Amy Hood, most recently the chief financial officer of Microsoft's Business Division, will become the company's overall CFO, effective immediately.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 08, 2013
Current users of SharePoint Online will be able to upgrade to the new release "soon," according to a post on Microsoft's SharePoint team blog.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 08, 2013
Press accounts suggest Microsoft is readying a Windows desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) project, rumored to go by the code name "Mohoro," that will run from Windows Azure.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 07, 2013
Making the move from Windows XP to Windows 7 means downtine for end users and long hours for administrators, according to a VMware-commissioned survey by Dimensional Research.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 07, 2013
Windows 8 adoption progressed very little in April, inching upward by less than 1 percentage point over the month, according to the latest data from Net Applications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 03, 2013
Apple was the definitive leader in IDC's first-quarter tablet sales report, while Microsoft devices barely made a dent in the market.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 02, 2013
Intel on Thursday named current chief operating officer Brian Krzanich as its next CEO, and software chief Renée James as its next president.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 02, 2013
Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing solution, is now a $1-billion-per-year business, according to an account by Bloomberg on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 01, 2013
A U.S. district court judge has concluded favorably to Microsoft in assessing Motorola Mobility's standard-essential patent (SEP) infringement claims.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2013
Microsoft on Friday announced virtual private network (VPN) improvements to some Windows Azure components, making it easier for administrators to access virtual networks, either from behind a corporate firewall or remotely.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 29, 2013
Roughly 45 percent of organizations have not started migrations to Windows 7 or Windows 8, according to a recent blog post by U.K.-based independent software vendor AppSense.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 26, 2013
Newly released first-quarter numbers from research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics suggests Microsoft has a bigger chunk of the tablet market than analysts have previously estimated.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 25, 2013
Microsoft has inked an intellectual property agreement with China-based equipment maker ZTE concerning the Linux-based operating systems fostered by Google.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 25, 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Microsofties' startup called SkyKick automates the process for partners to sell, plan, provision, migrate, manage and set up Office 365.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 25, 2013
Microsoft is disclosing more about its planned shift to a more accelerated update cadence for Office 365, according to a report by veteran Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2013