Microsoft recently detailed a new startup procedure for its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system that it says will result in 30 to 70 percent faster boot speeds compared to Windows 7.
- By Chris Paoli
- September 09, 2011
An outage on Thursday affecting several Microsoft Live services, including Office 365, SkyDrive, Hotmail and MSN, was caused by a DNS error, Microsoft reported.
- By Chris Paoli
- September 09, 2011
Several high-ranking Microsoft executives exited the company this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 08, 2011
A month after releasing its Dynamics AX 2012 ERP software, Microsoft on Thursday held a formal launch of the product in a virtual event headlined by CEO Steve Ballmer and Business Solutions President Kirill Tatarinov.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 08, 2011
Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor will be a part of the forthcoming Windows 8 client operating system, Microsoft announced on Wednesday in a Building Windows 8 blog post.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 07, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. is taking a step closer toward its promise of offering a public cloud service by providing early access to select testers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 07, 2011
Yahoo's board of directors has "removed" Carol Bartz from her position as CEO, according to an announcement from Yahoo on Tuesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 07, 2011
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner singled out and attacked six strategic rivals. Does Microsoft have what it takes to compete and win against Apple, Google, Cisco, Oracle, Salesforce.com and VMware?
- By Scott Bekker
- September 07, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to split its webOS business into two divisions of the company, according to published reports.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 06, 2011
After a series of highly publicized security hacks, Sony Corp. has named its first chief information security officer: Philip Reitinger, who was the former head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing unit.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 06, 2011
The next version of Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud service for systems management will be generally available starting Oct. 17.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 06, 2011
Google: "Android is under legal attack by Microsoft, Apple and Oracle." Microsoft: "No it's not." Who's telling the truth?
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 02, 2011
Microsoft rolled out on Thursday a beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (DPM 2012), one of the components of Microsoft's System Center line of enterprise-level management products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 02, 2011
HTC Corp. unveiled two global Windows Phone "Mango" smartphones on Thursday that will begin coming to market in October.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 02, 2011
On the Verizon Wireless network, Apple and Microsoft each have one offering: the iPhone 4 and the HTC Trophy with Windows Phone 7. Both are relatively new to the largest U.S. mobile provider's network. Which phone is better?
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2011