Microsoft on Tuesday announced two new data platform products: the Microsoft Azure Intelligent Systems Service (ISS) and the Analytics Platform System (APS).
- By David Ramel
- April 16, 2014
A new automation feature for managing Microsoft Azure workloads became available as a preview on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2014
Volume licensing customers can now access Microsoft's updates to Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry on the company's Volume License Service Center (VLSC).
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2014
Some of Microsoft's cloud-based services have been endorsed by the European Union's Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) as meeting EU privacy law standards.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2014
Global PC shipments continued to slip in the first quarter of 2014, though the drop was not as steep as analysts had expected.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 10, 2014
Verizon and BT will support the Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute service starting this summer, enabling customers of the two telecom service providers to use their specialized connection service offerings to access various Azure services without connecting to the public Internet.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2014
Windows XP may have taken the lion's share of the spotlight on April 8 when it hit its "extended support" deadline, but many other Microsoft software products also lost support on that date.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2014
Windows 8.1 Update, which Microsoft showcased at last week's Build conference, begins rolling out to PCs and devices on Wednesday via the Windows Update service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2014
Microsoft on Thursday said it is blocking downloads of the recently released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint Server 2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2014
Erwin Visser, general manager of Windows and Windows Phone Commercial Marketing, explained some of the nuances of this week's Build announcements in a phone interview on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2014
An update to Windows Server 2012 R2 became available on Wednesday for MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 03, 2014
Microsoft gave more details about the first update to Windows 8.1 on Wednesday at its Build conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2014
Google this week unveiled "Andromeda," the code name for its new software-defined networking (SDN) technology that is powering its internal services.
- By David Ramel
- April 02, 2014
The latest release of Microsoft's database product, SQL Server 2014, became generally available on Tuesday, two weeks after being released to manufacturers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2014
In response to Amazon's recent round of cloud compute and storage price cuts, Microsoft on Monday slashed the rates for its Window Azure -- soon to be Microsoft Azure -- cloud service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 01, 2014