VMware Inc. named Jonathan Chadwick its new chief financial officer during its quarterly earnings call on Tuesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 23, 2012
Windows 8 will not arrive on time to help Microsoft's foundering OS market share, according to a new report from Forrester Research titled "Windows: The Next Five Years."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 23, 2012
A new "secure boot" firmware protocol supported in Windows 8 has its doubters, but Microsoft ISV Wave Systems is prepared to assure organizations that the system really works.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 22, 2012
A new subscription-only version of Office 365 for higher-education students will become available in the first quarter of 2013, Microsoft announced on Friday.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 21, 2012
Microsoft on Thursday reported an 8% revenue shortfall from the year-ago period in its Q1 earnings report for fiscal-year 2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2012
Microsoft's Surface team took to Reddit on Tuesday to answer some questions about the new tablet device, which is now available for preordering.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 17, 2012
A "preview" version of the Internet Explorer 10 browser supported on Windows 7 will be released next month, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 17, 2012
Microsoft is now taking advance orders for its Windows RT-based Surface "tablet PC," the company announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2012
Various retail outlets including Microsoft Stores, Amazon.com and Best Buy are now offering preorders of Windows 8 Pro for x86/x64 upgrade copies, Microsoft announced on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2012
Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Server 2012 are making this a landmark year for Microsoft, but there's a chance that Redmond has waited too long.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 15, 2012
Microsoft's next-generation Office solutions and other "2013"-branded products have reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2012
A cumulative update for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 is now available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 12, 2012
Though Microsoft is better known as a software company, CEO Steve Ballmer said Redmond now sees itself as a "devices and services company."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 11, 2012
Windows Server 2012 Essentials was released to Microsoft's hardware manufacturing partners on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2012
With Windows 8 comes a new category of hardware -- touch-capable Ultrabooks. While most models are under wraps until the OS launch, a few vendors including HP, Dell and Acer have made their designs public.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 10, 2012