Worldwide PC shipments in 2013 were down by 10 percent from 2012 -- a "record drop" for the market, according to preliminary data released on Thursday by IDC.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 10, 2014
For organizations contemplating a jump from Windows XP to Windows 8.1, Microsoft is offering a configuration "workaround" to its latest deployment toolkit.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 10, 2014
Microsoft is acquiring Parature, a provider of cloud-based customer service solutions for organizations, for an undisclosed amount.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 07, 2014
Microsoft recently posted the pricing details for Power BI, its suite of solutions designed make it easy for Excel users to create visualizations from collections of data.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 07, 2014
Microsoft recently gave more details about its emerging Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) licensing plan, which it briefly described in November.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 06, 2014
A licensing expert recently gave advice on Microsoft's new SQL Server 2012 licensing, which can come with some costly pitfalls.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 23, 2013
Microsoft has named Jim DuBois its new chief information officer (CIO), the company announced on Friday.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 20, 2013
It is now possible to switch Office 365 plans across "product family" offerings, Microsoft announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 20, 2013
Microsoft's search for a successor to outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer is not likely to conclude before the new year, the company said this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 18, 2013
Microsoft will stop selling its Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) product on July 1, 2014, the company said in a blog post Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 18, 2013
Microsoft will unveil the next major update to its Windows Phone 8 smartphone platform next April, according to a report from The Verge on Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 17, 2013
Microsoft's Kurt DelBene has been appointed to take over the much-maligned HealthCare.gov Web site, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 17, 2013
An appeal by Motorola Mobility LLC over an intellectual property dispute with Microsoft over the Android operating system was struck down on Monday by a three-judge U.S. federal appeals court.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2013
Microsoft last week released a "limited preview" trial version of a new georedundant option for the Windows Azure Storage service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2013
Microsoft's Power BI for Office 365 preview was updated last week with new data sourcing and search capabilities on the heels of similar improvements rolled out in November.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2013
From Windows Phone 8's storage shenanigans, to PRISM, to the shrinking PC market, here are the blogs and commentary articles that riled up RCPmag.com readers the most this year.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- December 16, 2013
A European Union court recently dismissed Cisco's antitrust challenge to Microsoft's acquisition of Luxembourg-based Skype.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2013
Microsoft's mobile app for Office 365 administrators is now available for devices based on Google Android and Apple iOS.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2013
Windows 8 was a big draw for RCPmag.com readers this year, but other products also made headlines. Here are the most-read news items of 2013.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- December 12, 2013
Microsoft this week took part in the Dell World event to lay out various virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) capabilities enabled by Windows Server 2012 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 11, 2013