifies the "biggest" Microsoft partners in terms of their number of competencies in this second-annual list.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 22, 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft is staking its mobile success on its just-launched smartphone platform, Windows Phone 8. The first devices are set to roll out in the coming weeks and months from major U.S. carriers including Verizon and AT&T. Here's what we know so far about the new lineup.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 19, 2013