Microsoft is preparing to unveil Windows 8.1 Update 2 and an early version of Windows 9 at July's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), according to online leaker "WZor."
- By Gladys Rama
- June 27, 2014
Bob Muglia, the former head of Microsoft's Server and Tools business, is now the CEO of San Mateo, Calif.-based Snowflake Computing.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 26, 2014
Users of Microsoft's Exchange Online service in the North America region were hit by a service outage on Tuesday that reportedly lasted for about 10 hours.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2014
As part of its ongoing effort to expand the use of Windows services in emerging markets, Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the Nokia X2, the second generation of Nokia's low-cost, Android-based smartphones.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 24, 2014
Microsoft on Thursday announced its "Office 365 for Business public roadmap" in an effort to help organizations plan for future Office 365 software release changes.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 20, 2014
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery, previously called Hyper-V Recovery Manager, is now available in preview, Microsoft said on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 20, 2014
The county of Los Angeles will begin moving 100,000 public sector employees, including 20,000 law enforcement personnel, to Microsoft's Office 365 suite starting in July.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 19, 2014
Four SharePoint Online and Office Online plans are set to expire at the end of June, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 17, 2014
"Azure ML," Microsoft's new machine learning service based on its Azure cloud platform, will launch as a preview next month, the company said Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 17, 2014
Microsoft fielded questions last week about Power BI for Office 365 in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2014
Microsoft has until late 2015 to rebrand the smartphones it acquired in its purchase of Nokia, according to an internal document leaked online.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 13, 2014
A "prerelease" version of Microsoft's Outlook Web App for Android devices is now available via the Google Play store.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 12, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for its SQL Server 2012 product has been released to manufacturers (RTM).
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2014
Microsoft is protesting a U.S. search warrant to turn over an e-mail stored in its Dublin datacenter, claiming it is in violation of international law.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 11, 2014
A new version of Microsoft's Azure Active Directory (AD) Application Proxy service is now available as a preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2014
For individual Windows 8.1 users, Tuesday marked the installation deadline for Windows 8.1 Update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2014
The public folder limit for organizations using Exchange Online or Exchange 2013 will increase tenfold sometime next month, Microsoft said Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 09, 2014
Microsoft's Remote Desktop App for Windows Phone 8.1, which enables users to access applications remotely on their smartphones, reached another preview milestone this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 06, 2014
Microsoft's Azure cloud services are now generally available for commercial use in southern Brazil, the company announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 06, 2014
Microsoft's original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) used this week's Computex trade show in Taipei to roll out a variety of enterprise-grade Windows 8.1 devices, some of them direct challengers to Microsoft's new Surface Pro 3.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 05, 2014