A new report by Forrester Research outlines the business case for organizations to use Google Chromebooks, which run Google's Chrome OS cloud-enabled operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2013
Microsoft on Monday released a new build of Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) to address a previously reported public folder problem.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2013
The Windows 8.1 preview release received a third set of non-security updates from Microsoft this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 26, 2013
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released its modifications to a final order from earlier this year regarding Google's standard-essential patents (SEPs) licensing practices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 25, 2013
As a follow-up to a demo at TechEd, Microsoft Principal Program Manager Jeff Woolsey showed attendees at WPC just how much the latest release of Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor can speed up live migrations.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 25, 2013
Apple-branded computers, tablets and mobile phones were ranked No. 1 in a recent study on consumer brand perception, while Microsoft's Surface tablets were rated "below average."
- By Gladys Rama
- July 25, 2013
Microsoft announced the availability of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Office Web Apps on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2013
Microsoft launched the preview version of its Windows Azure SQL Database Premium service on Tuesday, in addition to releasing the July Windows Azure update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2013
It looks like the preview versions of Microsoft's Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 operating systems are following a faster update schedule than their predecessors.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2013
Microsoft has slipped behind IBM and Oracle to take the No. 3 position in Booz & Co.'s second-annual list of the world's top technology companies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2013
Microsoft's Outlook Web App e-mail solutions became available for Apple iPad and iPhone devices this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2013
Microsoft reported $19.90 billion in revenue for its fourth-quarter 2013 earnings report on Thursday, falling short of the $20.72 billion expected by analysts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2013
Service Pack 2 (SP2) of Microsoft's Dynamics GP 2013 enterprise resource planning (ERP) product will arrive in the fourth quarter of this year, Microsoft said Thursday.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 18, 2013
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has canceled a contract it awarded to Hewlett-Packard (HP) last year that would have moved VA employees to Microsoft's Office 365 for Government product.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 18, 2013
Microsoft is phasing out its Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) product in part because it's no longer needed to secure newer versions of Exchange and Exchange Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2013
Service providers will now be able to use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud as part of their service offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 16, 2013
Despite a ban issued by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) last year against Motorola Mobility smartphones, Microsoft says too many of those devices are still being allowed into the country.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 15, 2013
The worldwide PC market did not reverse its downward course in the second quarter, according to two reports from analyst firms Gartner Inc. and IDC.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 11, 2013
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the creation of four new engineering groups on Thursday morning as part of a widely expected organizational and management shakeup in the company.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 11, 2013
New documents recently leaked to U.K. newspaper The Guardian suggest Microsoft worked with the National Security Agency (NSA) and its PRISM surveillance program to give the agency access to Microsoft customers' data.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 11, 2013