The consortium of companies that bought Nortel's intellectual property two years ago filed a lawsuit against Google on Thursday, alleging willful infringement of seven patents.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 04, 2013
The latest release of Microsoft's on-premises customer relationship management (CRM) product, Dynamics CRM 2013, reached general availability on Thursday.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 31, 2013
Microsoft dominated the software market during the first half of 2013, earning more than twice the revenue of other vendors, according to research firm IDC.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 31, 2013
Two months after acquiring Axceler's SharePoint tools business, major Microsoft ISV Metalogix last week said it has acquired Idera's SharePoint arm for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 28, 2013
Lync Server 2013 is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft indicated this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 28, 2013
Microsoft on Thursday reported $18.5 billion in revenue for its fiscal first quarter, a 16% year-over-year increase.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2013
Total PC shipments worldwide are expected to decline by over 8 percent in 2013 compared to 2012, according to Gartner this week.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 24, 2013
Microsoft this month rolled out a slew of new services to Windows Azure as part of an update designed to integrate the cloud platform with Microsoft's latest flagship software offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2013
A recent Forrester Research survey indicates that most enterprises are choosing to forgo Microsoft's cloud-based SharePoint Online service, and are instead using SharePoint Server 2010.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2013
Nokia on Tuesday launched its first Windows RT-based tablet, the 10-inch Lumia 2520.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz, Gladys Rama
- October 23, 2013
Microsoft's Windows 8.1 engineers last week hosted a Reddit "ask me anything" (AMA) discussion to answer questions about the recently released Windows 8.1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 22, 2013
Dynamics CRM 2013, the premises-based version of Microsoft's latest customer relationship management (CRM) offering, will become generally available for purchase on Oct. 31, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 22, 2013
Three major Microsoft products officially hit their "general availability" release milestones on Friday: Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2013
The Windows 8.1 update was released as a free download for Windows 8 users on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 17, 2013
Microsoft officially released Visual Studio 2013 for download on Thursday, the same day the Windows 8.1 update was rolled out to current Windows 8 users.
- By Keith Ward
- October 17, 2013
The second community technology preview (CTP2) of Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 product is now available for testing, Microsoft announced Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2013
Microsoft on Monday outlined a few changes that are coming in Windows Phone 8 Update 3, known internally as "GDR3" or "general distribution release 3."
- By Gladys Rama
- October 15, 2013
Research firm Gartner advised organizations to prepare for fundamental changes to SharePoint stemming from Microsoft's product development efforts on the cloud side.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 11, 2013
The worldwide PC market showed no signs of an upswing in the third quarter, according to two separate reports from IDC and Gartner.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 11, 2013
Microsoft will release the Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone operating system update in 2014, according to a report Wednesday by SuperSite for Windows' Paul Thurrott.
- By Chris Paoli
- October 10, 2013