Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to enable its .NET Framework 4 on Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 21, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Brad Brooks, a Microsoft executive who helped promote Windows 7 to consumers, has signed up for a new marketing role at Juniper Networks.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 20, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    One year after announcing a $250 million, three-year pact to deliver next-generation data center technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft today unveiled five appliances that offer Exchange and SQL Server in turnkey configurations.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- January 19, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Version 5.5 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit was released early this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 19, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In its bid to take on Salesforce.com and Oracle in the hotly contested market for CRM software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Monday launched its Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- January 18, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The United States is responsible for almost one in five spam e-mails sent out, according to Sophos, a data protection and security company.
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- January 13, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Analysts are thinking out loud in the wake of Microsoft's Windows ARM announcement last week. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 13, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Rackspace Hosting has turned to Akamai Technologies to provide Web acceleration and its content delivery network (CDN) to Rackspace's cloud and hosted services customers. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- January 13, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today announced its release plans for its forthcoming Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 shared computing product.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 11, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Bob Muglia, head of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, and one of four Microsoft presidents, will be stepping down.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 10, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows Embedded Standard 7 made the scene at the Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 07, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night with lots of positive stats, along with a few gizmos.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 06, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services today said it has added two new support plans to its enterprise cloud services and lowered the cost of its existing two support offerings by 50 percent.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- January 06, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced today that it is integrating its next-generation Windows client operating system on system-on-a-chip hardware and will use the ARM architecture.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 05, 2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Interior Department can't award a noncompetitive contract to Microsoft, a federal judge has ruled. 
                    
			            - By Matthew  Weigelt
- January 05, 2011