Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live group, and widely considered a possible successor to CEO Steve Ballmer, has unexpectedly left the company.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 13, 2012
OEMs looking to take advantage of the Windows 8 wave are flooding the channel with new, touch-capable models -- but many face pricing challenges. With the PC market struggling, what are the chances for the Ultrabook's success?
- By Scott Bekker
- November 09, 2012
Enhancing its existing enterprise offerings, Verizon on Thursday released a new unified communications management service for large enterprises in conjunction with Microsoft Lync Server 2010.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2012
The beta test version of Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2013 became available on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2012
The first new service pack for SQL Server 2012 is now available, Microsoft announced on Wednesday at the annual PASS summit event being held this week in Seattle.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2012
Microsoft's Skype team opened its online networking platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to the public on Thursday.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 08, 2012
Microsoft is shuttering its Messenger instant-messaging service in favor of Skype's voice-over-IP service, the company announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 07, 2012
Microsoft launched the Surface RT tablet with a price tag that failed to impress. Surely, there's a reason for that.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 05, 2012
The Q4 service update to Dynamics CRM Online will be rolled out in mid-December, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 02, 2012
Microsoft made Windows Server 2012 Essentials, its new server for small businesses and home office users, generally available as a software download on Thursday, but the hardware is still to come.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2012
Microsoft appears to have officially changed the "Metro" term for the user interface (UI) and app style for Windows 8 to a new "Windows Store app."
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2012
With analysts at Gartner Inc. discouraging enterprises from upgrading to Windows 8 yet, the expectation is for a fairly slow rollout of the radically different OS. For customers willing to leap right away, though, there are a few tools that partners can use to ease migrations.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 01, 2012
Volume licensing customers can now access Microsoft Office 2013, plus various application servers with the "2013" branding, according to a report by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2012
"Geographic generalist" partners that offer any services for anybody, anywhere, are a struggling breed.
- By Mike Harvath
- November 01, 2012
RCP shines the spotlight on five more early Ultrabook models from Lenovo, Dell and others that are looking to take advantage of Microsoft's touch focus in Windows 8.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2012