Hosting services providers have always been important stakeholders in Windows Server development. With the 2012 version and its Cloud OS emphasis, Microsoft hosters' needs come to the fore.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 26, 2012
Microsoft will implement a 15 percent price increase to its User Client Access Licenses (CALs) on Dec. 1, 2012, according to Microsoft's partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 26, 2012
Plano, Texas-based Microsoft hosting partner Layered Tech launched a cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics offering for U.S. government agencies earlier this month.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 26, 2012
Businesses may be slower to adopt Windows 8 than Windows 7, Forrester Research has concluded.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2012
Microsoft this week took the wraps off its roadmap and marketing vision for the upcoming Windows Embedded 8 product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2012
Microsoft completed its acquisition of StorSimple, a provider of of cloud-integrated storage (CIS) appliances, on Thursday, one month after announcing the deal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2012
Amid speculation over the reasons for his unexpected departure from Microsoft this week, Steven Sinofsky, former Windows Division president, has denied that personality clashes were one of them.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2012
Worldwide use of Microsoft's smartphone platform may have grown since last year, but anticipation for Windows Phone 8 may have put a dent in the platform's third-quarter market share.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 15, 2012
Telecommunications giant AT&T is now offering Microsoft's Office 365 cloud productivity suite to small and midsize businesses (SMBs).
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2012
A key figure in several of Microsoft's biggest product releases in recent years, Steven Sinofsky has left the building. But that doesn't mean he won't be back.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 14, 2012
Just as the launch of Windows 8 last month was Microsoft's effort to "reimagine" Windows, the company is taking a similar tack with SharePoint 2013.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 14, 2012
Hewlett-Packard Co. has won a five-year, $36 million contract to transition the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to Office 365 for Government, Microsoft's cloud productivity suite for public-sector agencies.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 14, 2012
Andy Lees, previously the president of Microsoft's Windows Phone Division, officially has a new title: head of corporate development and strategy.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 14, 2012
A "release preview" version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is now available for download, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2012
Slated improvements to Windows Azure are designed for organizations engaged in high-performance computing (HPC) analyses, Microsoft announced Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 13, 2012