Microsoft has agreed to acquire Nokia's devices and services business in a cash deal worth $7.18 billion (EUR 5.44 billion), the two companies announced early Tuesday morning.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 03, 2013
Every Microsoft partner is accustomed to the July shuffle of account managers and field personnel, but the week after this year's Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference the Dynamics management team announced bigger changes.
- By Barb Levisay
- September 03, 2013
The R2 version of Dynamics NAV 2013 will become generally available sometime in October, Microsoft announced this weekend during the Directions EMEA conference in Vienna, Austria.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 03, 2013
David Willis, Microsoft's top U.S. sales executive for Dynamics business applications, will step up to run the entire U.S. Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partners organization on Sept. 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 30, 2013
Phil Sorgen will replace Jon Roskill as the corporate vice president of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group on Sept. 1, Microsoft announced Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2013
The acquisition of Axceler's primary assets by Metalogix brings creates one of the largest independent ISVs focused on Microsoft's SharePoint platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 29, 2013
The forthcoming Windows Server 2012 R2 product has been released to manufacturers (RTM), Microsoft said on Tuesday, just days after Windows 8.1 also reached RTM.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 27, 2013
Virtualization giant VMware has tapped former Microsoft chief information officer Tony Scott to be a senior vice president and its new CIO.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 27, 2013
Windows 8.1, the update to Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, has been released to manufacturers, according to reports from sources.
- By Chris Paoli
- August 26, 2013
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer stunned the business world and tech industry on Friday morning, announcing he will retire within the next 12 months.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 23, 2013
Microsoft recently became the first cloud service provider to pass a Service Organizations Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit conducted by Deloitte & Touche, a new security compliance audit recommended by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2013
Microsoft this week verified that it has been rolling out the so-called "GDR2" update to Windows Phone 8 users over the past few weeks.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 22, 2013
Microsoft this week released the Windows PowerShell Module for Lync Online, which enables remote management of Microsoft's hosted Lync unified messaging solution offered through Office 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2013
Microsoft is cooperating with the U.S. government in its investigation into allegations that Microsoft business partners in several countries engaged in bribery to win contracts, the company said Wednesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 22, 2013
The first major update to Windows Embedded 8 Industry, the latest version of Microsoft's embedded operating system for intelligent devices, will reach original equipment manufacturers on Oct. 18.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 21, 2013
Paris-based Arkoon Network Security will launch a product this fall that will give organizations running Windows XP the kind of patch support that Microsoft will discontinue after the operating system loses support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2013
Microsoft's Windows Azure-based disaster recovery solution for private clouds is now available as a limited public preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 19, 2013
Microsoft recently warned organizations against continuing to use Windows XP after its "extended support" phase ends on April 8, 2014.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 19, 2013
Microsoft published a new version of its YouTube app for Windows Phone this week, but for the second time, Google -- which owns YouTube -- has blocked it.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 15, 2013
Microsoft on Thursday pressed ahead with efforts to expand sales of its struggling Microsoft Surface PC hardware line through the channel.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 15, 2013