Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced outages on Thursday that Amazon claims are due to connectivity and latency issues in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 21, 2011
Microsoft and Nokia have signed a definitive agreement on Windows Phone production, the two companies announced on Thursday. The agreement solidifies the strategic alliance Microsoft and Nokia entered in February.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 21, 2011
To appease antitrust concerns held by the Department of Justice (DoJ), CPTN Holdings LLC, a holding company composed of Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and EMC, has altered the terms of its original plan to acquire patents held by Novell.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 20, 2011
Microsoft has assembled a panel of MVPs, consultants and product managers to make the case for migrating to Windows 7 from Windows XP.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 20, 2011
A recent licensing change makes it easier for developers on non-Windows platforms to adapt Microsoft's Windows PowerShell for their use.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2011
Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 10 platform preview last week during its MIX 11 conference, but the company did not mention that the new browser will not run on Windows Vista.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2011
Microsoft on Monday released the public beta of the widely anticipated Office 365, the company's cloud-based productivity suite, as well as announced the Office 365 Marketplace.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 18, 2011
Eight U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments from Microsoft on Monday, the latest turn of events in the company's long-running patent infringement dispute with Canada-based i4i LLP.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 18, 2011
The beta for Windows Intune will expire on Monday, April 18, Microsoft announced on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 16, 2011
The research company's "Software Pricing and Licensing Trends 2011" report indicates that software licensing and pricing would be more customer-friendly if some changes to the current structure were made.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2011
Confirming earlier predictions, a new preliminary report released this week by market research firm Gartner indicates that tablet computers such as Apple's iPad and other alternative computing devices have cut into PC sales.
- By David Nagel
- April 15, 2011
Microsoft unveiled more developer news during Wednesday's keynote talk, including upcoming Windows Phone tooling, a released Silverlight 5 beta, and a new Kinect for Windows SDK beta to come.
- By Kathleen Richards
- April 14, 2011
In response to claims from Microsoft that Google Apps for Government is not certified under FISMA, the General Services Administration has issued a statement verifying that Apps for Government is, in fact, FISMA-certified.
- By Kevin McCaney
- April 14, 2011
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Microsoft's standalone server virtualization solution, got its first service pack on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2011
Just four weeks after the final version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) was released, Microsoft has debuted the first platform preview of IE 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2011
For the first time since release in October 2009, Windows 7's U.S. market share has surpassed Windows XP's -- at least according to one source.
- By Chris Paoli
- April 12, 2011
Microsoft has accused Google of misleading users regarding government certification for its Apps for Government products, released in July 2010.
- By Kevin McCaney
- April 12, 2011
Microsoft plans to deliver the first service packs for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in mid-summer, while Mac users can expect SP1 of Office for Mac 2011 to arrive next week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2011
Google's bid to acquire ITA Software Inc., a maker of software used by air-travel Web sites, was cleared by the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2011
Echoing a forecast released by IDC in late March, a recent Gartner report projects that Google's Android mobile operating system will hold the top OS market position in 2015, with Microsoft's mobile OS placing second.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2011