Navigating the Worldwide Partner Conference can be a major undertaking. Microsoft offers its WPC Connect tool as a way to manage meetings and keep track of sessions. Problem: Navigating the WPC Connect tool can also be a major undertaking.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- June 28, 2013
Step aside, "cloud." "Hybrid" is the latest tech buzzword to lack a clear definition -- and in today's BYOD era, that's an issue.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- June 26, 2013
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the availability of the Windows 8.1 public preview on Wednesday during the opening keynote of the Build conference, taking place this week in San Francisco.
- By Michael Desmond, Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 26, 2013
Microsoft has designed its forthcoming Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials product to be a "first server" for small-to-medium (SMB) businesses, according to details released by the company this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2013
To mark the one-year milestone of its acquisition of Yammer, Microsoft on Tuesday detailed its plans for the social networking application, as well as its progress so far.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2013
Public preview versions of Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 are now available, Microsoft announced Tuesday during the kickoff of TechEd Europe, taking place in Madrid.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2013
Longtime rivals Microsoft and Oracle on Monday announced a joint partnership in which all of Oracle's key software offerings will be supported on Microsoft's Windows Server, Hyper-V and Windows Azure products.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 24, 2013
A report from Gartner released last week gives "preliminary" advice for organizations thinking about moving to Microsoft's newest desktop operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 24, 2013
Microsoft recently gave a demo of upcoming changes to Office Web Apps that will improve the user experience on Windows, iOS and Android tablets.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 20, 2013
Windows Server 2012 R2, which may arrive as a public preview release next week, will bring some networking, compute and storage improvements that build on what Microsoft initiated with Windows Server 2012.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 19, 2013
A potential deal between Microsoft and Nokia to acquire the mobile phone manufacturer's device-manufacturing business has fallen through, reported The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday afternoon.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 19, 2013
Resist the urge to take a break in these months. Planning a well-thought-out summer campaign now can pay great dividends later.
- By Ken Thoreson
- June 19, 2013
Two of Microsoft's enterprise resource planning (ERP) products, Dynamics GP 2013 and Dynamics NAV 2013, can now be purchased as Windows Azure-hosted services through partners.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 18, 2013
Microsoft on Friday released Office Mobile for iPhone, a free-of-charge app from Apple's iTunes store.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 17, 2013
Hewlett-Packard recently released its new HP Cloud OS, an operating system designed to provide a common environment for public, private and hybrid cloud environments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 17, 2013