Among the top three smartphone operating systems, Microsoft's Windows Phone will have the fastest-growing market share over the next four years, according to IDC's latest projections.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 26, 2014
A recent Dell-sponsored survey shows that many organizations that have adopted Microsoft's Lync unified communications (UC) product are uncertain how much money they have saved -- if any -- on travel, teleconferencing and meeting expenses.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that Service Pack 1 for Office Office 2013, Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013 is now available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2014
Julie Larson-Green, currently the head of Microsoft's Devices and Studios group, will move to a different division at the company once former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop rejoins Microsoft.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 25, 2014
Microsoft on Sunday confirmed that Windows 8.1 Update 1 will be released sometime this spring, alongside an update to Windows Server 2012 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2014
Microsoft on Sunday announced it was more than tripling the number of Windows Phone hardware partners, as well as described a few changes coming to its smartphone platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 24, 2014
Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Vice President Scott Guthrie outlined several new Windows Azure management improvements in a blog post last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2014
Four months after acquiring Idera's SharePoint business, Metalogix this week released its first backup and recovery tool designed solely for protecting SharePoint environments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 21, 2014
Microsoft's Office Web Apps product is now named "Office Online" and can now be accessed easily from the front page of Office.com, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 20, 2014
Microsoft's Office 365 Message Encryption service, unveiled in November, is now commercially available, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 20, 2014
Most Windows XP Embedded versions will live on for a few more years, even as the Windows XP desktop OS loses "extended" support on April 8, Microsoft clarified this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 19, 2014
Microsoft on Wednesday officially transitioned its SkyDrive cloud storage to the new OneDrive, though Windows 8 users will have to wait a bit longer to access the rebranded service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 19, 2014
Microsoft's top executive for Lync and Skype declared the start of a new era of communications and offered a bold user-number prediction at the second annual Microsoft Lync Conference on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 18, 2014
Microsoft will launch two new Windows Azure-hosted Dynamics CRM services and a new release of Dynamics CRM Online in the second quarter of this year, the company said on Tuesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 18, 2014
Thanks to "user mapping" technology, Office 365 users no longer have to sign in to Yammer to access the enterprise social networking product, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 18, 2014
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2012 will arrive "later this year," Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 14, 2014
Google and VMware this week announced a VDI deal in which Google's Chromebook laptops will be enabled to run Windows desktops and Windows apps.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 14, 2014
Microsoft this week added free multifactor authentication support to its standalone Office 365 plans, as well as to the Midsize Business, Enterprise, Academic and Nonprofit Office 365 plans.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 12, 2014
Nokia, whose handset business is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft, will debut a Google Android-based smartphone later this month, according to The Wall Street Journal.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 11, 2014
Dell's PowerEdge Servers, its SAS Host Bus Adapters, as well as its PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220 storage enclosures now support Windows Server 2012 R2's "storage spaces" feature, Dell said Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 11, 2014