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
Jon Roskill, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group, made the announcement during the Day 3 keynote address of WPC, taking place this week in Houston.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 10, 2013
Microsoft on Wednesday said it is extending the deadline for Windows Phone 8 support by another 18 months to Jan. 12, 2016.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 10, 2013
Cloud computing is growing five times faster than the IT industry, and partners that incorporate cloud into their business models have more success than those that don't, according to a new Microsoft-sponsored report by IDC.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 09, 2013
Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) became available on Tuesday, in keeping with Microsoft's new update release cycle for Exchange 2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2013
The next version of the Dell Wyse WSM desktop and application virtualization software will become available on July 22 via Dell's channel partners.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 09, 2013
Microsoft plans to transition its Windows Embedded partners into the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) in the coming months, the company announced on Tuesday during its Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 09, 2013
PC makers will get access to the final Windows 8.1 code in late August, Microsoft officials confirmed Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2013
The next version of Microsoft's Dynamics CRM Online product will include a new licensing scheme, Microsoft announced Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 08, 2013