According to a recent study by Forrester Research, use of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system at companies has more than doubled over the past year. However, the good news does not extend to Internet Explorer's browser market share.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 20, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The cards have been stacked against Windows Phone 7 since the outset. Will Mango be enough to swing the smartphone game to Microsoft's favor?
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2011
Microsoft's Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) product has reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage, the company announced Tuesday. The solution is expected to become generally available on July 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2011
Microsoft showed off "Windows 8," the codename for its newest operating system, on Wednesday evening at the D9 Conference, which took place this week in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 02, 2011
WEB EXCLUSVE: Despite some worries about how Windows 8's "touch focus" will appeal to desktop users, partners are calling the new OS something few Microsoft products have ever been called: cool.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 02, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft showed off some slick, new hardware in Taiwan, including touchscreen desktop PCs and innovative tablet computers from Acer, HP, Dell and more. The takeaway: The new breed of Windows devices is more than a pretty face.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 02, 2011
Windows 7 ended May with 33.22 percent of the global operating system market, according to data collected by StatCounter.
- By Chris Paoli
- June 02, 2011
As part of Microsoft's free Solution Accelerator series, the company released two toolkit betas this week for Windows-based deployment and migration planning.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 02, 2011
Microsoft's opening keynote presentation on Wednesday at the Computex show in Taipei gave a decidedly rosy picture for its hardware partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about the company's next-generation operating system on Monday in Japan, even going so far as to call it "Windows 8."
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 24, 2011
Microsoft's Tech-Ed 2011 conference, which took place in Atlanta this year, just wrapped up. Here's a handy roundup of all of this week's conference news and analysis from our editors.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 20, 2011
Consumer satisfaction for Microsoft software has reached a company high in 2011, according to the most recent release of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).
- By Chris Paoli
- May 17, 2011
A final legal judgment against Microsoft that was rendered in 2002 over antitrust concerns expired on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 13, 2011
Google unveiled "Chromebooks," a new line of notebook devices that will run its Chrome operating system, on Wednesday, at the close of the Google I/O 2011 conference in San Francisco.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2011
A study on worldwide PC microprocessor shipments released by IDC on Thursday bodes well for the PC market's prospects this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2011