Gartner Inc.'s latest model predicts 94 percent of all PCs will ship with Windows 7 in 2011, and that by year end, Windows 7 will be the leading OS version worldwide.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 10, 2011
Microsoft and Amazon both suffered brief cloud outages on Sunday when lightning struck cloud datacenters run by both companies in Dublin, Ireland.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 09, 2011
Charlie Kindel, a 21-year Microsoft veteran and a key figure in Microsoft's Windows Phone business, is leaving the company to found his own startup.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2011
Two Microsoft executives have stepped forward to refute Google's contention that Microsoft and other companies have made a concerted effort to "attack" the Android mobile OS.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 05, 2011
Former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel has been named the new Federal CIO, replacing Vivek Kundra, who was the first to hold that position.
- By Alice Lipowicz
- August 04, 2011
According to Google's senior vice president and chief legal officer David Drummond, Android is under attack from intellectual property lawyers at Microsoft, Apple and Oracle.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2011
On Monday, Microsoft made available the second release of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2011, a suite of seven tools for IT professionals running Windows environments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 02, 2011
Laplink Software, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Bellevue, Wash., has rolled out an upgraded channel partner program for PC resellers, VARs and system integrators.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 02, 2011
Microsoft made its Dynamics AX 2012 product generally available in 25 countries on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 01, 2011
A long-running dispute regarding Microsoft's use of a patented Alcatel-Lucent software technology called "Day" culminated on Friday with a jury awarding Alcatel-Lucent $70 million in damages.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 31, 2011
For Microsoft global alliance partner Dimension Data, the OpSource acquisition both takes the company to the cloud, and gives it a more multivendor presence up there.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 31, 2011
Google has purchased 1,030 patents from IBM that cover server and router architectures, chip fabrication and search technologies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 30, 2011
Red Hat Linux operating systems running on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor now have continued interoperability support, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2011
Upgrading from Internet Explorer 8 to IE 9 can represent a significant cost benefit to organizations -- more than $3 million over three years, in fact.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2011
The Windows Phone 7 "Mango" update has officially hit the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 27, 2011
Developers do not have access to the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows Phone 7 "Mango" that was released on Tuesday; instead, Microsoft said, they will receive an early release candidate (RC) version.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 27, 2011
Microsoft officially released Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 on Tuesday to MSDN subscribers, with general availability -- via Microsoft stores and resellers -- slated for this Thursday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- July 26, 2011
Bob Muglia, the former president of Microsoft's Server & Tools Business, has joined Juniper Networks as the vice president of that company's Software Solutions Division.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 25, 2011
Microsoft and SUSE are extending their interoperability and intellectual property (IP) indemnity program through Jan. 1, 2016, the two companies announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 25, 2011
Will business meetings one day use Microsoft's Avatar Kinect? According to Craig Mundie, head of Microsoft Research and the company's chief research and strategy officer, it's a distinct possibility.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2011