On the heels of Monday's "customer preview" release of the next version of Office 365, Microsoft this week announced the availability of preview trials of other 2013-branded products, including SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, Office Web Apps Server, Project, Visio and Office Professional Plus.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2012
Yammer is now part of Microsoft's Office Division, Microsoft said on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2012
Microsoft's fiscal fourth quarter report reflected mostly positive news across divisions, although the Windows and Online Services divisions slipped again.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2012
The official release date for Windows 8 will be Oct. 26, 2012, according to a Windows Team blog post on Wednesday.
- By Becky Nagel
- July 19, 2012
Microsoft is facing possible sanctions by the European Commission (EC) for failing to fully abide by its promise to give European users a choice of Web browser with their Windows distributions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 18, 2012
An order issued by a U.S. district court judge on Monday halts Novell's lawsuit against Microsoft over the alleged hobbling of WordPerfect in 1995.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2012
Yahoo has appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer as its new president and CEO, effective Tuesday, the company announced this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 17, 2012
Microsoft on Monday took the wraps off the next version of its Office 365 cloud suite that's based on Office 2013 (previously code-named "Office 15").
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 16, 2012
For Microsoft partners to remain relevant, they have to stay on top of Microsoft technology and keep aligned with customers' real needs.
- By Barb Levisay
- July 16, 2012
A selection of new products and announcements from Microsoft's partners at this year's Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 13, 2012
Microsoft made a beta test version of Windows Server 2012 Essentials available for download on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2012
Robert Williams, most recently the senior director of business development for Microsoft's Windows Phone unit, has left Redmond to join Amazon.com.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 12, 2012
Microsoft laid out the details of Windows 8's new "File History" backup-and-restore feature for use with personal files in a blog post on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 11, 2012
What does Microsoft's Jon Roskill think is driving the most profound change in the partner channel?
- By Howard M. Cohen
- July 11, 2012